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Originally posted by Double D
No one is pro-abortion. No one wants to be in a position whether through ignorance, failure of birth conrol method, rape, incest, carelessness, or illness, no one wants to be in a positon ever to have to terminate a pregnancy.
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That is where you're wrong. There are people who don't see it as a problem to have an abortion since it is perceived by many as just another form of birth control. The_Dude, for instance, says he grew up thinking of it as a form of contraception. That, imo, is much more scary than the fact that every political group uses propaganda to paint the "other side" as wrong. Yeah, the whole pro-choice/pro-life/anti-abortion/pro-baby-killer nonsense is ridiculous, but it is simply politics.
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Originally posted by Double D
I would say take a look in the mirror.
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I'm not anti-choice. I am willing to give people the benefit of the doubt if they have taken steps to show that they deserve it. If someone uses multiple forms of birth control, all of which somehow fail, they made an effort to prevent it and should be able to use RU-486 or a first-trimester abortion. If they have unprotected sex and then wait and wait and wait, they have accepted responsibility for the pregnancy by default.
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Originally posted by Double D
Hypothetical scenerio of a real possibility: A mother of two kids gets pregnant, fully intending to carry the pregnancy to term. At the beginning of the sixth month, she develops a serious, life threatening heart condition. The strain of carrying the fetus will kill her if she carries it to term.
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This hypothetical is the exception,
not the rule. You cannot legislate hundreds of millions of people based solely on .0000001% of cases -- that is what an exception is.
If abortions after 12 weeks were banned, yes, of course, there should be room for exception where the mother's health is concerned. However, forcing an abortion at this point to save the mother should not be allowed -- in that case it should be up to the mother to decide if she wants to abort or go ahead and take a chance.