here I go again :(

Ok.. thanks.. not a specialist, just playing with the idea But whatcha think.. if possible (and where there is a will, there is a way) would it be preferable to put women who had an abortion (except for rape or life threatening reasons etc) on BC for a certain period?

 

I personally could not support that. It takes away choice and we have laws to protect the choices of women. It would be a huge step backwards and in my opinion a bad one.

We can not even do this with for example offenders or even those who are totally mentally incapacitated...I hardly think we should be doing it to women who have chosen to have an abortion.

No one has the right to tell a woman that she would have to go on birth control after an abortion.

While I do think that most women will take time in between a procedure and another pregnancy.....quite frankly it is not my business if she does not. My own opinion I did give and that I maintain for me.....but I do not have the right to dictate to anyone that they must use birth control.

You can not make laws to enforce common sense.

 

hm... maybe we can just shoot'm

 

it wouldn't be a good plan...

a lot of women react badly to hormonal birth control and can't handle the pill or the shot. smoking cigarettes can also be real bad for you when you're on the pill, so forcing some people to be on birth control might not be healthy. some are also against it for religious reasons.

there are also a lot of women who decide that they do want to have a child in the year or two after an abortion. what about the women who decide that she has changed enough in those two years to be able to adequately care for a baby? you can't tell them that they are not allowed to have a baby. if she can choose to terminate a pregnancy, she should certainly be able to choose to carry one to term.

then, you're going to end up with forced birth control on only some women, and you've gotta watch out here, because then the pill becomes a sort of punishment. especially if the hormones in the bc kill your sex drive and give you awful mood swings/depression. kind of like the old law code where your hand would be chopped off for stealing, but instead your uterus is temporarily cut off. if every woman has the right to choose, then why should she be punished for using her rights?

and where is the line drawn? what if she was already on the pill, and it failed? force her to stay on it? what about the woman who carefully tracks her fertility? tell her that her method failed once, and now she must be stopped from using it (as opposed to the hypothetical failed pill, who's user is forced to continue a method that failed once)? and what about a broken condom? because if only some failed methods of b.c. impose another form of b.c. you end up defining "legitimate birth control" as abstinance, and you can't sterelize people or lock their bits in a chastity belt. and how would this be enforced? you can write prescriptions, but why waste the pills on people who won't take them? how can you force an iud on someone, strap her down and shove it in?

what if a woman is forced to take the pill after an abortion and takes it perfectly, but the pill still fails, because it's not 100% effective? how can you prove she took her pills correctly and isn't just trying to get around her punishment?

i do agree that after having an abortion, many women do need to be informed about their birth control options, as well as given info on safe, healthy sex. but what they do with that information is ultimately up to them. if the women are having abortions because they don't have access to birth control, that access should be given immediately, not delayed until after the first abortion. and why would it just be the women who are forced to "take responsibility", and not the men impregnating them? what about forcing men who dislike condoms to use them, after they get a girl pregnant and she aborts? i could see a lot of "miscarriages" occuring... and then abortion, all though legal, is still forcing women into back alleys with coathangers, and down flights of stairs.

 

If you are going to continue having sexual relations, then you need to take more responsibility, or, perhaps not have sex at all until you are mature enough to handle the consequences that can come along with it. I would think that after just having had an abortion that you would have learned your lesson to be careful. *shakes head*

I sincerely hope that you are not pregnant again.

 

NORPLANT! It just came to me. And I don't think anyone should be put on hormonal BC without their consent. BUT, I think the place that does the abortion should really TRY to convince a womyn to use BC in SOME form, maybe even offer some for free.

 

yup.. btw.. here it's called 'Implanon'.. same stuff probably, just different name.

Maybe taking an obligatory course or sth is better after an abortion..

 

Here, you have to get counseling about becoming pregnant, and birthcontrol and the options you have if you chose to keep the baby, BEFORE you even can have an abortion. Quite a lot of women change their mind. That's why I think that this requirement is really important.

 

Not all women are given the right to choose. I was never blessed with the right to choose. I was treated for cancer as a teen and it left me sterile. You need to respect yourself and your body. Don't take your fertility for granted. You have truely been blessed by being able to create new life. You should not be having unprotected sex period.