Pro-Choice Feminist

Certain medical conditions such as placenta previa and HELLP syndrome can make abortion a necessary medical procedure in order to prevent the mother’s death.

Abortions are sometimes needed to save the lives or health of pregnant women, several medical experts said countering comments that were made and then partially retracted by Illinois Rep. Joe Walsh. Even a leading group opposing abortion, the National Right to Life Committee, issued a statement saying that its position is "to allow abortion if necessary to prevent the death of the mother."

Walsh, who is seeking reelection, told reporters Thursday that "advances in science and technology," had eliminated any need for abortions to save the lives or health of women and said, "'Health of the mother' has become a tool for abortions anytime, for any reason." On Friday, he backed off the statement somewhat, saying there are "very rare circumstances" in which the procedure is necessary to save a woman's life.

The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists issued a statement saying: "Abortions are necessary in a number of circumstances to save the life of a woman or to preserve her health. Unfortunately, pregnancy is not a risk-free life event."

Conditions that might lead to ending a pregnancy to save a woman's life include severe infections, heart failure and severe cases of preeclampsia, a condition in which a woman develops very high blood pressure and is at risk for stroke, says Erika Levi, a obstetrician and gynecologist at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

"There are certain cases where ending the pregnancy is the only option, cases where it would be putting the mother's life at risk to continue the pregnancy," she says.

When a pregnancy must be ended before a fetus is viable, "the result is an abortion," says Vanessa Cullins, Vice President for External Medical Affairs for Planned Parenthood Federation of America. But she says there also are cases after viability in which an abortion is safer than an induced childbirth or surgical delivery.

Cecily Kellogg, 44, a writer who lives near Philadelphia, says that was the situation she faced when she was nearly six months pregnant with twin boys in 2004 and developed severe preeclampsia. One fetus had already died and "my liver had shut down, my kidneys had shut down and they were expecting me to start seizing at any minute," she says. The doctors said they had to quickly dilate her cervix and perform an abortion to save her. "I fought it," she says. "But they told me I would die that it was either me and my son or just my son."

She says it was a "horrible experience," but the right thing to do. She and her husband had a daughter in 2006. Her story is at her blog.

The National Right to Life Committee would not elaborate on its brief statement saying abortions should be allowed if they are needed to save women's lives, said communications official Jessica Rogers. A more absolute view is expressed by the American Life League, a group opposing abortion which has a statement at its web site signed by 481 doctors who agree that: "There is never a situation in the law or in the ethical practice of medicine where a preborn child's life need be intentionally destroyed. ... A physician must do everything possible to save the lives of both of his patients, mother and child. He must never intend the death of either."

Cassing Hammond, an associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, says cases in which doctors must decide whether it is safe for a pregnant woman to deliver a fetus in a medical crisis are complex and outside the expertise of doctors who do not perform the procedures. He says he sees many such cases.

👉🏻What are Crisis Pregnancy Centers (CPCs)?

CPCs are anti-choice facilities that falsely present themselves as genuine, licensed healthcare facilities, such as women’s health centers and abortion clinics. However, these facilities are not actually licensed to provide health care and instead can provide misinformation to pregnant people in order to steer them away from choosing an abortion.

👉🏻What do I need to know?

CPCs often do not have licensed physicians on site and do not offer abortion or contraceptive services or referrals. They will use inappropriate tactics like providing false medical information, pretending to be medical professions, or continuing to contact you after you leave their locations.

CPCs target populations that are the most underserved by the American healthcare system. This includes young people, people of color, and people with low incomes.

Prenatal care, abortion, and emergency contraception are all time-sensitive services for women. CPCs will delay access to these options until your time window runs out, potentially eliminating your ability to obtain these services altogether.

Your personal information will not be protected. CPCs are not obligated to comply with HIPAA standards and keep your private medical information confidential.

👉🏻How do I know if a facility is a CPC?

CPCs appear in strategic locations to trick their potential clients. They often set up near legitimate women’s health clinics to further confuse women.

In the waiting room, there will be informational pamphlets that emphasize the risks or dangers of abortion and contraception.

The staff will not identify themselves as medical professionals, they will refer to the fetus as the “baby” and the pregnant woman as the “mother.” Sometimes they will use rhetoric like “killing” and “murder” to describe abortion or contraception.

They can only provide free pregnancy tests and sonograms.

They will find ways to keep getting you to come back, as mentioned earlier, so they can run out the clock on your reproductive health options.

Common false claims used by CPCs:

👉🏻False: Abortion is dangerous.

👉🏻False: Abortion causes breast cancer.

👉🏻False: Abortion is psychologically damaging.

👉🏻False: Abortion can lead to sterility.

👉🏻False: Birth-control pills cause abortion.

What are my rights in:

👉🏻New York City

The NYC Rule “Pregnancy Services Centers Disclosures” (2016) requires all clinics to “disclose if it does or does not have a licensed medical provider on staff who provides or directly supervises the provision of all of the services at such pregnancy services center.”

I think I found a fake clinic. How do I report it?

You can file a complaint about a pregnancy services center in the City that does not:

👉🏻Post the disclosure sign required by law.

👉🏻Publicize the required disclosure in all advertisements, including print, TV, radio, online, and social media, and in verbal discussions with clients.

The required disclosure must state: “This facility does not have a licensed medical provider on-site to provide or supervise all services.” Centers must post the sign and publicize the required disclosure in English and in Spanish.

