"Just as the mother may harm her unborn child, she might harm some other child, or an adult, whether or not she is pregnant. It doesn't make practical or moral sense to just assume she's going to do harm and preemptively disable her to stop it, absent specific evidence of an intent to do harm."
That shows how FEEBLE your position is! The fact is that there is ABSOLUTELY NO VALID COMPARISON between the UNlikelihood of a mother harming her offspring with the strong possibility that she WILL harm her egg. Arguing that an egg is a human being is not only immoral but it is absurd, foolish, impractical--and frankly...bizarre.
Whenever an egg is fertilized one can be reasonably assured of a strong likelihood that the mother WILL develop a VERY specific "intent to do harm".
And when they DO develop that intent, society certainly DOES know about it, don't they? So your words collapse...and your little speech falls flatter than an eggless pancake.
INCIDENCE OF ABORTION
• Nearly half of pregnancies among American women are unintended, and four in 10 of these are terminated by abortion.[1] Twenty-two percent of all pregnancies (excluding miscarriages) end in abortion.[2]
• Forty percent of pregnancies among white women, 69% among blacks and 54% among Hispanics are unintended.
• In 2005, 1.21 million abortions were performed, down from 1.31 million in 2000. From 1973 through 2005, more than 45 million legal abortions occurred.[2]
• Each year, about two percent of women aged 15-44 have an abortion; 47% of them have had at least one previous abortion.[3]
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