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s0nicfan posted...

To all the people in this topic, I'm curious what you believe the cutoff should be for abortions. I fully support abortions, but it's a lot easier to bitch about a cutoff than it is to provide your own and justify it. For example, third trimester is a pretty common one because at that point you could conceivably have a premature birth and through medical science the baby could survive.

Honestly, I think a woman should never be required to carry a pregnancy to term if she doesn't want to do so at any point. If she changes her mind, the occupant of her uterus is there without her consent and has no right to siphon nutrients out of her.

Keep in mind that 99% of abortions performed past the point of viability are for issues that either threaten the health of the mother or that would mean a severely reduced quality of life for the child once it's born (if they're born alive at all). It is literally no one but the mother's business if she wants to terminate a pregnancy where she knows that her child will only live for a few agonizing hours. Restrictive cutoffs limit women's ability to make these decisions for themselves and potentially amplify the grief they feel.