You're welcome, daylia. I hope you will look into joining us as a member, too. It's free and only takes a few minutes. You can send and receive personal messages that way, too.

I know what you mean. It is difficult. I had a friend whose new husband forced her to abort just after they were married. She had a son from a previous marriage, was not pregnant when she married this guy. He wasn't ready for children of their own. She was not assertive, very unsure of herself and already abused by him.

There are more stories as well as my own teen pregnancy which resulted in my dear son. I've worked with teen girls who couldn't/wouldn't/didn't understand birth control with boyfriends who didn't give a damn, that was her problem, not his!

If people really want to lessen the rate of abortion they will have to work on changing society's ways of treating women and men.

kat