How does getting an abortion — or not — influence a woman’s life? Demographer Diana Greene Foster puts forward the results of The Turnaway Study, her landmark work following nearly 1,000 women through abortion or childbirth, presenting definitive data on the long-term physical, mental and economic impacts of the right to choose on pregnant people and their families. “Access to abortion is about control over one’s body, life and destiny,” says Foster.
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@Balil_Wrld
January 12, 2024 at 9:32 am
Are there any bad effects of Abortion?
@leagarner3675
January 12, 2024 at 10:13 am
Illegal abortion is unsafe.
@PatientPerspective
January 12, 2024 at 10:45 am
According to the video, no.
@grmpEqweer
January 12, 2024 at 10:51 am
Not really. It’s a lot less dangerous than bringing a pregnancy to term.
@anniejuan1817
January 12, 2024 at 11:32 am
If someone is forced or coerced into having one, then yeah, the abortion is likely more harmful than the pregnancy would have been. Otherwise, generally not.
Of course there will always be a few people who regret the decision that they made (not just that they were in the position to have to make a choice). Just like there are a few people who honestly regret having a child. But laws that govern the masses should not be based on the few.
@thestarwarsemperor8334
January 12, 2024 at 9:44 am
Abortion should be ban period. It goes against God’s plan.
@Griexxt
January 12, 2024 at 9:57 am
Let God deal with that then. How do you know that banning abortion isn’t against God’s plan? It’s clearly not against his plan in the countries that allow it, because he’s doing FA about it.
@HDloly
January 12, 2024 at 2:25 pm
said the man
@thestarwarsemperor8334
January 12, 2024 at 3:20 pm
@@Griexxt because it’s in the Bible!!!
@thestarwarsemperor8334
January 12, 2024 at 3:20 pm
@@HDloly hey, I could Identify as a lollypop for all you care
@Griexxt
January 12, 2024 at 4:30 pm
@@thestarwarsemperor8334 Bronze age fantasies in other words.
@traitor_joe
January 12, 2024 at 9:45 am
people in this comment are so dense lmao, like who are you to govern over other people’s choices. they have their own problem, not you, look in the mirror cuz this ain’t about you.
@MrSnivvel
January 12, 2024 at 10:11 am
Who do you think the government is comprised of and gets its power from? The people, including those in the comment section you’re addressing.
@rager4able
January 12, 2024 at 2:50 pm
Should the government not care about mass murderers? It is their choice after all. Should we just let them run rampant? I mean “this isn’t about you”.
@alexwyatt2911
January 12, 2024 at 3:00 pm
@@MrSnivvel The freedom of personal choice has long been an American value. The government should not infringe upon people’s human rights, nor restrict their access to essential healthcare.
@johncox3541
January 12, 2024 at 3:37 pm
@@alexwyatt2911 Individual liberty does not include the liberty to kill another person.
@MrSnivvel
January 12, 2024 at 3:41 pm
@@alexwyatt2911 Every country has restrictions on personal choice and has since the concept of nation-states has been around. Having an abortion is not a human right nor is it essential healthcare; it’s a lifestyle choice that’s trying to cover the consequence of poor life choices that were freely chosen by women with full agency over their lives.
@leagarner3675
January 12, 2024 at 9:56 am
So now that Justice Kennedy has the facts, has he changed his conclusion?
@MrSnivvel
January 12, 2024 at 10:08 am
Abortions are determined by the states as it should be since it’s not a federal issue, some states allow them and in others they’re illegal.
@leagarner3675
January 12, 2024 at 10:13 am
@@MrSnivvel Sorry, that’s not acceptable to women to have tiered rights in different states. What I would like to see is that all men must get a vasectomy and only get a woman’s permission to reverse it if she decides to get pregnant. It would be a lot easier to enforce and it’s safer, les costly and a lot less harmful than unintended pregnancies. If you object, why?
@MrSnivvel
January 12, 2024 at 10:32 am
@@leagarner3675 You definition of acceptable doesn’t matter, this is the way things are since Roe v Wade was repealed. Everything else you wrote is too stupid to address.
@leagarner3675
January 12, 2024 at 11:03 am
@@MrSnivvel Why not? A vasectomy safer, cheaper, and would stop unintended pregnancies. What’s the problem with forcing men to undergo a medical procedure?
