
I'm a moderate Rep who will not be voting for McCain/Palin. I think for many over 30 married woman with children privacy rights to medical care which include a right to abortion become abstract. If it is less likely to happen to me then why should I care about anyone else?
It is very naive to think restricting abortion will open up a stream of adorable babies for adoption which is another side hope I think our age group holds. The reality again is thta many of the teenage mothers who accidentally get pregnant and seek to terminate are at extremely high risk for prematurity and other complications. I saw no potential adoptive parents in the NICU. People want healthy babies not babies who need a lifetime of expensive medical care and who will have disabilities. Sadly, the staticsare heavily wieghed by minorities who do not attract the bulk of adoptive parents. We are looking at many unwanted children who will have sad childhoods in state care. If you haven't spent time in a NICU perhaps you haven't seem a preemie screaming for weeks as they come off crack with no family support. The pro lifers aren't around to help them and this greatly bothers me. As a high risk mom who risked her life to have kids and faced the real possibility of having a micro preemie (made into the 30 week Yeah!) I can tell you 20 weeks is not viable. From my NICU experience, I will tell you that there are some incredibly tragic situations when babies are born with genetic disorders not compatible with life or when a neonatologist tries to keep a 22 weeker alive through excrutiating pain for only a few weeks. Probably not going to register in your frame of reference but there are women out there who need and want to terminate to spare their baby horrible suffering. These realities are not considered in any of pro life legislation. In fact, in one state there was also legislation that tried to define what medical procedures a doctor could us without going to a court to petition. One of the restricted methods was an obscure one, not used in general abortion but when women develop serious HELLP and clotting disorders within the 20-24 timeframe. The risk of severe HELLP is bleeding out so any procedure that reduces blood loss can make a difference to the mother's life. On the abstract level, the privacy rights established in Griswold v Conn and Roe v Wade have been fundamental rights keeping the government (and other citizens) out of a women's choice about her body. I would not want my daughter to grow up with out these rights and be subjected to the whims of the pro lifers. If you are pro life then vote McCain/Palin and I would respect your right to hold a different position but it is wrong to try to obscure reality and the facts. There is nothing liberal or hysterical about understanding that one of the core platforms of the McCain/Palin ticket is the pro life position which is to overturn Roe v Wade. Based on timing, whoever wins the White House will be the one shaping the outcome on this and it will not be turning back. |
Would you really let a few people on a message board push you from voting your conscience? Wow. Just, wow. |
In all due respect 2 posts above-you are missing the point. It doesn't matter if a micro premie is going to have a hard time making it or some kind of disability-the reality is that if someone can be born alive the facts in termination should change. You shouldn't have less a right to live because people decide that your life isn't going to be easy. It should never be about..dammm this is inconvenient but whether there is actually life as in can be born alive--sorry at that point your choice should go out the window. Again, I realize the whole teen mother issue in the sense that I would hate girls killing themselves over being pregnant which is why I think we have to have some leeway--could it be first trimester?? I would need more doctor input but 20 weeks--waaaaaaaay to long to back out. |