PREVENTIVE MEDECINE: CAUSES OF ‘BAD LUCK’ CATEGORY

Apr
23
2009

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Some research shows that women having abortions are psychologically just like other women but have simply taken more risks or have used inefficient contraceptive methods. Other research suggests that this is too simple a view and that most of the women got pregnant to prove their love for their man, to add satisfaction to a relationship, or to secure a failing one. Some women were found to have got pregnant to punish themselves for sexual misdemeanors or for a previous abortion. Sometimes it was to replace a dead child or a lost boyfriend. On investigation most of the ‘bad luck’ category can be reallocated to other causes. These include:

Depression

This can lead to carelessness over contraception and a hope that a baby will improve things.

Uncertainty over sexual identity

A few women have to prove that they are really female by having a baby.

To punish parents

A teenage girl often wants to punish her repressive parents, especially if they have implied that she is promiscuous when she is not. Some of the girls also see having a baby as a way of getting away from home.

Trying to trap an unwilling or hostile partner

This is much less common than it was.

Wanting some fun and freedom

A final ‘fling’ before ‘settling down to middle age’ is not an uncommon story in older women who have an extra-marital pregnancy.

Deliberate non-contraception

A conscious failure to practice effective contraception is remarkably common. Many women either don’t like the method of contraception they are using, or really want to get pregnant, however unconsciously, or follow a moral or religious code that bans contraception.

Personality problems.

Women who seek abortions are found to have different views on sex compared with those who go through with their pregnancies. Abortion-seekers often don’t see themselves as instrumental in their unplanned pregnancy.

Changes in circumstances after conception

An example of this would be the collapse of a relationship.

Partner factors

These are not all that common but must be considered. Some men deliberately get their partner pregnant to test their own fertility; to try to secure the relationship; to give themselves added personal status; to give the woman something to worry about; because of an inability to keep away from intercourse during unsafe periods; because of a weak personality; or because of a refusal to let the woman use oral contraception (a virtually 100 per cent safe method), supposedly on religious or medical grounds but sometimes really because they fear her fidelity or the demands for sex she might make on them, and so on.