LKL wrote:
unknowjondoe wrote:
visagrunt wrote:
Adoption is certainly a viable option for a woman who opts to carry her pregnancy to term.
But for all that, it is in no way an adequate answer to a woman's inherent right to life, liberty and security of the person. Even if every bill is paid, and every loss during the course of her pregnancy is made good, still, at the end of the day, she is the one whose body is put through the pregnancy.
I applaud those women who opt to carry their children to term and give them up to parents who will love and care for them. But that in no way suggests that it is an appropriate course of action for any other women who find themselves pregnant.
Right to life, liberty and security? What about the child's right to life? If you take that then they don't have any liberty. And not to mention security.
If the mother is medically incapable of caring the child then I agree with abortion. But considering the mother already made a choice to put herself in that situation why not follow through? I mean if you are pro choice what about the choice to use birth control or a condom they are not that hard to find.
Saying that the mother 'made a choice to put herself in that situation, therefore she should not be allowed to terminate,' is a lot like saying that a motor vehicle accident victim should be allowed to bleed out by the side of the road because they voluntarily got into the car. There are medical solutions to either predicament.
Also, if women made a "choice" to carry a resulting pregnancy to term when they agree to have sex,
they wouldn't seek abortions, now would they?
This is really about punishing women for elective sex, and the language of such arguments shows this.
If a woman chooses to have sex (and use birth control, or not) as an exercisement of her bodily autonomy (a violation of which would be rape),
then why is choosing to have an abortion any less rightful an exercise of that same bodily autonomy (a violation of which, IE, forced pregnancy being considered analogous)?
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06 Jan 2013, 2:44 am
