Where do you get morning after pills?
Side note, how do you(not just rookie, everyone in general) feel about abortion? I hear many hear talk about how it's not easy for a woman to get one, and most don't get them just for fun. In my opinion, I really don't care if a woman gets an abortion and doesn't care about the fetus at all (excluding really late abortions, when the fetus is practically a baby). Do the people that talk about how hard it is to have one prefer that women don't have as much emotional difficulty with it?
I don't particularly care either way if someone has one or not. And if by late-term you mean the point where most are viable, that's usually because something has gone horrifically wrong with the fetus in question. I remember reading about one where it had no intestines and the heart had developed outside the body. If it survived being born, it would die horribly soon after. Of course the pro-lifers never want you to hear about those things, since it makes them look heartless in comparison.
Then, you got the kid born without a god damned brain. No, I will not link to the video, find it yourself, its...too fucking depressing for me to even go looking for it.
Are we talking about the particular anencepalic child whose parents insisted on keeping it alive for a full year after birth, in pain but unaware of anything else*, just because "we don't believe in abortion so it would be wrong to put it out of its misery?" Because...that was just all kinds of creepy. I was raised in that degree of "pro-life," and I was deeply sickened by that video. It was their choice to make, but that doesn't mean I have to
like it.
* You need a cerebrum to be consciously aware of the things your "five senses" process, or to make any conscious action, but you only really need pain receptors and a brainstem to feel pain.
Honestly, I don't really mind abortion. It keeps you from making your life worse, and bringing a life into this world that may end up loathed and perhaps even hated, and that's not fair to the kid. If it poses a significant health risk to the mother, all the more reason to get rid of it as soon as god damned possible. That thing hasn't proven its ability to survive, for all you know it could die the moment its out of the mother, but the mother has. Save her life...if she ends up hating you for it, at least you won't have a kid there serving as a reminder of the person you no longer have, the child living a life of being resented by its father for something it couldn't help.
It stops a lot of problems before they begin, and saves the lives of women that may have otherwise died because of complications during pregnancy. Make it safe, make it legal, and make it accessible. Also, if a kid comes in wanting one because they accidentally got knocked up, no parental permission need be required. This is one instance where they do not get a fucking say, only the kid does, because she's the one that's pregnant, not them.
I don't like abortion. At all. But what "pro-life" types tend to forget is that sometimes your choice isn't a simple, cut-and-dried, Right Vs. Wrong choice. Sometimes, you have to choose between Wrong and Wronger. There are circumstances in which abortion is not a good idea. But there are also circumstances in which abortion is by far the lesser evil. It is not my place to decide when another person's reasons are Good Enough.
For example, the life/health of the mother. The doctor never says, "You are definitely going to die if you have a baby now." It's always a probability of death, at least at first. A risk, not a certainty. And different people have different ideas of what level of risk is worthwhile in order to have a baby. The law, and other people in general, should not go up to a woman and tell her that her level of risk is too high to give birth when she wants to do so, or not high enough for an abortion if that's what she wants.
Some people don't even want a baby--and frankly, I think that the way doctors assume that we all want to make babies, even when the child-free among us say otherwise, is rather patronizing. Some people want a baby, but aren't financially able to care for one yet. Some people already have a child that they can just barely afford to feed.
The law should respect the choices of all of these people. Abortion is never an easy choice to make; neither is giving birth. Both have risks; both carry the possibility of regret; both are rather expensive; both can, if you're not married, carry quite a lot of nasty social stigmas. But the
law shouldn't make this choice any harder than it already is.
