Abortion is a personal choice and while I do not advocate late term abortion without grave medical need, it is none of my business what a woman chooses to do, her reasons are her reasons. That said, I do think, morally speaking, that with all the BC and 1st trimester abortion choices available to randomly decide, medical issues aside, at 7, 8, or 9 months gestation that ” I have changed my mind” does paint an ugly picture and I would be hard pressed to find a legitimate defense of said woman. I was lucky, I was the victim of a date rape, way back in 1973, decades before that term was coined, and yep, I got pregnant.
Go figure, my first time ever having sex and I was not quite 16 years old. I was at the wedding reception of a friends older brother and we were drinking champagne, and one of the brothers friends took a fancy to me. He was 24. I am 99% certain he slipped Valium or another sedative type drug in my champagne as I had only had a couple glasses of champagne and went from fine to passing out in about 30 minutes.
I was just conscious enough to think ” I am having sex” but unable to fend him off. Ironically, I was impregnated and was able to obtain a discreet abortion through a local clinic unbeknownst to my family. The good news? As crappy as it was, this was in Nov. 1973 just 11 months after the landmark passing of Roe vs. Wade. I was so grateful that I was not forced to go through with a pregnancy or desperate enough to seek out a back alley abortion. I am 10,000 percent pro-choice, and, I do not believe in parental consent either.