Comments by "Ellie" (@ellie698) on "Doctor: Why I Changed My Mind About Abortion" video.

  1. 32:03 thank you for your question here and the benefit of your experience. Many so called "wanted" children aren't cared for and nurtured, loved and supported the way a child should be. Many of the children Francis is talking about would have been spared a desperately unhappy life if the pregnancy that resulted in their birth could have been prevented or ended. The doctor here, well meaning though he is, is being so naive and panglossian here. More emphasis should be placed on contraception to prevent as many pregnancies as possible, ensuring that only people who really genuinely wanted a child and were psychologically and emotionally willing and capable of giving that child a supportive, loving upbringing that could help them thrive would actively choose to have a child. Many children just "happen", people feel they want a child for all kinds of selfish reasons that have nothing to do with ensuring a happy, well adjusted member of society is raised. The number of unwanted kids is heartbreaking. Why on earth would a society want to add to that because some idealistic doctor is a little bit squeamish doing his job? If he doesn't want to get involved with terminations there are many other health care roles he could take on. Let others do this job that he personally finds distasteful. What is more distasteful is forcing a woman to have a child she doesn't want. In the REAL world, that Francis actually has experience of first hand, children in that situation have awful lives. In the doctor's naive and immature mindset, he seems to love in some kind of perfect world of he believes that unwanted children are all wanted *somewhere*. Meanwhile, in the real world, most of these children will always have the knowledge that they weren't planned, they weren't wanted and should never have been conceived and allowed to be born. This doctor needs to stop trying to interfere in an incredibly complex situation that his rose tinted glasses are shielding him from. I always made sure i took every care not to get pregnant but if i had i would have had the earliest termination i could possibly get. Having a child would have been a disaster for me, but more importantly it would have been a terrible disaster for that poor child. There's no way i would have inflicted life, and all the suffering and emotional pain that an unhappy life brings onto them. If a family want a child do everything to support them (as a society we don't help parents be great parents) but if someone is adamant they don't feel able to look after a child, please don't inflict an uncertain, uncaring, unhappy life on them. That is far more inhumane to me. Prevention is always better than cure, whatever the situation. Give kids the very best start on life. And a planned and dearly looked forward to child has the best chance of that.
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  2.  @omp199  Termination is a pretty blunt word. It says exactly what the procedure is. It's not exactly a soft term is it The pregnancy is terminated.
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  3. If you don't allow terminations, all you'll do is encourage the growth of "back street" abortions that risks the lives of the foetus and the mother. Pregnant women who don't feel capable of taking the pregnancy to term are vulnerable, he says that all vulnerable humans should be protected, pregnant women need to be protected from the risks and consequences of an unwanted pregnancy.
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  4. Why are we using the term abortion as opposed to termination?
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  5.  @omp199  Amongst who? Abortion is a rather old fashioned term.
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  6. It has to be pointed out that many more female foetuses are aborted than male foetuses. it's no secret that many societies value male children more and see a pregnancy that would result in a female child to be something that needs to be terminated.
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