Monday, December 13, 2010

Abortion

1. An undue burden is anything that actually prevents a women from getting an abortion. Sure, the government can limit the amount of facilities that give abortions or give regulations for when it is no longer moral to abort a fetus (i.e. several weeks before its birth, when it could potentially be born and survive on its own) but laws that actually prevent women from getting aboritions at all are, in my opinion, "undue burdens". Restricting abortion clinics with dumb laws like they have to be in a "pretty" setting or have hallways of a certain width and lenght would be what I consider undue burdens.
2. Taxpayer dollars should pay to help people who shouldn't or do not have the means to pay for abortions (poor unhealthy mothers-to-be) the same way we support any other charity cause. Tax dollars should not be used to cover health plans of people who, for some reason or another, get abortions, can afford it, but don't want to.
3. Abortion needs to be legal. There are too many "what if" situations where it seems like people just need abortions. When you make abortions illegal, nobody has access to them. If you keep abortion legal, people who are against them don't have to get them and can do everything they can to convince people not to, but at least the option is still there.

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