- sneakers.:
- Since I just read an article about it the other day, I wonder what the regulars of this forum think of "After birth abortions."
article
I know that it might be just a scientific, and academic "proposal" but I can't help but be angry and upset.
Thoughts?
You have every right to be angry and upset. You are always entitled to your own feelings no matter what the situation. Hey, the article upsets me, and I'm a pretty hardline abortion and euthanasia advocate. Actually, I'm livid and would desperately love to shake some sense into these vile people.
So basically they start out with this really terrible argument that babies are dependent on their mothers--just like fetuses are dependent on their mothers right? Uhm, no. That's kind of the point. A fetus isn't a separate entity. Babies are, however. Sure, normally babies don't do so well out in the wild on their own, but someone else can physically take care of a baby.
No one else other than the pregnant person can take care of a fetus. Being socially dependent on someone and physically dependent on someone are not the same in the least.
People playing dumb and pretending that they can't understand the difference isn't cute and is annoying, but mostly I'm annoyed because it proves that as usual anti-choicers don't know a damn thing about what they're talking about. Not how it's done, why it's done, who has them, or anything. All they know is that it ends up with a nonexistent fetus, and they don't really seem to care about anything else.
So the vast majority of abortions take place in the first trimester, and most of those take place very early in first trimester. If an abortion has been put off until later, it's usually because she was unable to get an abortion earlier due to lack of funds or some other reason. This makes sense because if you're pregnant and you don't want to be, normal people try to get that taken care of as soon as possible.
So, once you get past about twelve weeks, the number of abortion sharply decreases, and if a woman is having an abortion any later than that? It's not because she wants to. There's usually something wrong with the fetus in that case or the pregnancy is life-threatening.
So I find it incredibly misogynistic and stupid that someone thinks a woman would wait for forty weeks of pregnancy and the dangers of labor and then say Nope? The same people who think women aren't capable of making a choice, knowing what's best for them, and knowing what's inside their bodies? Think they're also terrible capricious and callous, but they still think women should raise children anyway?
Granted, I shouldn't really be surprised by this since ninety percent of the abortion debate is about punishing women for sex.