Virginia Republican introduces bill to ban abortions at 20 weeks
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Anonymous
OMG. I would guess 0.0000000000001% of rape victims. 
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Anonymous
This country is full of people who can barely handle parenting a “perfect” baby. If a person doesn’t want to give birth to a child with a disability and hen it isn’t my place to force them to. Also I think there is no point in personalizing this. Just because a person makes a private decision to terminate an unwanted pregnancy doesn’t mean that your parent’s decision was wrong or that anyone thinks you don’t have a right to exist or were some kind of misguided mistake. Live your own life on your own terms. I know that’s what I want for my life and the lives of my family members. |
Anonymous
Did you read the thread? Ummm. No. Obviously not. |
Anonymous
After 20 weeks is often when people learn that a fetus has abnormalities incompatible with life. You should read up on the types of situations that lead women to seek out an abortion after 20 weeks and tell us if you would deny them that possibility. |
Anonymous
The only lack of concern I see here is coming from someone who would force an 11 year to undergo even MORE trauma and abuse by making her carry her rapist's baby to term and undergo serious abdominal surgery to get it out without killing her. Having "more" concern over the fact that she was abused than concern that she is about to be victimized all over again by forcing her to carry the pregnancy doesn't do anything to help her. Your concern doesn't do anything to alleviate her victimhood. Giving her an abortion would. Why are anti-abortion advocates always unconcerned about an 11 year old rape victim being forced to carry her rapists baby to term? |
Anonymous
You need to deconflict your talking points with the people claiming this will prevent women raped 5 months earlier from getting abortions. |
Anonymous
They don't care, because they are "absolutely sure" God would never let this happen to them. Once they are bankrupt from a baby that died right after birth anyhow, they may change their minds. |
Anonymous
No, I don’t. Do you think child victims of rape know they’re pregnant in the first trimester and go get that taken care of quickly? I guess I misspoke in that I said behind late term abortions is a wanted pregnancy - I was thinking of the adult women I know. Either way, I do not support forcing an 11 year old to carry her father’s child to term even if an adult in her life finally finds out she’s pregnant at 23 weeks. |
Anonymous
Be embarrassed about your lack of imagination and empathy. |
Anonymous
Be embarrassed about your utter leap to hyperbolic heights - as usual. |
Anonymous
https://www.womenslaw.org/about-abuse/forms-abuse/sexual-abuse-and-exploitation/marital-partner-rape/basic-info-about-marital You don’t have to be this way. You can get educated and be better. Do better. |
Anonymous
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Here’s more numbers
https://www.nsvrc.org/statistics/statistics-depth I have a great idea. Let’s eliminate sexual violence of living breathing people first. |
Anonymous
Mouthing off about how burdensome it is to have a downs child - who is doing that? At the same time, get real. Do you not realize or respect the very significant needs of children with severe disabilities and chromosomal abnormalities? If that bothers you, look to are bizarre health care system and social safety nets that make caring for someone with any type of illness, let alone a severely disabled child, grindingly difficult. Do not dismiss how difficult it is, how expensive, and the extent of sacrifice of caregivers. Sorry that’s not sunshine and rainbows for you, but that’s reality. |
Anonymous
I hope you're not a man. |
Anonymous
It would be nice if people on both sides of the abortion debate would stop saying downs babies. They’re children with Down syndrome, not downs, not down’s. (Unless maybe you’re European but it’s a DC based board and it’s Down syndrome in the US). It’s a lot of work to have a child. They all come with their challenges. Some kids come with more time consuming and costly challenges than others. Kids with Down syndrome often have other medical issues. It can and does break families. So many people think they’re going to have this always friendly, hugging, happy little kid like they see on TV, or someone like Corky from Life Goes On. You can’t tell the severity or all the complications that will happen until the child is here. People don’t think about puberty and the issues that come with that, and the high risk of abuse among people with disabilities. Even simple things like getting a sitter come with challenges. If people feel like they’re equipped and knowledgeable enough to handle it, fine. But to thrust that onto someone who isn’t equipped to handle it is cruel. It’s already hard to decide what to do, either way, but to be forced into a decision that’s going to bring financial hardship and marital distress as well as the joy of having a child to parents when it’s preventable is extremely cruel. There’s also almost no way they’re not going to require government assistance (which I’m fine with and think there should be more opportunities for that), so it’s also costing taxpayers to force people to have children with disabilities. I’m only bringing that up because it’s such a common theme for conservatives when it’s convenient. |