barelypure said:
https://www.cnn.com/us/abortion-access-restrictions-bans-us-dg/index.html
List of states where abortion is banned. Most of them "Abortion is banned with no exceptions for rape or incest."
Me, I'm Pro-Choice and that choice is life. For rape and incest I can see where abortions would be necessary in the 1st trimester. But with the caveat that there needs to be a police report and someone charged if they are identified. After the 1st trimester I'm not sold that it hasn't become elective.
For the 3rd trimester I don't see a good reason to have an abortion unless the life of the baby is in danger. As to the life of the mother, just deliver the baby and she's good.
It's that 2nd trimester I'm conflicted. If they reach the 24th week then deliver the baby and give it the care it needs. There's been a few successes of babies as young as 22 weeks but not many. That's So after the 1st trimester up to the 24th week if the mother's life is in danger then I can see abortion being the only option.
As to the abortion drugs, if they are the day after pill then I don't object. I'm not sold on the idea that because an egg has split it's now a human.
If the woman says she wants an abortion because the babies eyes are brown and she wants one with blue eyes, well I'd lock her away as she's obviously demented.
In short, abortion is complicated. There's no 1 good answer.
Can you expound on this part?
For the 3rd trimester I don't see a good reason to have an abortion unless the life of the baby is in danger. As to the life of the mother, just deliver the baby and she's good.
You won't respond, but I do hope you read this woman's story.
The swelling was the first sign that something was wrong. It showed up in her hands and feet. She struggled to squeeze into shoes.
Susan flipped open her "What to Expect When You're Expecting" book and turned to the section that outlined when to call a doctor. Her kind of swelling and sudden weight gain she'd put on 11 pounds in one week made the list. She asked her husband of just over a year, a physician, whether he thought she looked OK. He sweetly told her she was beautiful, first thinking she was self-conscious and worried that she was fat.
He wasn't an ob-gyn, so she called hers.
"Have your husband take your blood pressure, just when he's able to," the doctor advised.
On their way to dinner in Berkeley, California, that evening, he suggested that they swing by his office first.
Her blood pressure "was off the charts," Susan remembers 30 years later. Her husband dialed the obstetrician, who asked whether he had any urine testing strips handy. He did, and they showed that Susan's protein levels were dangerously high, indicating a problem with her kidneys.
"Get over to the hospital right away," the obstetrician ordered.
Susan at first balked. She felt fine, just swollen. Plus, she was hungry.
"Can't we go to dinner first?" she asked before being rushed out the door.
She stayed in denial for as long as she could. Doctors were alarmed about her blood pressure, but she wasn't. They said her kidneys were shutting down, but that didn't register. Instead, she focused on the ultrasound they took, which revealed the baby's gender. She looked with excitement at her husband.
"Oh, my goodness, we're going to have a boy!" she said. "Aren't you happy?"
His face was grim, she remembered. "He knew that this was not looking good at all."
She was at 24 weeks and had severe preeclampsia. Doctors said she was on the verge of having a stroke.
"It's like you're being poisoned by pregnancy," she said, explaining her condition, "And the only way to cure it is to not be pregnant."
The fetus was behind in its development and not where it should be at 24 weeks.
It "needs at least two weeks to be even minimally viable, and you just don't have two weeks," the doctors told her. "You don't have two days."
Still, she tried to negotiate a deal. She was a physical therapist. She could rehab herself after a stroke, she told them. She could rehab their baby. She wanted to deliver it, if not vaginally, then by C-section. They said her body could not withstand either.
They promised her the fetus would feel no pain before stopping its heartbeat. Then they put Susan under to perform the dilation and evacuation procedure, in which the cervix is dilated and the contents of the uterus extracted.
Her abortion was a necessity and felt like "such a no-choice choice," said Susan, 59, who later had two daughters.
It wasn't what she wanted. It was what she needed to live.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/25/health/abortion-late-in-pregnancy-eprise/index.html
