“What happens when there is no abortion law in Canada”

http://drjengunter.wordpress.com/2012/03/24/what-happens-when-there-is-no-abortion-law/

“There is no abortion law in Canada. It is neither legal nor illegal, it is simply a medical procedure and covered by universal health care. Universally, abortions performed at hospitals are free. Whether abortions at free-standing clinics are covered varies by province/territory. Some provinces and territories with limited providers pay travel costs when women have to go to a different province for the procedure. There are no mandatory ultrasound laws and no 24 hour waiting periods.

Abortion became legal in Canada in 1969 as part of a massive reform to “get the government out of the bedrooms of the nation.” While abortion was decriminalized, it could only be performed in cases to preserve “life and health.” Women had to prostrate themselves in front of a committee of three doctors and plead their case. Many doctors told me they rubber stamped these requests. “To see these poor women pouring out stories of misery, it just broke my heart,” one told me. However, other providers could be less understanding.

In 1988, The Supreme Court of Canada deemed this pleading for abortion to be unconstitutional and the law was struck down. A bill was introduced in 1989 to once again ban abortions unless the life and/or health of the mother were in jeopardy. While the bill was passed by the House of Commons (elected Members of Parliament), it was defeated by the Senate who are all, interestingly enough, political appointees. No political party has introduced any abortion legislation since, and so there is no abortion law.

Now contrast the American experience with complicated laws, far greater cost (the average amount paid for a 1rst trimester abortion is $451, with 60% of women paying out-of-pocket for their procedure), indignities (mandatory ultrasound), and inconveniences such as 24 hour delays and uncompensated travel.

So how does lawless Canada stack up against regulated America?

In Canada, the teen birth and abortion rate is 27.0/1,000 women between the ages of 15-19 versus 61.2/1,000 in the United States.

The abortion rate among all women of reproductive age (15-44) in Canada is 14.1/1,000 versus 20/1,000 in the United States.

Put another way, the teen birth and abortion rate is more than 50% higher in the United States versus Canada and the abortion rate is about 25% higher in the Unites States.

Canadian women also have something else. They have access to health care and sex education is widely taught in the schools.

Laws, cost, and indignities don’t reduce abortion, knowledge and contraception do.”

Source: drjengunter.wordpress.com

afunnyfeminist: peacetothestarsandlovetothemoon: This is me protesting abortion on the side of the highway. I’m Pro-life and proud of it. This was my first protest and despite the cold I loved it. “adoption is the loving option” [TW: rape of a child, child neglect, suicidal ideation] I once drove by some people just like you. What that group of people didn’t know that I knew was that sitting in the car with me was a 6-year-old girl who was raped a year ago by her half-brother’s father. Of course she knew what adoption was. After all, she was a foster child who was eventually going to be adopted by her foster family. She just didn’t know what exactly those folks outside were doing there. I chose my words carefully and told her that the people outside holding signs wanted women to have babies, even if the women didn’t want to have babies. She said that they should go to hell and kindly asked me to yell at them on the way back from dropping her off at home. Do you think this kid was all better now that she was in a loving home with parents who cared about her and would adopt her? No. She’s just the type of child who is likely to go right back into the system when her problems become worse. She was suicidal. She was distrustful and she lied all the time. She was born to parents who lived in a motel and didn’t feed her, to the point where she had to walk along a highway to find a McDonald’s where she and her brother could get some food. Have you ever heard of a 5-year-old carrying a 1-year-old down a busy highway in a dangerous city to maybe find a McDonald’s she thinks she saw while her mother was driving her down that road? I guess you have now. When the police brought them back to the motel room, they found another infant with severe diaper rash who wasn’t changed in days, and a strange man passed out drunk on the couch, no mother in sight. Adoption isn’t going to cure this poor girl. Her mother should have never become a mother. Yet your solution is not to educate people about reproductive choices, but to increase the number of wanted pregnancies and babies. And if it doesn’t work out, just like adoption or something! Yay, cuz that’s so much fun for kids and solves all their problems! Are you happy that this mother “chose life?” You can’t choose life if you’re also going to choose drugs and neglect. Some people shouldn’t be parents, whether at a certain point of their lives or ever. And while I think it’s better to not get pregnant/impregnate someone in the first place if you know you shouldn’t be a parent, having an abortion is a hell of a lot more humane and just than having a child you can’t care for and making her go through what this poor girl did.
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afunnyfeminist:

peacetothestarsandlovetothemoon:

This is me protesting abortion on the side of the highway. I’m Pro-life and proud of it. This was my first protest and despite the cold I loved it.

