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LawsonAlan
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In a perfect world, there would be no abortions.
But there are cases, like the health of the mother, where abortion can be a life-saver.
The problem I have with outlawing abortion is that the legal process required for a mother to prove her life is at stake is often lengthy, despite efforts to hasten it.
Then, you have cases that are gray areas. For instance, the doctors know the baby will be born without a brain; or with no bones; or with no skin.
Those are hypothetical situations, btw, but they illustrate my point.
The best position government can take is pretty much where they are now. Leave the decision to the Woman, and let her take the advice of her doctor, her husband/boyfriend, her clergy, and make the decision based on her values and faith.
If she's so pro-life that she wants to carry a baby with no brain to full term and risk her own life doing so, let her.
But that last thing we need is government to be able to insert itself (and the red tape) into the process.
Before Roe vs Wade, the bar was set so high for legal abortions that many mothers died waiting for the courts to give permission.
What i have a hard time understanding is why anyone would want to impose their beliefs on all women in general. If you think abortions are always wrong, then you should never have one. If you think there is a gray area where they are sometimes beneficial, then you should only have one under those circumstances.
There's no cookie cutter answer for all women.
And the last people I'd want affecting that type of decision are politicians and lawyers. And the only way to keep them out of it is to keep abortion legal, as it is, and as it should be.
But there are cases, like the health of the mother, where abortion can be a life-saver.
The problem I have with outlawing abortion is that the legal process required for a mother to prove her life is at stake is often lengthy, despite efforts to hasten it.
Then, you have cases that are gray areas. For instance, the doctors know the baby will be born without a brain; or with no bones; or with no skin.
Those are hypothetical situations, btw, but they illustrate my point.
The best position government can take is pretty much where they are now. Leave the decision to the Woman, and let her take the advice of her doctor, her husband/boyfriend, her clergy, and make the decision based on her values and faith.
If she's so pro-life that she wants to carry a baby with no brain to full term and risk her own life doing so, let her.
But that last thing we need is government to be able to insert itself (and the red tape) into the process.
Before Roe vs Wade, the bar was set so high for legal abortions that many mothers died waiting for the courts to give permission.
What i have a hard time understanding is why anyone would want to impose their beliefs on all women in general. If you think abortions are always wrong, then you should never have one. If you think there is a gray area where they are sometimes beneficial, then you should only have one under those circumstances.
There's no cookie cutter answer for all women.
And the last people I'd want affecting that type of decision are politicians and lawyers. And the only way to keep them out of it is to keep abortion legal, as it is, and as it should be.
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