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

[yonmei.livejournal.com]

I don't ask that you make your beliefs more complex, just that you help me understand them more accurately.

Well, when I've gone into more detail, you've dismissed my beliefs as "rhetoric".

I was specifically referring to late term abortions.

Every time I try to follow through an argument about at what age a foetus "deserves" legal protection from abortion, it ends up getting more and more fiddly with tiny little points being counted as if they were major changes, simply because there is no one point in the entire gestation period that anyone can point to and say "Now that foetus is a person, and the day before it wasn't."

The really big (literally "sea-change") point is, in fact, the obvious point: the moment of birth. (Well, okay, not "moment" - the whole process can take hours or days or if you're lucky only minutes, but certainly not a moment.) That's my reason for picking that as the time the foetus ceases to be a foetus, with no rights, and becomes a baby, with all the rights of any human being.