Right, its wonderful to know you think that male ejaculation is mass murder. You know, since it’s ”a human life at any stage”.

In your scenario of people not being able to breathe on their own, if they depend on using someone else’s body to breathe, then thay person has the right to refuse to let them use their body.

If you’re talking about a machine is being used to help them breathe, well then they’re not violating anyone’s bodily autonomy. Anyone who is alive can think. Maybe not in the same capacity (or consciously) as other people, but if they are alive (even in a coma) they can think.

I’m not aware of any cases where a person can’t feel anything (be it pain or emotion). If you could direct me to your source of a case, I would happily read it because it does interest me.

You’re asserting that giving birth is the "responsible" choice in the event of a pregnancy, but that's just thier opinion. But, I'd argue that if a mother knows she won't be able to provide for her child, it's actually more responsible to have an abortion, and in doing so prevent a whole lot of undue suffering and misery.

Also, Not everyone has easy access to contraception, nor does everyone have a good enough sex education class to know how to use it or where to obtain it. But let's just suppose, for the sake of argument, that everyone had access to free contraception and knew how to use it correctly

But let's look at this argument a bit further. If you think getting an abortion is "avoiding responsibility," that implies that it's a woman's responsibility is to bear a child if she chooses to have sex. That sounds suspiciously like you're dictating what a woman's role and purpose is, and a lot less like you're making an argument about the life of a child. 🤔

Even then, no contraception is 100 percent effective. Presumably, you oppose abortions even in cases where contraception fails (and it does sometimes fail, even when used perfectly). If that's true, you're saying that, by merely choosing to have sex with or without a condom a woman becomes responsible for having a child. And that's a belief that has everything to do with judging a woman's behavior, and nothing to do with the value of life.

Do you have evidence of this? (Probably not) and Considering that contraceptives are cheaper, easier, less painful, less time-consuming, less emotionally taxing, and more readily available in most places than abortions, it seems odd to suggest that women who've already decided to use birth control would select abortion as their preferred method. It's more likely the opposite: Historical and contemporary data suggests that women will seek abortions regardless of whether or not they're legal, but that when birth control and contraceptives are more widely accessible, abortion rates go down.

Right because suddenly in the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, and Nicaragua, Malta and the Holy See ( to name a few) It's suddenly legal to get an abortion.

But you're right places though that have legal have the attendance to have them still occurring illegally.

And Well that's probably because there isn't a place where they can get it to and can not afford to travel to get it, its also probably because of the legal restrictions some places have a place for portions. (Like laws that say you cannot get an abortion if the fetus is 6weeks old, because that’s when it abortions normally happens) lt’s sure it a way to let them have abortions right?

When performed by trained professionals, abortions are one of the safest procedures in medicine, with a death rate of less than .01 percent. The risk of dying while giving birth is roughly 13 times higher. Abortions performed by people without the requisite skills and training, however, are extremely unsafe. An estimated 68,000 women die every year from back alley abortions, which are generally most common when abortion is illegal and/or inaccessible.

If you'd like to examine the health impact of banning abortion, consider Romania, which banned abortions in 1966. That policy remained in place for about 23 years, during which time over 9,000 women died from unsafe abortions, and countless others were permanently injured. That's around two women dying every day. When the policy was reversed, maternal mortality rate plummeted to one-eighth of what it was at its peak under the no-abortion policy.

(Abortions and maternal death rates in Romania, 1965-2010. )

The negative health effects of prohibiting abortion don't end with the mothers. Romania's abortion ban sparked a nationwide orphan crisis, as roughly 150,000 unwanted newborns were placed in nightmarish state-run orphanages. Many of those orphans now suffer from sever mental and physical health problems, including reduced brain size, schizoaffective disorder, and sociopathy.

When abortion is illegal, it becomes exponentially more unsafe for both women and their children. You may not like the fact that women will seek abortions even when they're illegal, but it is undeniably a fact nonetheless.

If you can trust a man, then you should be able to trust them to not control A woman’s legal medical consent to getting abortions. Buy saying that they cannot get an abortion.

(Because no matter what they say, they cannot consent for her medically so they have legitimately, have no say if she has abortions or not, only she does)

If you can trust a man, you would expect them to take responsibility for their actions in getting a woman pregnant by paying for child support which is normally a legal obligation rather than something thats “forced” on a man. And most women hwhwn they have sex aren’t asking to get pregnant, that’s rather you again actions then defending a child.

If you can trust a man, you should expect them not to force themselves on a women getting her pregnant.

And after reproduction women don’t have a choice either or whether or not they can be a parent or not because they’re looked as murderers, expected to except those consequences and be pregnant.

They normally have folks telling them that they cannot get an abortion because they don’t want them to, while they completely ignorant to the face thy that she and she only has medical rights to it.

✅Women do not have a "responsibility" to have children, and certainly don't assume such a responsibility by virtue of deciding to have sex.

✅Outlawing abortion is very dangerous, both for women and their children.

✅Adoption still requires women to carry a baby to term and then give birth, both of which are also inherently dangerous.

✅Abortions, on the other hand, are quite safe.

This is in reference to The Unborn Victims of Violence Act. Which is a United States law which recognizes an embryo or fetus in utero as a legal victim, if they are injured or killed during the commission of any of over 60 listed federal crimes of violence.

Because of principles of federalism embodied in the United States Constitution, federal criminal law does not apply to crimes prosecuted by the individual states. However, 38 states also recognize the fetus or "unborn child" as a crime victim, at least for purposes of homicide or feticide.