Women and Pregnancy - A curse or a gift?

Pregnancy is a gift when you want the baby, a curse if you don't. Surely that's obvious?

I was completing a task today for college in which I had to separate people's comments on abortion into pro/anti/impartial sections. All responses were from females. The section with most responses was pro abortion. This, for me, was quite disturbing, exaggerated no doubt by the coldness/selfishness of some of these opinions.

My personal opinion on this matter is that abortion, on the surface, is wrong and women should feel privileged to be able to give birth. Sure you get the grumbles of aches and pains - which I am in no doubt over the severity of - but I would like to think that this is something which is, in reality, overwhelmed by the actual feeling of giving birth.

- So are the moans and groans greater than giving birth?
- Has it come to a stage in our time where women have forgotten their significance?
- Is pregnancy a curse or a gift?

[This is not a discussion on abortion, well its not intended for that anyway lol]

3.16 Unto the woman He said: 'I will greatly multiply thy pain and thy travail; in pain thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.

In the end though once outside God's eye the women seemed to get the men to do all the travail anyway...

Oh, and be careful about calling women who want the right to abort 'cold' and 'selfish'. That really isn't going to go down well.

3.16 Unto the woman He said: 'I will greatly multiply thy pain and thy travail; in pain thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.

Seems like a punishment to me. ^o)

To quote a source "I know I killed someone. I am a murderer. But even so, abortion is every womans right."

If that isn't cold I don't know what is.

I am not generalising the entire female population and I understand that some times bringing a baby into the world would just be plain wrong. My question was a simple one really:

Do women see pregnancy, these days, as more of a curse than a gift?

How would you feel being sick, unbalanced, and ugly for 9 month, and then be in extreme pain for several hours just to do something you don't want?

You have answered my question as you see pregnancy as more of a curse than a gift.

You don't have to be religious to see that it contradicts your point about women thinking of giving birth as a gift "in the good old days".

Do you disagree with any part of my analysis?

You stated some of the common symptoms of pregnancy so I cannot disagree with you on that, as it does happen. What I disagree with is the way in which you placed more emphasis on the perceived bad parts of pregnancy and failed to mention any goodness about it.