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Originally posted by CountryFriedChick
Actions have consequences. By letting anyone have an abortion are we just telling our society that they can party all the time and get pregnant and just get rid of the kids with ease? I can see the case being made for people who have been raped or even people who may die due to complications but not everyone should be allowed to have abortions.
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First of all, I don't see where partying comes into play besides trying demonize women who have abortions as careless ****s. Secondly, fetus =/= kid. If in your personal religious belief life begins at conception, that's between you and your girlfriend/wife, but that's not what a society that was founded on freedom of religion should promote.
Furthermore, if we've advanced technologically to the point that abortions are able to be performed, what is wrong with someone having one or a hundred of them? I hope you don't think there are seriously any reasonably large number of women (let's say, 1% of them) who would rather go to an abortion clinic, go through all the paperwork not to mention the stigma attached, and have an abortion, rather than using a condom
Condoms fail, people DO get raped, and hell, young women get in too deep and realize they are unequipped to raise a child in a loving and relatively financially stable environment.
Lastly, see my post on "God of Abortions". Making a law that bans women from having abortions other than in cases of rape, will specifically FORCE women who've been raped to carry the children to term in a manner which they aren't forced to do now. It would be counter-intuitive. Statistics show something like 25%-35% of reported rapes result in conviction, with reported rapes being in the significant minority in the first place. Requiring women to prove they have been raped will result in a significant portion (the majority actually) being forced to carry the fetus to term, while NONE of them will be forced to if it remains an
option for every woman.