There is no logical fallacy whatsoever; I do not want to legislate people’s bodies and people’s choices all because of a statistically irrelevant possibility.

You have no proof whatsoever that abortion on demand would lead to the elective termination of a healthy, late or full term fetus. And your ridiculous fear of…

You don’t abort a fetus. You abort a PREGNANCY. Every person has the absolute right of determination over their own bodily functions. Yes, even fetuses, if they could form cohesive thoughts and plans.

A person who is pregnant and wishes to no longer be pregnant MUST have access to the means to safely and immediately en…

Thanks for your words. No, never has someone come in that far along in their pregnancy seeking an abortion. After Tiller is a great documentary and shadows the only 4 abortion providers in the U.S. who perform abortions after 24 weeks. They actually show how the clinicians decide the cut-off point in conversation with…

Even with medical reasons, it was still a challenge to have it done. An absolute right of abortion would swing the pendulum in such a way that it would be legal for anyone at any time at any stage of gestation to have an abortion. Is that a desirable outcome?

THANK YOU.

The forced birth narrative has essentially played this up that people really are just misinformed (willfully, but misinformed.) I think that people like yourself who work or have worked in abortion care should be comfortable saying that there is no such thing as late term abortion. There isn’t. Later term (after 21…

So specifically you’re envisioning that the doctor would somehow kill the foetus inside the womb and then either induce a stillborn labor or do a C-section to remove it?

Mate. You are projecting your personal morals on everyone else. Im hazarding a guess here that they’re straight (white?) Christian morals (tm). Thats not the be all and end all of morality. Your personal feelings about what is and isnt the right thing to do with the contents of your womb applies to your womb, yet…

Both. Clearly. Im saying no one will have an late term abortion because they bought a cruise last minute and a baby would be so inconvenient.

Im not projecting anything.

Yes. Of course a deep and personal reason is a good enough reason to cease being life support for something else. The same reason a deep and personal reason, or even a shallow and selfish reason, is a good enough reason not to give your identical twin your kidney. Its your body. Besides which, you are once again…

I don’t evaluate ethical or moral pricipals by taking them to the most extreme outcome or in any absolutist stance and then saying we have to reject the principal based on the extreme outcome.

There’s little to no focus on sex Ed and effective birth control in many places by design. It reinforces structural poverty and racism. Want to keep people poor, uneducated and scratching by in low wage jobs? Make sure they can’t control their reproductive lives by making any form of birth control either…

I find it hard to divorce the idea that abortion is an acceptable form of birth control from the reality that a lot of people have to use it as birth control because of social and political factors that make contraceptives difficult to obtain or sex education woefully inadequate. I don’t know many women who are super…

Fetuses don’t have wants, hopes, fears, desires, or convictions. Arguments against abortion on demand - or for it, with caveats - are not about murder. They’re about controlling women or the loss of potential life. If it were about murder, there would be no caveats and any women found to have an abortion would be on…

Very interesting and thought provoking. It does seem like much of the pro-choice / abortion arguments are about the need for it in regards to rape / incest / health issues. And even then, they seem like failing arguments, given what’s going on in many state legislatures.

Unf so much good stuff here. Thanks for excerpting this. Will read.

How many years of ever-declining access do you need to see before you wonder what exactly those tactics are useful for? Is it really that hard to see that having a full-throated, utterly sincere argument for no legal restrictions on abortion helps promote access to abortion?

As an abortion rights absolutist (I support that blank piece of paper), I’m excited to see this book exists and is being promoted here. When I’ve made comments here supporting abortion on demand, people think I’m trolling. It sucks being treated like a cartoon villain invented by Republicans (e.g. “no pro-choice…

Until “pro-lifers” come out in strong favor of science-based sex education and free access to contraception, they can all kindly shut the fuck up.