New Iowa Law Restricts Abortion To Before Most Women Know They're Pregnant

[Cecelia]

The anti-choice movement is dumb, explained easily:

Either you think that there should be an exception for rape (because forcing a 13 year old girl who's been raped to carry a baby inside of her for 40 weeks is absolutely awful) in which case you're perfectly okay with letting a 'life' die because of the action of it's father.

OR

You think there should NOT be an exception for rape, and have no concern for the 13 year old rape victim.  Which means you don't really care about life so much as you do forcing birth, and are trying to be consistent.

The only clear position is to be pro-choice.  If you're a woman, you can choose NOT to ever have an abortion.  That's your right as a human being, and I wouldn't dream of taking that away from you.  If you're a man, be thankful you will never be pregnant barring some scientific experiment.  (I say we try it, just once.  I mean what could it hurt?  I vote using the anti-choice men as candidates for the program.)  But nobody should be telling another woman what to do with her body.  

Now if you want to REDUCE the number of abortions by providing comprehensive sex education and free birth control, providing expecting mothers with appropriate financial assistance, and providing children with plenty of food to make the choice of deciding to have a kid easier -- then by all means do it.  That's a fair goal that doesn't take the ultimate decision out of the woman's hands.

But let's not pretend that pregnancy does not effect women in many ways.  The decision should be hers and hers alone.  The government has no business getting involved in making that decision.