The trouble with abortion is that, if you make it illegal, while not providing a cheap and efficient way to prevent undesired pregnancies, then people do it all the same.
For the most part, they'll do it and have no problems... but the few that run into complications then tax the health system which must care for them.
Yeah, yeah, yeah... the US is different from Europe... no insurance, no health, you die... so... in the US, people... women would die, if abortion was illegal.
Reality sucks, sometimes.
I wish abortions were never necessary.
But people do need (or just feel the need) to resort to them... and they do, regardless of the legality of that action. So that action must be handled, somehow. In my opinion, Europe has come up with the best compromise, by allowing (and, in some cases, fully supporting) abortions up to a few weeks of gestation, while the fetus is a lump of cells visually indistinguishable from any other mammal and, according to a few studies, incapable of feeling anything.
Of course, state sponsored abortion as a contraceptive method must be, somehow, avoided, at least, for the health of the woman who should have, at most, two abortion in her lifetime. This leads to some taxation (increasing?) of repetitive abortions... flat out denial of service would only lead the woman to back-alley abortion and that just goes back to the same problem that is being tackled with the legalization of abortion.
Free condoms are distributed in Portugal... you just need to attend a short medical appointment on family planning... not everyone is up for that... Perhaps there's a better way to get the message out while providing everyone with the required protection...
It's a touchy subject, requiring a lot of compromises... I think just saying 'NO' is not an option... and just saying 'YES' is also too much.
For the most part, they'll do it and have no problems... but the few that run into complications then tax the health system which must care for them.
Yeah, yeah, yeah... the US is different from Europe... no insurance, no health, you die... so... in the US, people... women would die, if abortion was illegal.
Reality sucks, sometimes.
I wish abortions were never necessary.
But people do need (or just feel the need) to resort to them... and they do, regardless of the legality of that action. So that action must be handled, somehow. In my opinion, Europe has come up with the best compromise, by allowing (and, in some cases, fully supporting) abortions up to a few weeks of gestation, while the fetus is a lump of cells visually indistinguishable from any other mammal and, according to a few studies, incapable of feeling anything.
Of course, state sponsored abortion as a contraceptive method must be, somehow, avoided, at least, for the health of the woman who should have, at most, two abortion in her lifetime. This leads to some taxation (increasing?) of repetitive abortions... flat out denial of service would only lead the woman to back-alley abortion and that just goes back to the same problem that is being tackled with the legalization of abortion.
Free condoms are distributed in Portugal... you just need to attend a short medical appointment on family planning... not everyone is up for that... Perhaps there's a better way to get the message out while providing everyone with the required protection...
It's a touchy subject, requiring a lot of compromises... I think just saying 'NO' is not an option... and just saying 'YES' is also too much.
