Trust me. Women not only have sex with men they don't like, but with men they don't even know.
Hi OWG,
Yes, I understand that in this activity of sexual relations between men and women which likely goes on hundreds of thousands of times each day, that there are some cases where a woman may have such relations with a man that she doesn't really know. Prostitution would be the best example of this. However, I don't think that prostitutes are the majority of abortion recipients. I'm not too familiar with the profession, but it would seem to me that if one's livelihood depended on being able to have such relations with anyone and everyone who is willing to pay the price, that some caution would be taken to not wind up pregnant.
So, I do trust you concerning this matter. I just don't think that this segment of women is anywhere near the majority of abortion recipients. I also trust that there are women who had relations with someone that, certainly at the time, they felt some closeness for. Then when they announced the good news that they were pregnant, their white knight took off like a bat out of,...well, you know.
There are likely at least a half dozen reasons that a woman, once finding out that she is pregnant, wants to obtain an abortion. I just don't think that women having relations with someone that they really don't like or care about is a particularly large segment of that group. I also believe that someone who expresses the kind of view that such is the case, probably doesn't have a clue about 'why' women seek abortions. Or, much understanding of the kinds of sexual relations that lead up to this request.
It is my belief that these relations, when they are being carried out, are generally between two people that, at the very least, like and care about each other. However, the enormity of the issue of the woman coming back a couple of weeks after the event and saying that they are pregnant, or just finding out for themselves that the event brought about conception, is likely more than they feel that they want to take responsibility for.
Many young women, that would be high school and college age, have sexual relations and can be fairly careless in understanding the possible consequences. Then when those most serious consequences come about, they aren't prepared to accept that they're going to have to raise a child or carry a child to term and then put the child up for adoption. These women look at the available options, and for them in whatever circumstance they are in, decide that having an abortion is the least complicated of their options. We are all prone to taking the easy way out.
Now, if we make abortion procedures illegal, that's not likely to have much affect on young men and women getting caught up in the moment of sexual lust. I honestly can't imagine that such actions are preceded by one thinking, "Well, if their is a pregnancy that comes from this moment of lust, there's always an abortion." Two people just get carried away on the wings of their lust and then, BAM!!! a couple of weeks later it looks like that 30 minutes or so of 'loving' produced a child. Personally, I believe that's the reason for the majority of abortion requests. Not the only reason, of course, but the majority.
Then you have affairs. Married women having relations with someone other than their husbands and, Uh-oh, someone's eating for two. That woman is not likely to just go to her husband and tell him what's going on. She's much more likely to find a way to 'do away with the evidence'. Sexual lust is a very, very powerful motivator and young people having relations and married people having relations with someone who is not their spouse are very real issues that bring about a lot of these situations.
Or, we could fall back on the biblical instructions God gave unto Israel. In the case of young people, even if a man only has relations with a young woman and it doesn't wind up in conception, he is to marry her. The adulterer, again even if such relations don't bring about a conception, is to be stoned to death. Or, we as believers, could understand the truth of the Scriptures. That the world, in general, is not going to ascribe to the law of God in these things or any other such things. But the believer understands that it is not his job to 'save the world'. It is his job to keep himself from sin. To teach the love that God has for each one of us through His Son, Jesus. But to keep the world from sin isn't a part of our job description.
God bless,
In Christ, ted