NEWS: Pregnancy is Not a Promise

Bitch_PhD said:The actual facts about abortion are that the vast majority are performed in the first trimester; a small but significant percentage happen in the second; and something like 1-2% happen in the third, virtually all because of health reasons. It's obvious why this is the case--women aren't idiots, they take pregnancy seriously, and abortion is an invasive procedure that no one chooses to go through for fun and frivolity.

KingHELL said:

And from everything I've read, the state came to the conclusion pretty quickly that this law did not apply to this woman, and it never went to trial. She was not prosecuted under the law. She was not convicted. She might have spent a few days in the pokey, but I think that's a case of the state acting with understandable caution after finding a pile of dead babies in her house.

Juggernautchild said:

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That's almost too disgusting to even reply. But I will anyway.

First off,they're not alive yet. I'd rather spare them the horror of growing up parentless in a world that's already as fucking tough as it is. I don't mean it as population control, don't be thickheaded. We have enough orphans and suffering children is what I mean. Not existing would be fabulous, it's not like death because you never had the consciousness to realize you were alive in the first place. It's like pulling the plug on a braindead person. They're none the wiser. I have to say I weep for undeveloped fetuses as much as I weep everytime semen is wasted during sex, or each time I have a period and my eggs aren't being used.

Besides, say we make abortion illegal, what's going to happen next? Back-alley abortion clinics, home abortions, the disposing of live children, and a huge surge in the population of orphans. I'd rather know it was happening in a clean and painless environment, for both involved parties, or do people that "evil" not deserve proper healthcare? Poor teens or already struggling mothers? My birth control isn't covered at all by my health insurance, are women just supposed to go celebate? Rely on often unreliable condoms? Are rape victims juist supposed to deal with it?

We have the technology and the means to stop these tragedies and I must repeat again that not existing would probably be best in most these cases.

On a side note, I don't see what the religious types are concerned about anyway. I'll go to "hell" for it, sure, but sending a baby to "heaven" isn't exactly what I call a fucked up thing to do.

riley st. clair said:
i'm perfectly alright with saying a fetus is "alive." i just don't consider all forms of life to be equal.