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Originally Posted by bryantm3
you automatically assume that most women who have abortions do so because their pregnancy becomes a danger to their own personal health.
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no, i'm not automatically assuming anything. i'm deliberately creating a scenario for you that falls out of the "knocked up irresponsible sinful slut deserves what she gets, damnit" category.
again, the problem with "pro-lifers" is that you want to make this an issue of responsibility and morality. but the fact is there are many things that happen in pregnancies that have nothing to do with responsibility and morality. the difference between me and "mary" is that i knew it was time to welcome a new life (lives) into my life, and i was willing to put my health on the line. and if there had been a complication like CP i was committed to seeing it through.
by and large the women who make it to delivery are women who are committed. it takes commitment to put your life and health on the line and face the unknown number of possible outcomes. a world where abortion is banned leaves unprepared and unwilling women to bear the burden of those consequences. you will see an increase of cost of complications passed on to taxpayers and you will see more children with congenital defects up for adoptions that WILL NEVER COME because the people who were not prepared to commit themselves to life in any form will have bailed out by then.
your world creates a ballooning population of needy babies for whom no one may be waiting to receive them with open arms. you create more wards of the state.
it's not about "kids with CP and DS are born every day." it's about the parents who are willing to commit to their care.
i've said this to my father in law (a raging "pro-lifer") and i'll say it to you: it's not about all of the scenarios you can think of. it's about the ones you can't. and it's about protecting the rights of people who fall into these minority categories becaues when you add up all of the minority categories you get a great big group of people who deserve to have the choice.
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Originally Posted by bryantm3
as i have stated time and time again, the doctor should be able to perform an abortion if the situation is like the one above.
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and as i've stated, this really shows your ignorance in sparkling clarity. the complications i described didn't manifest until after the current legal cutoff for abortions. by the time it became life threatening the babies were well into "viability." your statement basically says you'd open the door to MORE abortions during the time when anyone, even pro-choicers, could argue that it really is murder.
in an effort to protect the 12 week old embryos, you're willing to slaughter the 30 week viable lives. congrats, you really thought this one through.