I don't know how I feel about abortion anymore

[sirlee66]

I've always been very pro-choice. A woman's body. A woman's right to choose.

I'm currently 34 weeks pregnant with my first and now I think my thoughts are changing.

I believe the cut off is 24 weeks? There was a lovely lady on here the other day whose waters broke and she gave birth to a baby girl at 25 weeks! If a baby can survive that early... It just seems...wrong!

Maybe the cut off could be lowered. I started feeling flutters at about 15 weeks so maybe before then.

I don't know what the answer is. I still feel really strongly that ultimately, the mother should decide but I just can't get past babies surviving outside the womb at the same age as a baby that could be aborted.

Maybe it's just pregnancy hormones. I also can't stop think about the poor women who have to make that decision. It must be so awful and I just want to give them a big hug.

I guess my question is, AIBU to not really know how I feel about it?

I am pro-choice.
Personally I don’t think I could abort a pregnancy, but I’m very lucky that I have a healthy dd.
I think there’s no “one size fits all” when it comes to abortion. I doubt many people get to a later stage in the pregnancy and just think “oh I don’t want this baby anymore” - so I think you’ve got to be mindful of the reasons people are having to make that decision.

Quite a few pro choicer’s wouldn’t have an abortion themselves, or have never had one.So really, they have no idea how abortion affects some women

oh you are finally understanding the concept of women not necessarily wanting something for themselves but still wanting other women to have the choice - well done