Why would you go through the trouble of carrying a baby for 9 months and buying new maternity clothes and getting stretch marks and changing your eating and sleeping habits and all that just to abort the thing when it's halfway out the door?
Fetal anomalies or risks to health of the pregnant woman. Some women don't realize they are pregnant until late in the pregnancy.
Also, some women don't have access to an early abortion that they can afford, so they actually end up paying more for a later term abortion.
At that point, why not carry it to term and give it up for adoption?
Do you think that women who can't afford an early abortion can afford to be off of work with a pregnancy?
I will admit that risk of health to the mother is a definite time for consideration. But in the grand scheme how often is that still an issue? According to a quick bit of research less than 1% of abortions performed are to save the mother's life.
Well late term abortions only make up about 1% of all abortions performed so that is in line with the number you gave.
If your argument is why worry about something that only happens 1% of the time, then why do you even care about late term abortions?
Also, even if (and that's a big IF) a woman can work right up to her due date, then what? She comes back the day after she gave birth? The reality is that low-income women are in jobs that do not have paid maternity leave.
I'll agree that 1% is the same as 1%, but you are comparing apples to oranges. My point is that using the argument that someone who is anti-abortion wants mothers to die is a very weak stance. The vast majority of abortions have nothing to do with saving a mother's life. I will say I support saving a mother's life if there is no way to also save the child's.
I do not however support the murder of babies who are near their due date just because it happens less rarely than babies being murdered with a few more months until their due date. That is a ridiculous comparison.
I agree that all companies should offer paid maternity leave. I also support the example of several countries who require paid paternity leave so the mother has support from the father during those first important weeks. If defunding planned parenthood meant that it would be impossible to move forward the cause of paid maternity leave you might have a point in this argument, but it doesn't.
Planned parenthood is a speck on the radar of government supported health care for women. Like the link I previously posted mentioned, there are an astronomically larger number of non profit clinics who provide the same services. The difference? Those clinics aren't supporting democratic candidates with millions of dollars. Liberals love to talk about an end to corporate welfare and getting money out of elections, but refuse to defund an organization that makes large donations for democratic political campaigns.
