Posted: Jul 17, 2017 1:20 pm
tuco wrote:The debate, despite almost none of the debaters seem to realize it, is about the babies not about imaginary equality of two biologically different individuals.
But it's not a baby if you don't let it be born. Some will have a different opinion but in my mind a 10 week old foetus is not yet a baby and by then most women will have realized they are pregnant. Add a few weeks to think about it (and hopefully discuss it with the father to be) and I'd say you're still in time for an abortion. And if I remember the gist of the statistics correctly the medical risk of an abortion is less than that of childbirth, if done properly at an abortion clinic so by having an abortion the woman is reducing health risks, not increasing them.
If you (who?) do decide to let it be born then yes the child's interest is very important (and for most parents I'm sure it will in fact be more important than anything else), but again if the woman feels she cannot bear the financial (or other) burden (and the man does not want to or is nowhere in sight) than it might be wise to have an abortion. If she decides to go through with it regardless, that's her decission and her responsibility.