Reply #80: I sincerely doubt [View All]

[Tansy_Gold]

that most women in serious, committed relationships would blithely over-rule their partners' opinions on an abortion.

I also sincerely doubt that most men in similarly committed relationships would object if their partner chose to abort.

The relationships ought to have been initiated and established on those foundations.

But in relationships where there is no such foundation, we have to have something else -- namely, legislation.

Occasionally -- and not just hypothetically -- there will be those instances where the whole system goes wack-o. I saw it happen with a friend's marriage.

But we can't base legislation that affects hundreds and thousands on the rare instances that affect only a tiny few, and most of them hypothetically.

I'm tired of being asked to feel sorry for the men who *might* have to deal with a woman who *might* want to abort *their* child, when there are so many women who are forced to carry unwanted babies because there's no medical care, no trained physicians, no clinics, no money. Not every woman faced with an unwanted pregnancy is your mythical welfare queen. She's a frightened teen-ager who never thought it could happen to her. She's a young mother with two toddlers whose husband forgot to buy condoms and whose health insurance doesn't cover contraceptives. She's a forty-two year old career woman who falls head over heels in love with her married boss. She's a loving wife who has just found out her much-desired fetus is severely handicapped due to a genetic disease and that carrying the pregnancy to term could prevent her from having other normal pregnancies.

All those women would be denied their CHOICE if more and more and more and more and more restrictions are placed on abortion. they're the ones I save my sympathy and pity for, not the sperm-centered dickheads who worry "their" baby might get aborted by some heartless child-hating uterus-tyrant.