Although I am pro-choice I hate this dance we seem to do around abortion. I've heard people say it's just a clump of cells or it's no different from having a cyst removed. People will do everything possible to NOT refer to the baby as a baby.
It's a baby.
If you can't deal with the idea that you are getting ready to kill your baby, then perhaps you shouldn't have the abortion. If you can't state that you support other peoples' right to kill their baby, then you haven't really faced up to what abortion is. I understand what it is and I'm still pro-choice.
I also think that men should be part of this discussion and should have a say in if the child can be aborted or not. It may be your body, but it's also his child. The mother would get financial support during the pregnancy and have her medical paid for by the father. If there are loss of wages and other hardships the mother faces, there could be compensation for that, as well. Then he gets custody and the mother can pay child support. I suspect that occurrence would be pretty rare and would be complicated by not being able to prove who the father is.
As it is now...we have possession being 9/10th of the law and so the female gets to make the whole decision on her own. ;)
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Date: 2010-05-01 03:40 am (UTC)Although I am pro-choice I hate this dance we seem to do around abortion. I've heard people say it's just a clump of cells or it's no different from having a cyst removed. People will do everything possible to NOT refer to the baby as a baby.
It's a baby.
If you can't deal with the idea that you are getting ready to kill your baby, then perhaps you shouldn't have the abortion. If you can't state that you support other peoples' right to kill their baby, then you haven't really faced up to what abortion is. I understand what it is and I'm still pro-choice.
I also think that men should be part of this discussion and should have a say in if the child can be aborted or not. It may be your body, but it's also his child. The mother would get financial support during the pregnancy and have her medical paid for by the father. If there are loss of wages and other hardships the mother faces, there could be compensation for that, as well. Then he gets custody and the mother can pay child support. I suspect that occurrence would be pretty rare and would be complicated by not being able to prove who the father is.
As it is now...we have possession being 9/10th of the law and so the female gets to make the whole decision on her own. ;)