Abortion rights is a civil rights issue

[shawn703]

In another thread it was pointed out that 80% of Americans are against abortions in the third trimester, including a majority of women. Just like a majority were on the wrong side of history when it came to the beginnings of other civil rights issues, a majority of Americans are unfortunately on the wrong side of history on this civil rights issue.

The only person who should ever have a say in whether an abortion at any given point during a pregnancy should be allowed is the woman who needs to make the decision. That should be the beginning and end of the discussion.

[Jackie Wilson Said]

1. Sounds like common sense to me.

[haikugal]

2. Absolutely!

[Warpy]

3. Third trimester is a bit different

Unless the fetus is nonviable due to abnormalities discovered late in the pregnancy, it's treated as a premature birth by physicians.

Wingnuts need to stop passing stupid laws governing medical procedures they know nothing about. At some point, they need to trust the experts and the experts generally don't abort viable pregnancies without a grave and compelling medical reason. Abortion ceases to be on demand after the early part of the second trimester.

Stupid misogynists think women carry a pregnancy for six months and then rush to get an abortion because they want to go on a cruise. It's insulting.

[shawn703]

4. I disagree with that

Third trimester should be up to the woman needing to make the decision. Who am I to tell her what she can and can't do?

[Warpy]

5. You're not a doctor.

A doctor is going to ask that woman "what changed, why now?"

[shawn703]

7. To which the woman could reply

"Because I feel like it," and that's the extent to which it is the concern of the doctor.

Not all medical procedures need to be deemed "necessary" by a doctor before they can be performed, as any plastic surgeon in Hollywood would tell you.

[angstlessk]

8. That would never happen!

In third trimester a doctor would never perform an abortion on a whim

[shawn703]

10. I'm sure plenty of doctors would.

Sure, some may have objections on religious or moral grounds and never perform an abortion that wasn't medically necessary, but plenty would treat it as an elective medical procedure.

[angstlessk]

11. You are wrong

Doctors even refuse women of child bearing age a hysterectomy unless there is a medical reason (cancer).

Tie their tubes, sure, they can be untied.

[shawn703]

12. Women can get hysterectomies at child bearing age

I had a friend decide to do it because she didn't want any more children and didn't want to deal with menstruation anymore either.

Her decision and she found a doctor to do it.

[angstlessk]

13. That is EXACTLY what I am talking about!

She 'found' a doctor willing to give a woman of child bearing age a hysterectomy for no other purpose than she wanted no other children.

I would like to believe she would not have to 'find' a doctor, but every doctor should accept the wishes of every woman!

[FLPanhandle]

6. I won't impose my morals onto anyone

What I think of third trimester abortions is not important.

What matters is the pregnant woman's decision.

[angstlessk]

9. Between her and her doctor

the doctor would never perform an abortion on a woman in her trimester just cause!