I Thought Abortion Restrictions Were a Reasonable Compromise — Until I Needed One at 32 Weeks

Yahoo! Entertainment (sigh) ^ | February 28, 2020 | People Staff

[backwoods-engineer]

Nobody, NOBODY ever, ever “needs” an abortion. Just like NOBODY ever “needs” a contract wet-work murderer.

[Skywise]

Golly gee whillickers - what if they find a defect after the baby is born within the first 24 hours? Should you have the moral right to put it down then?
First week?
First 2 weeks?
Or does it only count while the umbilical is still connected?

[fwdude]

What if they had found this out at 8 1/2 months? Would that have justified killing their child?

[joma89]

Too many women enjoy murdering their babies a “pretending” they do not.

JoMa

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Liberals have absolute contempt for human life that’s not their own.

[GingisK]

Perhaps up to 18 years...

[Ronaldus Magnus]

Why post this trash on this forum, especially without a warning. Trolls aren’t appreciated here.

[JudyinCanada]

Doctors make mistakes. Perhaps they needed to harvest certain organs that day, for some big bucks. I used to think this kind of thing was not possible, but I no longer give the medical community the benefit of the doubt.

[Mrs. Don-o]

A very wise comment.

Everyone knows of a family who have a kid who developed (or manifested) very challenging problems when they were 30 weeks gestational, four days neonatal, 18 months, three years, eight, fifteen. I know two families whose sons did not develop schizophrenia until their early 20's. Physically healthy, mentally/emotionally almost untreatable, prognosis for future "quality of life" ... low. (((sigh)))

But at which ages would you say a proper treatment would be crushing of the head, or death by dismemberment?

Abortion does not call into question the unborn baby's humanity, but our own.

[NonValueAdded]

He may choke and die, but to be sure, you killed him.

[CheshireTheCat]

I really don’t get the impression from reading the article that she was in any imminent danger healthwise herself from the pregnancy. It sounds as if the abortion was more risky than progressing with the pregnancy and having more frequent monitoring.

There was always the chance the doctors were wrong about how severe the baby’s problems were. She will never know.

A friend of the family’s baby died two months before the due date. She had to carry the baby until natural labor and give birth because her doctor determined taking it or inducing labor early was a health risk to her.

She went on to get pregnant again, have a healthy baby, and then get pregnant six weeks after giving birth.

[ChildOfThe60s]

Since the average Democrat voter can’t divide by 4, they think 32 weeks is early in the pregnancy.

And no, an abortion at 8 months is not medically safer for the mother than giving birth. Less safe by far.

[yldstrk]

Schizophrenia is a terrible condition.

[DuncanWaring]

Quick!

Kill my baby!

Before it dies!

[Mrs. Don-o]

It is. It truly is.

[madprof98]

Abortion does not call into question the unborn baby's humanity, but our own.

[grateful]

I had a coworker whose wife was pregnant. They knew before the baby was born that it would not live due to a serious heart problem. They and their entire family, including their other children, spent 15 hours loving on that baby after it was born until it passed.

We have had doctors make so many diagnoses in our family that they were so sure of that turned out to be completely wrong. I could never live with myself if I didn't at least give my baby a chance at life after birth and see if the doctor was right. If it dies at least I gave it a chance and it didn't die at my own hand.

[Mad Dawg]

She never achieves a moral argument beyond, “This was frightening and looked like it would be very, very sad.

Early she says the perils of delivery were an argument for an abortion. Then the procedure involved killing the child and delivering it. So, since delivery was in the cards anyway, how is it an argument for the abortion?

Intellectually, there's no argument.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Thank you for what you wrote. I think you are exactly right.