“adoption is the loving option”

[TW: rape of a child, child neglect, suicidal ideation]

I once drove by some people just like you. What that group of people didn’t know that I knew was that sitting in the car with me was a 6-year-old girl who was raped a year ago by her half-brother’s father. Of course she knew what adoption was. After all, she was a foster child who was eventually going to be adopted by her foster family. She just didn’t know what exactly those folks outside were doing there. I chose my words carefully and told her that the people outside holding signs wanted women to have babies, even if the women didn’t want to have babies. She said that they should go to hell and kindly asked me to yell at them on the way back from dropping her off at home.

Do you think this kid was all better now that she was in a loving home with parents who cared about her and would adopt her? No. She’s just the type of child who is likely to go right back into the system when her problems become worse. She was suicidal. She was distrustful and she lied all the time. She was born to parents who lived in a motel and didn’t feed her, to the point where she had to walk along a highway to find a McDonald’s where she and her brother could get some food. Have you ever heard of a 5-year-old carrying a 1-year-old down a busy highway in a dangerous city to maybe find a McDonald’s she thinks she saw while her mother was driving her down that road? I guess you have now. When the police brought them back to the motel room, they found another infant with severe diaper rash who wasn’t changed in days, and a strange man passed out drunk on the couch, no mother in sight. Adoption isn’t going to cure this poor girl. Her mother should have never become a mother. Yet your solution is not to educate people about reproductive choices, but to increase the number of wanted pregnancies and babies. And if it doesn’t work out, just like adoption or something! Yay, cuz that’s so much fun for kids and solves all their problems!

Are you happy that this mother “chose life?” You can’t choose life if you’re also going to choose drugs and neglect. Some people shouldn’t be parents, whether at a certain point of their lives or ever. And while I think it’s better to not get pregnant/impregnate someone in the first place if you know you shouldn’t be a parent, having an abortion is a hell of a lot more humane and just than having a child you can’t care for and making her go through what this poor girl did.

Dear Mommy 2.0. A.K.A. Come on Anti-Choicers, stop being medically inaccurate just to pull heart strings.

stfuconservatives:

propaganda-for-life:

darkpixie10:

(Originally posted this on Tumblr in January. The time has come where it needs to be posted again)

So, I’m seeing something similar to an anti-choice (or as some would put it pro-life) poem that I have seen before on Quizilla. This type of poem is told from the prospective of an embryo/fetus that’s mother ends up having an abortion. The poem states that the embryo/fetus is completely aware of its surroundings since the moment the pregnancy begins. This statement, just by itself ( I haven’t gotten to the rest of the poem yet) is completely medically inaccurate. I’ll leave sources at the bottom of the page for reference. As the poem continues the embryo/fetus states that it can hear, feel pain, and even love all in the first and second trimesters. Once again, this is not medically accurate. The poem ends with the fetus being aborted in a “very common” late term abortion and calling down from heaven stating “Mommy, why didn’t you love me.” Then, in the third person, someone states that if you “have a heart” that you will be against the legality of an abortion and spread this poem far and wide.

 Aside from the fact that I personally am not of Christian faith and don’t like how the Christian afterlife, as well as many other Christian faith based themes, are used to spread a cause, that’s not the main reason I’m upset when reading this poem. I know everyone has a different opinion when it comes to this topic, and my views will not be shared with everyone, but I believe that when you spread a cause you need to follow one thing. You can’t lie to pull someone’s heartstrings so they will join your side of the argument. You have to use honest, proven, and in this case medically accurate facts to prove your point.

You don’t lie to get supporters.

So, like back in 09 when I got sick of all the inaccurate heart string pulling that was trying to spread a cause that could have some serious negative effects on woman’s (or any one with a functioning female reproductive system) health care in the US (or Canada, or the UK, or Narnia) I’m posting one of the “Dear Mommy” poems. Only, mine will have fact in it, and not only rely on emotional pull to gain support for my views.

So, without wasting anymore time on an introduction (I know, it dragged on quite a bit) enjoy my “Dear Mommy” 2.0. Bibliography at the bottom of the page.

