I understand what your saying but the thing with abortion is there is no 'one aborted every minute TV show' like there is one born every minute or 24 hours in A&E why is that its just a medical procedure?
In part because of prevailing narratives that birth is always wonderful, abortion always a tragedy that some adhere to. A tv programme that overwhelmingly focuses on the feel good factor for people to coo at. Having a baby is indeed wonderful for women who want one, but birth itself is one of the most dangerous things a woman can do. Look at how women with birth injuries are often treated, hell you can look at how birth injuries are often inflicted on women for the perceived good of the baby. It’s all very much about the production (‘miracle!’) of a child, with little focus on the mental, emotional or physical health of women, whether the pregnancy is wanted or not. So I don’t personally think such narratives point to some universal truth, but are instead a whitewashing of serious issues in regards to how women are treated when it comes to pregnancy.
Also, aesthetically it isn’t ‘nice’. Similarly, you don’t have a mainstream tv programme dedicated to born surgery, tumor removal, or bowel sectioning. Surgery is gory, and the goriness is necessary to achieve most beneficial outcome for the patient. Whether something looks pleasant or not isn’t, and shouldn’t, be the focal point. Whether it’s the best treatment should be what matters.
Women are informed as to what happens. They are told what the procedure entails. They are given a choice as to whether they want to look at the ultrasound or not. Looking at it, tbh, isn’t a medically necessary thing at all. When I had my abortion I chose to look at mine because I was interested to see it (same way I watched another surgery I had when under local anesthetic) but it didn’t inspire in me any of the feelings that proponents for women always looking at the ultrasound expect it to. Those that want to compel women to look at the ultrasound don’t want to do it because it’s medically necessary, they do it because they expect women will be overcome with maternal emotion and change their mind, or at least feel riddled with guilt. There’s definitely a sense that ‘telling women what abortion is’ has to presented as a negative, and that when it’s explained as the medical procedure that it is, that somehow women are somehow being denied some obvious ‘truth’. When it comes to birth, it’s wonderful and all the risks associated with pregnancy and birth are ‘worth it’ and that any birth trauma shouldn’t focused on, yet abortion? Even if it’s the right choice for the woman, it has to be hammered through her head that it’s a terrible thing that she’s doing, and that she’ll be traumatized forever more even if she thinks it’s the right course of action for her.
It absolutely is not a given that a woman will be traumatized after an abortion, no matter whether it’s early or late term. The expectation seems to be though, without even knowing the individual in question, that she will be.
Can you take an abortion ‘back’? No. You can’t undo having a baby either. Both are permanent decisions, and as such women need to be able to make the choice that is right for them, no one else.