Abortion

[andrewducker]

I say that I'm pro-choice, but the truth is that I'm actually anti-abortion. Rather, I'm pro-making sure that women have the resources and education available so that there's no need for abortions save those performed for medical reasons. The best way to stop abortions is to stop the need for abortions -- not with abstinence education that tells girls they're naughty for getting knocked up but doesn't tell them how to prevent it, but with realistic sex education and more resources for young women who find themselves pregnant and unable to afford prenatal care and postnatal expenses of raising a child

Which pretty much sums up how I feel.

Stolen from the ever-vigilant Lady Sysiphus.

Comments

[andrewducker]

Foetuses are basically parasites until they are born

Foetuses are basically parasites until they are capable of surviving outside the womb.

[drainboy.livejournal.com]

I also felt this, but it raises the question of how they survive outside the womb? With the help of the parents? With the help of intensive care in a baby unit? When they can survive on a hill outside Rome for one night?

It's still arbitrary and I say this from the point of view of a person who doesn't like it being arbitrary.

[cx650.livejournal.com]

Are we using the dictionary definition of the word parasite? If we are, then my cats are parasitical to me. As also a child continues to be for some years.

[green-amber.livejournal.com]

Actually I can't bear by this stage not to admit that you have reinvented the concept of viability which does i fact exist in the law (or did - it's a little vague now).