Pretty low failure rate. I wonder what kind of breakthroughs would lower that score even more if we put emphasis on improving it.
Is there any priority to do so right now? No.
If there was, would the Christians and Catholics try to stop any attempt at proceeding? Most likely.
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It's more me understanding that there is danger in "Normalizing" abortions like advocates so desperately want to do.
I don't mean to be offensive, but your nation, as it stands now, probably would have "Freebie Friday" deals if it was normalized in your country. You know like... you'd have a punch card every time you got an abortion, there would be catalogs, etc... This is why I don't like the idea.
Sex and Love have already been trivialized so much in this day and age already, I really don't feel comfortable with the though of,
"Oh well if I fuck and just forget about it, I can just mosy on down to the abortion shop and get a hooha scrambler. It's freebie friday as well!"
And honestly, I don't even like babies that much. I think they're annoying, stupid drooling cash drainers that ruin your life. But I don't want to murder them and I understand the value of life.
I'll give the religious that at least.
"My successes are my own, but my failures are due to extremist leftist liberals" - Party of Personal Responsibility
Prediction for the future
The same religion that also reduces the success rate of abstinence to under 100%, ironically.
Of course there is that danger, even if you use hyperbole there. But to be honest, people who use it like that and abort all the time would very likely make horrible parents. Anyway, there are ways to allow abortions in cases where they make sense and to not be decisions made lightly. I do not like the thought of children being deprived of a chance to live, but I also believe that there are some valid reasons to not want to have children, such as deformities, poverty, etc. However, even then it would be best to first thoroughly counsel women on the issue and give them time to make their decision.
And that's why I disagree with this law.
Not just because it makes it nigh-impossible to notice a pregnancy before it is too late to apply for an abortion. But also because even when it is detected at, say, 4 weeks in, that leaves the woman in question 2 weeks to make a possibly life-changing decision. Especially if we have one of these cases where contraception failed or have a teen pregnancy. Would you really give a teenager - who likely is in absolute panic mode - less than two weeks to decide something like that?
That is why I dislike this law. I might agree with one that gives a more reasonable time frame, but it moves abortion from a thoughtful, informed decision to a knee-jerk one, governed by panic and shock instead of understanding and communication.
Oh for fuck's sake, let me be clear.
MOST laws surrounding abortion right now are sick and invented by sick men. Laws that don't punish mothers monetarily, but through ... emotional distress?
THOSE kinds of laws exist by the way.
And people wonder why this issue is so black and white...
What you're like... suggesting that my idea would create some sort of dystopian society where we hunt down pregnant women trying to have abortions like dogs or something?
Or what... put them in a cell?
Is that what you think i'm suggesting?
Once again, I think this is a problem having to do with American thinking. Any law that is broken needs SEVERE PUNISHMENT ... come on....
No. I am telling you that you have no control over what a woman does with her womb unless you lock her up. I don't know how else to relate this truth to you. No one but a pregnant woman decides if she remains pregnant, regardless of any laws that people create. If you want to help her, then help her. But you are not going to be able to control what she does with her womb, sorry.
Bad, controlling, biblical laws not of this earth created by Christians.
I was more thinking of... a FINE... or Community Service... not the kind of horrible shit your lawmakers come up with.
"Hey guys, let's come up with a new law where if a women get's an abortion she has to have a fake funeral for it and she has to look the dead baby in the face while her family is forced to scold her on how horrible of a person she is. Yesssss, yessssssss"
"Or we could just fine her a few hundred dollars to discourage that kind of behavior..."
"Tom, your ideas are no fun"