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

[nickys.livejournal.com]

That can't be correct.
Resuscitation teams in hospitals, for example, make decisions to stop that sort of thing all the time, and there's no legal come-back.

Anyway, I'm not sure resuscitation is really equivalent to pregnancy, because the worst that'll happen to the person performing it is that they'll feel faint if they don't remember to breathe enough themselves.
Pregnancy is a potentially disabling and life-threatenning condition.

The only equivalent risks men might take for the sake of others are probably kidney and bone marrow donations.
Or possibly going in to a burning building to rescue someone - which, again, is not something the law can or should force anyone to do.