To figure out the true distribution of motivations for the abortion, you would look at what percentage of the 25% that responded selected, which means ~80% chose to get an abortion for social/economic reasons, i.e. they weren't ready to have a kid.
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i also chose option 2. i recognize that the decision today was more about states’ rights and less about abortion as a whole, but as usual, we just can’t let the opportunity to argue about abortion slip by.
No "socioeconomic reason" is valid. None.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9yZDOqIt1M
@theblessing @dave @graf
You and Dave seemingly want to pretend that there aren't women out there that are completely horrible and that would abort a baby for only selfish reasons, not because they can't take care of it. Please don't be that kind of person that refuses to accept reality, just because it's not in their favor. You have plenty of cases of this in the US, and you can find them on twitter "shouting" their abortions.
As for my position on all this, I think abortions are highly immoral. The only thing that excuses it for me is if the parents are simply unfit to have the baby at that time, so socio-economical reasons. Wanting your precious career advancement is not that. It's selfish and inexcusable. That's not a valid reason for me. Same goes for "well I don't feel like it".
Rape and incest cases are pretty clear cut. You're traumatizing the women if you force her to carry. And medical necessities are again clear cut.
That being said, I wouldn't put a blanket ban on abortions. But that doesn't mean I'm gonna accept a woman that doesn't have a good reason for doing it.
Given that the vast majority of abortions are 1st-trimester (most common week is week 8 I think), and in most states you can't just say "I don't want it" once the baby has reached that stage of development where it has a meaningful capacity to feel pain, I'd still say that reason is valid provided we're acknowledging that what's "valid" depends on how far along the pregnancy is.