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In reply to the discussion: Should there be any restrictions at all on abortion? [View all]Hekate
(91,181 posts)61. No one advocates for that except politicians who want to ban ALL abortions from conception onward
If they can shock you into saying, OMG OMG of course we cant have abortions of totally healthy little angels at 36 weeks, they can start arguing you into to earlier and earlier limits, until we end up with 15 weeks or 6 weeks and that is REALLY insane.
Dont even go there. 36 weeks is an anti-choice fantasy of evil womanhood that cant be trusted to make personal decisions. Do not engage with these RWNJ and stop asking us to do so.
Late term abortions are done extremely rarely and for reasons of the mothers actual life or the fetus complete lack of viability. Do you have any idea what some of those complications actually are? If you cant enumerate them, then go research it at an actual medical site.
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May I ask a question? It's a personal one, and slap me/don't answer if you don't want.
moriah
Dec 2021
#39
I don't care if the mother's life is in danger or not, she can induce at 38 weeks....
moriah
Dec 2021
#14
The original Roe v Wade already HAS restrictions, based on the social & medical consensus then...
Hekate
Dec 2021
#15
i don't think requiring licensed professional and sanitary facility are too much to ask
rampartc
Dec 2021
#19
It's currently considered to be 24 weeks, but a few babies have been saved
Crunchy Frog
Dec 2021
#35
Wow. That is miraculous for 1953. The little guy I knew was born after 2010. He was in
Scrivener7
Dec 2021
#72
No one advocates for that except politicians who want to ban ALL abortions from conception onward
Hekate
Dec 2021
#61
Yes, because it's such a rare hypothetical, it's absurd. It just does not happen without a really,
WhiskeyGrinder
Dec 2021
#71
The majority of people in this poll think that abortion should be legal up to the moment of birth?
WhiskeyGrinder
Dec 2021
#38
Reluctantly, "other". Basically no restrictions - it is up to a woman and her doctor -
RandomNumbers
Dec 2021
#45
Stop that. It is a tried and true anti-choice argument. Roe v Wade HAS RESTRICTIONS already...
Hekate
Dec 2021
#59
Which is why those of us who are pro-choice need to be really clear about RW goals...
Hekate
Dec 2021
#62
As others have pointed out, virtually no doctors will perform an abortion at "any time"
NickB79
Dec 2021
#54
I think that a lot of people who voted for "No restrictions at all..." don't understand the poll
Polybius
Dec 2021
#56
That's because no woman actually ever does that, and the way you keep repeating that mantra...
Hekate
Dec 2021
#63
You and I crossed posts: I edited mine to reflect that while you were responding
Hekate
Dec 2021
#84