Attack at Planned Parenthood Clinic

[SteelCurtain]

I would put the line at viability. Once the fetus has the ability to survive outside of the womb, I would say that is a good line of demarcation. (Or zone, since it's not really a clear cut line.)

But I absolutely take issue with the idea that a woman should not be able to choose what to do with her reproductive system. I disagree that an unborn entity has rights. Legally, that's a can of worms that we do not want to open.

If a woman is on birth control, has sex, it fails, and she goes and has an abortion at 2 weeks, we are talking about a bundle of cells.

This country is absolutely fucked when it comes to family leave. If a woman is low income, working two jobs to pay her rent, and gets pregnant, that will destroy her life. She will lose her job, or more likely, she will have to go back to work 3 days after she gives birth because there is no paid maternity leave.

Also, let's not pretend that adoption is just an easy choice. Like even if you don't want a baby, can't afford a child, can't support a child--like this is an easy thing to do to put it up for adoption. Let's not pretend that the emotional/mental havoc this wreaks in a person's life---just from an evolutionary standpoint---isn't horrendous. And then the fact that we don't have affordable healthcare that includes mental health coverage to help with this.

Let's also not forget the physical toll that pregnancy/childbirth puts on a woman. The dangers that come with pregnancy are still not negligible.

So what anti-choice people are saying, in effect, is that we should force women to undergo this trauma, just because you (global you) personally have defined personhood as a blastocyst attached to a uterine wall.