Killing babies, and selling their parts, is seriously wrong, regardless of what side of the aisle you sit on.
Why do they go together? Aren't you mixing up two issues?
This whole debate is so ****** up. Abortions aren't going away... legal or not. In fact, when abortions were "illegal" it was only illegal for the poor because anyone that had money could easily ask around the country club where to get their precious teenage daughter an abortion if they wanted one.
All making abortions illegal does it bring more unwanted, poor babies into the world. And at worst it creates an entire subculture of women attempting abortions themselves that can cause serious injury or death.
Making abortion illegal is untenable. It's like making alcohol illegal. All it will do is bush it into the back alleys and more ugliness. And the truth is we are WAY past this debate. Pro-life, pro-choice.... doesn't matter. It's not going away.
If you want to debate the use of the DEAD fetus, AFTER the LEGAL abortion, we can debate that. It obviously sounds pretty gross, but so do most medical procedures for the uneducated (try listening to what exactly happens during a Cesarean section). Or opening up a skull with drills and saws to have brain surgery. And for the most part, once a fetus is dead, it makes no sense to not use it for research if it can help something out there.
What are we supposed to do with aborted fetuses exactly? What is acceptable to you? Trash can? Incinerate them?
About 65% of "abortions" happen before week 8. The fetus at week 8 is less than 1/2" long.
An additional 25% of abortions in this country are done between 8 and 12 weeks. A fetus at 12 weeks is 2" long. TWO ******* INCHES.
Remember that naturally over 1 in 4 pregnancies end in miscarriages that happen between 6-12 weeks and HALF of those require a D&C (Dilation and Curettage), which is a extremely similar procedure to an abortion. Not sure what happens to those fetuses. I'm sure some are tested and some are used for science advancement.
This is just not that big a deal.
Look, I hate abortions. I hate the idea of abortions. But to make them illegal is wrong and will make things worse. Worse for women. Worse for unwanted children.
And I am on board with severely limiting 2nd trimester abortions except in extreme cases (health of the mother being the primary exception). Currently the % of abortions after week 13 is pretty small (less than 7%) but that is still too many. And I am completely open to that debate on how we can reduce that number (some argue having MORE abortion clinics would help this).
And it should be noted that the total number of abortions in this country is falling - steadily by a few % points a year over the past decade. That's a good thing.
We also have a lower or similar abortion rate to much of the civilized world: Canada, Europe, Eastern Europe, Russia, China and Austraila.
It just make no sense to think making abortions 100% illegal is an effective policy when it has NEVER worked in the history of mankind in any civilized society to really make things better. Women's rights are a HUGE step in a society's evolution and abortion freedoms that go with that are also a huge step.
What this issue is about it dead fetus matter and that debate is completely different than the debate on abortions.
