Eorl wrote:real life wrote:Eorl wrote:real life wrote:Eorl wrote:I say we weigh up the pros & cons, get some professional advice and make an informed decision ..... or we could just agree with real life...hmmm tough call......
I have previously linked to documents from two physicians' groups which stated that the unborn is a patient. They do not regard the unborn as a 'lump of protoplasm' or 'a potential human'. So why don't you agree with them? Your position is based on politics, not medicine.
No it's not. The majority medical opinion supports the status quo on abortion. Two doctors could be found to support almost anything.
Support for your position comes from the "right" and the "church". Certainly not from "medicine"
(oh, and as you well know, my position is based on "medicine" for girls/women, not politics)
I didn't say two doctors.
I said two physicians' groups -- The American Academy of Family Physicians, and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.
You have cited no medical evidence to support your opinion -- just twisted reasoning about how if someone died while attempting something illegal, then that is a good argument for making the activity legal. Should we apply that to other illegal activities as well?
Your position is a political one, not based on medicine.
22 MAY 2004 | GENEVA -- The World Health Organization's first strategy on reproductive health was adopted today by the 57th World Health Assembly (WHA). Reproductive and sexual ill-health accounts for 20% of the global burden of ill-health for women, and 14% for men.
The strategy targets five priority aspects of reproductive and sexual health: improving antenatal, delivery, postpartum and newborn care; providing high-quality services for family planning, including infertility services; eliminating unsafe abortion; combating sexually transmitted infections, including HIV, reproductive tract infections, cervical cancer and other gynaecological morbidities; and promoting sexual health.
Each year, some eight million of the estimated 210 million women who become pregnant, suffer life-threatening complications related to pregnancy, many experiencing long-term morbidities and disabilities. In 2000, an estimated 529 000 women died during pregnancy and childbirth from largely preventable causes.
Thanks to WHO.
Where does this say that abortion is necessary to keep these women healthy? It doesn't. That's a political statement which you have read into it, but it's not there.
It says the causes of death are largely preventable. Killing the unborn doesn't have to be part of the 'treatment'.
Interesting also that they state the difference between men and women only to be 6% when men are not pregnant. Your own source seems to negate the point you are trying to make about pregnancy.
Abortion is 100% fatal to the child. It is a much greater risk than pregnancy is to the mother.