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tazzygirl -> RE: This week in the republican war on women (6/14/2013 5:14:44 PM)
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Also, because I AM adopted, I am always surprised that it never seems to occur to people who think a woman shouldn't have to raise a child created out of such trauma....that adoption is an option. Yes, that does mean she is in for 9 months of pregnancy and labor and childbirth. And having had 2 kids I can testify that that is not the most convenient and pleasant thing in the world.
Of course that has occurred to me. And some women have no problem giving up a child for adoption (dont read that as me saying its easy... it never is "easy").
But a crime has been committed against these women, especially in keeping with the OP.
I am all for making abortions after 20 weeks extremely difficult to obtain. I have no issue with that sentiment. And, hopefully, we share the same view on women whose lives are in danger... it should be their decision and theirs alone.
When it comes to incest.... I have no issue with someone wanting an abortion. The risk of birth defects increases because of the shared gene pool. And the thought of forcing someone to give birth to their "brother" or their "uncle" or their "second cousin" is just beyond me.
Rape. Sketchy area. Psychologically, some women can handle that. Some cannot. So we have bills saying a woman who is the victim of rape cannot have an abortion after 20 weeks. Lets assume they also arent going for the pills in the rape kit that prevents fertilization.
Depending on the attack, and the trauma (mental) caused by that attack, I can see instances of women not knowing, or refusing to admit the event happened and not knowing, they are pregnant. Couple it with DV and the risks of that increases.
Rape is such a grey area that I really, medically, cannot see forcing someone to continue a pregnancy. But then we run the risk of women claiming to be raped just to get an abortion. However, as kalik pointed out, those abortions are rare as it is after the 20 week period the legislatures are pointing at.
http://www.collarchat.com/fb.asp?m=4467194
Now why would they go after a benchmark like 20 weeks, when abortions are already rare, to make a pill to prevent those rare occurances from happening at all? Its my belief they hope to use this as a back door later into slowly chipping away at the weeks in which a woman can obtain one as evidenced by the comments that a fetus can "feel" around 8 weeks.
To me, this is an attempt to make abortions illegal in an insidious way. Couple that with the insistance that women get wanded for an internal ultrasound... for what? So the religious folks can feel all happy and smug that they may have prevented one of the women in Ohio who were kidnapped and raped from obtaining an abortion? Does anything even believe those women were consenting participants?
We arent just speaking about a woman who has sex one night and wakes up with a hang over and reports her actions as rape.
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