Neither safe nor rare, so why legal?
We all know the maxim: abortion should be safe, legal, and rare.
It takes some effort, but one can find stories online that detail the often horrible psychological and physical damage (sometimes lethal) that procuring an abortion can have on a woman’s body. (These don’t usually make the paper, and in a pre-Internet age might not have conveniently fallen down the memory hole.)
And really, if one thinks about it, there’s really not that much that’s “safe” about ingesting toxic pills, or about permitting a physician to rummage around inside one’s midsection with sharp objects and a vacuum pump.
Abortion service providers realize this; why else would they be demanding the resignation of Quebec’s health minister over his decision (which he is now evidently backing down on) to impose basic safety standards on abortion clinics in that province?
Abortion isn’t “safe.”
Also, thousands of abortions are performed every month in Canada alone, and China sees more unborn babies aborted in a year than have been aborted in Canada since the Morgentaler decision.
Most Western nations have sub-replacement birthrates; abortion plays a big role in enabling those dismal statistics.
Abortion isn’t “rare,” either.
So really…would making it illegal be such a loss?
(hat tip)
Powered by the iPod Touch.
No Comments Comments Feed
Sorry, the comment form is closed at this time.
The comments are closed.