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mstakenidentity) wrote2008-09-02 10:24 am
mstakenidentity) wrote2008-09-02 10:24 am
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Pro-Choice Rally
RALLY FOR FULL ABORTION RIGHTS
Saturday 6th September, 1pm
Parliament Steps, Spring Street
Pro-choice activists slam the government's pandering to anti-women zealots! We invite you to rally with us on the steps of Parliament to call for a woman's right to control her body at all times
Greens Speaker: Colleen Hartland
More speakers TBA
I am actually still unsure of where I stand on late term abortion, HOWEVER I support the right to choose, and want to hear what the arguments are, and what the speakers have to say. I'm willing to go along on my own, but I'd really love some company if possible, as these sorts of things do make me nervous, and it's fun to be able to discuss them afterwards over a coffee.
Anyone interested?
Saturday 6th September, 1pm
Parliament Steps, Spring Street
Pro-choice activists slam the government's pandering to anti-women zealots! We invite you to rally with us on the steps of Parliament to call for a woman's right to control her body at all times
Greens Speaker: Colleen Hartland
More speakers TBA
I am actually still unsure of where I stand on late term abortion, HOWEVER I support the right to choose, and want to hear what the arguments are, and what the speakers have to say. I'm willing to go along on my own, but I'd really love some company if possible, as these sorts of things do make me nervous, and it's fun to be able to discuss them afterwards over a coffee.
Anyone interested?
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Yay! Company!
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I'm definitely more conflicted about the very late term abortions than abortions in general (as far as the earlier cases are concerned, I am most determinedly non-conflicted).
It's a much trickier issue... there are so many more factors in play (the fact that some of these babies would be able to be born alive at that point versus the fact that nobody should be forced into motherhood/giving birth, the question of why the women waited that long to abort - obviously less applicable in cases of problems with the foetus - versus the whole 'who are we to dictate the decision making process' thing, the health issues involved for both the mother and the baby, medical advances, legal problems, the whole 'is it justifiable to abort a disabled child and if so where do you draw the line', etc. Just to name a few).
I'm still in the pro-choice camp, but it is less clear cut...
Though I guess no matter where you stand on the issue, it's always going to be difficult to draw lines as to what's acceptable and what isn't.
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Here's mine: usually women who have late term abortions do so either as a medical necessity to save their own life, or because the foetus has developed such severe medical conditions that it can't live anyway (e.g. neural tube defects leading to anencephaly, i.e. no brain at all) or is already dead and won't come out on its own, and it'd be cruel to force the woman to carry and give birth to a foetus that's already dead or dying.
Usually women who have abortions that late in the term wanted the baby and are extremely unhappy about the abortion, and putting further barriers in their way when they're already in a tragic situation is just cruel.
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I'm actually shocked that as someone who identifies as pro-choice, I couldn't articulate that. Thank you.
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At the moment, women who have late term abortions do so out of medical necessity, &c. This is because that occupies a bit of a grey area in legislation.
People are irrational creatures made of stupid. Do you think that these irrational creatures made of stupid should be given the right to terminate a pregnancy, late term?
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Blah, I have to work, otherwise I'd so be there (I'm guessing that it's inside the hours of 9:30-4:15... if it isn't, count me in by all means)
That said, I will willingly get up on my soapbox about this issue to anyone who will listen (and as of last semester, also know the legal aspects inside out), so if possible, I'm definitely up for the coffee half of the exercise so I can hear about what the speakers had to say.
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