re: #227 blueraven

I am not going to engage in the hypothetical.

Dealing with a highly curable disease here and a suspicion that the mother has unduly influenced her daughter.

By saying flat out that her daughter will not die, she sounds like some kind of fundamentalist or other nutcase.

You know, when I say I am pro-choice, it doesn’t just apply to pregnancy. It means that I believe, strongly, that people have the right to make their own decisions about their bodies. You clearly disagree.

I would note that all the statements you made (“highly curable disease” can clearly correspond to “will die unless the pregnancy is terminated, which is doable” and “unduly influenced her daughter” would absolutely be applicable to someone growing up in a family where abortion is considered murder) would apply to my nasty hypothetical. I even allowed for there to be no chance of the fetus’s survival. It’s pretty clear-cut, and there are substantially fewer side effects to an abortion than there are to chemotherapy.

I’m just curious at what point you draw the line on forcing medical care on minors who in other arenas we do treat as old enough to make their own choices with their bodies.