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In response to Morgan above, I feel pretty much the opposite way about everything she said. Yes abortion was risky but so was pregnancy and childbirth. This woman was young, unwed, and in school. If she were to have had the child she would have lost everything in life that she worked so hard for. She may have been able to have the child quietly and gave it up, but who would have paid for it and where would she have gone? Her parents would have likely shunned her out of their lives, she didn't have the money, the "father" of the baby didn't have money. She would have had to take months off of school, and how would she have explained that? And perhaps she could have gotten an infection from the abortion, but women were not sitting around gabbing about abortions so it's not like they had first-hand accounts to go off of, just heresay and gossip. I feel she was not "in hast," she clearly weighed her options and knew what would have happen if she would have had a baby in her position. - Christine L | In response to Morgan above, I feel pretty much the opposite way about everything she said. Yes abortion was risky but so was pregnancy and childbirth. This woman was young, unwed, and in school. If she were to have had the child she would have lost everything in life that she worked so hard for. She may have been able to have the child quietly and gave it up, but who would have paid for it and where would she have gone? Her parents would have likely shunned her out of their lives, she didn't have the money, the "father" of the baby didn't have money. She would have had to take months off of school, and how would she have explained that? And perhaps she could have gotten an infection from the abortion, but women were not sitting around gabbing about abortions so it's not like they had first-hand accounts to go off of, just heresay and gossip. I feel she was not "in hast," she clearly weighed her options and knew what would have happen if she would have had a baby in her position. - Christine L | ||
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| + | Joanna Rubin’s piece “An Unplanned Pregnancy” was touching and interesting. I think that Rubin was attempting to express the fact that there was regret involved but she did what she thought was right. I agree with Christine, here is a young woman who did not love the person that impregnated her, in her first year of Grad school. If she did love him, she “might have kept it” (217) but she didn’t. Which is a better choice, to live a life with a child and a husband whom you do not love and resent? Or go to any lengths, in this case, Puerto Rico, to have an abortion. She admits that this was a hard decision with consequences. It also seems that her personal doctor was not completely opposed to her choice “When I found out I was pregnant, I went to see a doctor and he had told me to come and see him afterwards” (217). He even gave her antibiotics. I was wondering how often doctors helped patients who went to have abortions out of the country or illegally? –Caryn | ||
=="The Problem That Has No Name," Betty Friedan, 1963== | =="The Problem That Has No Name," Betty Friedan, 1963== | ||