@rager4able
January 12, 2024 at 5:02 pm
I think abortion should be a federal issue, just how a black person or a slave were once looked as lesser than a person, life should be recognized at conception federally
@VivianStorm
January 12, 2024 at 10:03 am
Only thing I would add – abortion can indeed affect your mental health. It is not a fun, easy thing to do. I still get sad thinking about it – but if had carried on with the pregnancy, I would have been much, much worse mentally, physically and economically
@kaylorado
January 12, 2024 at 10:12 am
Beautiful ted talk❤
@Happy_Bnzo_Puppy
January 12, 2024 at 10:18 am
👏
@Happy_Bnzo_Puppy
January 12, 2024 at 10:22 am
How many people suffer terribly for their whole life, because they were born into situations, that didn’t actually provide the circumstances for it at all? And how many of them become addicts and/or commit suicide? Or simply suffer in silence until they die? It’s cruel, unbelievably cruel. Don’t get kids if they don’t get a chance to live a mostly good life.
@gabrielleambrose8657
January 12, 2024 at 10:39 am
I think it’s important to realize that it doesn’t matter how good someone has it, unfortunately people will suffer regardless throughout life. That’s the darkness of life. You can’t have light without darkness. It isn’t far to play the judge, jury, and executioner, leaving any unborn baby without the opportunity to become a successful being. There are no statistics on babies who could have been potentially murdered being suicidal or born into awful situations. These are not parallels. There is no question that the government needs to do more to provide resources to individuals and families to support mental wellness and development. But in the same token one could say that it is unbelievably cruel to abort a fetus (for the sake of it being inconvenient) to alleviate its potential suffering because you are also denying any potential of that child to flourish and experience the beauty and light that can also come from existence itself.
@Happy_Bnzo_Puppy
January 12, 2024 at 11:02 am
@gabrielleambrose8657 It’s important to realize that it DOES matter very, VERY much, how good or bad people have it because there is a huge difference in the amount of suffering. Your post is ignorant and it shows where you are coming from. No offense, it’s just too human, sadly.
@leagarner3675
January 12, 2024 at 7:18 pm
All children should be wanted. You are right that’s not the way it is now.
@TeamAwesomeDad
January 12, 2024 at 7:30 pm
@@leagarner3675
Please clarify. Was it different a long time ago?
@wadebrewer7212
January 12, 2024 at 8:00 pm
@gabrielleambrose8657 sounds like some of these people want income thresholds before someone is aloud to have children. All of these statements about poverty…..drugs…..homelessness…..they automatically assume that life for a baby born in a poor home is going to, undoubtedly have a terrible life.
Maybe these folks need to take in a different perspective….like….I dont know….love the child….its notnjust about buying them things or having a giant TV.
The #1 most important thing you can do as a parent is love your child. Children can do without a lot of the material things we think they need amd grow up ok….love and feeling actually wanted they cannot do without.
@airenmarie1250
January 12, 2024 at 10:30 am
Some years back, I had a dream which still haunts me.
In the dream, abortion was completely outlawed in my state, Kentucky–no exceptions, not even health reasons. In fact, in the dream, any pregnant person with a life-threatening complication was required to receive end-of-life care in hospice until the baby was born or until the pregnant person died, whichever came first.
The dream played out in part like a television news report, and the focus was on a 10-year-old rape victim who was heavily pregnant. She was a tiny, blonde-haired girl who could barely carry the extra weight. She knew that she wouldn’t survive childbirth. She kept saying, in tears, that she didn’t want to die.
I have since written a poem about this, called “The Little Madonna.”
I dare someone to brush this off as a “false narrative.” Far from. It’s already happened, far too many times. While it’s unlikely that anyone will spend their pregnancy in hospice (as if the politicians putting bans in place would actually care that much 😒), there will be far too many people lost to abortion restrictions, many of whom are children who will meet the same fate as the little girl in my dream. Abortion bans will cost more lives than they will save, and no one seems to understand that.