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month 1 
Mommy, I am only 8 inches long, but I have all my organs. I love the sound of your voice. Every time I hear it, I wave my arms and legs. The sound of your heart beat is my favorite lullaby.
 Actually, at 7 weeks, you’re only .25cm long (1/10th of an inch). Your heart is the size of a poppyseed, and you have no ears, arms, or legs, so you cannot hear or wave. At least half of the embryos that reach this stage are miscarried, often so early that the miscarriage is not even recognized, and Mommy probably didn’t know she was pregnant! This is often due to a natural problem with the genetic combinations made by the egg and sperm, hormonal imbalances, or failure for the egg to implant in the uterine lining (just like emergency contraception!)
 And according to Chat, At month 1, not ALL the organs have developed. Most are just a cluster of cells with the genetic label, “THIS IS A SPLEEN” or “THIS IS A KIDNEY” or something. So no actual organs, just “Cell Buds.”
month 2 
Mommy, today I learned how to suck my thumb. If you could see me, you could definitely tell that I am a baby. I’m not big enough to survive outside my home though. It is so nice and warm in here.
 At the end of this month, you are still only 2.5 centimeters (1 inch) long. Your heart only has 2 chambers, and there is no thumb to suck — you have webbed fingers!
month 3 
You know what Mommy, I’m a girl!! I hope that makes you happy. I always want you to be happy. I don’t like it when you cry. You sound so sad. It makes me sad too, and I cry with you even though you can’t hear me.
 Congratulations! Only at the end of this month can you be considered a fetus! Why? Because many embryos have not even made it to this point, not because of abortion, but because of the spontaneous and natural expulsion of the tissue from the uterus. You are 7.5cm long (3 inches) and only now are your limbs and organs formed. You’re jumping the gun with the female identification, though! We’ll get to that later — hopefully, once a female fetus is born, she won’t have to face all of the horrible restrictions our government and society forces her to adhere to; no child should be subjected to a life of inequity and politicized restrictions! Only 12% of abortions will occur after this point.
month 4 
Mommy, my hair is starting to grow. It is very short and fine, but I will have a lot of it. I spend a lot of my time exercising. I can turn my head and curl my fingers and toes, and stretch my arms and legs. I am becoming quite good at it too.
 At the end of this phase, that hair you have covers your entire body and is called lanugo. It certainly isn’t something that we associate with real children, though. You are still only 14 centimeters (about 5.5 inches). We still haven’t made it to your initial claim of 8 inches, but perhaps we’ll get there. Mommy is beginning to show her pregnancy at this time, and may be experiencing some life threatening illnesses as well!
month 5 
You went to the doctor today. Mommy, he lied to you. He said that I’m not a baby. I am a baby Mommy, your baby. I think and feel. Mommy, what’s abortion?
You are currently 38cm (15 inches) from top to toe, or 25.5 cm (10 inches) from crown to rump. Only now could you possibly hear Mommy, unlike the claim made in Month 1. As for your question, abortion at this stage would be called dilation and extraction, also known as “late term abortion” or, as you would likely have it, “partial birth abortion.” This procedure is extremely rare, and only a handful of doctors in the U.S. will perform it, due to violence, threats, legal restrictions, and public humiliation by those who claim to support life. This procedure helps to truly support life in a variety of ways — it is used to save the life of Mommy, who if sick with certain illnesses (such as certain types of infections, heart failure, malignant hypertension, including preeclampsia, out-of-control diabetes, serious renal disease, severe depression and suicidal tendencies), could die or face serious health complications if the pregnancy continues. Additionally, if you have a severe genetic abnormality, genetic testing can be conducted at this stage to ensure that any future siblings do not face a similar fate.
(Also, let it be known that at this stage a fetus CANNOT think or feel.)

