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chevydog1 year, 3 months ago
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I found it a little unusual that you didn't seem to add any qualifications to your support for abortions. Most people will.
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A little episode: A few months ago, I had reason to talk with a nurse practioner in central IL sort of near me. In her practice, she was preparing to induce labor for a normal vaginal birth to a young woman who would be 6 months pregnant at the time. This woman, whose spouse was off in Iraq, had worked herself into a tizzy with fear of being poisoned to the extent that she was endangering both herself and the child's life. So the NP felt that the delivery was the best option. I questioned the timing, and she assured me that a six-month old fetus was cerainly viable outside the womb. OB-GYNs I've asked since then confirm this.
I ask the following simply because you did not add any qualifiers: Would you support an woman's right to an abortion even if the developing fetus in question would be viable as a child outside the womb?
Also, without meaning to impugn anyone, I was always taught that one is responsible for one's actions and the consequences thereof. I'm inferring from your words that you do not believe that this applies with respect to sex and abortion. On the assumption that there are other areas in which it does not apply, how do the rest of us avoid you? I have no great desire to e.g. be assulted with a frozen salmon--paticularly if the fish-bearer doesn't feel responsible for the consequences.
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