Are you pro-choice or pro-"life"? — Page 6

Roe allows restrictions during the third trimester. However, I fully support choice during the third trimester if the life or health of the woman is at risk.

Third trimester abortions account for about 1% of all abortions, give or take, which means that 99% of abortions occur before the third trimester. Most occur before the end of the first. I mention this because I think the line is pretty clearly drawn already. I think the circumstance already have to be extenuating to get an abortion that late. It's hard question to answer, I guess.

I DO want to take this time to point out that any woman who is pro-choice, sexually active and without the desire to have a child at this time should already know where she can get access to Plan B, should unprotected sex arise. Or the condom can break. Or whatever. I think being proactive could reduce the number of clinic abortions, which I think is something all people who are pro-choice want.

A full-term pregnancy is 37-40 weeks. The American Association of Pediatrics indicates that babies born at less than 23 weeks of age and 400 grams in weight are not considered viable. The mortality rate for infants born at 23 weeks is 70 percent, according to the National Institutes of Health. There is no known baby born at less than 23 weeks in gestational age that has ever survived. About 500,000 infants are born prematurely each
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Jane2-- in response to this: (and I'm only finally responding now because I didn't get out of the office until 8:30pm)

"You see, CJR-that's what we're saying though-if there are stipulations, then you're not pro-choice. If abortions are legal, a woman can have as many as she wants, for any reason."

But I am pro-choice. However I PERSONALLY believe it's wrong to abuse it and use it as a form of birth control. BIRTH CONTROL (in all it's forms) IS READILY AVAILABLE FOR A REASON.

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" BIRTH CONTROL (in all it's forms) IS READILY AVAILABLE FOR A REASON."

And Q, I was about to say that I was using 2 kinds of birth control when I got pregnant.

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Haha, you read my mind again!

And CJR why are you yelling?

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It was pointed out, trekkie.

I also find it amusing that once it became a legitimate conversation rather than a giant fight, they disappeared.

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Q, I think society is pretty much okay with the status quo, you know? I could be wrong, but I'd guess that even the people in this thread who are stridently pro-life aren't actively campaigning for the cause.

The problem with your question, as I see it, is because of the lunatic fringe that actively campaign to make abortion illegal, it doesn't matter how far the the pro-choice crowd would bend.

Kringas! You're back! Wait, I forget, do I like you, or do you aggravate the pain in my back caused by two recent spinal fusion surgeries?

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Legal , safe , rare

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Oh definitely not yelling. Just being emphatic.

I realize that birth control is not 100% effective.

There was a reason why I prefaced my initial post with the fact that Im torn down the middle and unable to say with complete certainty that I'm either pro-choice or pro-life. I believe that every woman has the right to choose what she does with her body. But I personally do not agree with women who are simply careless and abuse the fact that abortions are available to them.

Nor do I personally agree with the person who tells me i HAVE to carry the baby to term. No, no I don't. I may be a fairly devout, practicing Catholic, but that's my decision, not yours. And as for my eternal damnation, well that's between me and God when I get to the pearly gates.

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There's some fertile women on this planet, huh?

Too tired to contribute anything more constructive at this point, but men marrying into my mother's family often said that all you had to do was look at one of the McKenna women to get them pregnant. My mother has used it as a cautionary warning to encourage my safe sex habits. I know that my mother was on birth control when I was conceived, and it might have been the case for one or more of my three brothers.