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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I guess I am an outlier, but not planning on my kid getting pregnant at college. But I'm in full support of banning abortion after 15 weeks- I have trouble how parents feel otherwise. You KNOW what this fetus becomes. At 15 weeks we know enough that the fetus is capable of feeling, so really don't understand how people can be pro-abortion at this point. Totally understand f-ups happen and the women shouldn't bear the brunt of it for life if they aren't ready but 15 weeks is plenty of time to stop things before it turns into a human that feels pain. [/quote]

Without conceding your belief about a fetus being a person -- we allow people to kill other fully formed and pain-feeling people for all kinds of reasons such as self defense.  It is perfectly logical to believe that a fetus is a person [i]and also [/i]believe that the mother's bodily autonomy allows her to end the pregnancy.

There is no other context besides pregnancy in which we try to force someone to risk their health for another: we don't force organ donation, or even make people help someone who is injured.  Nobody can even donate your dead body to science unless you consented to that while alive.  Meanwhile there are many situations in which it's legal to kill another living person in order to protect yourself or even your non-living property.

The idea that a human is not allowed to protect her body from this incredibly invasive, medically dangerous, and bodily altering event is bizarre to me.  So yes I am pro-abortion, even though I would like to reduce the need for them as much as possible. [/quote]

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