@jessscott
January 12, 2024 at 10:48 am
Thank you for highlighting this public health issue, this is the truth that needs to be talked about!👏👏👏👏👏👏👏❤
@bobert8618
January 12, 2024 at 10:56 am
Wow, somebody aborted the Doc😱
@jamer14056
January 12, 2024 at 11:10 am
so, she is saying that the women who genuinely need an abortion it helps. which personally i agree with! save mothers! but i dont think she is advocating for abortion for mothers who just dont want the kid. most women from my understanding would rather have their kid but if they find it unwise to have the kid at the time, then abortion should be the answer.
i also do not believe these are reasons for reasonless abortion. Only for saving lives/major life improvements.
@rager4able
January 12, 2024 at 2:52 pm
These are fair points but it disregards her child’s life imo.
@alexwyatt2911
January 12, 2024 at 2:58 pm
Your opinion is your own. Don’t infringe on other people’s rights and access to essential healthcare.
@rager4able
January 12, 2024 at 3:41 pm
@@alexwyatt2911 Not when it’s killing an innocent human life, we call it murder. And we live in a society where we don’t just let people murder…
@alexwyatt2911
January 12, 2024 at 4:02 pm
@@rager4able Stop being a drama queen. Essential healthcare isn’t “murder.”
@BOSS_1417
January 12, 2024 at 12:05 pm
I don’t know what’s sadder
Not being mentally impacted after ending a life or being mentally impacted for not having ended your child’s life
@ZucchiZ
January 12, 2024 at 12:17 pm
At the prior point, it wasn’t yoir child’s life. It was a blastula, Morula, etc
Taking away a buncha cells from my body wouldn’t cause any mental ills
@anniejuan1817
January 12, 2024 at 1:20 pm
Oh, the second is far sadder. Far, far sadder. Because now there is a child born into an unwelcoming situation, who will have to live with that forever.
@rager4able
January 12, 2024 at 2:27 pm
@@anniejuan1817I’d say the first, sure in both situations the child is unwanted by the mother but at least the second gives the child his/ her natural right to live
@alexwyatt2911
January 12, 2024 at 4:00 pm
What’s sadder is your attempt to manipulate people by using inflammatory verbiage. Don’t engage in the public discourse about abortion access unless you exercise intellectual integrity and emotional maturity.
@freedomishavingachoice3020
January 12, 2024 at 4:25 pm
@rager4able the right to life does not include an unwilling body when we are not viable.
@GreenDemon618
January 12, 2024 at 12:22 pm
This woman is an NPC.
Find your own life.
Tired of the same story. “I want to follow my grand parents, parents, and siblings footsteps.”
Be original, and not a clone.
@rager4able
January 12, 2024 at 6:29 pm
She has to “appeal to emotion” to push her woke Lefty propaganda
@Circuses
January 12, 2024 at 1:37 pm
Nonsense.
@HDloly
January 12, 2024 at 2:20 pm
If men got pregnant abortions would be legal everywhere and widely available.
Abortion for not being ready and lack of financial conditions is accountability. Lack of abortion promotes poverty and unhappiness. Men would clearly see this if they were the carriers and primary caregivers and wouldn’t give a damn about any other argument. It would be crystal clear to them that forced pregnancy is ludicrious and a crime.
@rager4able
January 12, 2024 at 2:56 pm
Not really, considering the life of the child…
@HDloly
January 12, 2024 at 4:36 pm
@@rager4able desconsidering the life of the carrier.
@rager4able
January 12, 2024 at 4:59 pm
@@HDloly I’m assuming you mean disconsidering? And I never disregarded the mothers life (that’s just feminist propaganda) I was addressing your “if men got pregnant abortion would be legal” post
When all things considered (the mother and her child) lack of finances doesn’t justify the killing of your innocent child… Even if men were the ones to get pregnant.
@ruaraidh74
January 12, 2024 at 11:59 pm
Women make up the majority of pro-lifers but cope harder
@MacTav212
January 12, 2024 at 2:27 pm
Answer: millions of innocent people aren’t killed
@rager4able
January 12, 2024 at 3:50 pm
Abortion has killed millions.
@alexwyatt2911
January 12, 2024 at 7:20 pm
Your “answer” is to question: What would be the result of the implementation and enforcement of adequate firearm safety restrictions in the US?
@ruaraidh74
January 12, 2024 at 10:28 pm
@@alexwyatt2911 There are ~11,000 gun homicides per year in the US. For reference, car accidents kill 40,000 people, smoking kills 100k+, 2nd hand smoke alone kills 70k+, and abortion kills 900k+.
