Married women and abortion (Page 1)

Unless this is your marriage and your pregnancy, why would you care?

Obviously in an ideal world, both partners are honest with each other and on the same page with regards to reproduction. But unless you specify exact circumstances and fully understand the dynamics within that relationship, anyone else's opinion on someone's action is pretty well irrelevant.

I think that's something they should have discussed before getting married, really. Children are a huge responsibility, and one should know whether the person they've chosen as their life partner shares their views on whether to take that responsibility or not.

If the husband wants children and his wife does not, he has no right to force her to bear them for him. He does not own her uterus, and even though it is his sperm that created the unborn child, he has no right to force her to carry the pregnancy to term against her will. It is the woman who must bear the pregnancy, who is at risk for the many different discomforts and conditions that could arise, and who must labor and deliver or go through a painful abdominal surgery. It is not the husband's right to force her to shoulder this simply because his sperm fertilized her egg.

its still the woman's choice.
if the woman were not married and had an abortion, the boyfriend could have still wanted to have kept the child..why is it different for a married woman?

I think ideally, people should be aware of where their significant other stands on the subject of abortion and having children. Nobody is "trapped" in childlessness but plenty of people betray their spouses because they decide reproducing is more important to them than the one they entered a marriage into under the guise of "love".

I think that if a woman can't trust her spouse to tell him she's pregnant/wants to abort then there's something deeper wrong with the relationship than someone just changing their mind.

Nobody can tell the future and a lot of people enter a marriage under the assumption that there will be children...which is a mistake in itself even if BOTH parties want offspring. Most people don't even know they're infertile until they start trying to get pregnant.

Either they change their mind and start giving the other party ultimatums: "Agree to get pregnant/get me pregnant or this can't work!"

Or one of them finds out he/she is sterile and the other dumps them (I REALLY hate people that pull this crap) for another stud or broodmare.

It's equally repulsive when one spouse tries to get pregnant or impregnate the other on the sly without their consent. I consider that to be just a step below rape and in the case of the woman, the man is actually risking her health by trying to put her in a condition that puts a strain on her body.

People should always find out where their partners stand on the issue but there are cases where people change their mind one way or the other later on down the line. I would hope that when they claimed to love their spouse in their marriage vows, they meant it enough to stick it through and find a workable solution for everyone.

I think some people take the term wed"lock" a bit too literally, though. It's like the old joke about the "ball and chain".

Agreed. If your point isn't about abortion but about keeping secrets, why post it in the Abortion Debate forum?

Should one person keep secrets from the other? My answer is no. My more detailed answer is that he/she shouldn't have to. If the woman is lying about having an abortion, that leads me to wonder "why?".

I agree but just as soeone can be trapped into kids you ca be trapped into childlessness. If you want children and your spouse does not and they don't share that view then you're with this person THINKING abnd BELIEVING you want the same kids, not wanting kids making them irreparably incompatible. That isn't a situation that can be worked out becaue either someone will be miserable and childless or someone will be miserable and a parent.

The lie here is abortion. Everyone in every relationship lies. If someone claimed they never lied to their significant other about anything int heri entire lives, they are lying.
Humans are flawed, the truth is perfect no human being is perfectly honest about every single thing. So teh subject does matter.

This was mostly inspired by an episode of House where a woman was taking birth control while undergoing fertility treatment because she didn't want to have another child but she'd rather lie to her husband about why she was sick than to tell him she didn't want more children as they had originally planned for fear that he'd leave her. I think she should have left long before fertility treatments were even discussed. and FYI the guy said that he'd rather have a healthy wife than another baby but she STILL did not tell him her decision so I wanted to pose this question about this lie on this subject.

YOU just font get it. I HAVE A SON, I've BEEN THROUGH LABOR OM:Y TO HAVE A C-SECTION so please miss me with the torture bull, thanks. No one is saying forfe anyone into anoything. I was simply asking was it right to have it and not tell him, Have your abortion its your body but if he wants to leave to find someone who wants kids its his right to that he can;t exercise if she doesnt tell him she doesnt want kids and that she'd going to abort every pregnancy that occurs. If you disagree that she should abort and he shouldn't know so she can stay married to him then fine but who the hell said to force her into pregnancy? Seriously just because I don't think embryos are disgusting and vile or subhuman demonic creatures doesn;t mean I'm not pro-choice. I'm a mother I'll NEVER think horribly of embryos even though I hold on to my stance that abortion should always be legal. I've said a million times SOME PEOPLE SHOULD NEVER BE MOTHERS OR EXPERIENCE PREGNANCY.

There is a gray area but the question was for a woman who DID NOT want kids not one who had already had children and raised them with him. Not having another kid and already being a parent is one thing but WANTING to be a parent and trying to be one with someone who will always use BC or abort is another. I have a child he is my avatar if another woman was denied an epidural for whatever reason then that's something she needs to take up with her doctor on why labor was so painful for her when pain medication is available. Based on posts on here most women on her who've had abortions chose to also use sedation or some form of pain relief, while sedation isnt available for labor an epidural is strong enough to allow you to be awake AND conscious while someone cuts open your abdomen and uterus without you feeling any pain whatsoever at the time.

