I understand this woman's emotional response, but it is just that - a personal, emotional response to a traumatic experience. Like most pro-choice arguments it has no scientific, biological, or consistent ethical basis. It is a 'worst case scenario' strawman. And in fact, an abortion - a procedure with the sole intention of killing the f…
I understand this woman's emotional response, but it is just that - a personal, emotional response to a traumatic experience. Like most pro-choice arguments it has no scientific, biological, or consistent ethical basis. It is a 'worst case scenario' strawman. And in fact, an abortion - a procedure with the sole intention of killing the fetus - would not be medically necessary to save the mother in this situation. An early induction or emergency c section in which the child may be too premature to make it - yes, this could happen and no one wants to outlaw this. There are no 'emergency' abortions. A woman may say the risks are too high for her and she wants to terminate based on a risk analysis, but it is not medically necessary to save her life.
The Dublin Declaration has been signed by over 1,000 physicians:
“As experienced practitioners and researchers in obstetrics and gynaecology, we affirm that direct abortion – the purposeful destruction of the unborn child – is not medically necessary to save the life of a woman.
We uphold that there is a fundamental difference between abortion, and necessary medical treatments that are carried out to save the life of the mother, even if such treatment results in the loss of life of her unborn child.
We confirm that the prohibition of abortion does not affect, in any way, the availability of optimal care to pregnant women.”
I understand this woman's emotional response, but it is just that - a personal, emotional response to a traumatic experience. Like most pro-choice arguments it has no scientific, biological, or consistent ethical basis. It is a 'worst case scenario' strawman. And in fact, an abortion - a procedure with the sole intention of killing the fetus - would not be medically necessary to save the mother in this situation. An early induction or emergency c section in which the child may be too premature to make it - yes, this could happen and no one wants to outlaw this. There are no 'emergency' abortions. A woman may say the risks are too high for her and she wants to terminate based on a risk analysis, but it is not medically necessary to save her life.
The Dublin Declaration has been signed by over 1,000 physicians:
“As experienced practitioners and researchers in obstetrics and gynaecology, we affirm that direct abortion – the purposeful destruction of the unborn child – is not medically necessary to save the life of a woman.
We uphold that there is a fundamental difference between abortion, and necessary medical treatments that are carried out to save the life of the mother, even if such treatment results in the loss of life of her unborn child.
We confirm that the prohibition of abortion does not affect, in any way, the availability of optimal care to pregnant women.”
remind me to ask my doctor f he /she signed this so I can find other one