I don't care who you are or what your political beliefs are, life IS A MIRACLE and a gift. I find it very sad that anyone would disagree with that statement.
Uh, why?
A miracle is something inexplicable, rare, and beyond the laws of nature and chance.
Reproduction is none of those things.
People churn out more people like Pez dispensers. Even the dumbest person in the world can do it as long as their gonads work. There are individuals who have done it dozens of times.
We understand how it works. It's not inexplicable in any way. Tap A in Slot B, shake until ready, and if the timing's right, out pops another one a few months later. It's a bodily function that the overwhelming majority of humans are capable of performing, and most do at some point.
That's pretty much the opposite of a miracle. Why is it sad that someone would disagree with your demonstrably false and emotionalized statement?
Why can't she just do it to herself?
She can. Women have been for thousands of years. But that's not the issue. The issue is "What's the safest way to do it?"
A woman can safely do an abortion herself if she's reasonably educated. All you need to do is swallow the right pills in the right order before 9 weeks, and you can have a safe abortion. We prescribe that as a method of early abortion, it's done at home, and organizations working to provide access to abortion to women in countries where it's illegal send it out with some simple instructions. It's not complicated.
It's always good to be in range of medical help, on the rare chance something goes wrong. But that's true when you take an antibiotic too.
However, women, like all people, deserve to be able to readily access their right to bodily integrity in the safest and most standardized way possible with the fewest limitations.
So it's not that she can't. It's that she shouldn't have to.
Abortion is concidered a medical procedure and a medical licence is required to perfom it.
Nope. See above.
Some abortions are. Surgical abortions, of course. But that's not the only kind of abortion, and in some countries, it's not the most common.
Before safe medical abortion, there were a variety of cocktails one could take to abort, some reasonably safe, others not, but plenty of women successfully aborted all through history and before.
I value the sustenance of life of the mother the same as the fetus through the entire pregnancy.
Just to try to better understand your position do you think it is ok for a woman to use drugs or for that matter smoke or drink at certain times during the pregnancy.
No, you don't. You believe the woman's right to consent, bodily integrity, and health should be sacrificed for the ZEF. You obviously care about the woman less.
The issue isn't the people that are happy that they are pregnant- it's the people that don't want to be. Be thankful that you enjoyed your pregnancy, because many women might soon have to deal with having to endure it.
It'll never happen. No one can stop people from exercising control over their own bodies. Women abort just as much in countries where it's illegal as they do in countries where it's legal. The only question is how safe it will be. And with people getting more mobile and networks popping up to get abortion resources to women, it's getting safer all the time.
At the end of the day, women will not just roll over and die on this one. Even at the height of female oppression, women still aborted on a regular basis.
