Originally posted by: CPA
Originally posted by: MichaelD
Roe vs. Wade was the best thing to happen for women ever.
Reversing it would put us back in the days of bathroom stall coathanger abortions...a real tragedy.
I hope the reversal fails miserably.
I support a woman's right to choose. I'm also a Republican...how ironic.
Wow, a point I actually don't agree with MichealD on. The problem with this argument is that even with legal abortion we still see coathanger (or more appropriately dumpster) abortions.
Right, but if doctor-performed abortion becomes illegal, coathanger and dumpster is
all you're going to see. That we see it at all now only sheds light on the shortfalls of proper, frank health education and overall access to health care.
With partial birth abortions, I don't like the idea of government being involved in this decision, but I feel it is a tragedy that the death of child is no fault of his own.
The catch with the partial-birth legislation is that it's purpose is really only that of a foot in the door. This procedure only accounts for (if memory serves) 0.14% of all abortions performed each year and is only performed when and because the mother's life is on the line and/or the fetus is non-viable. BaliBabyDoc explained in great detail in a recent thread why D&X is the way it is, but the bottom line is that the procedure is the least risky for the mother.
I believe the problem with the abortion system lies with those who abuse it by using abortion clinics to regularly erase pregnancies that were easily preventable with birth control and simple sexual responsibility. I also believe records should be kept of people who get abortions more than twice in a year...
I don't have hard facts in front of me, but I'd wager that these women you're referring to are vastly in the minority when it comes to abortions performed each year. It's not often you hear someone recount having had this procedure done in a light-hearted tone. The idea that women are running around blithely getting abortions performed willy-nilly in lieu of contraception largely amounts to pro-life propaganda. I'm honestly clueless as to why the pro-life movement aren't the world's biggest proponents of birth control. Don't like abortion? Go right to the source and make an effort to prevent all the ignorance-induced pregnancies occuring every year. You can harp on abstinence until you're blue and you will indeed reach some teens who will wait for marriage. Most, however, will ignore you and go have at it in the back seat of a car somewhere. They're going to have sex, so you might as well prepare them. Providing education and contraception doesn't any more encourage them to have sex than seat belts encourage them to speed. They're teenagers, they do stuff like that.
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