Republicans succeed in ploy to increase unsafe abortions

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in essense if one found a way to remove the zef without the removal killing it would it then be okay when it inevitably dies from lack of.... well, everything.

I'm glad! Now the unborn child might eventually be guaranteed more safety! This is not the first time the government has made something illegal and leading it to be dangerous. If you murder someone with a kitchen knife let's say, you are thrown in jail, which is incredibly dangerous. Or if you deal drugs, you're involved in the dangerous underworld of drug cartels.

In other words OF COURSE IT'S UNSAFE BECAUSE IT'S ILLEGAL!! Let's stop worrying about the safety of breaking a law and start worrying about whether passing that law is ethically right or not. In the case of abortion, passing a law against it is long overdue.

<--- Before I'm cited as a religious bigot, I'd like to point out my passion for molecular biology / genetics as well as my lack of faith in any organized religion (atheist).

I could give you a hundred arguments for why it's ethically wrong. However, I'll just give you a few thought experiments.

During your nine-month incubation in your mother's womb, she had the right to abort you even if she just felt like it. Let's say she actually did abort you, she would not have aborted some "inhuman parasite", she would have aborted you! You wouldn't be here to make these silly arguments! I suppose if you like to demean yourself by saying "yeah, I was some inhuman wretch but at least I lasted long enough to be born" then you can do that. However, what if your mother called you tomorrow and told you she wanted to abort you and almost did if not for some pro-life program that convinced her to have you? Would you consider yourself a hypocrite? Or find some way to rationalize it, I want a serious answer to this question because I'd like to know for serious psychological statistics if "pro-choice" has more psychopaths than "pro-life".

Now imagine a different scenario, in an alternate universe, galaxy far far away... just imagine! That you were born a week later because for one reason or another the pregnancy lasted longer than it should have (maybe you thought it was pretty comfy in there). Anyway, for that extra week you would be just as developed as if you were born on your real birthday! You would literally be genetically the same and just as developed. So what differentiates the non-human you and the human you? The fact that in one scenario you are on the outside of the womb, and in the other scenario - you're inside. So by all scientific definition, if you genetically the same AND as developed as a human being then you are a human being. So why was the 1-week-late version of you dubbed "inhuman"? Explain this to me!

Also, I thought I'd point out that prenatal testing is almost figured out for Autism. Now, looking back, after the innovation of prenatal testing for down syndrome, down syndrome children were aborted left and right because they were undesirable for some people. Less than 1/4 actually survived until birth. I'm sorry if you don't like hearing it, but the truth is, autism is not a popular character trait. Parents want smart, popular kids and some of them wont take the chance on their kid being socially awkward or in some cases mentally deficient. So, regardless of the cheerful feminist perspective you always hear about abortion - the fact is that it's also used in selective reproduction, and autism wont make the cut.

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I was exposed to German measles in utero. The doctor flat out told my mother that termination would be best. Since she had tried so hard to have me, she decided not to terminate. The doctor painted a worst case scenario.