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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Many on this forum have argued to protect a woman's choice to terminate pregnancy, even at late gestations.  Last year the story of the woman who died due to a 33 week abortion brought many comments of support for the (dead) woman, supporting her right to terminate and that we couldn't possibly know what sort of difficulties she had been facing.

What if this woman's intent had been to abort this baby, and what if she had had an abortion scheduled for the following day or week?  Instead, she goes into precipitous labor and delivers the baby prior to the abortion appointment.  The baby could have been as young as 33 weeks -- although many babies at that gestation will survive, some will not make it due to prematurity.  Perhaps there was a genetic problem with the baby that the mom was aware of.  Perhaps the baby was born deformed in a terrible way -- in some way that most people would choose an abortion for.  Or, perhaps the most likely scenario; this woman was terrified, had no support, and/or had severe emotional problems related to the pregnancy.  We have very few details from the news article.

Anyway, my point is that if you are the kind of person who can sympathize with a woman who might choose a late-term abortion (due to either fetal or personal emotional problems) then I think you also need to find within yourself some sympathy for this woman.  I personally think it would be totally tragic for this woman to not get the psychological help that she most likely needs.  No woman should feel trapped in such a terrible way as to feel like she has to suffocate a late-term baby.[/quote]

I take the opposite point of view.  Your instinctive repulsion for this woman's "choice" to kill her child is what's right.  Turn that around and see how repulsive it really is to abort a 33-week child.  That is what is repulsive and those who think differently are working very hard not to see that that is not normal and not right.  [/quote]

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