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Daily Kos: The Question of Choice Shouldn’t Be!


"For anyone not operating strictly on religious zealotry, too little information, too much propaganda, or too much imagination together with the preceding, choice is a clear cut no-brainer. Here are my reasons:
A woman ALWAYS risks her life when she tries to carry a pregnancy to term and deliver. ALWAYS. The chances aren’t what they were before modern medicine, ....They are perfectly willing to spend a few poor or working poor people’s lives, including the infants they claim to be so concerned about - until the child is born. The Republican’s and many church’s treatment of pregnant women and of infants and children gives the lie to that canard beyond argument.
It takes a woman’s body about five years to recover from a pregnancy. The results of surgery – too often done so the doctor can make a golf game or something – aside, it changes her body, and never for the better. It may not be much, or it may be a lot, but her body will never be the same as it was after bearing a child. Even if the sire (a father is something else again) contributes monetary support, which is just a fraction of what he should be giving – emotional support is just as necessary – it isn’t his body that ages, changes, and in general just no longer works or looks the way a healthy young body does. A lot of it can be helped with the right exercise and food, good medical care that includes preventive medicine, lots of help, especially in the first year of a child’s life, with raising the child (only being half as exhausted as they might be is a godsend for parents), and other things America neglects, often perforce. Damage can be minimized, with some good luck and work, but her body WILL NEVER GO BACK TO WHAT IT WAS. That’s a price a man doesn’t pay and never will....

As for the "rights of the fetus", until it’s at least capable of survival outside the womb (and I’m uncertain myself about this, so the choice should still be hers, as it ain’t my health and livelihood a stake), there shouldn’t be any. Most abortions that take place late into a pregnancy are due to legal and financial delays caused deliberately by the RadRight in order to force a woman to have the child while being able to say, "We didn’t force her – she had legal recourse", which is, of course, a lie. The fetus is literally a part of the woman’s body until delivery, and the cost, by every measurement there is, is high – for her even at best. It’s always been too damned easy for a man to just walk away, and I don’t see that changing any time soon. For the early part of a pregnancy, the so-called "child" is just a handful of cells that no more constitute a "person" than a pile of bricks constitutes a house. When the fetus becomes anything like conscious is a matter of debate even for experts; we can’t even define consciousness yet, not really. Yes, nerves form, a neural center forms, and you can get proof of electrical activity on a graph – you can do the same thing with plants, too. "

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