Showing posts with label Abortion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Abortion. Show all posts

24 June 2022

Roe v. Wade overturning

The US Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe vs. Wade is a regressive decision that will harm many thousands of women. It needs to be overturned itself - at the ballot box.

I may find the concept of abortion personally distasteful, but the best way to reduce its occurrence is through better contraception and better education, not this.

24 October 2020

Polish court criminalises abortion

The decision by Poland's top courts that abortion due to foetal defects is unlawful as it violates their constitution is manifestly wrong.

I'm not the most comfortable with terminations for social reasons, but I believe that a ban does more harm than good. However, if the foetus is so badly deformed that their life will very short if they survive at all, I would support a termination without hesitation. It's not fair to make any woman give birth to a dead child like that.

Poland is slipping into autocracy and reaction. The EU must act.

23 August 2012

Banning abortion doesn't stop abortions - it just makes them more dangerous

The Republican platform for the 2012 presidential elections calls the banning of all abortions except for when the woman's life is in danger. While Romney supports an exception for cases of rape and incest, this platform.

Have they learned nothing from when abortion was illegal? Women still got abortions - they just did them in secret, under poor medical conditions that cost many of them their fertility at best and their life at worst.

I don't like abortion - however, banning it is not the solution here.