Great speech by Tucker Carlson on abortion and courage: "If you're afraid of dying, you're doing it wrong"
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Do you not believe that there are pregnancies where the mother's life is in serious danger due to the pregnancy? Such as pre-eclampsia or a ruptured placenta that causes a hemorrhage?
It's easy to dismiss these cases until it affects you, personally. A person can believe they know what they will do in scenarios such as those, but until that time actually comes, it's impossible to know for certain what action they will take.
I live in a very conservative area of the country and most people I know are very pro-life. And some of my friends and family, who are very pro-life, and voted to ban abortions....eventually found themselves in situations where they chose to terminate their own pregnancy.
One case was a mother of 5 who developed pre-eclampsia and had three strokes before she and her husband decided to terminate.
Another was a 13-year-old who was attacked by a child predator.
The last was a pregnancy where the baby had severe physical problems and would not live very long after birth and would only know suffering.
I would hope that no matter what stance a person holds, they would still have empathy for others.
No abortion is needed to preserve the life of the mother. Delivery can always take place without a direct killing of the child. If the child is too young to survive, it will not be by direct abortion. You also don't kill a child directly if the doctors say it will suffer because they have been wrong on this point countless times. Even to the point of telling parents something is wrong with their child which often turns out to be utterly false. The conviction we live by HAS to be "do not kill innocent people" which means let GOD be the Author of life and death.
This is a grossly wide paintbrush that you simply cannot rationally know. There are billions of people on the planet, and you think not one has ever absolutely needed an emergency abortion to prevent further complications to the mother? You must be lucky to think such a way. My family member had a healthy baby until one appointment, there was no brain. Skull enlarged. Genetic testing, profoundly rare anomaly called hydranencephaly. One of 30 cases (documented)) in the world. Had to do emergency delivery immediately, or medical abortion. Doctors recommended medical abortion over delivery due to high risk to the mother. Even the doctors didn't know what to expect because it was such a rare condition. If they hadn't caught it when they did, who knows what would have happened. The body is actually supposed to miscarry a baby with trisomy 6, but I guess my family member was too healthy and too full of motherly love. She was second trimester. She didn't want any of it, in denial and shock, but she was scared and she couldn't go through with delivering, emotionally. She did a medical abortion and it was even more harrowing, as she said the place was sick, demonic, and they wouldn't allow her husband in with her. She had to be surrounded by careless "women" who just didn't give a rats ass about anyone else but themselves, while she was being forced to say goodbye to her only child. Afterwards with more genetic testing, they confirmed trisomy 6, which is incompatible with life. That wasn't a life anymore than a plant is a life. God took that baby away from her well before her procedure.
If you think there is no risk to the mother going into an abortion clinic and having her living, feeling child in the 2nd trimester torn apart limb from limb without anesthesia to the child (because that's how they do it at that stage) as compared with a C-Section delivery in a medical setting, then accompanying the child in its dying process, you are very mistaken. Perforation of the uterus in 2nd trimester abortions are very frequent. Also, hydroencephaly is NOT profoundly rare. People deliver their innocent babies with this condition all the time, and choose to hold their children until natural death. You said, "That wasn't a life anymore than a plant is a life." WOW You know what, human beings don't suddenly lose their humanity because of a handicap or a developmental defect. I can't even believe you wrote such a thing. But I guess, tell yourself what you want to, since it was a family member. But that doesn't make it right or accurate. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysl1tRnk-ig
I'm sorry to hear about your family's tragic outcome. There are more cases like that than most people know.
The general population is largely ignorant of all the things that can go wrong in pregnancy unless they work in the field or have experienced it themselves, or know someone who has.
I aim to hopefully persuade people to become more educated on the things they have such strong opinions about.
I also hope to get people to look at things from various perspectives and to remember to have empathy for their fellow man.
Thank you for adding your experience to this post.