month 6 
I can hear that doctor again. I don’t like him. He seems cold and heartless. Something is intruding my home. The doctor called it a needle. Mommy what is it? It burns! Please make him stop! I can’t get away from it! Mommy!! HELP me!! No …
Only 1.5% of abortions occur at this point. The legal restrictions, financial responsibilities, provider shortages and geographic challenges to abortion not only make it increasingly difficult to obtain this and other abortion procedures, but also reproductive services, health education and family planning assistance. Often, there is a reason that makes the procedure medically necessary, either for the health of the mother, the failure of the fetus to be viable, or both. Additionally, some women may have been unable to access appropriate services earlier in the pregnancy, or may only have enough money for a procedure at this stage.
(This also appears to describe a saline solution. I thought this procedure was no longer practiced. Correction if I’m wrong?)
(the fetus should absorb whatever painkiller medication given to the mother via bloodstream, and would therefore feel no “burning” or anything at all.)
month 7 
Mommy, I am okay. I am in Jesus’s arms. he is holding me. He told me about abortion. Why didn’t you want me Mommy?
Mommy, however, may not be ok. In the case of serious health complications, Mommy is likely still suffering from the complications experienced during her pregnancy, and will probably undergo treatment for quite some time. If you failed to be viable, Mommy is probably finding out information that determines whether she can ever have a child, and the risks associated with future pregnancies. Mommy may also be suffering severe financial hardships, due to the expense of her procedure as well as associated travel costs (imagine the enormous hardships of raising a child in a safe home and providing equal opportunities throughout his or her life!). Hopefully, Mommy will be able to overcome these obstacles, many of them erected for no reason outside of misguided fundamentalism, and continue her life with health and happiness.

And with that all I have to say is this. Whatever your cause my be, you must never lie in order to draw support for that cause. That is not only dishonest, but wrong. If you have to rely on the inaccurate feeding of emotions in order to draw support, you may want to rethink why you are supporting what you do.

Biblography-

http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/fb_induced_abortion.html (info on induced abortion in the US)

http://www.babyzone.com/pregnancy/fetal_development/week/ (for accurate fetal development week by week. Please notice the size of the embryo/fetus when compared to the mother’s uterus)

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/24/health/24fetus.html?_r=3 (info on fetal pain)

http://discovermagazine.com/2005/dec/fetus-feel-pain (more on fetal pain)

http://bham.academia.edu/StuartDerbyshire/Papers/9488/Can_fetuses_feel_pain (and more on fetal pain)

http://www.elroy.net/ehr/abortionanswers.html (is abortion moral?)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7390522.stm (info on premature birth survival rates)

Long but worth the read. Antis, really, it’s time to shut up now.

I love a good fact-checking. “Mommy, I’m a month old and 8 inches long and waving my arms and legs around!” If it’s doing that after one month of gestation, you are giving birth to the alien spawn from Twilight. If that doesn’t call for an abortion I don’t know what does.

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ramirezdahmerbundy: In 1963, domestic violence prompted Gerri Santoro to leave her husband Sam, and she and her daughters returned to her childhood home. She took a job at Mansfield State Training School, where she met another employee, Clyde Dixon. The two began an extramarital affair — Dixon was also married — and Santoro became pregnant as a result. When Sam Santoro announced he was coming from California to visit his daughters, Gerri Santoro feared for her life. On June 8, 1964, six-and-a-half months into her pregnancy, she and Dixon checked into a motel in Norwich, Connecticut, under aliases. Their intent was to perform a self-induced abortion, using surgical instruments and a textbook, which Dixon had obtained from a co-worker at the Mansfield school. However, when Santoro began to hemorrhage, Dixon fled the motel. She died, at age 28, and her body was found the following morning by a maid. Dixon was apprehended three days later. He was charged with manslaughter and “conspiracy to commit abortion” and sentenced to a year-and-a-day in prison. Police officers who worked on the case called this term “negligible”. The famous photograph above is of Gerri Santoro’s body taken by the police. Police took a photograph of Santoro’s body as it was found: naked, kneeling, collapsed upon the floor, with a bloody towel between her legs. This picture was published in Ms. magazine in April 1973. It has since become a pro-choice symbol, used to illustrate that access to legal, professionally-performed abortion reduces deaths from unsafe abortion.
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ramirezdahmerbundy:

In 1963, domestic violence prompted Gerri Santoro to leave her husband Sam, and she and her daughters returned to her childhood home. She took a job at Mansfield State Training School, where she met another employee, Clyde Dixon. The two began an extramarital affair — Dixon was also married — and Santoro became pregnant as a result. When Sam Santoro announced he was coming from California to visit his daughters, Gerri Santoro feared for her life. On June 8, 1964, six-and-a-half months into her pregnancy, she and Dixon checked into a motel in Norwich, Connecticut, under aliases. Their intent was to perform a self-induced abortion, using surgical instruments and a textbook, which Dixon had obtained from a co-worker at the Mansfield school. However, when Santoro began to hemorrhage, Dixon fled the motel. She died, at age 28, and her body was found the following morning by a maid.

Dixon was apprehended three days later. He was charged with manslaughter and “conspiracy to commit abortion” and sentenced to a year-and-a-day in prison. Police officers who worked on the case called this term “negligible”.

