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Originally Posted by CrazyFlamingos  This one has given me food for thought.
I am pro-choice but anti-abortion; in other words I do not believe it should be illegal but I would seek other solutions if I or someone I loved was experiencing an unwanted pregnancy.
I have always considered these 3 situations to be the exceptions to this self-imposed rule. And thus I would consider them to be the exceptions that must be made if abortion were to be criminalized. But I have seldom (if ever) articulated my reason for this.
The 3rd one is rather obvious to me. One human life should never be considered more valuable than another. But living breathing woman’s right to live should supersede that of a fetus.
Why? I can’t really answer that. Maybe it is just what my gut tells me.
Maybe it is just that a fetus is the promise, the expectation of a human life whereas that living breathing woman Is a human life.
The other two reasons seem to follow from this one.
Many women or girls who have been molested or raped are in such precarious mental state that they are at extremely high risk for suicide and/or self-destructive behavior.
The physical, hormonal & emotional stress of carrying a pregnancy to term might, in many cases, be the thing that would push such a person to her death. What gives us the right to force her to take this chance? | Well said this is pretty much where I stand. "We could not now take time for further search or consideration, our victuals being much spent, especially our beer." - William Bradford Clowns to the left of me, Jokers to the right.....
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