Horrified by Alabama Abortion law

No, it recognizes that the unborn child has rights.

Less than 2% of abortions are done to save the life of the mother or because or rape or incest. That means 98% of them are done simply because the woman does not want a baby - or because someone else does not want her to have one. (In at least one study, 60% of women seeking an abortion said they were doing so because of pressure from someone else. That's not really "choice", is it?)

I think that its the womans choice to have an abortion. This law is disgusting.

I was horrified as well. But then realised that Northern Ireland has the same laws.

Women should have control over their own bodies.

It is a religious perversion.

I was appalled at this ghastly step back into the past.

These are the people who voted for the Alabama law.

Not terribly representative is it?

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It makes me very angry. I found out years ago when I thought that we may have been having an unplanned edition, that I couldn’t keep it. As the blue lines showed up briefly on the test before settling into a single not pregnant line, I know I could never have an abortion. However, that was just me. My choice. I believe that abortions should be available on demand up to the 12-14 week mark. After that only for dire circumstances. I do believe in choice, but I also think that with that choice comes responsibility. The vast majority will fall in to the pre 14 week mark. But except in the aforementioned dire circumstances – Rape, Incest, Incompatibility with life, mothers life etc, then there is little excuse for a later abortion. It angers me even more that the patriarchs who voted for this legislation also want to restrict Sex Education and Contraception. These people have the nerve to rant about other ‘backward’ religions! Fuming.

You do know that there are atheists who believe abortion is wrong, correct?

agnurse yes of course.

knick like you I don’t think that I could ever have an abortion, but if my father had raped me? Or I had been raped? I don’t know, but I’m sure as hell no one should tell me what to do.

It's a cruel law !
When I worked at the hospital we had girls who'd come over from NI, many alone and scared and whose parent/s weren't aware of their predicament. They were counselled beforehand and also after the procedure. If people saw the fear on the faces of some of these girls and their talk of suicide you couldn't help but to feel for them.

I'm against abortion being used as birth control, i.e. if the woman " didn't want " the child, but in cases of it being injurious to the mum or young school girls, rape victims, then yes the law on abortion stands, but in my own personal view no later than 12 weeks, earlier if possible after a scan.

Looks like it was all men who made the decision - oh what a surprise! I personally don't believe in abortion - but I would never wish to put my own beliefs onto another woman.

I'm particularly shocked that it is even banned in the case of rape or incest. Rape must be truly devastating but to then be forced to carry your rapists child would be continuing the violation

Are morning after pills freely available? And perhaps they should be free.

So a man can be a father and a grandfather to the same child.

Less than 2% of abortions are done to save the life of the mother or because or rape or incest.

There is abdolutely no way to conclusively obtain figures on this. Given the prevalance of domestic violence it is logically to be much much higher than that!

Lack of access to legal abortions DOES NOT STOP ABORTIONS it never has. Anywhere where abortions have been illegal ABORTIONS STILL HAPPEN they are just much much less safe

cheese yes - although I suspect your comment was rhetorical.

In at least one study, 60% of women seeking an abortion said they were doing so because of pressure from someone else. That's not really "choice", is it?

Women who are coerced into legal abortions would still be coerced into illegal abortions. Making a bad situation 10 times worse. There is no way to spin this to make it good for women.

Here in Malta abortion is illegal as well.

It’s not just rape or incest.

A relative was carrying a baby when a scan showed that vital organs had not developed. The baby could survive in the womb but would not survive birth.

Her life was not in danger, but to compel her to continue with the pregnancy?

There are far fewer safeguards against coerced abortion when abortion is illegal. If you genuinely care about women being forced into abortions, you would want them to be legal and mainstream, not back-street.

Absolutely right notanan2, banning abortion does not prevent abortion, just makes it more dangerous and another money spinner for the unscrupulous.

bella is contraception available?

Whitewave, yes contraception is available but when I first came to live here it was frowned upon and I was made to feel very guilty when I turned up at the pharmacy with my prescription for the pill.

As someone just said. “Abortion is now a criminal offence in Alabama, but the fetus, babies and children still retain the right to be killed by a gun”

There have been cases in countries that ban abortion where women have been arrested for having misscarraiges and still births under abortion laws. Young unmarried girls are particularly suspected. So not only do they suffer the trauma of someone getting them pregnant when they are only a child themselves, but then they have to endure a pregnancy AND a misscarraige/still birth... and then are arrested and punished for it!

Yeah. Anti-abortion law supporters REALLY care about the lives of children