- 19 May 2019 09:05
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There no mothers or fathers until a child is born alive.
It's much easier if you take that into consideration when arguing abortion, or parental rights of any description, to avoid muddying the waters.
Also, adoption is not an alernative to abortion, but to keeping or giving away your born child.
Abortion is an alternative to going through pregnancy and giving birth - which is a life changing, body changing, mind altering experience for women.
Men don't need to risk their health or even their lives to become a parent, whereas women do.
That is an indisputable fact and nothing to do with the law or equality, but how human reproduction works.
Due to modern medical advances, pregnancy and childbirth is relatively safe in western countries these days, but nothing is taken for granted.
Women are carefully monitored throughout and for some time afterwards.
No woman should be forced to do that against her will for any reason.
Certainly not to provide children for women who can't or won't have their own.
There is no right or wrong time during pregnancy to have an abortion.
It's much safer and easier to terminate earlier rather than later, but not always possible for various reasons which are none of our business.
That's all there is to it, really.
Abortion is a valid part of women's reproductive healthcare and should be treated as such.
I might not approve of a woman who terminates a pregnancy for what I consider a frivolous reason, but she doesn't, and shouldn't, need my approval.
“When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.” -Socrates.