Much of the screeching of the "loud" side of the pro-life movement has the unfortunate FOX News-ish mentality that spreading misinformation very loudly is way better than giving a rational treatment of facts and solid evidence. It's the same as with the health care debate, legal reform, and anything else that smacks of socialism (wrongly paralleled with and labeled "communism" in yet another spate of misinformation).
I'm both pro-life AND pro-choice, and I see no contradiction in that. Just because I don't think I would ever want to get an abortion doesn't mean I want to close that door for someone else. Likewise, I wouldn't want to force abortions on a doctor who has a moral objection to the procedure, with one exception: when the mother's life is in immediate peril.
With modern prenatal care, there are very, very few situations in which a mother's health could be jeopardized by her pregnancy so suddenly. Ectopic pregnancies? The fetus isn't viable anyway.
Of course, that assumes the mother has access to prenatal care. My health insurance doesn't cover it... which brings us right back to the health care debate.
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Date: 2009-11-04 04:18 pm (UTC)I'm both pro-life AND pro-choice, and I see no contradiction in that. Just because I don't think I would ever want to get an abortion doesn't mean I want to close that door for someone else. Likewise, I wouldn't want to force abortions on a doctor who has a moral objection to the procedure, with one exception: when the mother's life is in immediate peril.
With modern prenatal care, there are very, very few situations in which a mother's health could be jeopardized by her pregnancy so suddenly. Ectopic pregnancies? The fetus isn't viable anyway.
Of course, that assumes the mother has access to prenatal care. My health insurance doesn't cover it... which brings us right back to the health care debate.