Reply #113: Nothing *never* happens.

[Occupy_2012]

I noticed the question was about a healthy pregnancy, not a healthy mother. Why on earth would a woman want to have an abortion at 8 1/2 months in the first place, if everything was fine? An 8 1/2 month fetus could easily live outside the mother. My sister's child was born at 8 months, due to the pregnant mom's own health problems. The child was fine and over 5 lbs. You might as well ask if a 9 month pregnant woman should be allowed to have an abortion if nothing is wrong. Come on.

The reason there shouldn't be laws against such things is that there's always an exception that proves the rule. Is there some reason why somebody might need a late term abortion, ever? Yes, there are sometimes reasons. However, you and I don't know these people, don't know the particular case, don't know what the problem is, and never will. That's where doctors come in, not laypeople. It should not be up to some politician running for re-election to cynically decide some unknown woman 10 years in the future can't decide her own fate. People's health should not be up for popular vote, or to profit some ruthless politician who doesn't give a damn, they just want a job.

I can tell you, there are no women that think abortions are fun and have them for entertainment. That's incredibly insulting to all women, especially ones that are judged by total strangers as bad people when they really have a serious reason for an abortion. Many women who have abortions are doing it because of unforeseen health issues. Piling on and saying they're evil is just kicking someone when they're down. In some cases, women are carrying dead babies, for example, then screamed at and called a baby killer while walking into an abortion clinic with a dead baby in their womb that needs to be removed. Isn't that enough suffering without a bunch of loud mouthed, sadistic ignoramouses piling on?

Don't judge people you don't know. It's above your pay grade. Leave the divine judgments to God, and if you're lucky, He'll judge you Himself, instead of letting random morons at a Tea Party rally do it for Him.

All of this hostility towards the people who are charged with raising America's kids is a symptom of a deep-seated misogyny in society in general. Women are not evil. They don't hate children. Men are not going to save the babies of the world by making slaves out of their mothers. Check out countries where women have no rights. Children are treated like garbage too, often molested, enslaved or beaten, and everybody is poorer, not just women and children. In real life, countries where women can control their own bodies and finances are more prosperous, not less, and more children are born alive and healthy. The UN has done studies about this, it is a well known fact.