The famous photograph above is of Gerri Santoro’s body taken by the police.

Police took a photograph of Santoro’s body as it was found: naked, kneeling, collapsed upon the floor, with a bloody towel between her legs. This picture was published in Ms. magazine in April 1973. It has since become a pro-choice symbol, used to illustrate that access to legal, professionally-performed abortion reduces deaths from unsafe abortion.

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There are so many couples that can’t have children just waiting to adopt a child, just dying to adopt a child, who would do anything to adopt a child!

My least favorite anti-abortion argument. I say that as if I have a favorite. Personally, I can deal with the misogyny that anti-choicers spew, because I know their views are bullshit and can easily advocate on my own behalf quite easily whenever I choose to subject myself to it. Or maybe I’ve heard misogynistic arguments so often that I’ve come to find it funny. But the above comment, which isn’t an exact quote of anyone in particular but just one way of making the ridiculous comment, really does infuriate me for a couple of reasons.

First, just read the quote a few times and think about it for a minute. Have you figured out what’s so seriously fucked up about that mentality? Anti-choicers think it’s an absolute travesty that there aren’t enough children to be adopted by willing and competent parents. If only there were more orphans in the world! Thirteen million children on earth without their parents is not enough! A movement that claims to care about the lives and well-being of children and families wants to put children in a situation where they have no family at all.

Secondly, I wish there were more prospective parents waiting for children than children waiting for parents. It is my dream. Call me a callous asshole, but that is what I want. As sad as it is for couples who want children to not be physically able to have them, there’s at least one thing that’s a bazillion times sadder: Wanting parents and not being able to have them. I don’t have statistics to back this up, but I’m sure it’s a lot easier for an infertile couple to have a miracle biological baby than for a foster child to miraculously produce a family. 

The anti-abortion movement is completely deluded. The truth is, in 2010, there were about 107,000 children in the United States waiting to be adopted, while only about 53,000 children were adopted. Read that as many times as you need to for it to sink in, “pro-lifers.” Twice as many children were still waiting to be adopted as were adopted, and that trend has existed since at least the past 8 years. Does that sound like there are a shortage of children for desperate prospective parents to adopt? Does that sound like they’d do anything to adopt a child? No. It sounds more like you’re not practicing what you preach and would much rather add another million children to the system.

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PRO-CHOICE.

xdanielley:

Our bodies, our lives. 

You would think that a statement like that would apply to everyone. But you would be surprised by the kinds of things that are said and that are being done to counter that fundamental principle. I should be able to do what I want with my body when I want to do it. It should be a choice between me and my doctor. Between me and my family. And between me and my God.

Now this debate is usually split into two sections; Pro-Choice and Pro-Life. I don’t think this is right. If it read correctly it would be; Pro-Choice and Anti-Choice. This isn’t a debate about life. I am Pro-Life. But not in the way many people think of it. I am against killing anyone. I think everyone is. I just think that I should be able to make my own choices. And my sister. And my friends. Even my daughter, one day. No one should be able to tell me or any other woman what she can do with her own body.

This debate isn’t about “killing/saving” babies. It is about providing safe options to women. These clinics that are in jeopardy are not “abortion clinics”; they are HEALTH clinics. They provide STI testing, HIV/AIDS testing, Sexual Abuse/Rape counseling, gynecological exams and information on reproductive health. And yes, abortion is now a safe and legal choice for women in ALMOST every state.

The difference is that if you outlaw abortion, it won’t stop it. All that will happen is that many women will be forced into situations where they are at risk. Making abortion legal makes it SAFE. If you think of a fetus as a life, then why would you sacrifice two lives for one? 

What people seem to overlook is the fact that this issue puts women everywhere at risk. I, being a “Pro-Choice” supporter, am not forcing people to have abortions. I am simply standing up for my rights and the rights of my sisters. So next time you pick up a sign against Choice or you say something damning the practice of an abortion; think of your wife, your daughter, mother, sister, best friend. Are you willing to lose her because of an educated decision that she has made herself?

Not the Church, not the State, WOMEN must decide our fate!

