There would be zero abortions if the father would own up to his responsibilities and help financially and be a good father. Sounds absurd but it would be so.
Just to sum it up in simple terms: they were being selfish.
“Rarely do we find true medical emergencies amongst those considering abortion in late term pregnancies,” Slattery told LSN. “We often find emotional coercion by family and close friends, abandonment by the father, and financial stress is what most often drives expectant mothers to abort late in pregnancy.”
What a surprise. This has been known even before the age of legal relatively safe abortion. In prior eras, women who were financially insecure and whose partner refused to accept his half of the responsibility would give up their children to orphanages etc. Also, do research on baby farms in the England. It’s horrific what happened to many of these children.
The reasons that led to those practices of the past are the same reasons so many women resort to abortion today, (including seeking late term abortion).
However, today, this is a flimsy excuse since no woman is required to keep and raise a child on her own and the child is not going to be subject to many of the abuses suffered by such children in past eras.
Translation: Killing for convenience.
This is my shocked face...