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It would be if rape didn't exist.
Come on now... you know that rape pregnancies are a tiny fraction of a percent of all pregnancies, and a tiny fraction of all abortions. It's not a good argument to base on the rare exceptions rather than the mainstream common factors. The most common reason by far for abortion, is someone forgot their pill or condom and doesn't want to deal with the predictable consequences.
Right, so you get to decide when someone else has to take that risk? That sounds very much like a God complex to me. The risk of death is only one of thousands of negative outcomes a woman risks during pregnancy by the way.
I didn't say I get to decide. I said that within the context of the analogy, a comparable restriction would be for the woman in question to have to show some just cause, some evidence that her situation was outside of the norm or more of a risk than usual. I know a little something about the potential dangers, btw... more than one woman I loved has had a difficult pregnancy and a difficult recovery. However, I wouldn't be the person to set up that list of criteria... perhaps a blue-ribbon panel of physicians, after all doctors are well-accustomed to being accused of "playing God". :mrgreen:
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