How Larry can write this: "To allow a woman who is 8 months pregnant to abort her baby on a whim is not to trade one person's equal right to another" and complain about another person making a straw man argument is utterly beyond me.
Care to provide some actual facts, Larry? How many women a year abort pregnancies 8 months in on a whim? In the UK or anywhere else? Indeed, how many actually abort pregnancies 8 months in, at all? Do you know?
In the UK, the actual facts, Larry, are that 90% of abortions are carried out at under 13 weeks. 20,000 a year are 13 weeks or over, and that number hasn't materially changed in a decade. In 2008, 124 of the nearly 200,000 abortions that year were at 24 weeks or over. That tiny proportion have all happened for one of three reasons:
- Without the abortion, the woman is likely to die
- Without the abortion, the woman is likely to suffer serious harm
- The baby is likely to be severely disabled
None of those is really quite fits with "ooh, I fancy killing my unborn child after having carried them nearly to term", does it?
So can I suggest that, for posterity, you print out your posts expressing moral indignation with theoretical feminist constructions that apparently promote late term abortions, fold them up until they're all sharp corners, and then stick them far enough up where the sun don't shine that there's a chance you can read it. You could also spend some time on the DH website, where information on what actually happens is readily available if you want to do some actual research.