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liquidlight · 05-05-2005, 09:26 AM

What would be wrong with a unilateral "compromise"? Though I hate to use the word to describe the situation since I feel that both parties are starting from a point that is completely unreasonable.

I have a suggestion, but it involves pretty much throwing out all of the current guidelines and rights relating to abortion. It's a rough plan, but given the circumstances involving how my daughter came into this world I have put a lot of thought into this situation.

Abortion should be legal for everyone, across the board the woman should have the right to have an abortion, however a woman may not get an abortion before meeting with a both a state licensed therapist and an adoption councillor. Because of the presonal choice involved in the actions surrounding pregnancy federal funding would not be provided for women seeking repeated abortions.

This would allow the woman to maintain her right to choose what happens with her body, however it would alo allow for a secodary level of counselling and balance, for instance women that are having their 4th abortion in less than 12 months may need to be addressing other options of birth control, it's not healthy for the woman and if her insurance company is paying for the procedures it's not very effective for the rest of us either. Having seen the situation for adoption I know that there are countless families waiting for young children (my daughter was nearly one of them) thus the adoption councillor as part of the approval process that could advise the prospective mother on all of her choices and options.

Granted there would be a lot of fine tuning necessary to make something like this work, such as actually setting the guildlines for an appeal process if an abortion was denied, etc. Feel free to poke holes in this idea, but please if possible refrain from the rant of "it's my body and I can do what I want with it" as that is rather irresponsible given you DID do what you wanted with it, that's how you ended up pregnant and to an extent I am ProLife, that baby should have some rights (being a parent doesn't help my skew on this one) but I think ProLifers are going about their message completely wrong and in a lot of situations are completely irrational and unreasonable.

05-05-2005, 09:26 AM	#18 (permalink)
liquidlight AHH! Custom Title!! Location: The twisted warpings of my brain.	What would be wrong with a unilateral "compromise"? Though I hate to use the word to describe the situation since I feel that both parties are starting from a point that is completely unreasonable. I have a suggestion, but it involves pretty much throwing out all of the current guidelines and rights relating to abortion. It's a rough plan, but given the circumstances involving how my daughter came into this world I have put a lot of thought into this situation. Abortion should be legal for everyone, across the board the woman should have the right to have an abortion, however a woman may not get an abortion before meeting with a both a state licensed therapist and an adoption councillor. Because of the presonal choice involved in the actions surrounding pregnancy federal funding would not be provided for women seeking repeated abortions. This would allow the woman to maintain her right to choose what happens with her body, however it would alo allow for a secodary level of counselling and balance, for instance women that are having their 4th abortion in less than 12 months may need to be addressing other options of birth control, it's not healthy for the woman and if her insurance company is paying for the procedures it's not very effective for the rest of us either. Having seen the situation for adoption I know that there are countless families waiting for young children (my daughter was nearly one of them) thus the adoption councillor as part of the approval process that could advise the prospective mother on all of her choices and options. Granted there would be a lot of fine tuning necessary to make something like this work, such as actually setting the guildlines for an appeal process if an abortion was denied, etc. Feel free to poke holes in this idea, but please if possible refrain from the rant of "it's my body and I can do what I want with it" as that is rather irresponsible given you DID do what you wanted with it, that's how you ended up pregnant and to an extent I am ProLife, that baby should have some rights (being a parent doesn't help my skew on this one) but I think ProLifers are going about their message completely wrong and in a lot of situations are completely irrational and unreasonable. __________________ Halfway to hell and picking up speed.