Exactly why I am Pro-Choice.

propaganda-for-life: fuckyeahchoice: Dear person who made this quote: Fuck You. Every time I see this stupid, horrendous quote I want to make sure the person who posts this knows that they’re an emotional terrorist and an insensitive, ignorant cuntbag. How dare you compare an abortion to someone who has actually lost their child that they loved and cared for. How dare you condemn someone who could have been possibly raped, or couldn’t go through with the birth because they had a medical condition that could possibly kill them. Or someone who’s baby had a serious medical condition which would render them inviable or likely to die within a few days. fsdfadadsadds Not to mention having an abortion makes you precisely “unpregnant.” Ignorant fucks. Oh I guess the woman’s still pregnant after she had an abortion then? Mother of a dead baby my fucking ass. [Matt Smith as the Eleventh Doctor from Doctor Who pointing and gazing upwards. The text says, “THIS”.]
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fuckyeahchoice:

Dear person who made this quote: Fuck You.

Every time I see this stupid, horrendous quote I want to make sure the person who posts this knows that they’re an emotional terrorist and an insensitive, ignorant cuntbag.

How dare you compare an abortion to someone who has actually lost their child that they loved and cared for. How dare you condemn someone who could have been possibly raped, or couldn’t go through with the birth because they had a medical condition that could possibly kill them. Or someone who’s baby had a serious medical condition which would render them inviable or likely to die within a few days.

fsdfadadsadds

Not to mention having an abortion makes you precisely “unpregnant.” Ignorant fucks. Oh I guess the woman’s still pregnant after she had an abortion then? Mother of a dead baby my fucking ass.

[Matt Smith as the Eleventh Doctor from Doctor Who pointing and gazing upwards. The text says, “THIS”.]

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You know what?

mstashers:

I am getting rather sick of pro-life individuals posting the same tired arguments that I and other pro-choicers have ground into the dirt. I am getting rather sick of the fetus pictures. I am getting rather sick of the “Dear Mommy” posts. I am getting rather sick of articles that are older than my daughter. I am getting rather sick of inaccurate sources (or extremely biased sources such as pro-life propaganda sites). I am getting rather sick of the “It’s murder!!!”, “You made your bed now lie in it.”, “Maybe if you wouldn’t have been such a harlot.”, “Children are a blessing from god.” and “You are going to hell because you support murder.” posts and comebacks. All in all, I guess what I am trying to say is I am getting rather sick (to the point of vomiting) of the ignorance that seems to plague most pro-lifers. I know that it is not hard to pick up a book. I know it is not hard to find an unbiased source. I know it is not hard to think logically for yourself rather then letting a book do your thinking for you. So here are a few points:

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prochoicejacksonville: raybthatsme: Hmm…I wonder why its the worst day of her life? Maybe because she’s ending human life through elective sugery.It’s an indisputable scientific fact that each and every surgical abortion in America stops a beating heart and stops already measurable brain waves. What do we call it when a person no longer has heartbeat or brain waves? DEATH.What should we call it when there is a heartbeat and there are brain waves? LIFE.Every abortion ends a human life.  Citations for “scientific facts” please. Abortion ends a POTENTIAL human life. Just like an egg is a POTENTIAL chicken and a seed is POTENTIAL plant/tree. I notice you didn’t comment on the part at the bottom though. The part about making a woman feel bullied when she’s already having a rough day. You see, not everyone person considers the day that they have their abortion to be WORST DAY OF THEIR LIFE. Some actually cope rather well and some actually find great relief. When you say it’s the worst day of their life, that’s generalizing and is untrue. The person who made the original quote needs a fucking smack across the face. Unpregnant? Mother of a dead baby? The hell?
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prochoicejacksonville:

raybthatsme:

Hmm…I wonder why its the worst day of her life?
Maybe because she’s ending human life through elective sugery.

It’s an indisputable scientific fact that each and every surgical abortion in America stops a beating heart and stops already measurable brain waves. 

What do we call it when a person no longer has heartbeat or brain waves? DEATH.
What should we call it when there is a heartbeat and there are brain waves? LIFE.

Every abortion ends a human life. 

Citations for “scientific facts” please. Abortion ends a POTENTIAL human life. Just like an egg is a POTENTIAL chicken and a seed is POTENTIAL plant/tree. I notice you didn’t comment on the part at the bottom though. The part about making a woman feel bullied when she’s already having a rough day. You see, not everyone person considers the day that they have their abortion to be WORST DAY OF THEIR LIFE. Some actually cope rather well and some actually find great relief. When you say it’s the worst day of their life, that’s generalizing and is untrue.

The person who made the original quote needs a fucking smack across the face. Unpregnant? Mother of a dead baby? The hell?

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