Theos-Talk Archives (May 2005 Message tt00577)

Of course there are also extreme cases. I have meet women here in 
Greece and in Brazil that made more than 30 abortions. This is 
something monstrous for me. And the interesting thing is that such 
woman belong to medium-high level in the society, in Brazil one 
being the wife of a Senator. Also we can't forget that there are 
today many ways offered for a woman do not get pregnant. The great 
problem with abortion is that when is legal they abuse it, and they 
abort children even in the six, seven month of pregnancy.

So I think that abortion is and will be during long time a very 
controversy matter. The fact is that in every country which abortion 
is forbidden or not women are committing it. When it is in a country 
which the abortion is forbidden endanger in a great level women's 
life and when in a country which abortion is liberate happens many 
kind of abuse with abortion being practiced in an advanced stage of 
pregnancy.

In India sometime ago in the state of Tamil-Nadu they were having 
huge problems with the murdering of girl babies. Gendercide was 
practiced there because no one family whish a girl. When the girl 
get marriage the family has to give of dowry, in which the family of 
a prospective bride must pay enormous sums of money to the family in 
which the woman will live after marriage. "Though formally outlawed, 
the institution is still pervasive. The combination of dowry and 
wedding expenses usually add up to more than a million rupees ([US] 
$35,000)."

So women pregnant in Tamil-nadu were suffering an amazing pressure 
of the family, she must have a boy. So many women committed suicide 
during the pregnancy and many others when giving birth to a girl 
were killing her with poison or placing grains of rice in the baby's 
mouth so she would suffocate and die etc.

There are too many social problems related to women going on around 
the world. To discuss about abortion as an isolate fact is not 
right. Extreme views and judgment are not welcome in such cases. 
Women is in many areas are still abused and explored in different 
forms. While others that may have better conditions of life have not 
respect to it and end up comitting 30 or more abortions. 

Erica