Reply #34: You do realize you just contradicted yourself... [View All]

[Solon]

Above you said you have no problem with limits on abortion, yet here you talk about trying to prevent injury and death to women by supporting keeping it legal. You do realize the problem I hope? What do you think underage girls who think their parents "won't understand" and then do it themselves because the law says the have to notify them about wanting an abortion? Remember, not everyone's parents are angels, plus most teenagers rarely see eye to eye with their parents anyways, also, notification, in many of these cases of less than perfect parents, might as well mean permission as well. What's to stop the parents from kicking them out of the house afterwards, especially if they are radical pro-lifers?

Same for 24 hour wait periods, many of them will have to drive many miles, for many hours, to get to the closest clinic. Most are poor, and cannot afford to stay in a motel, much less a hotel. Many also cannot afford to take any extra time off work, they will try to schedule it around their two days off, if they are lucky. One day for the procedure, the next for recovery, what are they supposed to say to the boss when they ask for a third day off? What may seem like an inconvienience to a middle class women can mean the difference between keeping a job and losing you livelyhood to a poor woman. What do you think many of these women will do?

This is where you contradict yourself, by supporting such laws as this, you increase the amount of unsave abortions and deaths, plain and simple. What is the justification for putting legal roadblocks between a woman and her doctor for a perfectly valid and legal medical procedure?