Abortion” saying “competing values and norms only create inner conflict in the deciding person” (Harris, Mills 2) Could that quote describe Lane’s situation any more accurately? Faith is supposed to bring peace and relaxation, not the kind of stress that Lane is experiencing.
Moving on from religion, the next variable to tackle is the roles that gender play in the process. Ever since the controversial Roe v. Wade court decision, people have been taking arms and picking a side. Many people would say abortion is a women's issue and that’s that.
“For obvious reasons, abortion is often described as a women’s issue. The characterization is understandable— only women undergo the abortion procedure or face the bodily impact of an unwanted
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With that said, if you completely ignore the father's wishes for the unplanned pregnancy, you end up sending the message that he is unaware of how momentous the decision is which leads to the next stereotype “Descriptions of men as incapable on some level of grasping the significance of abortion and unwanted pregnancies” (Purvis 2) People who think that way make it come off men are emotionally dull. It is a way more complex situation. That statement suggests that men are uninterested in parenthood which is ludacris.
Commentators paint a picture of men as powerless pawns who have no agency either to embrace or reject fatherhood, subject to the whims of pregnant women with the ability to terminate at will and deprive a man of fatherhood on the one hand, or to saddle him with a child support obligation on the other. (Purvis 2)
Statements like that are a reason why as a nation we are so divided on the topic. It paints both genders poorly. In different cases, men are also at generalized to push women towards getting the abortion just to evade his fatherly duties. In Ernest Hemingway's “Hills Like White Elephants” you can see this in several different occasions. “It’s really an awfully simple operation Jig,” the man said. “It's not really an operation at