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I consider myself pro-choice to a point - the closer a fetus gets to being 'viable' and therefore a potentially, immanently independent human being, the less comfortable I am with abortion on demand. In the first two trimesters, and especially in the first trimester, I think a woman should be able to do whatever she wants. I don't like the idea of "late-term" abortion unless the mother's life is in danger. Basically, if you've carried the kid for 6 months you've had plenty of time to make up your mind if it's an "elective" (non-medically-necessary) abortion. But I think, despite the republican rhetoric, these late-term abortions are incredibly rare. I don't have statistics, but that's my impression.
I basically think that if we're talking about abortion the country has done a piss-poor job of promoting birth control. I would love to see ZERO unwanted pregnancies, but that'll never happen so long as we're pushing abstinence-only education that has been scientifically proven to be ineffective. Everyone should be educated about and have access to affordable birth control, and abortion should be for those times when bc fails. I love the idea of the morning after pill - at that point we're just dealing with a collection of cells that has a huge chance of being spontaneously aborted by the mother's body anyhow (I believe I read somewhere that something like 60+% of all fertilized eggs are spontaneously aborted because they would not have been viable) and it's much less risky for the mother.
Anyhow, that's my 2 cents. I hate to see this issue so polarized - we ought to expect some level of personal responsibility from people who are having sex (and should educate them to be responsible), and we ought to give women the option to deal with their own bodies as they see fit.
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