Arkansas Senate passes bill to ban abortions after 20 weeks

[kdmorris]

68. That's hardly fair

This didn't start with a respectful tone from her, a statement of conflict on this subject or feelings of being pro-life, while at the same time being against legislation that restricts abortion. Since she's self-deleted the original post that upset so many of us, you can hardly judge whether our reaction to her initial (and several posts after that) was "a witch hunt" or justified.

She agreed with this legislation because "women should have made up their minds by 20 weeks" and "what else are we supposed to do, just let them have the baby at 9 months and then terminate?". Basically - she compared abortion to infanticide and thought that this legislation was reasonable.

No mention was made of pro-life feelings or anything else, including any understand of WHY abortions happen after 20 weeks. All of that came later, after many of us took exception to her comparing abortion to infanticide and being OK with restricting abortion through laws.

You are entitled to your opinion on when life begins. I probably even agree with much of it. I'm almost 21 weeks pregnant with twin boys. They are very much real people to me, as we see them grow and move and thrive. We've seen their fingers, toes, faces... they are my babies.

The ONLY place where I part company with this poster (and with you) was in whether my personal feelings should be used to legislate anything. There are too many exceptions to why women get late term abortions to be able to legislate this. So, in my opinion, when it comes to the law - there are only 3 people that should be involved in any decision about a pregnancy (including termination of that pregnancy) - the mother of the baby, the father of the baby(if available) and the doctor. Period.

Human emotion should never be used to make laws. This applies in abortion, death penalty, etc. There's a reason why justice is supposed to be blind.