We do not have abortion on demand in this country!
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WHO THE %^&*($ DO THEY THINK THEY ARE!
Suggesting that abortions are too easy to get in this country! I mean, i ask you!
We all KNOW that abortion is nothing to do about the woman’s choice. We all KNOW that the 18,000 or so abortions are almost entirely because of the risk of serious mental harm to the mothers, should the pregnancy continue! There is NO WAY the abortion laws are being flouted, or that abortion, even with two medical practiioners signing off, is anything about abortion on demand!
Abortion is a last resort! These mothers will have mental health issues, otherwise!
Surely all that money spent funding abortions would be much better spent developing a whole new mother-victim industry, as the 18,000 or so mothers EACH YEAR suffer the mental harm of having a child! Surely these mothers must live with the anguish of having averted their own mental pschosis! After all, all those men should have kept their zips up, after all – it’s their fault, really!
I tell you what, I am ever so grateful (sic) that our women-folk bore some 350,000 less children over the last 20 or so years, rather that having all those mental-health-issue women in our homes and on out streets. Just as well the would-be fathers of all those children didn’t matter.
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It is fascinating that abortion is couched as a womens right to choose yet if she chooses to keep the baby the man has no right to choose to not pay the child
supporttax.If a women chooses not to abort a child why should the father be required to pay a percentage of his salary to her/state for 19 years?
Oh and is ripping your child apart in the womb domestic violence?
Regards
Scrap
Abortion is murder – It will be used in many ways to get the best deal for somebody until Equal Shared Parenting, preferably HandsOnEqualParenting becomes LAW from conception so that DAD and his family have half the say in the matter
The Womens choice as in the Mans choice is to have or not to have sex
There the choices STOP until the result is mature
Onward
Ration Shed – Jim
The abortion debate will rage on no doubt with little give on either side. I don’t agree with “abortion is murder” sentiments, I am quite comfortable with abortions in certain situations and I am comfortable with a democratic choice by human societies over such matters as what stage of development a foetus is given separate human rights. However, I do agree that there are far-reaching philosophical implications involved and that it is appropriate for society to give careful thought to the circumstances in which abortions are made available and that agreed rules are adhered to.
What I am more interested in is whether and exactly how fathers’ wishes might be taken into account in decisions about abortions. The feminist cry is “it’s a woman’s choice” but surely the father is not totally irrelevant? Yet, given that it’s the mother’s body that will carry the foetus and it’s the mother who will usually breast feed and mainly care for the baby, it is reasonable to give more weight to her interests and wishes than to the father’s. “Half the say” is not reasonable when most of the physical, practical and lifestyle costs are borne by the woman. However, I would at least like to see a legal requirement that the father be consulted and involved in meetings about the decision if he so desires (or perhaps as a legal requirement on him). This at least ensures that his wishes and possible contribution towards the new human life are recorded and considered by all concerned. At present I don’t think fathers are necessarily given the time of day in the process of decsions about either abortions or adoptions. That is not acceptable as far as I’m concerned. How many aborted and adopted-out children might have been reared with the benefit of the loving commitment a father’s genetic connection can provide?
A further concern is the actions of pregnant women that might damage the development of a foetus that they intend to carry to full term. At present I don’t think women are held legally accountable at all for causing developmental damage through alcohol or drug use, smoking cigarettes, physically risky activities, starving themselves or any other behaviour. the baby is then born with birth defects, foetal alcohol syndrome, prematurity, low birth weight and the woman can if she wishes simply give up the care of the difficult baby to someone else or the state. However, if a man does something that might harm the foetus, e.g. punches a pregnant woman in the stomach, this will certainly increase the perceived seriousness of his actions, e.g. the assault. Even upsetting the pregnant woman would be seen by the Family Court as potentially abusive to the foetus, while the same Court will ignore evidence about the mother’s own actions when pregnant.
I would be grateful to hear any other ideas concerning the isssue of father’s rights and involvement in decisions about abortions and/or the issue of how women as well as men might be held accountable for actions affecting a foetus.
Hi guys, abortion is murder as the foetus is a living human being but taking drugs and drinking alcohol when pregnant is just as bad and a lot of woman do just that, the father of a child has as many rights to the childs welfare as the mother if the mother even knows who the father is, it is really bad using a child against the other parent, they deserve better than that
Im against abortion too. Sorry, I think its murder.