re: #753 Throbert McGee

Of course you have the right to make a judgment. That doesn’t mean you have the right to physically obstruct her from getting the abortion, nor to ask the gummint to be your proxy in obstructing her.

But you have a right (and maybe a certain degree of moral obligation) to “make a judgment” about the intelligence, sanity, and/or personal character of a woman who used abortion as birth control,

There simply is no such thing as women who use abortion as birth control. Abortion is expensive (esp if you are poor). It is physically painful. It is not a decision entered into lightly.

There are women who have multiple abortions, but this is generally due to a failure of birth control, not a complete failure to use birth control. And in teh cases where birth control wasn’t used— access to emergency contraception without a prescription would cut down on many of those. That’s why other industrialised nations have a lower rate of surgical abortion (usually) — because they’ve made EC available for years and the US has not.

I’ve had it with the wingnut mythology that women casually decide to get an abortion on a whim, just like they wake up and decide to have their nails painted purple today instead of red.

And even if a woman did use abortion as birth control, so what. That’s no one’s business but her own.