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[januar]

As I'm sure several of you have heard, Dr. George Tiller was shot in his church this morning in Wichita, Kansas. You might have heard, but a suspect was arrested in Gardner, Kansas. The suspect might be from Merriam, Kansas.

I don't like to talk about politics. This is because my family has views one way, and my friends have views another way. I, myself, am a Moderate. Some issues I swing one way, some issues I swing the other.

I believe that abortion should be for cases of rape, or incest. A woman who is in that situation should have the right to decide if she wants to have the child.

However, I do not believe in late term abortion.

That does not mean I think the killing was a good thing. It absolutely wasn't. A person should never be murdered. There is absolutely no excuse for what the killer did. None what-so-ever.

I respect everyone's views, whether they're liberal or conservative, left-wing or right-wing. So please don't hate me for expressing mine.

Comments

[miraielle.livejournal.com]

I just want to note that, in many many cases, late term abortions are performed when women discover that there's serious risk to their own health should they carry their pregnancy to term, or that the baby has a fatal birth defect. I believe I've read statistics showing that 1) "late term abortion" is a very small percentage of overall abortions, and 2) the vast majority of those are for the reasons I mentioned before. Here (http://www.boston.com/news/globe/magazine/articles/2004/01/25/my_late_term_abortion/) is an article (heartwrenching) about a woman's experience with a late-term abortion which really made me think.

In any case, I think money and energy would be far better spent on providing knowledge and care to women so that they're able to choose when they wish to become pregnant, rather than whether or not they want to keep the baby -which is, I think, what most people mean when they say "safe, legal, and rare". It is (I firmly believe) the best possible solution.