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Originally posted by Penske_Account
I dissent, but I don't have the energy to be more specific. Perhaps one day in another land we will dine, al fresco, and can discuss.....
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Why not? Might spice up the board. It seems the liberals have given up. I picked a topic I agree with the liberals on so I can put some life back into this thing.
The main reason I am against abortion is because I think women will get them no matter what. If abortion is illegal they will get them illegally. In countries where abortion is illegal, like the Phillipines and Mexico, the highest cause of death on amont teenage girls is botched abortions.
From my perspective one of the biggest causes of abortion is social stigma. Women who don't want their families to know that they got pregnant out of wedlock. There is a massive disconnect in this country. The overwhelming majority of teens are having sex yet every parent thinks their kid is the exception. Kids know this.
The women that is under the biggest threat of getting a back alley abortion is the girl that doesn't want anyone to know that she is having an abortion. Especially her family.
From a practical perspective teenage girls need to be able to get abortions without their parents being notified. I think many of these girls exaggerate in their minds how much their parents will freak out. However, that is not the issue. Their assumptions are what counts because that is what leads them to the decision to have an abortion.
For many teenage girls, from a practical perspective, requiring parental notification has pretty much the same effect as making it illegal.
This law takes the anonymity away from the girls that need it the most.
