The 20 week fetus laws and bills put it in the second trimester. The US Supreme Court put it in the states rights at 24 weeks which is the third trimester.
Pregnancy and childbirth always puts the woman's life in danger.
Is that really what you and your friends want to tell a 13 year old girl with an unwanted pregnancy she wants to terminate but who doesn't want to tell her parents or whose parents won't give her the money to pay for an abortion?Quote:
Its only a small number that is completely anti abortion and a small number that is for abortion up to delivery date. But to many if they can't decide in the first 5-6 months to get an abortion then that's their problem.
Is that really what you and your friends want to tell a 19 year old girl with an unwanted pregnancy who already works 2 jobs to support her 3 kids she already has?
Is that really what you and your friends want to tell US taxpayers who pay for most of these childbirths but are denied the common sense to pay for abortions when a financial need exists?
And they want the States and federal government to have the power to create these anomalies over an issue that only impacts less than .01% of unwanted pregnancies that for a variety of reasons are terminated in the third trimester, less than 100 a year?
http://www.foxnews.com/story/2003/06...tatistics.htmlQuote:
Of the 1.6 million abortions performed in the U.S. each year, 91 percent are performed during the first trimester (12 or fewer weeks' gestation); 9 percent are performed in the second trimester (24 or fewer weeks' gestation); and only about 100 are performed in the third trimester (more than 24 weeks' gestation), approximately .01 percent of all abortions performed.
Do they really want to allow the government the power to dictate such a personal, private decision that in more cases than not would become a taxpayers burden, that would risk the woman's life even though a bunch of bureaucrats right out of Rosemary's Baby said it wouldn't, that forces a girl or woman to go through that process that will change her life in ways she doesn't want or need or can stomach or tolerate for the rest of her life?
In your next discussion on the topic, you might mention that it's always "their problem" until it becomes yours.
But you're right on the fact that women won't tolerate it. It's why Mitt Romney lost in 2012. It's why Trump could have otherwise won in 2016. They're big boys. It was their choice to throw an election over the issue of a girl or woman's right to terminate an unwanted pregnancy versus the power of any government to force her into childbirth against her will. What next? Dungeons where they stage and detain them for 6 months? Tracking devices during the pregnancy to ensure they don't escape to a state or another country where they can have the procedure? Murder charges?
Regardless of public opinion on the subject of the whens and under what circumstances, the people behind this movement are not the type of people who should have the power over our governments, let alone the people of the United States, least of all pregnant girls or women who for whatever reason do not want to be forced into childbirth against their will, who are the only ones qualified to decide the whens and circumstances of having a baby or not having one, precisely because at that point in time, it is "their problem", and only theirs to solve.