A Pro-choice Culture

You've heard the phrase: 'Against Abortion? Don't have one'.  It assumes that abortion is an event that a woman can dismiss after the fact, and that those who oppose abortion are just control freaks or religious zealots.

But a society where abortion is legal  has the following characteristics:

1. It creates a culture where a man doesn't have to take responsibility for the baby. I know a girl whose boyfriend walked away because she refused to have an abortion, and this is common, 'It's your choice' has turned into 'If you choose to have the baby you're on your own.'
2. 'Choice' doesn't really mean a real choice. Most women who have abortions say they had 'no choice' but to do what they did.
3. Coerced abortion is very, very common, and a girl who stands up to her relatives and has the baby has to be very strong. As a young midwife I remember a miserable 17-year old whose mother and aunt made her have an abortion. Personal testimonies are full of tales of coercion.
4. A woman in a crisis pregnancy is in a crisis. When abortion is available, it provides a quick and easy way out of her wish not to be pregnant. But one should never make a speedy life-altering decision in a crisis.
5. Many women regret their abortions, but many keep the grief under wraps. Some become  pro-choice activists, denying their real feelings, and find themselves permanently justifying their action to themselves and denying the humanity of the being that they disposed of. Dr. Carol Everett, a former abortionist, says that the most common reaction in the post-abortion recovery room is the woman saying, often with uncontrollable grief,: 'I killed my baby.' Before that, there was no mention of a baby. A pro-choice society is very uneasy about unhappy post-abortive women and refuse to acknowledge the existence of psychiatric illness following abortion. www.hushmovie explores this.
6. There's plenty of evidence that surgical abortion causes damage to the cervix, impacting future pregnancies, causing extreme prematurity or death through miscarriage. Women are not apprised of the risks to future pregnancies when they sign the consent. 
7. Abortion is an industry with it's own slick marketing. The Repeal movement in Ireland's Republic is funded by George Soros' social experiment. 

There are many other reasons why the above phrase jars, but those are the ones that come to mind just now.