RE: all the abortion programming this week. I wish you guys would bring up two things when you talk about the opinion polling: 1) every one of us knows and loves someone who had an abortion. The conversations I'm hearing on the Bulwark are still relfectove of those "other people" whi are making these choices. That's not true. Conservati…
RE: all the abortion programming this week. I wish you guys would bring up two things when you talk about the opinion polling: 1) every one of us knows and loves someone who had an abortion. The conversations I'm hearing on the Bulwark are still relfectove of those "other people" whi are making these choices. That's not true. Conservative, Christian, rural women and girls seek abortions as well. For some of these women and girls, the choice they made was because of an unexpected event - possibly coercion from a partner who wouldn't use a condom (I've seen A LOT of these instances), possibly a failure in birth control, possibly from an assault - we don't know. But many of these women are able to live out their lives because they didn't have to carry a pregnancy to term. Low income women often cannot just remain pregnant because they don't get paid time off for appointments, labor and delivery, and recovery. So, these women will not only be asked to continue an unwanted pregnancy, but also to risk their already precarious livelihood.
2) Why do women and girls seek abortions into the 2nd and 3rd trimesters? Some women may not know they're pregnant until the 3rd month or possibly later. Or, more tragically, she has a very planned, anticipated pregnancy that goes wrong. Many women - especially younger women - don't get diagnostic ultrasounds until 16 or 20 weeks. That's past everyone's red line. How is it kind or prolife ro require a woman to carry an non-viable pregnancy until she delivers?
Can we at least he honest about the whos and whys when we talk about taking away a 49 year old precedent?
RE: all the abortion programming this week. I wish you guys would bring up two things when you talk about the opinion polling: 1) every one of us knows and loves someone who had an abortion. The conversations I'm hearing on the Bulwark are still relfectove of those "other people" whi are making these choices. That's not true. Conservative, Christian, rural women and girls seek abortions as well. For some of these women and girls, the choice they made was because of an unexpected event - possibly coercion from a partner who wouldn't use a condom (I've seen A LOT of these instances), possibly a failure in birth control, possibly from an assault - we don't know. But many of these women are able to live out their lives because they didn't have to carry a pregnancy to term. Low income women often cannot just remain pregnant because they don't get paid time off for appointments, labor and delivery, and recovery. So, these women will not only be asked to continue an unwanted pregnancy, but also to risk their already precarious livelihood.
2) Why do women and girls seek abortions into the 2nd and 3rd trimesters? Some women may not know they're pregnant until the 3rd month or possibly later. Or, more tragically, she has a very planned, anticipated pregnancy that goes wrong. Many women - especially younger women - don't get diagnostic ultrasounds until 16 or 20 weeks. That's past everyone's red line. How is it kind or prolife ro require a woman to carry an non-viable pregnancy until she delivers?
Can we at least he honest about the whos and whys when we talk about taking away a 49 year old precedent?