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Originally posted by Clearskies
reply to post by asmeone2
Yeah, but how many women give the men a choice in an abortion?
I didn't mine.
Originally posted by Clearskies
reply to post by asmeone2
Do you think it was the father of my child's responsibility for the abortion, as MUCH as mine?
Yes, because he knew what I was going to do, but
I was going to do it, (Unless he had persuaded me otherwise, which he didn't try.)
An estimated 91% of victims of rape are female, 9% are male and 99% of offenders are male. (Bureau of Justice Statistics 1999)
Originally posted by ravenshadow13
"Personhood" isn't defined. I think religion defines it. "Person" isn't a scientific or logical term. It's uber abstract. Really, to me, a person looks like a stick figure. Anything more than that is kind of speculation. Can the stick figure be boiled down to a single line? I don't think so, but some people do.
Originally posted by jezebel5150
This legislation poses some interesting questions:
2. Does this mean that if a pregnant woman, whether she is aware of the pregnancy yet or not, does not properly care for herself (and thereby, her child) and she has a miscarriage, she can be prosecuted for wrongful death or manslaughter? What if the child is not spontaneously aborted but is born with something wrong? Could she be charged with neglect?
I hope the proponents of this bill also provided for the care and support of any unwanted children forced to be born, and then left for the state to take care of. We all know how fond people are of the welfare system.
This sets a dangerous precedent and I don't think this state will be the last one to try it.
Originally posted by Existent
It is cruel to force a child to first breath, then abandon it, just as it is cruel to abort a fetus that may have become the next Winston Churchill or Thomas Jefferson. And maybe that child was going to grow up to become an axe murderer. We can't judge by someone's possible future actions, only by their potential.
The average U.S. woman spends about three decades trying not to get pregnant and only a few years trying to get or being pregnant. So why, asks the Guttmacher Institute, do so many adult women--who account for 90% of unintended pregnancies--not use birth control consistently or correctly?
Half of the sexually active U.S. women aged 18 to 44 who don't want to get pregnant either never use birth control or use it inconsistently or incorrectly, according to a new report from the institute, a sexual and reproductive health research, education and policy organization.