Murder is an inflammatory term, please reconsider it.
Completely ignoring the emotional damage to a woman who is forced to continue a pregnancy which was, quite literally, forced on her (& which may endanger her life as suicide might be considered an option), & ignoring the financial hardships faced by a woman who, even in the best of pregnancies, must pay for clothing, vitamins, trips to the doctor, & deal with the loss of income & (possible) damage to her career when she takes time off work, & also ignoring the effects on the woman's relationships with her family, friends, & community, there is the fact that pregnancy permanently changes a woman's body. This leads to further financial hardship when clothing has to be replaced, & in the case of a forced continuation of an unwanted pregnancy, emotional & psychological issues relating to the unavoidable physical changes caused by the pregnancy. And unless the state is willing to pay for the 24/7 personal trainers & chefs that celebrity mums have access to, there is no chance of regaining that pre-pregnancy figure.
There is also the fact that there are women who must avoid pregnancy completely as it could cause permanent medical damage or even death. I am one of those women - due to some of the health issues I have, there is an extremely high chance that I would be left permanently disabled, brain-damaged or dead. SP may say that the life of the mother would be given priority, but is that just physical life, or quality of life? If there is a chance that the mother will be permanently maimed by a pregnancy, will she be allowed to abort, or will she be forced to continue with the pregnancy because she will 'live' afterwards?
Until the foetus is capable of surviving without medical intervention outside of the womb, the rights of the mother should have a priority. Women are not brood mares, & their wishes should be made a priority when they did not ask to be inseminated.
Banning abortion will not stop women from trying to end unwanted pregnancies. The number of horror-stories about women who went to back-street abortion 'clinics' are not exaggerated - I know a woman who went through it in the 50's, & it left her unable to bear children & incontinent for the rest of her life. Despite it all, she said that she didn't regret it - she said anything was better than bearing the 'devils spawn' - the devil being her father.
Attempts to take the choice of what to do with her own body away from a woman should be shot down immediately. Anything else is the first step towards a return to the days when women were considered to be property, unable to care for or think for themselves.
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Date: 16 October 2008 21:12 (UTC)Completely ignoring the emotional damage to a woman who is forced to continue a pregnancy which was, quite literally, forced on her (& which may endanger her life as suicide might be considered an option), & ignoring the financial hardships faced by a woman who, even in the best of pregnancies, must pay for clothing, vitamins, trips to the doctor, & deal with the loss of income & (possible) damage to her career when she takes time off work, & also ignoring the effects on the woman's relationships with her family, friends, & community, there is the fact that pregnancy permanently changes a woman's body. This leads to further financial hardship when clothing has to be replaced, & in the case of a forced continuation of an unwanted pregnancy, emotional & psychological issues relating to the unavoidable physical changes caused by the pregnancy. And unless the state is willing to pay for the 24/7 personal trainers & chefs that celebrity mums have access to, there is no chance of regaining that pre-pregnancy figure.
There is also the fact that there are women who must avoid pregnancy completely as it could cause permanent medical damage or even death. I am one of those women - due to some of the health issues I have, there is an extremely high chance that I would be left permanently disabled, brain-damaged or dead. SP may say that the life of the mother would be given priority, but is that just physical life, or quality of life? If there is a chance that the mother will be permanently maimed by a pregnancy, will she be allowed to abort, or will she be forced to continue with the pregnancy because she will 'live' afterwards?
Until the foetus is capable of surviving without medical intervention outside of the womb, the rights of the mother should have a priority. Women are not brood mares, & their wishes should be made a priority when they did not ask to be inseminated.
Banning abortion will not stop women from trying to end unwanted pregnancies. The number of horror-stories about women who went to back-street abortion 'clinics' are not exaggerated - I know a woman who went through it in the 50's, & it left her unable to bear children & incontinent for the rest of her life. Despite it all, she said that she didn't regret it - she said anything was better than bearing the 'devils spawn' - the devil being her father.
Attempts to take the choice of what to do with her own body away from a woman should be shot down immediately. Anything else is the first step towards a return to the days when women were considered to be property, unable to care for or think for themselves.