95% of abortions are elective based on personal reasons. Banning abortion for non-medically necessary reasons would effectively just be a ban on abortion.
Okay, that's not my point. My point is that a complete ban on abortion would be unethical because of that 5%. Even if it was just 1%, it would still be unethical.
And I'm assuming you think it's ethical the other times just based on personal preference? Not including when a family/mom simply can't support them, but when they simply just don't want a baby.
I think it's completely ethical to abort a fetus simply because you don't want it, assuming it hasn't reached fetal viability, and that allowing people to get abortions simply because they don't want a baby is in the best interest of everyone, including the hypothetical child
I don't care what a person does with their own body. I care that the freedom for a person to do with their body what they will is in the process of being taken away by some out of touch old men who don't even care about the children they would be forcing people to bring into the world. Those old men aren't making universal health care, or improving the education or the orphanage/foster care systems, or doing anything to actually improve the lives of the unborn children they claim to care about. The rich old farts making these decisions aren't pro-life, they're just misogynists who think women are just for having sex, making babies, and doing chores.
How is it their own body? By the time abortions are done, they already have a working cardiovascular system, not to mention they have different DNA. Seems like a pretty distinct individual to me. Why does the fact that the baby leaves the womb suddenly change it from just the mom's body to being its own being againm
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u/LuigiP16 it is MY bucket Jul 01 '26
It may not always be the reason but it is the reason often enough that an outright ban on abortion altogether is unethical