Are You Pro or Anti Choice?

[Roubignol]

Originally Posted by loosegoose

If you're telling me a significant percentage of women have an abortion because their child is the wrong sex I'd demand more solid proof than just he said/she said.

As example, in 2015, the Swiss "senate" discussed about the fact to not let people knowing the gender of their foetus to get the right to abort.
Because in Switzerland women can abort until 12 weeks and it's possible to know the gender.
Knowing that several communities culturally or religiously prefer boy to girl, it's better to prevent the risk.

On several areas of this planet, girls are still watched as bad gender. They cost money to the family in case of marriage, they do not keep the name of the father, etc... Not all the countries get the same culture as Australia or France. Not all the cultures are female friendly.
So what happens when people of these cultures live in Australia and they can know the gender of the foetus?
That's the reason of the debate.

But apart the cultural question, there also are capricious parents. They already have 3 boys and want a girl.
Not everybody is like you and me, respecting the natural process of creation.

[Arturo2nd]

The Iowa Supreme Court overturned a recent Iowa law restricting abortion as unconstitutional under Iowa's state constitution. The ruling is 92 pages long, but I found it to be interesting reading. Did you know that 75% of women seeking abortions are low income? Over 50% live below the federal poverty limit. The imposition of the waiting limits has the effect of pushing women beyond the period where chemical means can be used and into the more expensive and dangerous surgical intervention. Did you know a pregnant woman who continues to carry the child is 14 times more likely to die from complications as a result than those who abort? No wonder we don't let men have the babies.

https://www.iowacourts.gov/courtcase...meCourtOpinion

The ruling discusses many things, such as the large number of women in abusive relationships, unwanted pregnancies caused by contraceptive failures, the greatly increased risk of being murdered that these women face, and finally the financial burdens being imposed on women as a result of these types of laws. Here is an interesting quote from the opinion:

There are few hurdles that are of level height for women of different races, classes, and abilities. There are few impositions that cannot be solved by wealth. Women of means are surely better positioned to weather the consequences of waiting-period requirements. Yet, it is axiomatic that a right that is only accessible to the wealthy or privileged is no right at all.

This ruling does nothing to change this year's action by the Iowa legislature to block the disbursement federal Medicaid funds administered by the state to Planned Parenthood, which will pretty much kill off the few remaining clinics.

Oddly, over half of Iowas voters believe abortion should be legal in all cases and 71% disagree with their legislature's decision to eliminate Planned Parenthood funding. Hopefully, the women get out the vote and get rid of politicians out of touch with their electorate.