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[quote=Anonymous]Abortion should be between only a woman and her doctor.

If you believe once conception occurs there cannot be any intervention by any person to prevent a live birth, how can you live with the idea of mandating this in the case of an ectopic pregnancy or molar pregnancy that will kill the woman?

And if you allow termination based on a threat to the life of the woman, then how is the outcome (woman is no longer pregnant) and different than the outcome of a termination of an unwanted pregnancy (woman is no longer pregnant).

I don’t understand the reasoning that a woman must be forced to continue an unwanted pregnancy.

Would you be ok with the surgical removal of the intact zygote/embryo/fetus? Of course current science says the zygote/embryo/fetus would die upon its removal without its host, but if it’s a separate person, as some here have claimed, then the woman could just let the hospital know she was putting it up for adoption, right? (Clearly I’m offering this illustration as a logic test only. In no way do I think this should be the only way an abortion should be allowed.) The point is, the end result would be the same - the zygote/embryo/fetus would die whether by pharmaceutical abortion or this method, but the risk to the woman would be much greater with this method since surgery always has risks.

Tell me under what logic this extraction abortion and adoption would not be allowed and under what laws you would say a woman could not choose to do this.

My ultimate point is: outlawing medical abortion is just an attempt to control women by playing a game of chicken - you’re making it difficult to choose an outcome that’s legally permissible (not to carry a pregnancy to term) by threatening their health/life and betting women won’t go to this allowable extreme and gambling that pregnant women will blink first. That’s sick.[/quote]

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