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I do assume that words like mother and woman are synonymous. But as the debate also includes the idea that the woman is 18 weeks pregnant then the word mother should be as appropriate as saying a woman. I would have no problem with a sentence such as, a woman's choice but it's the mothers health. But I am pretty sure it would only confuse the anti-choicers.Usually I'm quite sympathetic to your posts, and I am here on issues of the sex of the doctor and more than one doctor. But it's important to stop with this "life of the mother" crap. We need to say "endangers the health or life of the woman" because the health of the woman is also important, notably at 18 weeks, when continuing a problem pregnancy could put her at risk of becoming infertile, having a heart attack which would harm her health, but not her life, etc. Again, if the fetus has a really serious, but not fatal, deformity, why would that not be as important? In most cases of abortion past 18 weeks, the issue of health and not just life is why we constantly have to object to the stupidity of anti-choicers.
And I am aware of health issues versus life threatening issues debate in pregnancy and also treat that as synonymous until whoever I am debating makes the distinction between the two. All the points you bring up about health issues are easily backed by links. The anti-choicers argument to lose.