I think this is key. Getting an abortion is part of a whole chain of events, the end result of multiple decisions a woman makes. And some people just don't learn, or don't want to. They fail to make the connections. Or they are part of a group I call the perpetually screwed: people who, through both ordinary bad luck and a complete inability to take responsibility, have bad things happen all the time. My youngest sister falls in that camp (not that she's had an abortion, AFAIK, but that she can't seem to get it together, something's always happened, and somehow, she can never quite comprehend how her mistakes are her mistakes, not some sort of cosmic screwing that fell from the sky because the world hates her). It makes it hard to be sympathetic to her. It is very likely that a woman who has a mindset like my youngest sister's and somewhat different behavior patterns would end up getting more than one abortion, even if she hates it.MithLuin wrote: And following from what Prim said, there's nothing that says these women don't dislike the procedure just as much as those women who would never have another one...but find themselves in identical circumstances because nothing in their lives changed.
Please don't take this to mean that men can't be among the perpetually screwed. They certainly can. Believe me. I have seen.