[Lady Sidhe]

Originally posted by richlevy


Unless your pharmcist has a moral objection to the morning after pill, in which case s/he can refuse to sell it to you.

In Louisiana, one can go to a free clinic, get a free exam, and then get a year's worth of pills AND the morning-after pill for free. You don't have to go to a pharmacy. They give you the bag o' contraception right in the clinic.

To me any late term abortion is extreme and I don't like the idea of them. However, looking at the other extreme of the people who would deny all birth control, deny all real sex education, etc.,

I think there SHOULD be sex ed, and I have no idea why anyone would want to deny any form of birth control. I'm sure some of the religious nuts out there think that way, but they can't keep you out of the health clinics.

If real birth control and the morning after pill were encouraged, there would not be a need for any late term abortions. You have to consider that some women who wait do so because they have to get up the nerve to find one of an ever decreasing number of abortion providers and run the gauntlet of screaming pro-lifers, any of whom might have a gun and who might, in some twisted way, consider using it on the mother to 'save' the fetus.

As far as the rabid right-to-lifers...please don't lump me with them (I know you're not, I'm just making it clear to everyone else). While I don't agree with abortion for convenience, I don't think it should be illegal. Those right-to-lifers tend to be the aforementioned religious nuts, and the way I see it, if they're not willing to pay for the woman to have the child, and then take that child into their own home, they need to STFU.

Also consider that states vary on safe havens , allowing a single mother to legally abandon her baby.

I've heard of those. Usually they're at hospitals, right?

I'm all for personal responsibility, but expecting a single teenager who has been abandoned by her baby's father to somehow make it work seems ridiculous.

The parents should either put their teenager on birth control, or keep her off the streets. If she gets pregnant, it's the family's responsibility to help her, IMO. Besides, that teenager can slap a child-support deal on the guy. He'll have to pay for the paternity test, and if it's his, they'll garnish his check. At least in La. I have firsthand knowledge of this.

Until someone can come up with a rational, consistent system for all of this, then abortion is something we will have to deal with....and come up with reasonable alternatives instead of trying to box people into situations they cannot handle, them we will continue to have this debate.

Menstrual Extraction, Birth Control, teaching your kids common sense--those sound like rational, consistent systems to me. I'm sorry, but I find it hard to believe that people don't know what causes babies. You'd have to live under a rock. With the free health clinics around the country, there's no excuse not to be on birth control. If they can't handle a kid, they should take responsibility to minimize the chance of getting into that situation. It's not rocket science. Abortion shouldn't be something that one can get because a baby is inconvenient. They should've thought about that before they spread their legs.

Perhaps if they made it so that one couldn't get an abortion unless they agreed to have NORPLANT....that way, if they don't want kids, we'll make sure they don't HAVE them. (And before people start jumping me about enforced birth control, we're talking about people who don't want these children---people who are willing to kill them because they're inconvenient).


Sidhe