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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The "frivolous abortion" comments above only undermine the pro-lifers' cause.  I think, when it comes down to it, people want to bar abortions because they want to punish women for having 'frivolous' sex.  Women are expected to be chaste and planned in their sexual encounters, and shamed if they err outside puritanical sexual norms.  You have a steamy one-night affair? Shame on you, and now you will be punished by bearing this child to term.

We have very easy, early stage abortion methods that most people agree is not "murder" but simply the removal of a cluster of cells.  If you believe that this cluster of cells shouldn't be aborted, then by all means don't have an abortion.  But it makes no sense to ban abortion for the rest of us who don't think this is murder.  The GOP's desire to both ban sexual education, birth control AND abortion is overwhelming evidence that this has nothing to do with the unborn babies, but does have to do with punishing and shaming 'unchaste' women.  That there HAS to be some consequences for these women's 'frivolous' actions.

And it all ties back to OP's comments about 'frivolous abortion'.  She's not condemning the frivolous abortion.  She's condemning the frivolous sex.  [/quote]

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The worst part of this is that by not allowing abortion the outcome would be punishing women by forcing them to be parents- and then no further thought to what that means to the woman or the child who didn't ask to be born.  My body, my business, period.  Abortion will exist regardless of legality, there's no humane reason to make it difficult or dangerous to get.  [/quote]

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