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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]According to the CDC, 92.7% of abortions in 2019 occurred prior to 13 weeks.  (https://www.cdc.gov/reproductivehealth/data_stats/abortion.htm)

What percentage of those abortions do you think were "because I don't want to have a baby"? Probably the vast majority, right?

So a 15-week ban will not significantly reduce abortions of convenience (which is what Lindsey and his ilk are supposedly trying to do). Instead, it will:

(1) force women to carry unviable pregnancies to term -- increasing dramatically the number of children who are born dead, die soon after birth, or live with disabilities that require expensive care.

(2) force young girls to carry pregnancies to term because they did not know they were pregnant (too young to understand their own bodies or haven't even started a predictable menstrual cycle) or were too afraid to tell anyone they had stopped menstrating and/or had been sexually abused/raped.

(3) encourage more states to pass even more stringent restrictions.

This isn't about "life." It's about punishing women.

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Pete Buttigieg had an excellent observation in a Fox News interview. Chris Wallace was asking him about the approximately 6,000 third trimester abortions performed in the U.S. annually:

Wallace wanted to clarify that Buttigieg would be okay with late-term abortion and pointed out that there are more than 6000 women who get third trimester abortions each year.

"That's right," responded Buttiegieg, "representing one percent of cases. So let's put ourselves in the shoes of a woman in that situation. If it's that late in your pregnancy, then almost by definition, you've been expecting to carry it to term. We're talking about women who have perhaps chosen a name. Women who have purchased a crib, families that then get the most devastating medical news of their lifetime, something about the health or the life of the mother or viability of the pregnancy that forces them to make an impossible, unthinkable choice. And the bottom line is as horrible as that choice is, that woman, that family may seek spiritual guidance, they may seek medical guidance, but that decision is not going to be made any better, medically or morally, because the government is dictating how that decision should be made."[/quote]

I dont know if he practiced that response, had it prepared for him, or even more spectacularly, came up with it right then and there but it is the best response I have read regarding abortion. It actually addresses the issue of banning abortion at any point- you end up hurting women and their families.[/quote]

+1 This message needs to be hammered out over and over.

And also the reality that such situations don't affect just Democrats. Republican women also experience this heartbreak.[/quote]
It’s been widely talked about but Never Trumpers / moderates still love to blame Roe on progressives because they openly advocate for no restrictions.[/quote]

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