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In reply to the discussion: Should there be any restrictions at all on abortion? [View all]iemanja
(53,031 posts)7. I don't agree that there should be no restrictions
Last edited Sun Dec 26, 2021, 02:49 AM - Edit history (1)
but there is no option that represents what I think should be done. The status quo sucks. It means sanctioning the stripping away of women's rights. I think 30 weeks is too late. That's 7.5 months, probably viable. Leaving it to the states means back-alley abortions and women dead.
I think Roe was a good compromise. How is that not even discussed anymore?
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May I ask a question? It's a personal one, and slap me/don't answer if you don't want.
moriah
Dec 2021
#39
I don't care if the mother's life is in danger or not, she can induce at 38 weeks....
moriah
Dec 2021
#14
The original Roe v Wade already HAS restrictions, based on the social & medical consensus then...
Hekate
Dec 2021
#15
i don't think requiring licensed professional and sanitary facility are too much to ask
rampartc
Dec 2021
#19
It's currently considered to be 24 weeks, but a few babies have been saved
Crunchy Frog
Dec 2021
#35
Wow. That is miraculous for 1953. The little guy I knew was born after 2010. He was in
Scrivener7
Dec 2021
#72
No one advocates for that except politicians who want to ban ALL abortions from conception onward
Hekate
Dec 2021
#61
Yes, because it's such a rare hypothetical, it's absurd. It just does not happen without a really,
WhiskeyGrinder
Dec 2021
#71
The majority of people in this poll think that abortion should be legal up to the moment of birth?
WhiskeyGrinder
Dec 2021
#38
Reluctantly, "other". Basically no restrictions - it is up to a woman and her doctor -
RandomNumbers
Dec 2021
#45
Stop that. It is a tried and true anti-choice argument. Roe v Wade HAS RESTRICTIONS already...
Hekate
Dec 2021
#59
Which is why those of us who are pro-choice need to be really clear about RW goals...
Hekate
Dec 2021
#62
As others have pointed out, virtually no doctors will perform an abortion at "any time"
NickB79
Dec 2021
#54
I think that a lot of people who voted for "No restrictions at all..." don't understand the poll
Polybius
Dec 2021
#56
That's because no woman actually ever does that, and the way you keep repeating that mantra...
Hekate
Dec 2021
#63
You and I crossed posts: I edited mine to reflect that while you were responding
Hekate
Dec 2021
#84