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Originally Posted by abaya
"Force" is not the right word to use in such an argument (again, unless we are talking rape).
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we agree that aborting a pregnancy that you are not prepared to have is the responsible thing to do.
unless i'm reading this wrong, your only objection is my use of the word 'force.'
while it's true, barring rape/incest, no one held a gun to the womans head and forced her to have sex, if we made abortion illegal it would be legally forcing her to keep the pregnancy. what else would you call it? if your only options are 9th months of pregnancy, risking your health with a back alley abortion, or trying to force a miscarriage, with the latter two bringing possible adverse health consequences (including the mothers death) and criminal charges if found out, how would that not be being forced to carry the baby to term?