I think everyone would agree on at least these 2 things:
- Abortion is horrible
- Abortion should definitely be legal for the victims of rape, or if giving birth to a child would kill the mother or cause her serious medical issues
According to this study: "in cases of rape, 0.3%; in cases of incest, 0.03%; in cases of risk to maternal life, 0.1%; in cases of risk to maternal health, 0.8%; and in cases of fetal health issues, 0.5%. About 98.3% of abortions in the United States are elective, including socio-economic reasons or for birth control."
The accuracy of the number is of course up for interpretation (e.g. if you can have easy access to abortion without needing to disclose that you were raped, I'm sure a lot of rape victims wouldn't give it as the reason), but I think it's safe to say the vast majority of abortions are 'elective'.
So, perhaps there would be a more interesting discussion about people's thoughts on those abortions, rather than the ones that are to prevent a 'rape baby' or that are medically necessary.
Personally, I think it's a very difficult topic. There are a lot of people who think that any abortion at any stage is murder 'because life begins at conception'. I don't really agree with this, though I can't exactly pinpoint where I believe life begins (i.e. when does it turn from just a lump of cells to a human being). There are also a lot of women who think 'my body my choice' - but it's not
their body that people are concerned about, it's the body growing within them.
I'm also quite disgusted by the growing rate of third-trimester abortions, especially with people like
Ralph Northam (Governor of Virginia) even defending abortions post-birth. Hopefully we can all agree that that's just murder. Third-trimester abortions don't seem to just be reserved for medical emergencies either,
as this undercover video seems to show.
Either way, the legality of abortion is definitely not something I've completely formed my opinion about. As a kid/teenager I thought abortions should be legal for any reason (assuming it's in the first trimester), but as I get older I'm drifting further and further away from that opinion. The flip-side of that, however, is that if abortions are made illegal, a large number of them will just move underground - with
unsafe, side-alley abortions, which have high mortality-rates.
I do love my physics ragdoll games with a healthy dose of abortion-debate
Last edited by Moop; Jun 8, 2020 at 04:37 PM.