Tough to get statistical evidence of something that obviously won't be reported, but it doesn't mean it isn't happening. There is enough evidence to suggest that it is a bigger problem than many people in this thread think it is.
Those are the two questions I am not seeing being answered properly. Do you think the mother should ever not have the right to get an abortion like she can right now in Canada, and at what age are we providing the right of human life to the baby.
If you want to argue that the woman has the right over her complete bodily anatomy, including organs, the fetus, etc, then you are saying the baby is not human, nor has the rights afforded to all humans (in our country at least) until it is born. And that goes directly against the scientific way of looking at it, as it has been proven that the baby can exist outside the womb before full term is reached, and smarter people than all of us will even place the date of when it is considered human much earlier along in the pregnancy. With incubators what is the actual age? 7 months?
So if from a scientific perspective you can say that the fetus is indeed capable of surviving on its own before full term, then it should be afforded the protection we afford all people. The right to live, which brings in the legality of it.
However that does not speak to the right of the mother, which does exist, and how it can be interpreted, in terms of her choice to get an abortion at any term before the baby is born.
To me it isn't as black and white as people like peter12 and others suggest. Not from a scientific or from a legal perspective. At best I think it is murky and confusing, and many who label the other side make it even worse.
Regardless, at the end of the day there is only ONE way to reduce or eliminate abortion, and I think that is the goal we should all be working towards.
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