If you are pro choice...

[Doubledoubledenim]

Name changed for this

I really want to ask some questions for anyone happy to answer about feelings on abortion. I don’t feel like its an approachable subject I can talk about IRL as everyone I know is venomously pro choice and if I start to put forward a view which isn’t the same as theirs they get really quite aggressive and defensive.

So, if you are pro choice does that include late term abortions or would you feel differently about one at 6 weeks to one at 24 weeks? Also a lot of people say it’s the woman’s body so her choice - would that reason still stand for later abortions or would you think it would need to be a serious medical reason for baby/mum to justify this? Or does pro choice mean pro choice for you meaning any reason and any time within the legal limit is ok.

I hope I’ve worded this in a completely inoffensive way as I really don’t want to upset anyone it might affect.

Some implications of recognizing fetal person-hood

TL:DR the anti abortion stance doesnt line up with modern technologically advanced society...go away with your incoherent old testament world view

@Hugtheduggee
You have a point about the possibility of delivering the child if healthy rather than conduct an abortion when it is already viable.
In practice, though, I don't think there are many cases of women wanting to abort after 20/24 weeks.

For the rest, it has to do with the right for a woman to not want her body as a vessel for another body.
You mentioned slavery, and forcing women to carry on pregnancies is not much different.

If a woman is raped how is she tricking a man into getting her pregnant

Re slavery and forcing women to carry on pregnancies - totally different!!

Being pregnant is a natural concequence of sex. The natural course of pregnancy is for it to run its natural course (although sometimes that is tragic). Therefore carrying on a pregnancy is the natural concequence of sex. And in the vast majority of cases, the choice to have sex was made by the woman, accepting there was a risk of pregnancy (even if contraceptives minimise that risk)

Slavery is something deliberately inflicted on another person. And even most ancient societies with slavery had some laws about how the slaves could be treated. Slavery is a man made concept. Pregnancy is a natural concequence.

Humans are technologically advanced species, we naturally respond to our bodily functions in ways that other species don't, we are the toolmakers it is natural for us to intervene and make decisions rather than just go along with bodily functions.

Whatever is right for the individual woman is right by me. Late abortions sound pretty traumatic from what I've heard, I doubt any woman makes that decision lightly.

I've said it before, but if I could have had any power in the decisions I'd have wanted y mother to abort me. She was not in a good situation to have a child to put it mildly, we struggled miserably, and if she had stayed childfree her life might have had a chance to right itself and for things to get better. And who knows what I may or may not have felt, I have no memory of being in the womb!