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AndyReklaw posted...

I wanna say this too but man I don't even trust the US government to decide what that information would entail. I feel like it's so easy to see it turn into hours upon hours of counseling from both sides, the actual science and health information and the "family values" information. And if they can lock that up behind an additional cost and make it so that it has to happen before the abortion it'd totally just be another way to keep it from the poor.

Like, it is important to keep people informed but ultimately it should just be up to the woman.

I'm speaking more in general practical terms, rather than matters of policy. Mostly, the government should just stay out of it. There are already plenty of medical boards and whatnot responsible for ensuring doctors practice ethically, including securing informed consent from patients before conducting any procedure. Let them do their thing, and let anyone who has a grievance due to being inadequately informed sue for malpractice or otherwise register complaints with those regulatory boards.

AndyReklaw posted...

I can't imagine there's too many women out there that are gonna go through months and months of a pregnancy just to terminate it for the fun of it.

There really aren't. As much as pro-lifers love to clutch their pearls over the idea of women lining up to deliver their full-term babies directly into a woodchipper, late-term abortions are exceedingly rare outside of cases of medical necessity (when they should be happening regardless; sacrificing both mother and baby to pretend you didn't kill the baby is just stupid). It's really not something that needs to be worried about to such an extent that the whole policy gets hamstrung for it.