Do you always answer questions with questions?
I think we can agree that anything that causes an unborn pain should not be done.
BUT for me if the mother's life is in danger something must be done. Hopefully both lives can be saved but that is not always possible.
imo. The rape victim should have access to Plan B. If used within 12-24 hrs. the chances of an egg being fertilized is 5%.
Within a couple of weeks an accurate pregnancy test can be done. If she is pregnant she should have the option of abortion but it should be done as soon as she knows.
This hasn't been mentioned but married woman have been raped by strangers. Some husbands don't do well with it and refuse to raise another man's child, especially this child. They don't do well seeing the wife pregnant by another man. There have been divorces and families destroyed. Sometimes there is more than one life at stake. Because pregnancy from rape is rare doesn't mean we should ignore it when we make laws.
Personally I don't feel that any abortion should be done past 12 wks. except in the case of the mother's physical life in danger.
Then she is a victim of her own decision, not the doctor.
Worldwide studies have proven that abortions are not connected to breast cancer.
Sad to say not all agree that anything that causes the baby pain should not be done. In my State, the politicians passed a bill that said a baby can be aborted right up to a day before birth, which is guaranteed to cause pain.
A general discussion of abortion should not and cannot include a situation where the mother's life is in danger because 99% of abortions that are done, the mother's life is not in danger. They are done for the convenience of the mother.
Again, rape is not a basis for discussing abortion as they are less than 1% of abortions. What we should be focussing on is the 99% of abortions for convenience sake. The question is "How do we stop that genocide of unborn babies?" Last year 55 million worldwide.
Again, married women being raped and made pregnant. It is infinitesimal in comparison to the majority of abortions.
These three things are thrown up by pro-aborts to justify their demands for abortion for any reason and they detract from the 99% of abortions that do not occur for any of these three reasons.
You don't believe an abortion should be done past 12 weeks? Why? What is so special about 12 weeks? If after 12 weeks is unacceptable, abortion at any time should be unacceptable because we get into the slippery slope of he said she said and you will note that those who are so aggressively for abortion are so not for any valid medical reasons. it is all esoteric right of the mother or some such nonsense.
And worldwide studies have shown a link between abortion and breast cancer. See my thread "The Truth and Myths of Abortion."
One American expert, Dr Joel Brind, an Endocrinology Professor, has said that “the single most avoidable risk factor for breast cancer is induced abortion.”
As he states elsewhere: “By way of background, abortion raises a woman’s risk for breast cancer in two ways; the debate is over the second, not the first. Scientists have long understood that the risk of breast cancer is reduced when a woman completes a full-term pregnancy. This ‘protective effect of childbearing’ is lost with an abortion. The second way abortion increases the likelihood of breast cancer is that an abortion leaves a woman with more cancer-vulnerable breast tissue than she had before she became pregnant.”
A new study coming from researchers in Sri Lanka finds women who had abortions more than triple their breast cancer risk compared with women who carry their pregnancy to term. The study was published in the journal Cancer Epidemiology and found a 3.42 odds ratio against women having abortions compared with those who kept their baby.
The Sri Lankan study is the fourth epidemiological study in fourteen months to report an abortion-breast cancer link, including studies from the U.S., China and Turkey. Other studies have shown the protective effect a full-term pregnancy has for women.
A study published in the Indian Journal of Community Medicine (May, 2013) found a 6.38-fold greater risk of breast cancer among women with histories of induced abortion. The study, led by Ramachandra Kamath, MD (Department of Public Health, Manipal University), found induced abortion was the most important risk factor….
The authors found a non-statistically significant 1.76-fold risk increase among women with first births after age 30. “Medical texts acknowledge delayed first full term pregnancy is a risk factor for breast cancer. It’s indisputable that abortion contributes to delayed first full term pregnancies; and in some cases, women remain childless forever, which is also an accepted risk factor.” Kamath’s group observed that India has the “largest estimated number of breast cancer deaths worldwide,” and breast cancer rates are on the rise there.
A new systematic review and meta-analysis of abortion and breast cancer (ABC link) in China was just published four days ago in the prestigious, peer-reviewed international cancer journal, Cancer Causes and Control. In this meta-analysis (a study of studies, in which results from many studies are pooled), Dr. Yubei Huang et al. reported that, combining all 36 studies on the ABC link in China that have been published through 2012, the overall risk of developing breast cancer among women who had at least one induced abortion was significantly increased by 44%.
These results, said the authors, “were consistent with a previously published systematic review”. That review was the one I published in the British Medical Association’s epidemiology journal with colleagues from Penn State Medical Center in 1996, which study reported an overall significant 30% increased risk of breast cancer in worldwide studies.
I have plenty more facts if you need them.
