Tilted Forum Project Discussion Community - View Single Post - Thinking of responding to this pro-life editorial, but not sure where to start.

host · 02-09-2005, 11:40 PM

Okay, folks......I am surprised that you haven't gone here yet.
A question for the pro-life advocates. Do you propose using the
power of the government to restrict women's access to abortion ?

How would you accomplish this ? Would you restrict access to abortion
nationwide ? Would you limit legal penalties to lifting the licenses of
medical practitioners who performed abortions after a cease and desist
date ? Would you arrest, prosecute and jail women who have an abortion
or practitioners who perform them ? Would there be any exceptions to
a legal ban on abortion; the life of the mother, rape, incest, diagnosed
pre-natal fetal abnormalities or hereditary diseases ? Who would you
trust to determine which abortion requests to approve, vs. determining
which performed abortions are crimes ?

Would appeals of abortion applications be allowed ? Would courts and
attorneys be involved in the application and decision process ? Would
the abortion ban or the appeal process unfairly burden or discriminate
against women with the least money and influence ?

How do you propose preventing or discouraging women who can afford
to purchase a flight out of this country with the intent of obtaining an
abortion in Paris, or in Bermuda ? When I was in college, in the early 70's,
women who wished to terminate a pregnancy simply flew to Puerto Rico
for a weekend. Unless you are willing to restrict travel by requiring
pre-flight pregnancy tests and border exit checkpoints on land routes in
and out of the U.S., do you concede that your implementation of an
outright abortion ban or severe restrictions on the procedure would have
the effect of restricting access to abortion mostly on women who can least
afford to provide post natal care to a child ?

Are the consideration of these details for the purpose of proposing an abortion ban that is comprehensive and effective, but practical and non-discriminatory, a mental exercise that you have spent much time
engaging in, or have you confined your objections to the details in your opinions and arguments that you have posted here ? Is it important to you
that all American women are equally restricted from obtaining abortion
services ?

02-09-2005, 11:40 PM	#76 (permalink)
host Banned	Okay, folks......I am surprised that you haven't gone here yet. A question for the pro-life advocates. Do you propose using the power of the government to restrict women's access to abortion ? How would you accomplish this ? Would you restrict access to abortion nationwide ? Would you limit legal penalties to lifting the licenses of medical practitioners who performed abortions after a cease and desist date ? Would you arrest, prosecute and jail women who have an abortion or practitioners who perform them ? Would there be any exceptions to a legal ban on abortion; the life of the mother, rape, incest, diagnosed pre-natal fetal abnormalities or hereditary diseases ? Who would you trust to determine which abortion requests to approve, vs. determining which performed abortions are crimes ? Would appeals of abortion applications be allowed ? Would courts and attorneys be involved in the application and decision process ? Would the abortion ban or the appeal process unfairly burden or discriminate against women with the least money and influence ? How do you propose preventing or discouraging women who can afford to purchase a flight out of this country with the intent of obtaining an abortion in Paris, or in Bermuda ? When I was in college, in the early 70's, women who wished to terminate a pregnancy simply flew to Puerto Rico for a weekend. Unless you are willing to restrict travel by requiring pre-flight pregnancy tests and border exit checkpoints on land routes in and out of the U.S., do you concede that your implementation of an outright abortion ban or severe restrictions on the procedure would have the effect of restricting access to abortion mostly on women who can least afford to provide post natal care to a child ? Are the consideration of these details for the purpose of proposing an abortion ban that is comprehensive and effective, but practical and non-discriminatory, a mental exercise that you have spent much time engaging in, or have you confined your objections to the details in your opinions and arguments that you have posted here ? Is it important to you that all American women are equally restricted from obtaining abortion services ?