What would you think if they made abortions (by choice ) after 12 weeks pregnant illegal?

Question

A woman would have until 12 to make a choice about aborting, unless it was medically necessary. How would you feel if they had to look at a ultrasound of the fetus and go for one counseling treatment before aborting.

Answer 1

That would be a serious violation of reproductive rights.
12 weeks is early.
Women who are not actively trying to conceive often do not realize they are pregnant until they are 10-12 weeks.
Some people have irregular periods, for one thing. Some people have practically no symptoms, for another.
When a birth control method fails, such as depo, OCPs, the patch, or IUD, a woman is not expecting to be pregnant. She initially attributes minor symptoms -- such as lack of bleeding, breast swelling, slight nausea -- to side effects of her method.
Also not everyone has easy access to health care, or money for termination of pregnancy. For example -- A teenager misses her period; she's scared but has nobody to talk to, so she just waits. Then it becomes obvious, and she has to get up the courage to make an appointment, get money, and follow through. It's so difficult.

The more difficult we make it for women to obtain abortions, the more second trimester abortions there will be.

Any abortion is a tragedy, but we can't legislate that away. It doesn't work.

Answer 2

I consider a fetus to be fully human when its brain is turned on and functioning (more than the brain stem) about the same period where you decide to discontinue life support for a dying person.

I personally feel that it should be a woman's choice until that point with no government interference whatsoever. Other people decide based on viability.

I don't think most women are flippant about gettting an abortion. What about a woman relapsing from schizophrenia, who needs to get back on meds but that would deform the fetus, is she going to go for a counseling session? A woman who was pregnant by rape? A woman who had a serious genetic disorder in her lineage and already has two kids with serious medical problems? You can't engineer in all these exceptions, and you tyrannize women like these.

If there was an easy answer, someone would have come up with it already.

In my opinion, if you want to decrease abortions, you have to improve the use and effectiveness of birth control.

Answer 3

I agree that 20 weeks is too far along to have an abortion. Its 16 weeks in some places. I know when I lived in AZ, they would not allow abortions after 12 weeks unless there was something medically wrong with the mother like if she has the baby, she could lose her life or something like that. My friend was 24 weeks along when she found out her baby had downs syndrome. Somewhere between 24 - 26 weeks, there were more complications. The doc told her that the baby would not live past a yr and if does, it would be a vegetable. She had a second opinion and same thing. She had more tests done and the outcome wad worse. She had to have an abortion at 30 weeks, but they didn't consider it an abortion because they induced my friend to go in to labor. She held her baby for the first time and the baby took one breath and held my friends finger.

Answer 4

I think that is how it should be. After the first trimester, I think abortions are unfortunate, because at that point, the babys brain is functioning - it can feel everything. :(

Also, I was just thinking about that u/s thing. I think they should have an u/s before aborting. I think it would make a lot of women back out of getting an abortion because it would be so much more real to them. They would be able to see the baby. I mean, I do support a womans *choice* to get an abortion, but I really do think if u/s were done beforehand, a lot less babies would end up being aborted.

Answer 5

This belongs in polls and surveys... or politics and government. I always hate answering these questions because people thumbs down you for something that's a matter of opinion and not fact based. I think it would be nice if they came up with a good strong law about a certain gestation and abortion however if they were to pass that law if would take away our rights as women. People who have babies that they wanted to abort generally do keep them and they're neglected, poor, and abused. However killing babies isn't very nice either so I think I have very mixed feelings on that issue and it's best left up to the politicians. Not much we can do about it here on Yahoo answers, if it were on my voting ballet I'd probably do some more thinking on it.

Answer 6

As one who has had more then one abortion I would be outraged! The government has no right getting involved in a personal medical decision. No one is being forced to have an abortion, and people do have differing opinions and religious views. Each of us has the right to live our life as we see fit. I can respect individuals who do not believe in abortions or would not have one them self. Likewise I expect other to respect my right to choose what I believe is the best choice. This seems to be a never ending argument, but like other things in live we need to respect each other, and our differing opinions. Not try to force one opinion or the other on each other.

Answer 7

I know people who have wanted to abort and they HAD TO have an ultrasound. I think in some places it is 20 weeks. I do not believe in them so I think they should just be made illegal unless the mom or the baby is going to have problems where it is life threatning.(Sorry i had to Reword that!)

Answer 8

Actually in MA they do abortions up to 20 weeks and 26 weeks medical.

Answer 9

Go ahead and make it illegal; you'll make a number of people rich providing illegal abortions - just like it was before Roe v. Wade....cuz women will continue to seek abortions, whether or not they're legal.

Answer 10

I went and saw my babies heart beat last night at 6 weeks pregnant I think abortions all together should be illegal Its a baby not a choice!