Absolutes in what people feel or do are rarely helpful. This includes the remark about women on their 5th or 6th abortion - some of those women will be involved in abusive relationships with reproductive coercion. It happens.
Most I know would only use the "no woman aborts a baby lightly..." when discussing the very rare late term abortions though, and I think that's likely more true. At 7 months gone, you're not aborting for a trip.
If abortion was "trivialized" as many are saying, in at least the systems of power stopped caring & passing laws like this and allowed it be a discussion between the woman or girl pregnant and her medical professional without any of this over their heads, then maybe more energy could be put towards other things. Individuals could still take it as seriously as they wanted to do so.
Maybe if pregnancy and childbirth weren't trivialized, if the maternal deaths and lifelong health issues weren't discussing as dismissively as they are, then maybe pregnancy could be seen as more serious than abortion. I'll never understand why someone would want another person to take the riskier path if they didn't choose it.
Yes, some aren't careful and take aborting lightly, but I don't get how making it harder or more shameful would help anything, but then I've been called a lot worse than evil and psychologically damaged (I don't view myself as good and yeah, I'm probably damaged mentally having a trauma disorder).
why isn't the conversation focussed on preventing more pregnancies in the first place and by having men take greater responsibility for doing so?
Because it's not about reducing abortion to the groups this law is marketed to as a great victory. It's about the law say it's wrong, it's getting the legal system to line up with their doctrine. That's what they've been pushed to want for years.
Medical practitioners have to be satisfied that the medical procedure is in the patient’s best interest. That is the case for all medical procedures. What is the argument for making an exception in the case of termination of pregnancy?
Abortion has fewer risks than continuing a pregnancy until you're at a point where someone pretty much has to give birth anyway.
And many medical procedures can be had on demand if one has the funds for it.
Would it be upsetting or atleast make you uncomfortable if someone murdered some one and spoke so casually about it?
My mother tried to kill me and afterwards, when she was out on bail, my very Catholic grandfather joked that she was grounded (we lived in my maternal grandparents' house). He never said another word to or around me about the topic, though he did discuss how he prayed to the Lord about us reconciling & the importance of family.
Dozens of Evangelical church members were aware of her intoxicated state and her thinking about how it was okay for me to die now that I was baptised as she was forcing me into the car. Not a single one of them tried to stop her. They smiled and waved me off - honour thy mother, you know.
It was their doctrines that meant rather than my addict mother getting an abortion and rehab the first time she was pregnant (she openly admitted she spent her pill money on drugs), she got married. It solved nothing and created more risk.
You wouldn't try to stop someone who is trying to commit suicide then because their body their choice?
Suicide used to be illegal too, but we've moved on from that which is why people can't "commit" suicide anymore which infers a crime - one commits murder, one can die by suicide. Lots of people support assisted suicide to some degree. I'm in the "not for me, but I can see the arguments on the potential benefits vs the risks of coercion that are hard to balance legally" camp.
I've had suicidal ideation since early childhood, and was supported by professionals in that area -- not politicians making laws or preachers telling me how sinful it is (while also saying disobeying my mother was a sin which would then make me wonder which was worse...I was a terrible unfeeling not really human to her either way, but I liked clarity).
I know a few pro-lifers who do put in a lot of effort to support women so those who would abort on economic grounds have other options and put money towards research into medical issues related to pregnancies, but I don't think their values should be part of law that could lead to more kids like I was - unwanted punching bags - just as I don't want those who go to Dignitas to have to go alone to prevent their loved ones being charged with a crime even though that would never be an option I'm comfortable with for myself.