Arkansas Senate passes bill to ban abortions after 20 weeks

[kdmorris]

16. I'm not concerned that it will overturn Roe v Wade

(since you brought me into it).

My PERSONAL feelings on abortion have nothing to do with what I feel should be legislated. Personally - I would never have an abortion at 20 weeks unless there was something terribly, horribly wrong. Enforcing my PERSONAL feelings on other women is where I draw the line. When making laws, legislating reproductive choice of any kind is wrong. I cannot presume to know every reason why an abortion occurs at or after 20 weeks, but IT'S NONE OF MY BUSINESS. Telling women that they can have one in this case but not that case because of your PERSONAL feelings on the matter reduces these women to nothing more than chattel.

I don't have any problem with disagreement on when life begins or feeling like it's a baby at 20 weeks or anything else you'd like to drag up to show that I'm "like the gun lobby" (which I find pretty damned insulting, btw). I have severe disagreement with you that it's your business to sit in judgement of these women or to make laws that come up with "exceptions"... when those "exceptions" can NEVER take into account all of the possible scenarios.

These are adult women and they have the right to make their own decisions about their own medical care. YOU have no right to be involved in a stranger's medical care, pro-life or not.

Do you feel that you should be involved in my pregnancy? I have an ultrasound scheduled for tomorrow. Maybe you'd like to tell me just how I'm doing and whether I'm doing it right, since you appear to know so much about pregnancy - I sure can't seem to trust my perinatalogist or my OB-GYN to counsel me on how I'm doing. Do you think that, if they haven't grown enough (for example), someone should step in and take over? My husband and I are obviously too stupid to make our own decisions, with the advice of my TEAM of doctors, about our sons.

If you DON'T think that you should be involved in my pregnancy - why are your feelings about involvement any different for other women?

(by the way, I guess since you "come by these beliefs honestly from a Catholic family", you are also against contraception. If you are not against contraception, YOU also draw the line on how much you should be involved in a woman's medical care. If you are against contraception, it appears that you also must admit that "well-meaning and thoughtful" people disagree with you on where we draw the line.)