11k people killed from firearms is not “millions” 😂😂😂 You’re hysterical
@BartT75
January 12, 2024 at 2:59 pm
No one watching this video, no one subbed to TED, no one here in the comments, no one in the audience nor Diana Greene Foster was aborted.
@Sareaesque
January 12, 2024 at 3:39 pm
And your point is?
@anniejuan1817
January 12, 2024 at 4:58 pm
I’m very glad that my mother CHOSE to have me. I can’t imagine knowing that your mother was refused that choice and carrying you to term was forced on her. How awful.
@alexwyatt2911
January 12, 2024 at 7:11 pm
They’re also not koalas. What’s your point?
@ruaraidh74
January 12, 2024 at 11:59 pm
@@Sareaesque Not getting aborted is probably good. So not aborting is probably good. So abortion is probably bad. Pretty obvious inference if you ask me.
@Sareaesque
January 13, 2024 at 3:41 am
@@ruaraidh74 hardly, the obvious part is that people had to have been born to interact with or create this video and channel. That doesn’t make being born inherently good
@VigGleeson
January 12, 2024 at 3:03 pm
Thank you, Diana, brilliant research and talk! I hope you (the US) get this issue sorted pronto!
Getting pregnant at 16 was devastating, taking my own life or running away was on the table. I will forever remain grateful to the Norwegian state for my right to choose an abortion — without having to tell my parents — and for the Norwegian health service to care for me at such an early age. I’ve never regretted MY CHOICE one. single. day.
@rager4able
January 12, 2024 at 5:59 pm
Most biologists say life starts at conception, do / did you believe you ended your child’s life?
@alexwyatt2911
January 12, 2024 at 6:46 pm
@@rager4able The collective wisdom of the medical community is that abortion is essential healthcare. You can’t pick and choose what science you want to champion.
@TeamAwesomeDad
January 12, 2024 at 7:32 pm
@@rager4able
Most? According to who?
@rager4able
January 12, 2024 at 7:41 pm
@@TeamAwesomeDad just google when the consensus say life begins.
@ruaraidh74
January 12, 2024 at 11:57 pm
@@alexwyatt2911 What disease does abortion treat? I’ll wait.
@dameanvil
January 12, 2024 at 3:21 pm
1:00 🌐 The speaker, a demographer and professor, shares the stories of her grandmothers, Sally and Dorothy, who faced unwanted pregnancies in the early 20th century.
1:09 🚫 Allegations that abortion harms women, especially mentally, have been used to support laws restricting abortion.
2:05 📊 The Turnaway Study, initiated in 2008, compared the outcomes of women who had abortions with those turned away due to gestational limits.
3:50 💔 Contrary to assumptions, the study found no mental health harm from abortion; instead, denial led to higher anxiety and lower self-esteem.
4:22 🤰🏽 Women denied abortions faced worse physical health, including higher risks associated with childbirth such as hemorrhage and eclampsia.
5:00 💸 Socioeconomic differences emerged, with those denied abortions experiencing more hardships, debt, lower credit scores, and increased risk of eviction and bankruptcy.
5:54 🌟 Significant differences in setting and achieving aspirational plans for the future were observed, favoring those who received abortions.
7:17 💬 Over 95% of those who received abortions felt it was the right decision, while fewer than 10% of those who gave birth chose adoption.
9:06 🌍 Access to safe, legal abortion is crucial for the well-being of families worldwide, and the international trend is towards liberalizing abortion laws.
10:10 🌐 Calls for more generous and less punitive supports for low-income families, emphasizing the importance of economic assistance.
10:36 📣 Emphasis on providing information and resources for safe abortions for those who don’t want to carry the pregnancy to term.
11:07 🇺🇸 Post-Dobbs decision challenges, with determined individuals traveling long distances for abortions due to restrictions in some states.
12:01 👩👧👧 The speaker’s grandmothers’ stories emphasize the importance of control over childbearing for economic well-being and personal goals.
13:30 📚 The ability to make decisions about childbearing without government interference is crucial for economic well-being and pursuing personal and educational goals.
@NataliaCava
January 12, 2024 at 3:23 pm
Do you realize that If your grandmother had had an abortion of your parent you would not exist? You owe your life to your grandmother and mother’s pro-life choices.
