What researchers have discovered about maternal, infant health under Texas abortion ban

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7. Shared responsibility and authority

Responsibility and authority go together always. When responsible for an outcome or event, authority must exist to make it happen. When given authority, the outcome is someone’s fault or benefit.

Making babies is a shared responsibility, leaving a woman to bear the responsibility alone without the authority to make decisions violates this principle of the universe.

And it should be a shared decision, unless the father is missing or a deadbeat. But the decision should be ranked within the context of a woman’s medical health, an infant’s health, and lastly, society’s benefit based on religion or similar metaphysical belief.

So who has the 20-year child responsibility for a full term birth? That person should have the authority to make her own medical decisions—right or wrong—and not based on someone else’s belief or faith.

This is not a green light to use abortion in place of birth control or common sense. That can be damaging to a woman also, as well as the risk of unwanted children—which can become a 20 year problem for missing/negligent parents and society.