ok, I'm somewhat rested now. Heart disease and heart surgery usually do not involve a choice. You have the surgery, or you die. Hobson's choice at best. Abortion is (in most cases) an elective surgery. You can choose to have the operation, or not. This choice is not an easy choice for most, because there's much more of a weighing of consequences than the person who is given the option of Quadruple bypass or Death.
And as to abortion not being a good thing... well it is and it isn't. It's super fantastic that we have access to it, but it's a crime and a shame that people have to resort to it, when proper education and preventative steps will in most cases make it possible to avoid an operation that can have both physical and emotional side effects. In your analogy, (the one I have a problem with), the same would go for heart surgery. Great that we have access to it as a last resort, but it sucks that people expect it to be a safety net and are either not provided preventative health maintenance advice, or that they refuse to take care with their cardiac health, knowing that if their arteries get too clogged, they can just get the bypass.
I had more thoughts and what all, but we'll probably talk in person about abortion at some point, so I figure I'd save those thoughts till then.
You are totally pulling your statistics out of your butt, but okay, change it to gall bladder surgery. The range of conditions it treats are painful and inconvenient, but rarely lethal. Same for abortion.
No one goes in saying "YES! I GET TO HAVE GALL BLADDER SURGERY!" (okay, maybe a few weirdos) but the existence of the procedure for when it is needed is an unmitigated good.
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Date: 2008-02-05 01:29 pm (UTC)And as to abortion not being a good thing... well it is and it isn't. It's super fantastic that we have access to it, but it's a crime and a shame that people have to resort to it, when proper education and preventative steps will in most cases make it possible to avoid an operation that can have both physical and emotional side effects. In your analogy, (the one I have a problem with), the same would go for heart surgery. Great that we have access to it as a last resort, but it sucks that people expect it to be a safety net and are either not provided preventative health maintenance advice, or that they refuse to take care with their cardiac health, knowing that if their arteries get too clogged, they can just get the bypass.
I had more thoughts and what all, but we'll probably talk in person about abortion at some point, so I figure I'd save those thoughts till then.
I like you, so I won't kill you with my mind powers.
Date: 2008-02-05 01:41 pm (UTC)No one goes in saying "YES! I GET TO HAVE GALL BLADDER SURGERY!" (okay, maybe a few weirdos) but the existence of the procedure for when it is needed is an unmitigated good.