or 'late term abortions' or whatever you want to call them is an overfocus of the wrong people.
This is not an easy decision, it is pretty damn much like giving birth. Doctors use it to remove fetuses who have died or are likely to die upon birth (anacephalic babies, and others with conditions that terminate their ability to live once they're born). And dead babies.
Do all the fuckheads want women to carry babies who are going to die or are already dead until their uteruses give them up? That is just so fucking evil I cannot be more calm about it.
Most abortions take place before 16 weeks. At this point, it is a group of cells that sort of looks like a baby. it cannot live outside the womb.
The other thing I find very curious is that the great majority of anti-abortionists are MEN. Who will never, ever be faced with that kind of decision. (My dear mom slapped my dad with that once upon a time when he started a tirade about it, "Ralph, you are a man. You will never, ever have to deal with bearing a child or not, one way or another. You should just shut up because you should have no say in it."
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And the concentration on the 'pre-birth abortions'
Date: 2009-06-01 02:43 am (UTC)This is not an easy decision, it is pretty damn much like giving birth. Doctors use it to remove fetuses who have died or are likely to die upon birth (anacephalic babies, and others with conditions that terminate their ability to live once they're born). And dead babies.
Do all the fuckheads want women to carry babies who are going to die or are already dead until their uteruses give them up? That is just so fucking evil I cannot be more calm about it.
Most abortions take place before 16 weeks. At this point, it is a group of cells that sort of looks like a baby. it cannot live outside the womb.
The other thing I find very curious is that the great majority of anti-abortionists are MEN. Who will never, ever be faced with that kind of decision. (My dear mom slapped my dad with that once upon a time when he started a tirade about it, "Ralph, you are a man. You will never, ever have to deal with bearing a child or not, one way or another. You should just shut up because you should have no say in it."