Quote Originally Posted by Dan Druff View Post
Honestly I can totally understand the pro-choice arguments regarding early-term abortion. I may not agree with all of them, but I can understand them, and at an earlier point in my life, I was actually pro-choice myself.

But these late-term abortion arguments are just absolutely insane. I'm shocked that otherwise decent people on this forum are okay with abortion at 8 months being legal if "a woman and her doctor" sign off on it. That's a human being you're killing there. A fully formed human who could and would easily live out a normal life outside the womb.

I'm not talking about obvious situations where the mother's life is in danger. I'm not even talking about the rare situation where the baby has severe birth defects and will have zero quality of life.

I'm talking about a blanket allowance of full-term abortions based upon the approval of "a doctor".

It will basically become the medical marijuana situation all over again, except it will involve killing babies instead of allowing people to purchase legal weed.

If there's money to be made, and if it's legal or quasi-legal, unethical doctors will rush to fill the market void and do whatever is asked of them.

Laws are in place in our society in order to prevent greedy/unethical/evil people from inflicting harm upon others or society.

It is a gigantic mistake to ever legalize murder based upon the approval of someone financially incentivized to say yes.

Does anyone remember "safe, legal, and rare" -- the slogan of supporters of Roe v. Wade in the early 70s?

There would have been zero support for Roe v. Wade if people could have looked into the future and seen what abortion has progressed into.

24 weeks for any reason.

Full term abortions with doctor permission.

Get the fuck outta here.

This is exactly what the religious right has been claiming for decades was eventually going to happen, and even I laughed them off.
By making legitimate-for-medical-reasons late term abortions illegal, you are effectively inviting financially-incentivized unethical doctors to “rush to fill the market void” given that outright prohibition of *any* late term abortion will drive up the market price. So, congratulations! You will have effectively created the nightmare scenario of legions of unethical doctors commiting unethical abortions that you scaremonger about.