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Originally posted by AKA_Monet
Rudey,
What is really going on? What are the stats? Is that your question outside of the anecdotal stories and exceptions to the case?
Personally, I do not know that data, nor do I really care, because really, I am the furthest one to have an abortion outside of some psycho rapist raping me...
And if one does and is actually successful in the impregnation of me (given my age and other female related issues), then hey, I'd probably keep the child, because I am in that place in my life... And I am different in my thinking that I was 5 or 10 years ago...
Besides, my husband would probably kill this looney tune with his 40 Cal Smith and Wesson--if not my brother and father in-law or my own brother and father and all of my paternal uncles...
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Monet,
I just reject the argument of "it's my body and I can do whatever I want, whenever I want to it".
The fact is that it's not just your body that is effected.
Many people that are OK with abortions are not OK with late-term abortions, for the reason that it's not just the mother's body anymore.
Heck even if it was your body, laws regulate what you can do to it. We stop people from commiting suicide, ban drugs, and regulate the tattoo industry.
Also I find it interesting that a lot of women refer to someone getting an abortion as a mother while rejecting the notion that what they carry is a baby and a child. At the very least, it is a potential for life and at some point society deems it to be life itself.
There are other circumstances that you bring up but I don't like the "Killing two birds with one stone" approach. If there are women getting raped, more of an effort should be put into stopping that. If there are women's live being in danger through a birth, then more money should be put into research to prevent that. And if there are 12 year olds getting knocked up, someone needs to stop that from happening period. Abortion shouldn't be used as the stone that solves all these problems as well as ending an unwanted pregnancy.
Also, many women who are not in poverty, never been raped, nor participated in incest, bring those issues up as an emotional ploy. If we were to ask them "OK would you be willing to allow abortions for women who suffered that legal and for yourself illegal, would you accept?", I doubt they would accept. This is akin to the whole "They're killing women and children" argument to tug at someone's heart strings.
-Rudey