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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I should have noted that LIVID is a specific poster who explained therapeutic abortion in a way that I had not understood previously. (not that I'm not also livid about this law). Because of her story about her unborn child's problems, and the failure of her fed linked insurance to cover her much-needed abortion, she educated many of us about the issue. Like hers, this is not black and white. I have a visceral, knee-jerk negative reaction to late-term abortion. But the way they actually happen (seriously traumatic for the mother, usually a much-wanted child-to-be, almost always a medical need - like saving the life of the mother or a fetus that simply won't survive birth / more than a day or so after birth) and the way they are portrayed through the media (women just deciding to have these late-term abortions because they up and changed their minds, etc) are vastly different.

Previously I think I would have had no problem on an outright ban on late term abortions, but the issue is so complex. I think LIVID was a great example of the complexity, although as she has reminded me, she did not have to terminate later.

As a personally "pro-life" person (ie I think abortion is wrong in most cases) I still would never, ever, ever interfere with another human being's choice about what to do with her body. But late term abortions, and things like forcing insurance to pay for abortion tend to manipulate people like me because it's easy to be persuaded that [b]we shouldn't have to help pay for something we don't support, [/b]or that there is this huge black and white divide between early and late term abortion. I still oppose (and would support reasonable limits on) a non-therapeutic third trimester abortion for non-medical reasons, but again, it's a really complex issue. Not nearly as simple as it sometimes seems. [/quote]

I don't support IVF, frozen embryos, etc., if insurance pays for this then it should also pay for abortions at any stage a woman decides she wants one.[/quote]

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