Since Obama Doesn't Want Young Girls "Punished with a baby," Should Abortion be Legal only under Age 18?

Question

Shouldn't an adult get whatever "punishment" / consequences their actions lead to?

Answer 1

It's important to understand that abortions go on whether legal or not. Before Roe v. Wade, authorities never pulled dead rich women from back alleys. Sadly, it was always the poor that suffered. The affluent had their doctors perform the procedure in the comfort and safety of their medical office.

I remember before Roe v. Wade when my mother, grandmother, and another woman were at our kitchen table. They had just come back from a funeral of a friend who was a victim of a botched abortion. With tears streaming down my grandmothers face she chokingly said, "It's a d**n shame that we live in a country where dogs receive better treatment than a woman."

My father drove an ambulance in Washington D.C. He and my mother cried when Roe v. Wade passed as it meant my father and his colleagues wouldn’t have to look at those horrid scenes from botched abortions anymore.

Back then, the pillars of the community knew who the abortion doctors were. They made sure they were around. Not just to take care of slip ups at home but more importantly, to take care of their little secrets. The local Sheriff was well aware of what was going on. But if he wanted to keep his job and win his next election, he knew he’d better watch his P’s and Q’s. Get it? Meanwhile, the sheriff helped pull injured and dead poor women out from back alleys. It wasn’t right that the poor suffered while the affluent didn’t. That scenario is one of many reasons R v. W passed.

The problem with contemporary views on abortion is the element of time. People have forgotten or are too young to know what went on before Roe v. Wade. And the GOP isn’t going to remind us either.  Against our best interest, they use the issue to stir our emotions to sucker us for our votes.

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Answer 2

The emphasis has to be on comprehensive s*x education and readily available birth control.  Western European countries have both, as well as universal health care, and their abortion rates are a fraction of ours.  

Answer 3

I am not taking rape here, I am talking s*x in general. I think if a girl is a w***e, sleeping around and gets knocked up she should not get to sneak around and get an abortion to hide her sin or she shame, she should quit being a w***e. Now rape is a different case. I think in cases of rape, where it is reported, then the day after drug could be administered and there would be no pregnancy after all. But if she waits til she is several weeks along and then cries rape, who are we to know? I think it would need to be a case by case decision.  

Answer 4

In Ca. it is. Your 11 year old daughter can get birth control and an abortion from the schools without the parents knowledge or consent.

Answer 5

How many different ways do you religious nuts need to be told its none of your business.

Focus on the legalized kidnapping going on with your kind buying babies from 3rd world countries because the infertile christians can't have one.

Answer 6

If we weren't so afraid of teaching our little girls to keep their legs together, abortion would be a non-issue.