To start a thread about abortion

Why do you need to know other mumsnetters opinion on abortion?

Maybe invoke your brain and ask yourself in what circumstances a woman might need such a late termination.

I believe abortion is morally wrong but I also think that in some circumstances, it may seem like the best and only option. I'm a libertarian really so I have no interest in judging other people's decisions or arguing the point or trying to change legislation. This is just my own personal view on it and so for me, it's not an option.

Can you imagine the kind of scenario in which a woman would 40 week abortion would be necessary?

If a woman and her doctor think that's the only option then, yes, that's nobody else's business but theirs.

Let's not start the usual narrative that goes on with these threads where people start suggesting women would have 39 week abortions because they have a holiday to go on or whatever.

Until you’re in the situation you just don’t know how you’ll feel/respond.

@DrunkenElephant ‘late we necessary’. 40 weeks?

I’ve voted YABU because only the woman involved understands her circumstances and situation.

Loving friends can help her assess her options, but only she can know what to do.

I know things would have to be extreme before I made that choice. But what I know has nothing to do with anyone else’s situation.

I believe in “her body, her choice”. I do not believe in “her body, his choice”. All too often I have seen people men claim that if a man wants the woman to terminate and she doesn’t then he has no responsibility to the child.

I will be teaching my son that if he gets someone pregnant that he has to assume that there will be a baby that he will be responsible for for 18 years.

I am also very angry with the government for the “two child rule”. We are one of the richest countries in the world. Women should be able to terminate for whatever good, bad or indifferent reasons they have. Women should not be put in a position where they feel they have to terminate because they can’t afford a baby.

I am also very angry about the British courts and the fact that they allow themselves to be used by abusive men to continue to abuse their exes through their children.

I am pro-choice and pro-abortion-access, as I think they are a fantastic resource for people who need them, and that to be forced to go through with a pregnancy due to circumstance, financial reasons, coercion, guilt, obligation, whatever reason other than actually wanting to be pregnant, is inhumane and unacceptable.

Anyone should be able to access abortion for any reason. It’s not just for teenagers or victims of crime. It’s for all women who wish not to be pregnant at that time.

And those who do wish to be pregnant also have a right to be.

I believe in bodily autonomy for all people. By people I mean born people. Not foetuses or potential people.

The fact that it is still technically “illegal” and requires 2 doctors to sign off on it is archaic.

It's absolutely a woman's choice. I do not judge someone who doesn't feel capable of having a disabled child, a surprise pregnancy etc because their circumstances are different to mine. If I found out I was pregnant (medical miracle ) then my reaction just doesn't compare to a woman with 2 kids whose ex assaulted her.

Feel free not to have an abortion if you don’t want one. I will continue to be quietly glad that lobbying and protesting and informing and marching legalised terminations in my country.

Interesting, of all the devoutly Catholic older women (80 and over, my mother’s generation) I spoke to in the run up to the referendum, virtually all said abortion was against their own ethical code, but, crucially, understood that other women felt differently and that in voting to legalise abortion, they were allowing other women a choice.

Abortion should be rare, safe and legal, everywhere in the world.

I believe that abortion should be as early as possible and as late as necessary.
I believe in a woman’s right to choose.
And that includes the right to decide they don’t want an abortion.

Won't be*

Some people will have one, some people won't. Some people who have had one won't will be affected, some people will think of it as like having a tooth out. What a pointless thread.

I just had a look at that, totally innocuous comment from someone saying 'no judgement on anyone else but its not for me' followed by op having a go.

Pro choice means pro choice, not having a go at someone who wouldn't be able to have an abortion for whatever reason.

Very emotive subject. Why do you want to know about other women’s experiences/thoughts on abortion?

It’s an entirely personal choice and one that most women are at liberty to make in the UK.

I’ve never been in the situation where I’ve had to make that decision, but I’d have one if I wanted/needed to, some women would never have one for their own reasons, or because it’s inaccessible to them. There’s no ‘general opinion’ because every woman and every situation is different.

I had a termination many, many years ago, over 20 years actually, and I still think about it all the time. I remember the date I had it done and I remember when the baby’s due date would have been. It’s an experience that will never leave me.

I have since then gone on to have two children and if I got pregnant now I genuinely don’t think I could go through a termination. I wouldn’t be able to look at the two of them without thinking there should have been three of them.

Every woman will have their own reason for what they do or don’t do and it isn’t really anyone else’s business.

I'm sorry I get understand your POV

You don't get why some women would choose not to abort? You understand what pro choice means, yes? Some people choose to continue with the pregnancy.

Some people believe in them and some people don't. That's all there is to it! Why try to start an argument?

Hold on a minute OP.

I've literally just seen you on a thread berating MNetters for saying that abortion wasn't an option for them.

You were busy trying to close their opinions down, so what's changed that you suddenly want opinions now?

Genuine question btw.

My body my choice. Your body your choice.

It is a woman’s right to choose, and nobody else’s business.

As early as possible, as late as necessary.

None of my business what medical choices happen between a woman and her doctor, so I have no opinion.

Absolutely.