@rager4able
January 12, 2024 at 4:06 pm
TED = Woke Left propaganda 🤦♂️
@riadhalrabeh3783
January 12, 2024 at 5:01 pm
Madam you are bringing problems for any relevant and irrelevant stories just to support your opinion to make abortion a good name. Listen to the women in the comments and you find a different picture.. if the women falls behind economically it is nothing to do with abortion.. it is to do with the cruelty of society who stop helping them because of dogma.
@eyerling
January 12, 2024 at 5:40 pm
Hoy en día hay muchos métodos para no quedar embarazada, así que no se justifica el aborto, al menos que alla sido por una violacion, un aborto es matar a un niño en mi opinion, hoy en día se quiere destruir el nucleo familiar, pero excelente estudio que realizo, deja mucho que pensar y analizar gracias
@rager4able
January 12, 2024 at 8:17 pm
El estudio es muy falso se enfoca en enforcar idologia de la izquirda nomas.
@pr23487
January 12, 2024 at 8:08 pm
Why do people care if a stranger gets an abortion? Are they bored? It’s really strange. Maybe it’s just a political thing. Either way is creepy and pointless. Like who cares? You don’t know these people.
@ruaraidh74
January 12, 2024 at 11:56 pm
Why do people care if a stranger bans abortion? Are they bored? It’s really strange. Maybe it’s just a political thing. Either way is creepy and pointless. Like who cares? You don’t know these people.
@alexwyatt2911
January 13, 2024 at 4:41 pm
@@ruaraidh74 Restricting people from accessing essential healthcare is not equivalent to your creepy hyper fixation about the personal healthcare decisions made by total strangers.
@sheila7450
January 13, 2024 at 1:43 am
I had an abortion when I was eighteen years old. I was raised a Catholic. In my parents’ eyes I was a good Catholic girl. I hid the abortion from them. They found out. They never went back to church afterwards. Let me tell you that I regret that abortion every day of my life. I did what I thought was the right thing to do at that moment in time. But for me I would have had another child. I have two wonderful children now and I could have had a third wonderful child. I can put blame on being a Catholic I could put blame on the fear my parents disowning me for getting pregnant. All of that doesn’t matter now what matters is I ended a life. Another child I could have had. I regret that decision every day. Think twice before you have an abortion. It will affect you for the rest of your life. If you do not want to keep the child, give it up for adoption but do not abor
@jose15802
January 13, 2024 at 2:40 pm
That is your experience, but it doesn’t have to be that way for everyone.
@alexwyatt2911
January 13, 2024 at 4:37 pm
I’m sorry to hear that you’re unhappy with your decisions. However, don’t invalidate the truth—the overwhelming majority of people who have an abortion don’t regret it in the short term or long term. Their primary feeling is relief.
@godslove8049
January 14, 2024 at 7:49 pm
Thank you for this and I pray you receive the gift of forgiveness as this debt was paid for by the sacrifice of Jesus.
Abortion goes directly against God and that’s the truth most don’t want to believe. Everyone is free to make that choice, but you are not free from the consequences. And those who do not know God or believe in Him, you will understand as you lay on your death bed.
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@jose15802
January 15, 2024 at 9:36 am
@@godslove8049 HAHAAHAH
@justmakingit_mtrose
January 13, 2024 at 1:58 am
The baby lives.
@sheila7450
January 13, 2024 at 2:29 am
Why Do People Have Abortions for Medical Reasons?
Some of the medical reasons for having an abortion include:
Severe pregnancy complications are making it impossible for you to continue with the pregnancy
You need a treatment such as chemotherapy or medication that you can’t have while you’re pregnant
The pregnancy is putting your health or life at risk
Giving birth would put your health or life at risk
You are at high risk of a miscarriage or stillbirth, so it is safer for you to have an abortion
A serious or fatal foetal abnormality was found during your antenatal tests
The pregnancy isn’t viable, for example if you have an ectopic pregnancy
@ruaraidh74
January 13, 2024 at 12:13 pm
Less than 10% of abortions have anything to do “medical reasons” and of those 8%, the vast majority are not serious or terminal for the fetus.
@ruaraidh74
January 13, 2024 at 12:31 pm
@@Eet_Mia PLEASE HELP SHIFT KEY STUCK DOWN HOW DO I STOP SHOUTING
@Eet_Mia
January 13, 2024 at 12:41 pm
@@ruaraidh74 JESUS TOLD YOU TO PLUCK OUT YOUR EYES.
@HellFire.101
January 13, 2024 at 2:40 am
Society has accepted fetal murder as a norm and abortion as a form of ‘birth control. Focus needs to be placed on avoiding pregnancy etc the fact that not committing fetus murder is somehow hurting the murderer’s feelings is disgusting with lack of a better word.
@Eet_Mia
January 13, 2024 at 11:04 am
“HE who has no sin amongst you, cast the first stone”.
You are the one pretending that enslaved street women have a choice.
@ruaraidh74
January 13, 2024 at 12:19 pm
@@Eet_Mia I love how you quoted Jesus telling people not to kill a defenseless woman as justification for killing a defenseless child. The Olympic level mental gymnastics
@Eet_Mia
January 13, 2024 at 12:29 pm
@@ruaraidh74
@Eet_Mia
January 13, 2024 at 12:29 pm
@@ruaraidh74 Jesus Christ never spoke about abortion and you would know that, if you ever read the Bible. I know you have not.
@Eet_Mia
January 13, 2024 at 12:37 pm
@@ruaraidh74 Go open your Bible and see that Jesus said this.
Oh, you can’t, because you don’t own a Bible? Hmmm… 🙃
@alexwyatt2911
January 13, 2024 at 4:50 pm
If you can’t refrain from using inflammatory, inaccurate rhetoric like “murder” or “killing,” then you don’t have the emotional maturity or seriousness necessary to participate in the public discourse about abortion access.
@JustinCarter
January 15, 2024 at 7:42 am
@@alexwyatt2911What does abortion do?
@alexwyatt2911
January 15, 2024 at 1:10 pm
@@JustinCarter An abortion doesn’t “do” anything. An abortion _is_ the termination of a pregnancy. If you don’t know that, then you should be refraining from making any declarations or issuing any opinions with regard to abortion access.
@JustinCarter
January 15, 2024 at 1:21 pm
@@alexwyatt2911 I haven’t made any arguments or opinions, yet just asking questions. When you terminate a pregnancy, what is a woman pregnant with?
@mikaelkasike854
January 13, 2024 at 2:57 am
In the modern era women can choose whether or not to get pregnant and still want to abort! Crazy!
@SimothyInOz
January 13, 2024 at 4:35 am
“Women” no you mean males choose to impregnate women, and then males can choose to a parent? Women don’t get a choice… ? Women just deal with the consequences of male actions.
@Eet_Mia
January 13, 2024 at 10:58 am
What about a married couple, who wanted a baby, but they are being forced to give birth to a baby that they know will die, in one month?
@mikaelkasike854
January 13, 2024 at 11:34 am
@@Eet_Mia You can’t be 100% certain that the child you are about to give birth to will die in a months time. Anyway, You can go ahead, give birth and wait for it to die. That’s a bit natural and is how things should work. Secondly, that cannot be used to justify abortion as only small number of people experience such.
@ruaraidh74
January 13, 2024 at 12:11 pm
@@Eet_Mia What about a disabled obese depressed woman trapped on a survival raft with a tiger? What about if I craft the saddest most obscure scenario ever to justify my belief of abortion on demand through all 9 months of pregnancy?? What then???
@alexwyatt2911
January 13, 2024 at 5:31 pm
@@ruaraidh74 The other user described an incredibly common scenario, goofball.
@magitrop5336
January 15, 2024 at 4:17 am
yeah it’s not like a birth control may turn out to be defective, it’s not like there are things like rape, health risks for a woman, fetus deformity…
@summer78946
January 13, 2024 at 7:08 am
Thank you ❤
@SAN-dk6bj
January 13, 2024 at 7:49 am
Please don’t do abortion!! You Will be a part of murdering your own child. You will lose your peace. Believe in Jesus and go forward.
Even christano ronaldo’s mother planned to do abortion. What would happen if she did that?
@vickiehow-
January 13, 2024 at 6:27 pm
Medically necessary, emergency necessary shouldn’t be outlawed otherwise it murders the mother
@abhishekraj7317
January 13, 2024 at 8:35 am
Yes
@rkayad
January 13, 2024 at 10:29 am
Killing is killing. Even if he/She is in your womb. A human being without the capability to save her/himself.
@jose15802
January 13, 2024 at 2:40 pm
🤣🤣
@vickiehow-
January 13, 2024 at 6:26 pm
Medically necessary, emergency necessary abortion shouldn’t be outlawed
@buttlord2223
January 13, 2024 at 11:21 am
I think abortion should only be legal for minorities.
@ruaraidh74
January 13, 2024 at 12:10 pm
The founder of Planned Parenthood thought that too…
@vickiehow-
January 13, 2024 at 6:23 pm
What about medical emergency, medically necessary abortion?
@vickiehow-
January 13, 2024 at 6:25 pm
The way you say it sounds like eugenics, which is deleting minorities
@ruaraidh74
January 15, 2024 at 12:27 am
@@vickiehow- He’s either trolling or racist. Probably both. Also, fyi there’s no such thing as a medically necessary abortion.
@buttlord2223
January 15, 2024 at 5:59 am
@@ruaraidh74 I’m not a troll.
@mariaantoniettamontella9173
January 13, 2024 at 11:28 am
applausi, brava
@roxyroxy6824
January 13, 2024 at 11:48 am
In the end, it is every womans right what she would want to do. Nobody gets to decide that! … I loved this video!!
@ruaraidh74
January 13, 2024 at 12:09 pm
Which woman? Does the woman in the womb get the right to choose what happens to her?
@alexwyatt2911
January 13, 2024 at 4:35 pm
@@ruaraidh74 No one has the right to choose whether or not they get to use/occupy another person’s body. That’s not a thing. Let it go.
@travisjohnson7065
January 14, 2024 at 2:40 am
@@alexwyatt2911 That’s how human life works, starting in our mother’s womb. You’re trying to say humans don’t have a right to live…the way humans live?
@alexwyatt2911
January 14, 2024 at 11:34 am
@@travisjohnson7065 What I said was no one has the right use and/or occupy a person’s body—especially against their will. Are you saying that you don’t understand that?
@travisjohnson7065
January 14, 2024 at 8:07 pm
@@alexwyatt2911 And like I said, that is literally the exact way human life works. Human life starts by occupying our mother’s body. So you’re trying to argue that humans don’t have a right to live in accordance with normal human life?
Their “will” is irrelevant. The human right to life doesn’t depend on whether or not someone else wants you alive or dead.
@SomewhatDecent1AMVs
January 13, 2024 at 1:26 pm
funny how the same pepole fighting for gun rights want to take womens right to choice away
@ruaraidh74
January 15, 2024 at 1:01 am
Funny how that’s an ad hominem fallacy and guns save 500,000+ lives a year according to the FBI and DOJ
@marklehigh1040
January 13, 2024 at 6:23 pm
What about the baby’s rights?
Here’s what I got out of this video:
Abortion doesn’t harm mental health.
Childbirth is more dangerous than abortion.
Denying abortions harms women.
finances, children, relationships, life aspirations
Trust women.
@magitrop5336
January 15, 2024 at 4:01 am
a baby does have rights
a fetus or a lump of cells – doesn’t
@JustinCarter
January 15, 2024 at 7:39 am
@@magitrop5336Do you know the definition of “fetus”?
@magitrop5336
January 15, 2024 at 7:43 am
@@JustinCarter “an initial stage of development of a multicellular organism”
A stage is not always a result, fetus is not a human yet
@JustinCarter
January 15, 2024 at 7:57 am
@@magitrop5336 inside a pregnant woman a fetus is not human? What kind of fetus is it? A “clump” of what kind of cells?
@magitrop5336
January 15, 2024 at 8:23 am
@@JustinCarter do you want to say that sperm is a human being too? It contains the same DNA, it is organic matter, it _can_ evolve into a human – so sperm must be human too, mustn’t it?
@vickiehow-
January 13, 2024 at 6:29 pm
Medically necessary, emergency necessary ones are being denied and causing death or the inability to reproduce. Every pregnancy is different and could be dangerous.
@villagecpa
January 13, 2024 at 10:23 pm
Protect babies…? Isn’t that what we do when we deny an abortion?
@thievingpanda
January 13, 2024 at 11:02 pm
Dear god please save women from the Republican’s deadly abortion bans. 🙏
@ruaraidh74
January 15, 2024 at 1:00 am
God has answered your prayers! We have been transferred into a timeline where abortion bans save tens of thousands of lives a year! Thank you for your service and great faith 🙏
@TheEverFreeKing
January 14, 2024 at 7:59 am
It’s amazing to watch this cognitive dissonance of her trying to justify baby murder 🧐
We all know her study was likely BS looking for a conclusion.
But even if it wasn’t nothing justifies human sacrifice of a baby to attain wealth or love.
This is the kind of evil person we want to see cry as abortion becomes illegal, this is the kind of person that would have been a slave owner a few hundred years ago.
@JustinCarter
January 15, 2024 at 7:45 am
Think about the two study groups, it was a bias study from the start.
@patriciamartin6756
January 14, 2024 at 10:12 am
Some people are born whiners. I have a good friend who whined about wanting to be married. Then when she got married, she had infertility problems–more whing about her need for a baby. Finally, after years of trying they succeeded. She acted as though being pregnant was some kind of BIG ACCOMPLISHMENT. AFTER THE KID WAS BORN, SHE WAS A STAY AT HOME MOTHER WHINING MORE ABOUT HOW DIFFICULT AND BORING HER LIFE WAS. FINALLY HER HUSBAND FOUND A YOUNGER, MORE ATTRACTIVE WOMAN. HE CONFESSED TO ME THAT A BABY RUINED THEIR RELATIONSHIP. SHE NEVER HAD TIME FOR HIM. HE GOT BORED WITH HER PRATTLE ABOUT THE KID. THST BABY BECAME THE FOCUS OF HER LIFE. HE FELT USED AND EXPLOITED FOR A WIFE AND KID THAT TOOK BUT GAVE NOTHING BACK EMOTIONALLY. SHE WENT AFTER HIM FOR EVERY LAST PENNY, NEVER CONSIDERING ANYTHING HE WANTED. ALL.I KNOW IS, THAT AS A MODERN WOMAN, I HAVE A CHOICE–DO I WANT TO MAKE GOOD MONEY, TRAVEL, DO EVERYTHING I WANT OR DO I WANT TO BE A MARTYR, PLAYING THE UNFULFILLED WOMAN GAME OF “I WANT A BABY. I WANT TO BE STUCK IN ONE PLACE, DRAIN MY HUSBAND FINANCIALLY FOR A DAMN BABY THAT WILL LEAVE WHEN IT’S 18?
@seattlegrrlie
January 14, 2024 at 10:21 am
There are pros and cons to getting an abortion. Women are smart enough to make those hard decisions and have a right to their own body. It might upset them? Finding out they are pregnant already upset them!
@kilowaverider131
January 14, 2024 at 10:46 am
Thank you ❤
@dougwood8549
January 14, 2024 at 5:09 pm
What happens when we deny people abortions? Innocent babies aren’t k|lled. Abortion as a contraceptive is a selfish act that ends an innocent life. There is no legitimate reason to do this. It’s all excuses to relieve the guilt that person is going to have to endure the rest of their lives.
@OptimisticHominid
January 14, 2024 at 11:13 pm
Sadly, few Trump voters will watch this, and if they did, they wouldn’t believe any of it.
@ruaraidh74
January 15, 2024 at 12:55 am
None of it is true lol
@JustinCarter
January 15, 2024 at 7:28 am
What about the outcomes of the other humans in the study that this Ted Talk chose to ignore? One group had a 100% death rate & the other group did not. A human is a human no matter how small.
@geraldmerkowitz4360
January 16, 2024 at 2:38 am
You mean the conservative enforced an harmful decision on everyone based on the lies they tell themselves? Unprecedented!
@michaelpuckett6612
January 16, 2024 at 12:08 pm
Don’t kill babies
@hm-zr3uh
January 17, 2024 at 5:13 am
💔
@categories5066
January 17, 2024 at 3:29 pm
99% of abortions can easily be avoided if women just closed their legs or the men used condoms. It’s that simple folks. Not rocket science
@HypatiaK
January 17, 2024 at 5:54 pm
Some of the legislators who wrote anti-abortion laws did not even understand basic female anatomy, but still felt competent to control women’s lives. Medical decisions should be guided by trained professionals and should not be made in legislatures or courts.