My only problem with women who abort, is that there are some women who use it as a method of birth control instead of condoms, the pill, etc.
I hear this every once in a while, but I've never seen stats on how frequent that really is (as opposite to in the literature from the 'premarital sex is teh ebil and must be punished' crowd). I wonder if anyone's done a proper study?
It's funny; since getting pregnant, I've become even more fervently pro-choice than before. I cannot imagine forcing (through law or lack of available clinics) any woman to go through a pregnancy against her will. It is such a life-changing-body-changing-soul-changing process, and scares me, someone who is in reasonable physical shape and desperately wants the child she's carrying. How much more terrifying for someone stuck in it accidentally?
Under Jewish law, which I follow, an embryo is considered 'water' for the first 40 days after conception, and abortion is completely legal. After that, it's legal up until the very end of pregnancy if the mother's life is in danger. Some streams consider the mother's mental and emotional health to be included in that category until the end of first trimester or so.
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I hear this every once in a while, but I've never seen stats on how frequent that really is (as opposite to in the literature from the 'premarital sex is teh ebil and must be punished' crowd). I wonder if anyone's done a proper study?
It's funny; since getting pregnant, I've become even more fervently pro-choice than before. I cannot imagine forcing (through law or lack of available clinics) any woman to go through a pregnancy against her will. It is such a life-changing-body-changing-soul-changing process, and scares me, someone who is in reasonable physical shape and desperately wants the child she's carrying. How much more terrifying for someone stuck in it accidentally?
Under Jewish law, which I follow, an embryo is considered 'water' for the first 40 days after conception, and abortion is completely legal. After that, it's legal up until the very end of pregnancy if the mother's life is in danger. Some streams consider the mother's mental and emotional health to be included in that category until the end of first trimester or so.