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[QUOTE="whipassmt"] Modern medicine can also resolve those issues in other ways than resorting to a direct abortion. For instance in ectopic pregnancies (which tend to be more likely in women who have previously had an abortion), one of the circumstances that is frequently used to justify an abortion, there are other options which are not direct abortions (such as salpingectomies).
Also even were abortion to be illegal, there would probably some leeway for doctors in such medical situations. Or there could be a situation like Poland, where abortion is legal for certain medical reasons (though the Poles are trying to close some loopholes in those laws) if the abortion is certified by a panel of doctors.
whipassmt
My wife had an ectopic pregnancy last year. We had to make some difficult choices, and none of them we're positive, but by most definitions that the current GOP is offering in their abortion bills, what we chose to do was an abortion.
You mentioned asalpingectomy. When you have had trouble with fertility for many years, having such a procedure becomes less of an option.
These kind of discussion remind me that personhood amendments restrict so many things, that they shouldn't be considered. And most people haven't had to deal with a situation that may require an abortion. You cannot understand the emotions that are involved until you have those emotions.
I'm pro choice, though I disgree with most random abortions. You shouldn't end the potential for life unless it's absolutely necessary, but I firmly believe it should be up to the woman, or the couple to make the choice, not the government.
should the man have any legal right to veto the abortion of his offspring? Should minors have to get parental consent or at least notify their parents?should laws requiring abortion-providers to report data (i.e. age of the mother, gestational age of the fetus) to the dept. of public health include penalties for failing to comply?
If you are referring to the specifics of personhood amendments, I will say that there are some policies that have merit wrapped up in a lot of nonsense. That's why you see so many bills in so many siutations voted against, because good ideas come with so many bad ones.
Do you think that couples shouldn't have the right to use fertility techniques to get pregnant? Or that contraception should be outlawed?
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