ABORTION

[Maggot]

Sure thing Maggot. Almost everyone changes their minds on some issues. That's not a problem.

Why you couldn't simply acknowledge "changing your mind" several times in the course of just a couple of days and instead suggested that my memory was faulty and I needed to "look back" is strange to me. I can't read your mind to know when or why it changes; I rely on your words.

I understand that it's not cut and dry to you. It is for many people who understand the issue. They either don't give a shit or don't have an opinion in regards to cutoffs. Or, they don't oppose abortion at any point because they think it's solely the right of the woman to decide. Or they oppose all abortion because they believe life begins at conception and the woman has no right to decide. Or, they oppose abortion at the point at which the fetus might be able to feel pain. Or, they oppose abortion at the point at which the fetus could survive on its own outside of the womb. Some believe exceptions should be made past those cutoffs for one or more of the following: fetal abnormality, health or death risk to the woman, rape, and incest.

What about the woman's responsibility towards the baby's life and knowing full well she is pregnant and not making a decision until the last minute. Rape and the reason a woman waits until after 8-10 weeks to get an abortion escapes me. I can see incest as the girl would not know what was going on in an adult frame of mind. But you are talking about the fringe element that is maybe 5% at the very best. You are splitting hairs. I get that you are pro-abortion and that it should be the choice of the woman at any time during a pregnancy.


Anyway, it really doesn't matter why or which of your seemingly random cut-offs (in regards to how long a woman has to "make up her mind" and when she no longer has the right to choose what she does with her body) suits your fancy from day to day; 4 weeks, 8 weeks, 12 weeks, 10 weeks, 8 - 10 weeks... I was just trying to understand your views. But, what you think, and what you think other people should therefore think, doesn't impact the fact that it's perfectly legal for women to have abortions well beyond any of those points in every state in the country.

In my mind I believe abortion is a tough decision and that 8-10 weeks is long enough to decide. To me life begins at conception but I also believe in this modern world that through medical advances we have the ability to change as I realize that life is complicated and accidents happen quite a bit more often today. I use the term accident as I would use uneducated, lazy, stupid in the intelligence portion of all parties involved in the our ability to create and end life.