re: How many abortions are result of mother's health?

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It's big government to apply the power of the state to remove the mother's right to body autonomy.

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Nope. She can do whatever she wants to her body. Now to the body of another living being? That's where the line is drawn.

Womens: Hey this baby is preventing me from partying
Govt: Go ahead and kill it


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Womens: Hey that a-hole keeps staring at me across the bar and preventing me enjoying my partying
Govt: Go ahead and kill him

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It's the deception that infuriates me more than anything else.

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The biggest deception is them calling it a woman's right to choose, or a deeply intimate personal decision, or women's reproductive rights. They won't even refer to it as abortion anymore. They used to argue for abortion by trying to pinpoint when the group of cells became a child...now they are so lazy that they won't even go into the issue of whether or not it's killing an infant; they are calling it a "woman's personal decision for herself" and cutting the argument off at the mother (almost as if they are arguing whether or not to cut out a woman's organ). Talk about deceptive.

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By your logic, then when a mothers body natually terminates a fetus, should she be held on charges? I mean she harmed another human being.

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Did you think about this before you typed it? If not, then I absolve you of your folly. If you did, then I am sorry that your train of thought is a complete mess.

In other words, this is about the stupidest point I have ever seen made on any topic

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The biggest deception is them calling it a woman's right to choose, or a deeply intimate personal decision, or women's reproductive rights. They won't even refer to it as abortion anymore. They used to argue for abortion by trying to pinpoint when the group of cells became a child...now they are so lazy that they won't even go into the issue of whether or not it's killing an infant; they are calling it a "woman's personal decision for herself" and cutting the argument off at the mother (almost as if they are arguing whether or not to cut out a woman's organ). Talk about deceptive.

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This is one hell of a great post. Bravo

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Womens: Hey this baby is preventing me from partying
Govt: Go ahead and kill it

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Absurdist examples don't make your case for you.

No one obligates you to donate a kidney to save a life. Even if that life is your own child.

By this logic, the government should require parents to donate any and all organs, without their consent, for the possibility of saving their child.

That's not your organ, it's the state's.

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Well sometimes I think they count emotional well being, which seems very slippery.

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Nah, it's her choice and no one else's; that's solid. What's slippery is when the government attempts to have more and more influence on her choice.

This is why I'm against Obamacare fyi. A woman doesn't need the government to help her choose what to do with her junk; a lot of them seem to think they need the government's financial assistance, though. I say "Your body, your choice, your dime."

about 95% of abortions are for convenience, after the fact birth control

Very few.

Abortion for the life of a mother - actual risk is sad but justifiable. I would guess there are many of these that would be the result of a non viable pregnancy (ectopic).

I wish I didn't care about abortion. It would make it easier because I wouldn't have to think about it or argue over it.
I just can't get past the idea that abortion ends a hum life. I don't think I could ever change my mind on that.

Over the weekend I was contacted by a woman who turned out to be my half sister. We have never met and though as a teen I heard rumors I had no idea if they were true or not. The only family members who would have known have passed away (including my biological father).
Her biological mother decided to put her up for adoption because she recognized her inability to adequately care for her.
She ended up with amazing parents who raised her well and she is now a beautiful and accomplished young woman.
Y'all just can't imagine (unless you've experienced similar) how amazing it feels to connect with a sibling you never knew you had. This further enforces my belief that choosing life is always a better option (when at all possible- mothers life excluded,obviously)

Between 2-5%, depending on the source and what they list under "health of the mother".

By every stretch abortion is essentially legalized murder. With that said it has to be legal. Mind you, i dont believe a person should do it for reasons that are selfish. Also every woman who has it done isn't a monster.

At this point I'll bring up an anecdote from a personal friend of mine. She got pregnant at 19 from a long term boyfriend. She and him combined only had 20 hours of courses at a community college and made due with less than 18k a year and had no family support due to early deaths.

She fought the decision everyday and told next to no one. Her boyfriend died driving drunk a few days after she discovered this and he never knew he was going to be a father.

The only life she could have given that child was a poor life where it had nothing and very likely would never made it up in life in her mind. She did it, but has never for one day not felt bad for doing it.

It has been years now and she has even regressed further in life, partially from her own poor choices and partially bad luck. She would have been a poor mother and knows that.

The problem though is whether knowing that kid would have had a bad path in life vs just having a life was the right thing. She still doesnt know the answer to that question and I know it still haunts her.