Abortion
The reasons why women have abortions are diverse and vary dramatically across the world. Some of the most common reasons are to postpone childbearing to a more suitable time or to focus energies and resources on existing children. Others include being unable to afford a child either in terms of the direct costs of raising a child or the loss of income while she is caring for the child, lack of support from the father, inability to afford additional children, desire to provide schooling for existing children, disruption of one's own education, relationship problems with their partner, a perception of being too young to have a child, unemployment, and not being willing to raise a child conceived as a result of rape or incest, among others. An additional factor is risk to maternal or fetal health, which was cited as the primary reason for abortion in over a third of cases in some countries and as a significant factor in only a single-digit percentage of abortions in other countries. An American study in 2002 concluded that about half of women having abortions were using a form of contraception at the time of becoming pregnant. Inconsistent use was reported by half of those using condoms and three-quarters of those using the birth-control pill; 42% of those using condoms reported failure through slipping or breakage. The Guttmacher Institute estimated that "most abortions in the United States are obtained by minority women" because minority women "have much higher rates of unintended pregnancy. Pro-Life vs. Pro-Choice. 10 Abortion Arguments: 10 Arguments For Abortion, 10 Arguments Against Abortion. A majority of people in the United States believe abortion should be legal and regulated. These facts fly in the face of both sides of the argument. The left wants abortion to be free and easy to obtain. The right wants abortion outlawed. There is an obvious solution to this problem if the leadership of both parties would just step forward. But they don't.
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Turtle mothers talk to their babies in the egg, human mothers kill their babies in the womb

1/6/23
from The Gray Area:
1/6/23:

Yes, this is an extreme headline, but exactly what I thought when I read this article in the Washington Post, The turtle moms that ‘talk’ to their eggs before they hatch .

I began to compare in my mind the reactions of human & arrau turtle mothers with regard to pregnancy and birth. Why do these arrau turtles talk to the babies in the egg and human mothers are just as likely to kill their babies in the womb as to talk to them? Curious, and frightening, when you consider humans are [supposed to be anyway} a higher level species. This is an astonishing thought. Why would a turtle want to protect their offspring and a higher level animal want to kill theirs? Maybe it has to do with the species. Turtles and humans are different. Different turtles don’t react the same to their offspring. Some lay eggs and then leave the babies to hatch and survive on their own. But, still, they don’t kill them. Humans, though, kill across the same species. If you stand two white American women beside each other, one is likely to have an abortion, and the other is likely to talk to her baby in the womb, like the arrau turtle. Same if you stand two black women, Asian women, Indian women, Native American women, albeit to differing degrees. Why? Is this nature or is it learned behavior? Just thinking.

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