Quote:As much as I'm against socialized anything especially medicine I'm all for funding free birth control if we can stop abortions after the first trimester.


While I personally find all abortion morally horrible id be happy if we could at least limit them to the first trimester. After that is when I really have a hard time not considering it a human life.

 

Despite how anti-abortionists want to brand the topic, the concept of abortion isn't one pro-choicer's take flippantly.  An abortion, is the termination of a potential person.  It's not something that should be taken lightly.  It's been a while since I've done the research, but I think around 16 to 20 weeks should be some sort of cut off area--except for extreme circumstance (rape/incest/harm to mother).

 

I haven't seen these PP videos, but I've heard them described by republicans on Fox and Morning Joe.  Maybe I'm cynical, but the outrage I've heard from pundits seems too rehersed.  Yeah, abortion isn't a nice procedure.  They act like they've never thought about how an abortion works.  The other thing is that they are going after PP as this evil organization.  They ignore all the benefits that PP has on the society.  

 

I find it odd that those on the Pro-Choice side can see the concerns on the Anti-Abortion side, but it seems republicans just cannot bear to even consider an opposing viewpoint.  They just stick their fingers in their ears and just keep saying their position, over and over and over again.  (present company excluded, of course).

 

Defunding PP is dumb, because PP get's private funding for the abortions they conduct.  Why defund the benefits of PP because you are anti-abortion?  It's already against the law to fund any abortion with federal money!  

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