My personal/religious views on abortion, and yours, are irrelevant. Your job is to practice your religion, not to legislate it. I thought Republicans believed in small government and privacy? No, obviously not. Are we on our way to the Evangelical version of "Sharia Law?"
Perhaps you are unaware that there are as many reasons as there are women for seeking abortion.
I have a friend in Kentucky who found that she was carrying a terribly malformed fetus that was unlikely to live more than a few moments after birth. She & her husband were grief stricken and decided to have an abortion - and, you want to add another roadblock to their tragic journey?
Rape victions (about 32,000/year) often have internal damages, tears, rips, cuts, bruising, as well as having been beaten and bruised over their entire bodies. Sometimes they are raped with metal and wooden objects. Sometimes their hair is pulled out in chunks. They have to spend hours in the ER - in agony. They have to take a pretty toxic HIV anti-viral and perhaps other medications. They may have to take psychotropic medication, in addition to any other medication they were on. Oh, and women of all ages are raped as well as healthy young girls. And, now an ultrasound, if they get pregnant?
Many dozens, if not hundreds of the patients I worked with (I am a retired psychiatric social worker) over the years were incest victims. Do you really expect girls who are depressed, maybe living with an abuser, often suicidal, often engaging in a wide variety of acts of self-loathing to now have an ultra-sound and identify the baby parts?
Did you know that a young girt whose father has been ramming his penis down her throat and up her vagina since she was 10 years old may have a "gagging" sensation every time she is anxious for the rest of her life? She may now be 18 and taking a number of psychotropic medications - and, you want to put another road block in her way to getting an abortion should she get pregnant? Shame!
I hope you are aware that women also have abortions for a wide variety of medical, personal, social and, yes, financial reasons. This may seem so trivial to you well-fed folks. But, I have seen children going hungry and it is not something I want to see again.
Anti-choice Senators, there are a thousand things you are unaware of in your ignorant assumptions about selfish women who just want to pursue their careers or private lives. (Women with careers can afford children, BTW.)
Shame on anyone who votes to put roadblocks in the way of access to abortion.
Get out of your boxes and respect the rights of others.
Not much love today for lawmakers,
Vivian
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