Legal Abortion Promotes Health and Justice for Women
The situations that women face are unique to their own life experiences. A woman's decision to have an abortion is based on many factors, including whether the pregnancy is a result of rape or incest; the inability to be financially responsible for a child; and health complications. We support women in choosing the option that is best for them and their families. Only when women are able to control their reproductive capacity can they achieve true equality in society. Ensuring safe, legal, and accessible abortion care promotes health and justice for women. Countries that have legal abortion have safe abortion, and consequently, help ensure the health of women who choose to end their pregnancies. Women around the world are safer when governments recognize that the right to an abortion is a human right.
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If the NAF believed in reproductive equality for men and women, then they would be fighting to ensure that the permission of father of the unborn child is sought before any abortion occurs. Clearly, however, men are not on equal footing with women in this regard. Do men not have the right to reproduce without fearing that someone will slay their child?
movie with Schwarzenegger carrying the baby to full term. When that can happen, then you will be on equal footing with women on the reproductive issue. Until then please take your complaints to Mother Nature or god , whichever you believe to be at fault.
If it weren't for both your father and mother, you would not be able to form any opinion on this issue. If you don't like this fact, take it up with Mother Nature or God, whichever you believe to be at fault.
aware that I was talking to an oppressed man from Amazonia.
You are not speaking to such a man. However, there are many men who are oppressed by feminist ideology. Although women have the option of choosing whether to provide life to their children , men do not have the option of choosing whether to provide financial support. Men cannot refuse to pay child support simply on the basis that it is inconvenient. Men are forced to take care of children they do not love, but women are not treated likewise. This oppression affects their lives greatly since it denies them otherwise available opportunities for happiness. Imagine if the government stole money from your paycheck before you could cash it and gave to someone whom you gave a shit about. How would you feel?
If a woman should have the right to murder a man's child without his consent, then a man should have the right to deny financial support for the child of a woman without her consent. Aren't you pro-choice for ALL people?
The man has no responsibility until the child is born. He might die. He might skip town. He might get thrown in prison. The woman might have had more than one sexual partner around the time of conception.
The man has no rights at all. It's all up to the mother. She has to carry it for nine months(should she choose to have it). The man is irrelevant in this situation. The choice is and should only be the mother's.
Why should the father be responsible for the child only after it is born if he played no role in creating the child in the first place?
If you are pro-choice only for the one with responsibility, then since the paycheck of the father belongs solely to him, he and only he should be allowed to decide how that money is spent. Thus, he should not be forced to pay child support if he doesn't feel like it. The mother has no rights at all. It's all up to the father. He has to work 8 hours a day five days a week (should he choose). The woman is irrelevant in this situation. The choice should only be the father's.
Since the fathers role in creating a child is limited to depositing sperm in the female, he has no responsibility until the child is born. When that happens, he has to assume his share of the financial burden for caring for raising that child. Whether he is still in the picture or not!
If the woman decides she doesn't want to stay in a relationship with the father, that's his tough luck. If he helped make the baby, he has to pay. That's the law and it is correct.
We're going in circles here. The old adage "If you want to play, you have to pay" says it all.
The father doesn't gain authority over the women just because he has sex with her. That's an absurd idea.
I feel so sorry for you, you sexist pig. You have no right to tell any man that his child is not his own.
If a woman wants to play, then why doesn't she have to pay by being forced to have the child? And I never argued that the man has authority over the woman you fool. But the man does have authority over his paycheck. The woman played no role in earning his money . Taking money that does not belong to you is theft. That is he law and it is correct. I pray to God that you don't actually believe what you wrote and that you are just trying to rationalize your sexist and hateful views. I will let everyone know how idiotic and cruel pro- abortion mongers can be.
Don't have any children , please. For the sake of humanity render yourself sterile.
You have shown us your limits in being able to carry on a rational conversation. I won't respond to you any further. And BTW, I've had a vasectomy, so that I won't put another woman in the position of having to make a difficult decision. Have a nice life.
I can't have a rational conversation? You are the one who argued that a child in the womb, whose DNA will show that it was co-created by the father, does not partially belong to the father.
Aren't you glad that you had the CHOICE to have a vasectomy? Some men, however, choose to continue having children . But if a man lies to his partner and claims to have had a vasectomy when in reality he has not, and the woman subsequently becomes pregnant, that is no more deceitful than if a woman lies to her partner and claims to want a child when in reality does not and then has an abortion against his will. In both cases people are being deceived and put into a situation they don't choose to be in. If a woman can use a "get out of jail free card", then a man should be able to use one also. If women can have abortions, men should be allowed to deny child support.
So you're only for abortion when the woman would take responsiblity for her child anyway?
So the right to kill a human being is a human right? Great! When does hunting season open? [Please forgive the sarcasm of the previous question].
However, one could use similar language in talking about a man's right to choose; that is, 'Only when [men] are able to control their reproductive capacity can they achieve true equality in society.'
Of course, 'reproductive capacity,' and 'control,' are kind of vague; possibly meaning anything from abstinence to 'slaughter of children,' to 'wanton rape.'
Huh?
Are you suggesting that women don't enjoy exercising their reproductive capacity and desire sexually competent men to Make Love with? You could be an exception and from an outdated group of "persons" carrying what is know as feministic attitudes. With my age group, that is so gone, and we are so much together on a common ground.
Why am I not surprised that it's all men's fault here? speaking of control..wouldn't you just love to be in control over every man's sex?. I hope thought that the time does come that you feel equal like the Ladies that I know do.
How many abortions are in fact a result of rape and not just a form of birth control or philosophical defiance?
You know, quotation marks ("") indicate that the words between them come from somewhere other than the writer. In this format it typically indicates the words to which the author is responding. So you should be addressing the author of the original post, but then you would be making my case.
To answer the only worthwhile question in your post; very, very few. If you're really interested, I'm sure a little research would give you several different numbers from which most people should be able to make an educated estimate as to what the actual number is.