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Originally Posted by Toy Soldier
This applies to me & my wife as well - we were anti-abortion until we had kids, which sound AWFUL as a standalone statement (like we wish we'd done it  ) but that's obviously not the case... just that we didn't understand how truly life-altering having a child is until we had children. Especially having a child with additional needs, if we had gotten pregnant again we would have had to strongly consider (and likely would have gone with) abortion purely because we know we simply wouldn't be able to give our youngest the time and attention she needs with another younger child in the mix. There are multiple, huge considerations for anyone bringing a child into the world.
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Yes, absolutely goes for me as well. And I would still say on a personal level I probably still wouldn't have an abortion myself unless the baby had a severe disability - which also sounds awful but I don't think I could cope with being a full time carer and don't think it would be fair to my other children or the child itself, what quality of life would you be bringing them into and what happens if they out live me and my husband etc
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I am still against late-stage abortions unless there are significant medical reasons for it (because being blunt, at that stage the "bundle of cells" argument is little more than a comfortable lie) but yeah I do find that most strongly anti-abortion people are either very naive (don't understand the implications) or very privileged (the implications are less, because they have the means to hire as much help as they need).
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Absolutely 100% agree with this also