knowing what you're talking about: priceless
posted by bitchphd
God, so "respectable" bloggers are rationalizing murder. Yeah, it's wrong, but if you see abortion--especially late-term abortion--as murder, then it sort of makes sense to kill people like George Tiller. Even Ta-Nehisi Coates gets sucked into this way of thinking.
I don't even have to get into why this is a fucked-up rationalization,* because guess what?
THIRD TRIMESTER ABORTIONS HAVE TO BE MEDICALLY INDICATED.
Women can't get abortions past 24 weeks--i.e., post-viability (and for god's sake, 24 weeks is damn early, even so) unless there's a fucking medical reason for them to do so. Like, oh, say, a dead or non-viable fetus. Or the woman herself is developing a major medical problem. Or like she's a kid who's been raped, for fuck's sake, and it's taken this long for her to access an abortion or even to realize she's fucking pregnant.
Even second-trimester abortions, almost half of them occur because pregnant women have difficulty *getting* an abortion earlier (because of restrictive laws or lack of access to a provider).
Let me reiterate:
Think that third-trimester abortions are murder? You're wrong. Either the fetus is dead, dying, or non-viable (i.e., NOT MURDER), the mother is ill or would have her health damaged by continuing the pregnancy (SELF-DEFENSE), or she was a rape victim.
Think second-trimester abortions are murder? Then work to help women get access to abortion earlier.
Want to pontificate about abortion? Try doing some fucking research. I found the two links below in less than ten minutes.
See this report from the Guttmacher Institute, esp. p. 17, which has statistics about why women get late-term abortions; or the video below, which addresses most of the fallacies about late abortion and deserves to be spread around. Again.
*But for Ta-Nehisi's sake, because I think he's an upright guy and a good thinker, I will. Even if you think *all* abortion is murder, that doesn't make murdering doctors justifiable. I think the death penalty is murder: that doesn't make it okay for me to murder judges who impose it, or guards who impose it, or politicians who support it. I think war is murder: that doesn't make it okay for me to murder soldiers.
I don't even have to get into why this is a fucked-up rationalization,* because guess what?
THIRD TRIMESTER ABORTIONS HAVE TO BE MEDICALLY INDICATED.
Women can't get abortions past 24 weeks--i.e., post-viability (and for god's sake, 24 weeks is damn early, even so) unless there's a fucking medical reason for them to do so. Like, oh, say, a dead or non-viable fetus. Or the woman herself is developing a major medical problem. Or like she's a kid who's been raped, for fuck's sake, and it's taken this long for her to access an abortion or even to realize she's fucking pregnant.
Even second-trimester abortions, almost half of them occur because pregnant women have difficulty *getting* an abortion earlier (because of restrictive laws or lack of access to a provider).
Let me reiterate:
Think that third-trimester abortions are murder? You're wrong. Either the fetus is dead, dying, or non-viable (i.e., NOT MURDER), the mother is ill or would have her health damaged by continuing the pregnancy (SELF-DEFENSE), or she was a rape victim.
Think second-trimester abortions are murder? Then work to help women get access to abortion earlier.
Want to pontificate about abortion? Try doing some fucking research. I found the two links below in less than ten minutes.
See this report from the Guttmacher Institute, esp. p. 17, which has statistics about why women get late-term abortions; or the video below, which addresses most of the fallacies about late abortion and deserves to be spread around. Again.
RH Reality Check: Late Term Abortions from RH Reality Check on Vimeo.
*But for Ta-Nehisi's sake, because I think he's an upright guy and a good thinker, I will. Even if you think *all* abortion is murder, that doesn't make murdering doctors justifiable. I think the death penalty is murder: that doesn't make it okay for me to murder judges who impose it, or guards who impose it, or politicians who support it. I think war is murder: that doesn't make it okay for me to murder soldiers.
Labels: abortion, conservatives are insane
Posted at 10:03 PM
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