Off Topic — HabitableZone

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Reasons
FrankC — (archived)

The reasons stated would probably be the same for either gender and the implications are also the same.

If you have religious convictions about this, fine but I have no such convictions regarding a first trimester fetus. I have four daughters and none have ever had to deal with this decision. If any of them had gotten pregnant as a teen, I would not have wanted them to have only the choice of adoption and I would have supported a choice of abortion.

Later in the life of a woman or a man the choice of abortion can seem callous and selfish, particularly when it is only the woman making the choice. Unfortunately, the only resolution I can see is the alternative of an artificial womb.

Yes, that would be almost as controversial as Solomon's verdict but it would not be as bloody and it would offer some resolution to the very valid "it's my body" position.

The only valid objection to first trimester abortion is religious.

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