RE: Ohio bans doctors from performing Down Syndrome abortions
December 24, 2017 at 6:39 pm
(This post was last modified: December 24, 2017 at 6:42 pm by pocaracas.)
Ah... The abortion theme again.
@Joods, with all due respect, you know that there are many degrees of DS and most can never become self sufficient adults. What happens to them when their parents become too old or sick to take care of them?
A potential parent should weigh this possibility and, if they find it's not worth the risk, should proceed accordingly.
The same as for any other permanently debilitating disease that can be known about before birth.
As for the pro/con-choice, I think the stats speak for themselves... Where they exist...
Unfortunately, stats for clandestine operations are lacking. But one can track the legal ones as they become available.
Some 20 years ago, abortion was decriminalized in Portugal and some sex ed was introduced in schools.
Abortion is only allowed up to the 10 weeks of gestation, before any nervous system is formed... And the sex ed implementation was... questionable...
However, the numbers of legal abortions since it became allowed are recorded... They started relatively high... Perhaps close to the number that would happen before the law was implemented (back then, it would be common to go to Spain, where it was legal, to have the abortions).
After, those numbers increased for a few years... And then started decreasing steadily. Now, the number is lower than when it began, so perhaps lower than the number of people having abortions in Spain plus the clandestines.
Whether the foetus is a person or not (I lean to say not because of the absence of nervous system), whether it's human or not (I lean to say yes, because it does have its own set of human DNA)... Making it illegal or legal is not about the individual, but about minimizing loss of life. In Portugal, decriminalizing it has led to such a decrease.
Certainly, that one measure can't be the sole reason for the decreasing numbers of abortions, but it has, at least, given us the correct numbers of people feeling like they need to abort. It's a non negligible number of people. The reasons for desiring an abortion are varied and I think each one should have a right to their own reasons for it.
@Joods, with all due respect, you know that there are many degrees of DS and most can never become self sufficient adults. What happens to them when their parents become too old or sick to take care of them?
A potential parent should weigh this possibility and, if they find it's not worth the risk, should proceed accordingly.
The same as for any other permanently debilitating disease that can be known about before birth.
As for the pro/con-choice, I think the stats speak for themselves... Where they exist...
Unfortunately, stats for clandestine operations are lacking. But one can track the legal ones as they become available.
Some 20 years ago, abortion was decriminalized in Portugal and some sex ed was introduced in schools.
Abortion is only allowed up to the 10 weeks of gestation, before any nervous system is formed... And the sex ed implementation was... questionable...
However, the numbers of legal abortions since it became allowed are recorded... They started relatively high... Perhaps close to the number that would happen before the law was implemented (back then, it would be common to go to Spain, where it was legal, to have the abortions).
After, those numbers increased for a few years... And then started decreasing steadily. Now, the number is lower than when it began, so perhaps lower than the number of people having abortions in Spain plus the clandestines.
Whether the foetus is a person or not (I lean to say not because of the absence of nervous system), whether it's human or not (I lean to say yes, because it does have its own set of human DNA)... Making it illegal or legal is not about the individual, but about minimizing loss of life. In Portugal, decriminalizing it has led to such a decrease.
Certainly, that one measure can't be the sole reason for the decreasing numbers of abortions, but it has, at least, given us the correct numbers of people feeling like they need to abort. It's a non negligible number of people. The reasons for desiring an abortion are varied and I think each one should have a right to their own reasons for it.
