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In reply to the discussion: "NO": The Second Part of Trump's Answer That Got Audible Gasps From the Audience [View all]glowing
(12,233 posts)His extreme answer of punishing a woman who has an abortion sounds really quite bad, right? So bad in fact that allowing a constitutional amendment regarding 3rd term abortions might not be so bad, right? And why do we even need an amendment for that? Most women who have a late term abortion are doing so because of health or medical issues. As well, it's almost impossible to find someone to even perform this service at all. In order for a hospital to do so, you would have to be near dying for them to do the procedure as an emergency. Most won't, say if you find the child has no brain stem. Nope, Mom, take that child to live birth only to bury it. Most women who have this procedure are women who really wanted their baby, nursery is set up, baby clothes sitting in drawers, diapers starting to pop up...
And something goes wrong. It happens. We don't need a law of prohibition; we need laws to guarantee a woman knows what sort of decision they should and can make for themselves when it comes to a late term abortion.
Every single story of late term abortion has been a story of extreme sadness, tragedy, and profound emotional emptiness and loss. I wish the media would assemble a panel of women who have had abortions... From those who have had the procedure early and towards the end. Hear their stories. Hear their pain. Because even those choosing at an early term have made a difficult decision OR perhaps it wasn't a difficult decision of what they needed to do, but why they felt they had to.
If you get pregnant young, it dampens the ability to continue education and expand on jobs. There's a reason teens and college age girls make the decision to have an abortion... They aren't ready, and they aren't allowing some other family to raise their child (it's quite a big deal to give away ones child; I think more profound than an abortion... I've seen both from various friends. The adoptions seem emotionally more charging than an abortion). What would happen if we supported these young women with daycare needs, and we had free college like Bernie has asked for? What a difference that choice would be for many young women! What about those doing so for financial issues? I think it's about 1/2, maybe more of all women having an abortion already have a child at home. They are sacrificing for the one or one's already alive; refusing to add an extra mouth... And that money to attend a clinic, isn't cheap. Most of it is borrowed money, many states have the 24 hr deal now (where u visit and then visit again for the abortion), so the trip may be an overnight expense. And in all of these states where abortion laws have literally closed clinics in areas that desperately need them, the self-abortion has increased tremendously... Mostly via shopping for drugs off the internet, but when the govt decides to crack that down, the old methods of being beaten in the stomach, falling down stairs, and coat hangers will be all the rage again.
There is a reason why it's legal. Since the beginning of time, women have found ways to rid pregancies; even if it was trudging off to some "witch woman" who had some sort of herbs that would induce a miscarriage, they have sought it out. You just can't make a woman "behave" as you wish when it's their body; it's their rights! These laws do not stop abortions. Even threat of jail will it stop a woman from terminating if they wish it.
What the Fuck century do we live in that we are actually conceding to a constitutional amendment regarding abortion limitations. If anything, it should be an amendment that frees women from societies patriarchy when it comes to their personal freedoms and their bodies. Are we going to allow men to drag their women to the court house steps for their Sunday beatings as well? Shall we just take their shoes, throw them into the kitchen, and keep the fat with babies? Seriously, what the fuck!!!!!