I’d like to see an ultrasound in every clinnic to provide a more informed choice, before going through with something they may regret.
I’d also like to see effective birth control made available to all who can’t afford it.
]]>It is not as simple as having knowledge about birth control, it’s far more complicated than that.
As for looking back with disbelief and horror about abortion… that will not be the viewpoint of many of those women who wanted one.
]]>World estimations of the number of terminations carried out each year is somewhere between 20 and 88 million.
3,500 per day / 1.3 million per year in America alone.
50% of that 1.3 million claimed failed birth control was to blame.
A further 48% had failed to use any birth control at all.
And 2% had medical reasons.
That means a stagering 98% may have been avoided had an effective birth control been used.
I am a 98% pro-lifer, 2% Pro-choicer, who has no religious convictions at all . I didn’t need the fear of god or anything else to come to my decision, just a good sense of what is right and wrong.
You see we were all once a fetus. Is it beyond the realm of possibilities that when your mother first learned she was carrying you, she may have considered her options? What if she had decided to terminate? Would that have been OK?
You would not exist, if you have children they would not exist, and your (husband or wife) would be married to someone else. You would have been deprived of all your experiences and memories. In this day and age with terminations being so readily available and so many being carried out, if you make it to full term
you can consider yourself lucky. Lucky you had a mother that made the choice of life for you. Don’t you think they all deserve the same basic human right, LIFE?
I’m all for contraception, prevention is certainly better than termination.
Did you know you can get an implant that is safe, 99.9% effective, and lasts for three years? Just think girls not even a show for three years, wouldn’t that be great? I think too many people rely too heavily on the last option (abortion), I think if abortions weren’t so readily available people would manage their reproductive system far better resulting in a fraction of the number of unwanted pregnancies.
World wide there are over 50 MILLION aborted pregnancies each year. In America 3,500 terminations carried out every day, that’s over 1.3 million every year, 50% of all cases claimed that birth control had been used, 48% admitted they took no precaution, and 2% had a medical reason. That’s a staggering 98% that may have been prevented had an effective birth control been used. Don’t get me wrong, I suspect the percentages in Australia would be much the same.
Just a lot of unnecessary killing.
At the point of conception is when life began for you. This was the start of your existence. Your own personal big bang. Three weeks after conception heart started to beat. First brain waves recorded at six weeks after conception. Seen sucking thumb at seven weeks after conception.
I am convinced that in the not too distant future, people will look back at many of the practices of today with disbelief and horror.
Want to know how to find humanity-?
True humanity can only be achieved, by concidering others/ caring about others, as much as, if not more than yourself.
Until we do we are no more than an uncivilisation, with all the uncivilised things that we do…
]]>It might be useful to some to read what it really is like to undergo such an experience.
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]]>If there is a case for lowering the time limit, then there’s equally a case for making abortion on demand easier in the first stages of pregnancy.
I have a question for any lawyers reading; how old does the foetus have to be for someone to be culpable of homicide if they attack the mother but kill the foetus?
And on the question of gender rights; if a woman can abort a foetus against the father’s will shouldn’t a father be able to repudiate any responsibility for the potential child in the same time period? Women can rectify their one-night stand mistakes but some men will have to pay for theirs for eighteen years. That seems somewhat unfair.
On the whole, I’m actually grateful it’s not on the radar of the politicians; think what fucked-up schemes we might have to endure if they turned their attention to it.
]]>That’s the bit I don’t agree with, Rob. IMO we treat them as human beings, assuming that’s what they are until it’s proven that they are brain-dead.
Can foetuses or babies think abstractly?
Well, that depends on what we mean by abstract thought, I guess. I reckon, like you say, we have to start by assuming something, not deriving the lot from thin air (or “first principles”).
there’s no particular appetite among British voters
And that I can’t accept. Everyone you meet has an opinion on abortion. Surely having politicians speak more about stuff that normal people speak about is desirable. Not that I think abortion ought to be pushing schoolsnhospitals off the front page, just that what we have right now seems to me more akin to a conspiracy of silence.
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