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Politics : Bill Clinton Scandal - SANITY CHECK
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To: one_less who wrote (11021)10/24/1998 2:47:00 AM
From: Borzou Daragahi  Read Replies (3) of 67261
 
On abortion and the PBA:

Abdul Haq,

I do not know of anyone who supports the concept of partial birth abortion on demand. If anyone on this thread can post a link to a mission statement or declaration by some group advocating thus, I would genuinely appreciate it. I am uncomfortable with the idea of abortion itself. And I am very uncomfortable with the fact that abortions are regularly performed on 4 to 5-month old fetuses, which can often be brought to term in an incubator and lead healthy lives.

However, the reason why abortion was legalized was not because people suddenly became hip to the idea of abortion as a form of birth control, but because women were getting abortions and have for centuries been getting abortions under unclean and dangerous conditions. Women were regularly dying and getting maimed under the scalpel of illegal and unethical abortion "doctors." It was these horror stories that prompted a drive to legalize abortions. That's why women's groups refer to abortion as a health issue. Yes, the question of abortion can be framed in the unknowable philosophical terms of life's beginning or a woman's control over her own body. But it can also be framed in public health terms: women are going to continue getting abortions whether there's a law prohibiting them or not.
Should we as a society maintain legal abortions--a procedure the vast majority of people including abortion recipients are uncomfortable with but that protects women from the life-threatening nature of so-called back-alley abortions--or should we revert back to the days when women took their lives into their own hands when they sought out the procedure?

I tend to go along with the former (making me pro-choice) because, once again, women will seek abortions whether they're illegal or not.

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