Flexibility on Abortion Issue Anyone?

[NNguyenMD]

First off, let me say that I am pro-choice, and am a firm believer in a woman's right to choose. However as a student in the healthcare field, I would be happier if the number of abortions done were fewer, and if more alternatives to abortion made to women.

Who here would consider allowing a reduction the time limit your state implements for a woman to legally get an abortion, in cases where her life is not threatened and incest and rape were not the cause of the pregnancy, to say 12-15 weeks (versus 24 in places like New York). We offer this flexibility in our pro-choice stance IF and ONLY IF the right to lifers would agree to the following demands.

1. Gay couples be given equal and full adoption and parental rights as heterosexual couples.

2. RU-486 gets full FDA approval for usage in a medical abortion, and that the government either mandate or offer incentives for coverage by insurance, and federally funded medicaid.

3. That the morning after pill be made availiable at pharmacies OVER THE COUNTER and by mail, with no age limit, prescription or parental consent required. And mandate pharmacies who fill medicare and medicaid prescriptions provide morning after pill, oral contraceptives, and condoms at their stores.

4. Allow condoms and medically approved information on contraceptives and abortion to be easily accessible and distributed to students at ALL schools that accept federal funding.

5. Major tax incentives for all couples, gay and straight, to adopt a child.

6. Mandate equal time for education in contraceptive use, safe sex with condoms, and abstinence plus for EVERY minute that abstinence only education is taught by the fundies.

7. Cut the red tape and federally fund embryonic stem cell research.

And anything else any of your guys want to add. Of course this will throw the pro-lifers into a huge hissy fit, and they'll never agree to any of these demands for any flexibility we offer on our part.

But its a great way to box them in into the same traps that they set for us all the time, and making us defend "media-unfriendly" positions that make us look bad such as partial-birth abortion and the Laci-Peterson law.

By taking this positions, you out all the pro-lifers who aren't interested in reducing the number of children without loving parents, abortions, and in making them any safer, but are rather more interested in taking control of your sex life, and in taking away all the information and choices out there in making a decision on this issue.