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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Pro-life troll, please answer. Do you feel the same way about the baby killing bitches doing IVF?[/quote]

NP.  And please tell us how you feel about the baby-killing bitches like me who have terminated ectopic pregnancies.[/quote]

Another pro-life poster.  Aborting an ectopic pregnancy is nothing like aborting a normal healthy pregnancy.  Do you honestly believe that pro-lifers would view it the same way?[/quote]

I'm the poster to whom you responded.  Do I believe most would view it the same way?  No.  A few? Yes.  Specifically, those who believe there are no circumstances under which abortion is acceptable, or there are no situations in which pregnancy endangers the mother's life.

Really, though, my post was intended to point out a specific, clear-cut example of when abortion is 100% necessary, and there are not any other options.  It is a situation in which there should be zero debate, none, as it is incompatible with life for the fetus, and can be life-threatening for the mother.

However, there are other scenarios that are incompatible with life for the fetus, or are life-threatening for the mother, or in which there are huge mental/emotional health issues at play, about which there IS substantial resistance by many who are pro-life, and I cannot understand it.  Anencephaly is but one example.  To me, it seems that the "but it's a life, and it's murder to take that life!" refrain blinds a lot of people to the actual realities of many situations, and places an enormous additional emotional burden on women who in many cases are already facing an unimaginably heartbreaking situation and choice.  A woman with whom I interacted on a pregnancy forum chose to carry her baby with anencephaly to term, and then committed suicide a few weeks later.  There is tremendous anguish in some of these situations for these women.

Who should get to decide the situations in which abortion is permissible, and those in which it's not, for all women, couples, and families?  Who should get to determine how much danger to the mother is acceptable, or what the cut-off is for a baby who would die shortly after birth (minutes? Hours? Days? A month?), or whether a 13/17/32 year old who has been raped by her uncle/boyfriend/a stranger should be forced to carry a pregnancy to term?  You?  Me?  The government???

My answer is that those decisions should be made by a woman and her doctor.  Period.[/quote]

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