Scarlet "A" [bortion]
The headline from The Telegraph (UK) sums it all up:
More women have abortions as it loses stigma
And why not? First came "casual sex". Then the occasional "casual baby" without the "old fashioned" marriage, and, as heralded by pop culture's Murphy Brown, sans full-time father/ "man about the house"- excepting the usually short-lived "stray-cat" arrangements (in for a while, and then rotated out for a new one).
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How could the next step in the ongoing progression (decline) NOT be the "casual" "aborting" of the baby so as to not impinge on a "casual" lifestyle?
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Says The Telegraph piece:
Women are finding it more acceptable to have an abortion than to drift into an unplanned pregnancy, the head of Britain's leading abortion agency said yesterday.
It's a good thing Hester Prynne had no such option, or the world would have been deprived of one of its great works of literature...
Ann Furedi, the chief executive of the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS), said one women in five was now childless at the age of 45 and an increasing number were making the choice not to have children at all..Ms Furedi said there had been a shift in public opinion about parenthood. The stigma of abortion had diminished but there was now concern about being a poor parent. "Parenting is considered to be very important and is taken seriously these days," she said. "The idea of just drifting into unplanned motherhood is seen not to be a good thing and you could argue that among many groups of people in society abortion is seen as a more responsible response to being a victim of uncontrolled fertility," she said.."The bottom line is that it's now normal for women in their 40s simply to decide not to have children," said Ms Furedi at the launch of an Ipsos Mori poll into attitudes to abortion..Abortion figures continue to rise year on year. Latest figures show that there are about 165,500 abortions for British residents a year.
The combined deaths totaling a little over 5000 souls at Pearl Harbor and September 11th ignited two global wars. 165,000? No problem. "Why, everybody's doin' it!"
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Posted by: bogie | November 29, 2006 4:11 AM