The bigger issue in your proposed situation is that this woman would be facing a pregnancy at advanced maternal age almost a decade into being at an advanced maternal age and the health risks for her and the unborn child are much higher than for a healthy young woman. Then factor in the fact that her husband is so old and his age affects the quality of his sperm in terms of the chances of having a baby born with birth defects etc this becomes much more of a health issue. Then you factor in the fact that if she wanted one period and he wasnt trying to hear it she should have left. Why is it so easy to scream that you don't want to be pregnant with some *insert adjective here for zygote/embryo/fetus* to a stranger than it is to calmly tell your husband that you don't want to bear another child? Why would she rather allow people to think of her as a victim (miscarriage is NOT a choice and claiming miscarriage after an abortion by choice is like claiming rape after consentual sex only difference is one lie places a person in a marriage they otherwise wouldn't want to be in and the other places a person in jail).

After the abortion one could hope she got herself sterilized so she wouldn't "have" to lie again to save her marriage.

Here's another grey area for you. I am in a relationship with a man I've been with for 2 1/2 years. We talked about kids from the start and how we weren't sure if we wanted them. About eight months ago, we were getting along well enough that we agreed I would go off the pill. After that, the relationship deteriorated and we were in several months of counseling. I realized getting pregnant would be a problem and scheduled an appointment with my doctor, but in the interim I got pregnant. I told my boyfriend, in counseling, that I wanted to abort, that we needed to work out our problems before having a child. I wasn't ready to risk the rest of my life, the rest of his life, and the entire life of an innocent child that we might not be able to work out our problems. If I have a child, I want it to be raised in a happy, loving home. So I told him I wanted to wait until we were stable, and preferably married, to have a child. At least a year, maybe two later. But he wanted to keep it, and said that everything would magically work itself out. I had a deep, sickening feeling that he was wrong.

For me I think the pregnancy hormones had a depressive effect, and I could not for the life of me see how having this child would be okay. My financial situation is not good and if I had the child and we split up, things would be very difficult for us. It would have been too much of a gamble to keep it. The more he and I talked about it, the more entrenched we got in our respective camps.

There was no way he was going to say, okay then, have an abortion with my blessing. So I had one, but told him I miscarried. He expressed feeling relieved that we no longer had to decide, and seemed fairly unconcerned otherwise. I thought we'd discussed it long enough and my poker face is bad enough that he would guess the truth, but if he did, I could not tell. He seemed to believe me completely.

As for me, I am completely confused now. I am still really depressed over this, and am starting to think I will be until I tell him. I am not a liar, and I hate that I had to tell this lie. I feel like a terrible person for not telling him the truth, and I fear that we cannot stay together unless I tell him and he forgives me. Am I wrong? Do I have any "right", for lack of a better word, to keep this to myself? This is the only dishonest thing I have done, and it is eating me up. I feel like I have to tell him, but to tell him risks earning his hatred. He is very black and white about things. I know the problem is not whether to tell or not to tell, but athe glaring communication problem in the flawed relationship. Why *shouldn't* I be able to tell him without fear of being rejected? My feelings about the pregnancy were as valid as his, and should have equal respect. It was just too big of a gamble to carry that particular pregnancy to term.

I feel that couples should be able to share important, intimate things with each other and accept each other for who they are, disagreements and all. I am in a terrible purgatory now, stuck with this dishonesty lodged in my throat. And I really think we might have a chance to work out our problems and have a good life together. Anyone care to weigh in? I have almost no one I can talk to about this, and it's a heavy load.

Wow...All i can say is, why would two married people ever decide to abort their child.I mean unless there was some kind of serious medical problem involved,what other reasons are there to have an abortion..This clearly makes no kind of sense what so ever..I mean did the two people marry just to have sex...I mean come on..Two grown individuals that no that in order to create a child you must first have sex together so why get an abortion..This is what i call selfishness and evil....Especially when the wife gets an abortion without telling her husband..God forbids if he finds out then there probably won't even be a marriage any more and on top of that a lot of women are always talking about men being honest well what do you call this getting an abortion behind your husbands back..This tells me that the wife is selfish and is not in love with her husband like she is pretending to be..If the husband agrees to an abortion than it will serve them right when the day comes and they want a child and cannot have one...God says when one becomes equally yolk be fruitful and multiply..God did not say kill...So when couples do this in marriage then this is not a real marriage and is not a marriage made from God but two people taking the acts of gods laws into their own hands and not abiding by the principles of true love....Have a blessed day.

Horrez, not all married people want children. I don't know why people think that just because someone is married, they automatically want to be a parent.

Regarding God and your interpretation of what he wants ... not everyone believes in him. Preaching to an atheist or someone of another religion about God is about as usefull as tits on a bull.