Since this thread has veered toward an abortion discussion ...

I'm pro-choice, myself.  And even if abortion were illegal (which I don't think it should be), I think it would be disgusting if someone who was pregnant due to rape was not allowed to abort the child.

And that's all I'm going to say on that subject.  I tend to get too upset at people for disagreeing with me on the issue, so I'm just gonna quit while I'm ahead.

yes, you are right.   Gaffer might feel different.  I am not sure how I feel about it.

forcing a raped woman to carry a baby to term vs. potential murder

I don't know the answers.

Warbler said:

 

adywan said:

Doctors and hospitals here are refusing to treat people that smoke or are overweight,

well I guess I'm f___ed cause I am overweight.   better hope I don't need medical treatment.   *cries*

You'll be fine... so long as we don't end up with socialized medicine here in the States...

haha.  : |

we've been over the health care debate over and over again in the political thread.   Let's not do that here yet again.    besides . . . I promised not to talk politics.    

 

Well, you're usually very pro socialized medicine, just know that this is an example of what you could be facing if you get your wish. This is the sort of thing governments do.

*sigh*

Don't sigh. I am not trying to drag you into a "political" discussion. Just giving you something to think about. It isn't a hypothetical, or a speculation, as you heard from adywan it is something that is happening in the UK; a very modern and progressive part of the world under the same sort of health care system some of us dream of having here in the states. There are other things like this happening under other socialized health care systems, but some of us are still in the habit of filtering those realities out and letting our eyes glaze over with visions of utopia.

*sigh*

*SLAP* ;)