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The Feeling Of Women Who Decide Abortion Or Adoption

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Marissa F. Lutz
Mrs. Ross
ELA1
November 23, 2015

The Feeling of Women Who Decide Abortion or Adoption For the women who have already made the decision between adoption and abortion have taken a survey, and some believe that they made the best decision they could for the child because they weren’t ready mentally or financially to take care of a child. Statistically most unplanned pregnancies are in teens and college students and they feel that they won’t be able to pursue the same goals they had before they got pregnant. Women who feel this way also feel that if they were to pursue the pregnancy they would be miss out being a young adult like going to college parties and having to drop out of college because they cannot balance …show more content…

Ninety percent of women say they were not given enough information to make an informal decision. {More percentages about side effects of abortion} Adoption is a viable solution to abortion which cause negative feeling for a woman who has made a decision. How do you think women feel after making this decision? According to many different sources many women feel relief, sadness, happiness, and the feeling of loss. For other women they react negatively when it comes to emotions such as grief, guilt, anger, shame, regret and feeling of being judged for their decision. Five percent to thirty percent of women have these negative feelings. And for women who react positively to their decision the feel relief, happy, and reprieved. {Need more information about positive reactions} Adoption is a great way to help a family who is unable to have children or that they want to open their homes up to children with a family or a home. Two percent to four percent of families have and adopted child in the United States. To adopt the average time from is a few months up to five years. An estimate of one million kids live with adoptive parents. There are almost half a million (four hundred seventy

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