[jscottdavis_for_48th_district]

..... actually, I only support the right to an abortion as a last resort. I believe that it is a woman's right to have an abortion performed if she was raped, the birth might harm her physically or mentally, or she has it very early on in the term. We don't want our ladies sneaking across the border to have an abortion in some dingy garage someplace.

~Scott~

[muawiyah]

~~~ particularly when it's quite legal for them to have an abortion in a dingy garage in the United States if they wish.

You don't really know much about this topic do you?

[teenyelliott]

the birth might harm her physically or mentally,

What does this mean? Any woman can say that it will harm her mentally. That is just a way around any law that might be written to restrict abortion.

[TaxRelief]

Mental harm from an abortion is five times higher than the risk of post-partum depression or other natural birth induced mental "distresses".

[hinckley buzzard]

We don't want our ladies sneaking across the border to have an abortion in some dingy garage someplace.

According to this article, they can go to a dingy garage in Wichita Kansas for the same treatment, and maybe be killed. Guess you think that's a better deal for "our ladies."

[grellis]

I believe that it is a woman's right to have an abortion performed if she was raped...

...which accounts for less than 1% of abortions. Besides, the baby didn't commit rape, but the baby is the one subject to capital punishment. That makes sense to you?

the birth might harm her physically or mentally...

The birth might harm her or the pregnancy might harm her? Either way, it doesn't hold. Virtually all women suffer physical harm of some sort during pregnancy and birth, only most of us moms don't think about it as "harm," just the normal side effects of pregnancy. As for a mother's mental health...until you have had an abortion, you simply cannot understand the agonizing hell that a woman goes through afterward. Not just a few women--the majority of post abortive women suffer mentally, often for years after the abortion. It has been just in the last few years that post-abortive women have stepped up and described what they have gone through, and the more women that speak out about how their lives have been shattered, the more women find the courage to relate their horrific experiences. For the most part, abortionists ARE NOT required to tell their patients about the mental harm they will face after an abortion.

What it comes down to? Abortion isn't just anti-baby, it's anti-woman.