I've recently written some things about human reproduction which probably turn some people's brains sideways. I'm about to do it again. I am categorically opposed to banning abortion. I don't care why the female person in question wants an abortion. I don't even care if it is a sex-selective abortion; I'm not willing to violate women's bodily autonomy just so a few million more girls will be born. (Are four billion female people worldwide not enough female people for you? Why ever not?) "I don't want to be pregnant" is a good enough reason for me and I will not debate it. The only times I want to see abortion limited are (1) when someone besides the pregnant girl or woman wants the pregnancy terminated, unless it's to save her life or health and she's not capable of consent (think "twelve-year-old child raped by her stepfather" or "comatose woman in nursing home") and (2) when the pregnancy is far enough along that an abortion would be more dangerous than carrying to term would be. And that's pretty late in the pregnancy. If you don't know anything about pregnancy, and most of you don't know nearly enough, you should be aware that it is much easier on a woman's body to abort the pregnancy early rather than late. Women don't get late-term abortions on a whim unless they are crazy, and if they're that crazy I would argue they probably wouldn't make safe mothers either. But when it gets more dangerous to abort than to labor, that's when I would limit it. No other time.
When abortion bans misfire
When abortion bans misfire
When abortion bans misfire
I've recently written some things about human reproduction which probably turn some people's brains sideways. I'm about to do it again. I am categorically opposed to banning abortion. I don't care why the female person in question wants an abortion. I don't even care if it is a sex-selective abortion; I'm not willing to violate women's bodily autonomy just so a few million more girls will be born. (Are four billion female people worldwide not enough female people for you? Why ever not?) "I don't want to be pregnant" is a good enough reason for me and I will not debate it. The only times I want to see abortion limited are (1) when someone besides the pregnant girl or woman wants the pregnancy terminated, unless it's to save her life or health and she's not capable of consent (think "twelve-year-old child raped by her stepfather" or "comatose woman in nursing home") and (2) when the pregnancy is far enough along that an abortion would be more dangerous than carrying to term would be. And that's pretty late in the pregnancy. If you don't know anything about pregnancy, and most of you don't know nearly enough, you should be aware that it is much easier on a woman's body to abort the pregnancy early rather than late. Women don't get late-term abortions on a whim unless they are crazy, and if they're that crazy I would argue they probably wouldn't make safe mothers either. But when it gets more dangerous to abort than to labor, that's when I would limit it. No other time.