Justine (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} ms_gamgee_89) wrote in biosage_x, |
It's pretty handy that you're asking about something that I'm basically an expert on, lol. As secretary of the pro-choice group on campus, I think that sums up what I think, but I'll talk about why.
First of all, the argument as to whether a fertilized egg is a baby or not is irrelevant to me. I am one of the people who is pro-choice and also believes that abortion kills a baby. I mean... duh.
The main thing for me is that a potential person does not count more than a real, living woman. Not just her actual physical life; her social, emotional, mental, SOUL life. There are many reasons to have an abortion; no one should have a baby that they don't want. And in answer to the adoption issue, how about we get all the kids that are in foster care and child protective services into loving homes first, huh?
Something that a lot of people don't realize is that a full half of fertilized eggs never implant, so there's no pregnancy, and 1/3 of those that do end in spontaneous miscarriage within the first trimester. Most women who have a potential baby lose it before they know they have it.
In this case, if abortion is murder, is being one of those women equivalent to involuntary manslaughter? On that issue: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uk6t_tdO
If you're about the idea that abortions are harmful to women, which is a rare argument but I come across it enough: from the New England Journal of Medicine, from 2007, (probably the most respected medical journal in existence): They polled women who had abortions in the US over several years and just under 7% felt any regret at all. By the way, that's within the range of statistical error, so that number could technically be as low as 1 or 2 percent over a wider sample. Enough said on that.
Basically, in my opinion, to be anti-choice is to be anti-woman. The majority of anti-choice legislation is made by a group of people who have never been pregnant and never will: old men. To me, a woman's future and a woman's health are far more important than a hypothetical addition to the existing almost 7 billion already wandering around this world.
First of all, the argument as to whether a fertilized egg is a baby or not is irrelevant to me. I am one of the people who is pro-choice and also believes that abortion kills a baby. I mean... duh.
The main thing for me is that a potential person does not count more than a real, living woman. Not just her actual physical life; her social, emotional, mental, SOUL life. There are many reasons to have an abortion; no one should have a baby that they don't want. And in answer to the adoption issue, how about we get all the kids that are in foster care and child protective services into loving homes first, huh?
Something that a lot of people don't realize is that a full half of fertilized eggs never implant, so there's no pregnancy, and 1/3 of those that do end in spontaneous miscarriage within the first trimester. Most women who have a potential baby lose it before they know they have it.
In this case, if abortion is murder, is being one of those women equivalent to involuntary manslaughter? On that issue: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uk6t_tdO
If you're about the idea that abortions are harmful to women, which is a rare argument but I come across it enough: from the New England Journal of Medicine, from 2007, (probably the most respected medical journal in existence): They polled women who had abortions in the US over several years and just under 7% felt any regret at all. By the way, that's within the range of statistical error, so that number could technically be as low as 1 or 2 percent over a wider sample. Enough said on that.
Basically, in my opinion, to be anti-choice is to be anti-woman. The majority of anti-choice legislation is made by a group of people who have never been pregnant and never will: old men. To me, a woman's future and a woman's health are far more important than a hypothetical addition to the existing almost 7 billion already wandering around this world.
