Yank
Bulbous Also Tapered
I don't think anyone who believes that abortion should be legal views abortion as a desirable thing. In an ideal world there would be no unwanted pregnancies and no need for abortion. Unwanted pregnancies arise for a number of reasons so the decision should simply be about whether it's better for the woman to have a legal right to choose and access to safe medical care. Making abortion illegal will result in
- deaths and severe injuries to women seeking abortions outside of the medical system.
- increased poverty for both mothers and children. This will affect existing children that the mother already has.
Indeed. It is problematic at best. I'm glad I've never had to make that decision.
But my view is that if a woman wants the thing growing in her uterus gone, it is within her rights to have it removed.
In a sensible world I'd be fine with time limits, but it's been proven that once any threshold is set, the right will will keep pushing to lower it. And as much as the right love to whine about the horrors of late term abortion, there have never been more than one or two doctors in the USA, at any given time, willing to do late term abortions for birth control purposes. It's just not "a thing", and never has been.