The personhood of a fetus (long)

bellaleanne

Pumpkin62307:

NastyAnnie:

Pumpkin62307:

8) This one just came to me: So the abortion rate was lower of those who had free BC, so I'm curious to know what the reasoning was behind those in that group who did have abortions. I don't remember if it said, and I can't click on it from here. So I will check it our after I post. 

I don't know about what the article said, but even birth control taken perfectly is not 100% effective, and there are many ways it can fail... whether the woman taking it is not an ideal weight, or has to take antibiotics, or takes a vitamin that interferes with it, or just has a freak accident... it can fail. When I got pregnant, I was on NuvaRing, which worked excellently. Until I got pregnant. I had just started a new job, and was around a large group of women all day, every day, in the same room, for 6 weeks. My cycle changed. The week I took my ring out, I should have had my period. Instead, I ovulated. 2 months later....voila! Pregnancy. 

These things happen, and when a woman is not in a position to have a baby, she has to have the option to not have a baby.  

I'm aware it's not 100%. They did teach us that in sex ed! I was just curious if there were reasons given for those abortions, which upon further review there were not.

I'm sure the reasons for abortions are the same we usually see; inability to support child, rape, abusive relationship, birth control failure, etc. 

The problem is, you will never, ever, in a million years, eliminate abortions. Women will always need them, for one reason or another, whether we like it or not. Now, are we going to criminalize it, and make it extremely dangerous for women, which has been proven not to help the situation AT ALL...or are we going to do what we can to lower the amount of abortions that happen?

That's all it comes down to. And I agree that if men were able to have babies, we wouldn't be having this conversation. 

You can't give a fetus the rights of a person without taking away the rights of the person carrying that fetus. And that includes the right to do whatever the hell they want with their body and life. We don't like it when people have babies they can't afford, and we don't like it when people have abortions. Something's gotta give. And we'll spend a hell of a lot more tax dollars supporting that unwanted fetus through adulthood than we will providing people with birth control.