IN Focus: Special session brings contentious debate on abortion

Dan Spehler and Kristen Eskow recap this week's events at the Statehouse

[laurakrajnikburick]

Crazy how it's men making laws about what a woman can or can't do with their own body.

[joelmartin]

Once you draw your last breath here, you'll spend eternity paying for the deeds you've done.
It is appointed unto man to die once, and then the judgement !
Hebrews 9:27
For those of you who don't know where this quote is found... Hebrews is in the new testament of God's word- the bible !

[vickygraham]

"The unborn" are a convenient group of people to advocate for. They never make demands of you; they are morally uncomplicated, unlike orphans, they don't need money, education, or childcare; they allow you to feel good about yourself without any work at creating or maintaining relationships; and when they are born, you can forget about them, because they cease to be unborn. It's almost as if, by being born, they have died to you. You can love the unborn and advocate for them without substantially challenging your own wealth, power, or privilege, without re-imagining social structures, apologizing, or making reparations to anyone. They are, in short, the perfect people to love if you want to claim you love Jesus but actually dislike people who breathe.

[MiguelLopez-whnw]

Theses are my bullet points on why I am pro-life.

1.) I believe in human rights for all humans.
-If you are a human, you deserve rights especially the right to live. The dehumanization of people groups isn’t new; this has been happening in all tragedies such as the genocide of the Native Americans and Jews, as well as the slave trade of Africans to the Americas. Today, I hear people deny personhood to a unborn baby and some go as far as to not call it human, which is unscientific. Even if you don’t accept a zygote as a human; zygotes are never aborted. At day 16th, a zygote is already an embryo.

Counter arguments for common pro-choice views

1.) “Abortion is a right!”
A women’s right to choose to abort their unborn child is not a right but a privilege.
-Contrary to beliefs, abortion is not a civil liberty in the United States of America’s Constitution. Roe V Wade was poorly upheld and was bond to be overturned; even Ruth Bader Ginsburg said it was weak and would probably be overturned. Aside from this, no one should have a right to trump someone else’s right; if so that is not a right but a privilege.

2.) “Women have bodily autonomy to have an abortion.”
Contrary to belief, no one has full bodily autonomy.
- Many laws that limit bodily autonomy, are done so to protect the individual and other individuals who may be involved. Some laws that limit bodily autonomy are: prostitution, incest, pedophilia, suicide, usage of hard drugs, and having to obey safety laws such as wearing a seatbelt. It should be clear why these laws are in place, so the next question should be, does a women truly have a right to abort her unborn baby due to bodily autonomy?

3.) “You can’t force me to have a baby who can kill me!”
Unfortunately, women do die every year of pregnancy complications, but it’s rare in developed nations.
- The chances of dying during a pregnancy or soon after the pregnancy is 0.02% or a survival rate of 99.98%. If you are a Black Women, it’s 0.06% or a survival rate of 99.94%. There are so many factors on why women die during pregnancy, but understand that 70% of those deaths were preventable, and many women still went through with those pregnancies. On the other hand, an abortion has a 99.999% death rate to the unborn baby.

[mopthermopther]

This was a good report.
❤️thanks for sharing ❤️

[janicelaporte]

Let states be in charge of state business.