Counter-protesting the March for Life?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:On the one side, people protesting abortion rights while withholding food aid to poor children. These people think that if a girl or woman gets raped and becomes pregnant, that the girl or woman should spend 9 months pregnant with the rapist’s child. Then at birth, in some states, the rapist has parental rights.

Best case scenario is the baby is adopted (if father’s parental rights do not prevent the adoption) and one day, the now teenager discovers his father was a rapist. Let’s have a generation of rapist’s babies!

Or maybe you have a two parent family with, say, three kids. The woman becomes pregnant unintentionally, or she is pregnant and the man loses his job/ becomes disabled in an accident/ the woman is diagnosed with cancer. The most important thing is this scenario is obviously the embryo/ fetus. Let’s decide for the parents where their money, energy, and priorities lay. It’s crucial the woman gives birth.

If you have a business and someone comes to the door and says, give me a job. The business can say, Sorry. I don’t have the resources to take care of you. But a pregnant woman needs to say yes, yes, yes, yes.

And on the other hand is the concept that the pregnant woman should get to decide what is best for her. Revolutionary.

I’ve deliberately said pregnant girl/woman instead of pregnant person because I’m fine with pregnant person but I think most pregnant people are girls or women. That whole pregnant person thing is not of major interest to me. Abortion rights, that’s my #1 issue.

I don’t disagree that the conservative viewpoint on abortion is out of touch and ridiculous in many ways. Including the fact that they’re more concerned with unborn babies than they are with starving kids.

But there need to be limits. Late term, post-viability abortions? No. Not unless there’s extreme extenuating circumstances.

If you think it’s okay to abort a fetus even though it’s at the point where it could survive outside of the womb. That’s a arbitrary distinction and I can poke holes in any argument in favor of it, to the same extent that I can poke holes in conservatives’ blanket abortion bans.

NP - What do you define as extreme extenuating circumstances? Beyond a threat to the mother's life, is there anything else you deem extenuating? Because I do. And that's the problem - you just cannot judge. There are going to be so many cases of circumstances you can't imagine and a woman who needs that late term abortion - I have faith that there are right reasons for her choice. As a woman, I could never take away her choice.

Nobody should take away that choice because I guarantee you that if someone has carried a pregnancy for 4-5 months - there are always extenuating extreme circumstances for considering abortion at that point. And what is late term for you? 5-6+ weeks? Because it takes that long to actually realize you're pregnant! If you're 2 weeks late for your period and you're not on a regular cycle, it can definitely even push to 7-8 weeks. You take another 2-3 weeks to weigh your choices and yeah, you're going to be at 12 weeks pretty easy. It's a process and I'd rather have someone decide at 12 weeks a new life can't be supported properly or wanted than to carry to term and have a real live person suffer the rest of their lives. I don't know who "pro-lifers" think they are but they can't possibly judge and made decisions for others. It's not their call on timeline, on choice or on the "right" reasons to have an abortion.