Choosing abortion for selfish reasons? (D&D)

So I was two weeks late for AF up until this morning. I didn't start worrying about being pregnant until like a week ago and I feel kinda bad to say this but if I had been pregnant I would have gotten an abortion.
Not because it isn't the right time for us to have a baby, or because we don't have any money, it wasn't even because I didn't want to put the stress on my other babies.
It was because I didn't want to deal with the way my body responds to being pregnant. It was because I didn't want to deal with the emotional train wreck I would have to go through being pregnant and after.
And lastly because I don't think I would be able to stay sane with another newborn in the house again so soon.  
I love babies. I love my children. But with everything that I have been through in the last 2 years I don't think that I could handle it.
So does that make me selfish? To not even care that I would be getting rid of a "possible baby" or who else it would effect?
I feel bad thinking about it like that but at the same time I know I couldn't deal with it.

I don't think it makes you selfish

If I got pregnant right now, I'd abort. I don't want more kids. I am barely getting by with supporting Me and Cora. I think it would be selfish of me to keep a child I can't support emotionally or financially

No. If you don't want a baby then you shouldn't have to have one.

Quoting Uncle Obama's Banana:" So I was two weeks late for AF up until this morning. I didn't start worrying about being pregnant until ... [snip!] ... baby" or who else it would effect? I feel bad thinking about it like that but at the same time I know I couldn't deal with it."

It probably does make you selfish.

I had an abortion so I could go to school, not because it would be impossible for me to go to school, but because it would be harder, and I didn't want that. It was selfish but I don't really care.

It is your body. If that is what you want then go ahead. I don't know if its really selfish..

Honestly, I don't think any reason a woman has for aborting is selfish.
It's your body, if you don't want to carry and raise another baby you shouldn't have to.

I don't think it's selfish, but I would consider getting on a more permanent type of birth control IF you're not already.

I think so.
My 3rd child was 6 months old when I got pregnant with my 4th. My back has been bad since having my 1st. I am constantly in pain when I am pregnant. I cant work because I get hypertension when pregnant. My husband was in the process of clearing the army, so we knew he was getting out and going to be unemployed for some time after. I was also trying to get birth control, but my Tricare was messed up. Lo and behold....I was pregnant all that time. I was upset, but it grew on me. I kept her and she sure is precious.
Pregnancy is only temporary. Everything else in life will sort itself out.

<blockquote><b>Quoting Uncle Obama's Banana:</b>" So I was two weeks late for AF up until this morning. I didn't start worrying about being pregnant until ... [snip!] ... baby" or who else it would effect? I feel bad thinking about it like that but at the same time I know I couldn't deal with it."</blockquote>



If you don't want to have another baby get on birth control. This way you don't have to decide to have that abortion.

I would never have a abortion for any reason at all. But that is cause I could never do it nor think it.

Quoting MommyingWithGrace:" I think so. My 3rd child was 6 months old when I got pregnant with my 4th. My back has been bad since ... [snip!] ... it grew on me. I kept her and she sure is precious. Pregnancy is only temporary. Everything else in life will sort itself out."

lol, wtf.. that's not even true.

Quoting Legendary Amanda:" lol, wtf.. that's not even true. "

That is true. Been there more times than I can count.

My mom always says to me "You might stumble, but you will never fall". Best piece of advice she ever gave me.

The fact that you can admit that another baby in the mix would make you lose your marbles is reason enough not to go through another pregnancy and have another child.
I don't think you are selfish.

Quoting MommyingWithGrace:" That is true. Been there more times than I can count. My mom always says to me "You might stumble, but you will never fall". Best piece of advice she ever gave me."

That's not advice, advice is telling you how to proceed or a suggestion on how you should handle a situation.

"You might stumble but you will never fall" is a tacky catch phrase that you put on a bumper sticker or tattoo on your lower back.

I can think of a million stories of people who fell, lol how about that chick on here who left her kids in the car so long they'll be smurfed for life. That's more than a stumble.

Or like those moms who shake their kids into comas.

That smurf isn't sorting itself out, is it?

<blockquote><b>Quoting MommyingWithGrace:</b>" That is true. Been there more times than I can count. My mom always says to me "You might stumble, but you will never fall". Best piece of advice she ever gave me."</blockquote>




I believe everything works out in the end. Really can't change what happens or the outcome of it. You just learn from everything that happens to you. I have been there many times as well.

Quoting Mom of Tristan and Rayah :" <blockquote><b>Quoting MommyingWithGrace:</b>" That is true. Been there more times ... [snip!] ... what happens or the outcome of it. You just learn from everything that happens to you. I have been there many times as well."

Sure you can,

I could have had a newborn and dropped out of college, or I could have aborted and lived the life I'm having now. I did change the outcome of it.