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voicecrying said:Smellin Coffee said:voicecrying said:Smellin Coffee said:voicecrying said:I have the individual Christian mandate to protect the defenseless. I stand against Planned Parenthood because they are murdering defenseless human beings who were created in the image of God.
So in your "protecting" the 3% of the defenseless from death, you are OK with risking the health and even extended life of the other 97%, ALL of whom were also created in the image of the same God.
Got it.
Yes, absolutely. In trying to minimize the health risks and to extend the life of the other 90-97% (you left out the range in trying to condemn me), are you OK with murdering the 3-10%?
I am opposed to abortion being used as birth control. For situations involving the physical and/or mental health of the baby or mother, that is a decision that should be made by the mother, her family and her medical counsel. It is NOT my business, NOT my right to interfere in the mother's autonomy to support HER unborn.
So would you support legislation that outlaws abortion except in cases where it was a medical necessity for the mother?
Depends on what the legislation calls for and how much interference it gives the justice system to investigate those choices.
A mother in poverty who HAS to use the PP clinic because of limited healthcare should not be jailed nor fined. I believe that individual medical professionals should have record as to why it was deemed medically necessary, including circumstances that may involve mental health instead of solely physical health. The health professional should be held responsible, whether it be reprimand or even loss of license if he/she knowingly performs the abortion without health reasons.
So yes, I believe there should be consequences but it isn't worth tying up already convoluted court systems over individual cases.
In other countries where abortion is completely outlawed, women who have miscarried are being imprisoned because in domestic disputes, their husbands report them as aborting their children. Or miscarriages happen and police can prosecute the mother for "illegally" aborting their child because of miscarriage. We see that happening now in Republican states where abortion laws are the strictest:
https://www.businessinsider.com/women-30-years-prison-miscarriage-georgia-abortion-2019-5
https://gen.medium.com/anti-abortion-laws-will-put-women-in-jail-86ab8951cdcc?gi=fb418b5d1de5
So in the medium, I do not believe the mother should be prosecuted but medical professionals should lose their license to perform without medical or mental health reason.