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Originally Posted by summerkc
We could talk hypotheticals to no end, but anyone who supports partial birth abortions is out of touch with the majority of the American people if you ask me. You could give hypotheticals allowing any horrible crime if you wanted to.
Anyways, he disagreed with requiring notification of parents because of the 17 year old, not partial birth abortions. You have to have parental support for any medical procedure, why should abortions be differnt? Of course it is a horrible situation that the girl would be in, but this is such a limited example that it would have to be taken on a case to case basis. Wouldn't you like to know if your daughter was going to get an abortion, and not thinking she was going to be gone for a few days? Abortion is something that teens should not be going through alone.
On his disagreement of partial birth abortions he says there is not a clause that lets it happen if the "health" of the mother is in questions. Well, there is a "life" of the mother clause which is important. The problem is that the health of the mother could be said to be anything, mental health, etc. She could say that it would cause her undue stress to have the baby and she would be qualified for a partial birth abortion.
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No one here that I'm aware of, nor is Senator Kerry, a supporter of the procedure, though, so that was just a preposterous assertion. Before passing a law, legislatures are ethically required to step through various hypotheticals in order to determine whether the law they are about to pass is going to adversely affect the population. It's not some mental exercise that you seem to attach to everyday discussions.
Obviously I'd want my daughter to tell me if she was considering an abortion. I wouldn't want to legally require your daughter to tell you if you were the one who raped her. The Senator explained this very clearly during the debate. If you didn't see him speak, I don't see much point in discussing his position.
You haven't demonstrated that you know what you're talking about in regards to the partial birth abortion bill, and I'm not going to argue about it.