So, there’s an unwanted pregnancy. Rate the following seven options best to worst:
Morning After Pill
I assume this is our options for our own personal situation, and not for just anyone?
For me it’d be:
Are you asking what I myself would do, or to make judgements on the rightness or wrongness of decisions made by women who find themselves unexpectedly pregnant?
Not you personally–I’d never have an abortion, but I wouldn’t say another woman shouldn’t. Just your general rank of the seven options listed.
And it’s too late for a morning after pill.
Hmmm…I don’t think I could rank these because it would depend on so many factors… Is the woman emotionally and financially able to care for the child herself or within her existing family support structure? What are the woman’s beliefs on abortion? What are the woman’s personal beliefs regarding single parent families, religion, sexuality?
If we’re not talking about us personally, then I retract my answers. I have no idea what is best for anyone else but me, nor do I care.
I’m just looking for a general poll about those options, all other things being relatively equal. The woman doesn’t want the pregnancy, but is able to care for the child. I know the answers will be affected by the posters views on various things, which is why I am asking it. I am asking for opinions on what people think is better or worse in the situation.
It’s totally hypothetical; I just want to see how people rank those items in general.
There is no objective answer to this question and therefore I can’t give a ranking. I mean, there is no, “All other things being equal, which of these is best?” because there is no situation in which all factors except the pregnancy would be equal.
Sorry.
I think the idea that there’s a general ranking of these things possible is slightly bizarre. I can’t think of anything more personal than such a decision.
In general, I think with overpopulation being the problem that it is, abortion isn’t necessarily a bad idea.
Single parenthood is not something I think is problematic for people who actually want a baby and have the means (financial, emotional) to care for it, but if either one of those things isn’t true, then it becomes a very bad idea indeed.
The separating out of a ‘religious’ couple also seems very odd. In fact, the separating out of the various adoption options at all seems forced. It feels like there’s a point you’re hoping to make and you’ve chosen your options specifically to guide people into that point rather than to cover all the bases.
I guess, for me, personally, since I seem to fit your criteria of a woman who could have a baby and care for it but wouldn’t want it, I’d rank them in this order:
Well, I did pick door number 6 and believe it or not, would probably pick the same again.
There are medical ways of eliminating an unplanned pregnancy that are not the morning after pill. It doesn’t have to be a surgical procedure any more. Would you count those as abortion?
IMHO, separating adoption options by the sexual preferences of the parents is just plain weird. Are there really people who would give a baby up for adoption to a straight couple but rather abort than have the baby adopted by to a gay couple?
Seconded. This is the method some right to life activists use to garner support for their assertion that the vast majority of the population agrees with them, that abortion is wrong and should be outlawed. Not to mention the possibility of saying “SEE?? NOBODY WANTS THEIR BABY RAISED BY A GAY COUPLE!” Misogyny and homophobia in one! W00t!
Abortion is a very personal decision, and taking away the personal element and asking people to choose on someone else’s behalf based on their own personal feelings is nonsensical.
I choose:
Option 8: Whatever that woman decides. Because she has to live with her choice, and it’s far too important for me to take away from her.
Best to worst for the child? For the parent? For society?
I’m with some others. There are way too many variables. Is the woman 16 years old in high school, or 30 and successful in her career? Who is the father? A long term boyfriend who she was going to marry sooner or later anyways, or some guy she met in a bar last week?
What does her personal religion/morality teach about abortion? It may be the most convenient option, but if you have a true belief that the (pick the right word) is a life, then abortion would be a bad option.
As far as adoption, that is where the mother’s choice ends. You don’t get to choose after that…
Sorry, can’t do it.
If it was for me, in my current sitation, or 5 years ago, or 5 years from now, I could try, but just as a hypothetical, nope, can’t do it.
No person and their circumstances are ever average or equivalent to another, that’s why the choice has to be made by the person concerned. When it comes to unwanted pregnancy every case is unique and wrong choices for one person are right choices for another…what I (or anyone else) think about those choices is irrelevant.
Long Time First Time- if you mean medical termination of pregnancy by Ru-486 or Misoprostol or Gemeprost, then it is induced abortion and therefore “an abortion” in the eyes of the law and the medical profession.
Obviously it’s a “depends” question, but from my own point of view exclusively:
I’m not a woman. But if I was, for me personally, the list would go as such: