Regret and the Anti-choice Movement

I'm really tired of these women who get abortions, then decide they regret their abortions, and then join the pro-life movement because of this.

Look, I do have sympathy for women who regret having abortions. I understand that this does happen to a small portion of women who get abortions. They feel bad, because they feel like they killed their children.

True, some women choose not to have abortions because they would feel like they were killing their children. I may not feel the same way if I was in that situation, but I see where they're coming from. If you don't want to have an aboriton because you believe you'd be murdering your baby, then fine. Don't get an abortion. Honestly, I'm okay with that decision, I support that decision. It's your choice, not mine.

That said, it is not the government's job to make decisions for you.

If you get an abortion and then regret it, you are regretting a decision you made. These women who regret abortions, and therefore lobby to ban abortion itself, are essentually blaming the government for their actions. It's like saying "the government didn't make the right choice for me." No, it's your job to make the right decision for yourself. We cannot rely on the government to make decisions for us, that's not their job. If you make a bad decision in your life, you can't go around blaming other people just because they let you make that decision.

Remember the guy who sued McDonalds because he ate too much fast food and got fat? It was ridiculous. He chose to eat there, and he chose to eat food that was bad for him. It wasn't up to McDonalds to regulate his diet, that was his job.

Pro-lifers often argue that if you have sex and get pregnant, you should live with the consequences and have the child, because you knew you might get pregnant and you had sex anyway. When you get an abortion, you know there's a chance you may regret doing so. Yet when a woman gets an abortion, and regrets it, these people eat it up, like that's a reason to ban abortion. So a pregnant woman has to suffer the consequences of her actions and carry the pregnancy like it's a punishment for having sex, but a woman who regrets having an abortion isn't even expected to accept responsibility for her actions?