re: #522 Charles

So your position is that the life of the mother is insignificant, and you would take away a doctor’s and mother’s right to make decisions about the proper procedures when her life is in danger?

Well, I don’t know about anyone else on this matter. I am very staunchly anti-abortion. (I’m sure you have read/skimmed one or two of my comments on these threads…Charles seems to be everywhere here.)

With that on the table, I wish to again clarify/repeat something that I am sure I have said before. When it comes to a CLEAR case that it is the life of the baby or the life of the mother (and the cases with the potential of it being both lives), then I believe that the mother (and the father if he is involved in the family) should have the choice of an informed decision on the matter…and I would not condemn her OR the doctor for the result of that decision. (I have also known a fair number of women that would, placed in that position, choose to put their child’s life as priority above theirs…but that, as I see it, is their right to choose as much as choosing otherwise.)

One problem I have with this argument is that cases where abortions are performed BECAUSE the mother’s life is seriously threatened (either by the pregnancy or by other medical conditions that cannot be treated without terminating the pregnancy) account for such a small percentage of abortions performed that I don’t even have the fraction of 1 percent calculated. Such cases do happen, but they are not every abortion performed, or even as many as 1% of abortions performed. The number is so small that even cases of abortions due to rape or incest (which I do NOT support) account for more, and they are less than 1% of abortions performed.