Why You Think the Way You Do: The Story of Western Worldviews from Rome to Home

by Glenn S. Sunshine

And when unwanted pregnancies occur, abortion is always an option. If sex is about personal satisfaction, then what else should you do with unwanted pregnancies? To suggest that the baby should be carried to term, even if only to put him or her up for adoption, violates the personal freedom and autonomy of the woman — though statistics indicate that a very high percentage of abortions are done at the insistence of men, and very few in cases of rape, incest, or the health of the mother. (In fact, the National Organization for Women originally opposed legalized abortion because they thought it would give men the ability to take advantage of women and not have to deal with the consequences, a fear supported by experience.) Tens of millions of abortions have been performed in the United States since they were legalized, eliminating enough of the population to have made up for much of the projected shortfall in Social Security taxes over the next decades. Approximately one-third of the current generation of college students were aborted.