Hi, maybe read this whole thread first. There are many examples of heartbreaking situations where a late term abortion is absolutely on a list of horrible options. These things do happen, although very rarely. The last thing these families need is a legal hurdle. |
Suffered through infertility. Never had an abortion. Can think of 5 friends off the bat who had difficulty getting and staying pregnant. Not a single one of them ever had an abortion. Best friend had abortion in college. Went on to have 3 kids no problem. Know 3 other women who had abortions for various reasons (including getting devestating news about the viability of the child) and none of them had fertility problems. If you're truly upset about fertility rates then you would be out there lobbying for greater regulation of the pollution that effects sperm health. But I'd guess you are someone who thinks government should stop regulating polluters. |
You think the state should be able to force a woman to go through 9 months of growing a baby inside her and then hours or days of labor and delivery. Have you ever gone through labor and delivery? It can be tortuous. And it changes your body forever. I am still feeling the negative effects of a difficult birth 15 years after giving birth to a wanted child whom I love very much. I did it willingly. I sacrifice my body for him. No person should have to put their body through what I did against their will because the state says we have to. When you discover a way to remove a 7 week old fetus out of one womb and transfer it into the womb of someone who wants to gestate it, then we can talk. Why aren't you funding such research if this is so important to you? Instead you think the state should hold women hostage for 9 months and then put them through the agony of L&D. |
But that doesn't answer the question as to why OP and these other prolifers think NY's law as its stated is so much worse than WV's law that allows for full term abortions without the mother's life being at risk. It does, however, answer the question as to whether more people think abortion should be legal vs not. |
So one pro abortion poster says late term abortion is so rare as to be nonexistent, and another pro abortion poster says they do happen, albeit rarely, and thus need legal protection. So who is right? You two can't even get on the same page. |
You know what else is a slippery slope? The government that can forbid you to have an abortion can REQUIRE you to have one. |
Not to mention that having access to quality health insurance helps people to keep their jobs, which helps them be more able to take care of a child. |
1. Late-term abortions extremely rare. Only 1.4 % of abortions take place after 21 weeks, and probaly the vast majority of those take place around the 21-22 week mark. 2. When the rare ones do take place, it is for heartbreaking reasons such as a doomed pregnancy in which an abnormal fetus will suffer tremendously if carried to term, where it is safer for a woman to terminate at 22 weeks than go to term with a non-viable fetus, where a woman has a health emergency and needs to terminate immediately. The decisions to abort at this stage are not made lightly by the women who get them, and they reach those decisions in consulation with their doctors. Why is that hard to understand? |
You forgot to add 5) pay for their maternity leave. not for pathetic 3 months but for 24 months. |
| What's interesting when you look at the number of abortions in New York's is that there are currently about 25,000 kids in foster care in New York alone. if you outlawed abortion tomorrow and as soon as I said everybody put their child up for adoption would all the anti-choice people become foster parents |
I don't think many bothered to look at comparisons. There's an entire chart showing which states offer which "levels" of abortions (for lack of better wording). If people looked at the breakdown of these states, I think they'd find pockets of people in the middle who would sway in favor of such measures. That would give "anti-NY" posters something to think about in terms of creating false generalizations. So while a state may be "red," there are different levels of red. As mentioned above, I can be a fiscal conservative but my social beliefs are liberal, which means I will vote in favor of these measures. I personally don't think people fit into one category, but this country is so f-ing crazy that we've divided along party lines to the point of imploding. |
PP should be providing free BC and abortions. |
Indeed.. which is why OP and some of these other folks picking on NY are blinded by their hatred of a rich blue state. Some of the red states don't even require the surgical center that performs abortions to have any standards. So, they really should pluck out the log in their own eyes first, then look to NY once they get their own houses in order. https://www.washingtonpost.com/apps/g/page/politics/abortion-laws-by-state/297/ |
Birth control was not readily available then. I'm sure they used family planning methods and it worked about as well as it did for many catholic people i knew who had 10 kids when I was growing up. |
I doubt women who abort their healthy babies would want their names made available to the public. Would you? |