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Allowing abortion only for rape or where the woman's life is in danger: a concept that may seem like a good compromise but when you dig further into it it's a disaster. Let's talk about it and why abortion should be freely available without these restrictions. #AbortionStandJA 1/
Let's start with the woman's life in danger: who makes this determination? Pregnancy and childbirth are risky and can cost a woman her life, even if it is a normal pregnancy. If she doesn't want a baby is it not inhumane to force this risk on her? 2/
Now let's think about rape. Who is to determine if a woman was raped, when it's often just her word against the alleged rapist? The police? A court? What happens if there's no proof at all she was raped other than her own word (as is so common)? Does this mean no abortion? 3/
Putting abortion to a referendum is clearly cowardice when Jamaica only had one prior: on leaving the West Indies Federation
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It also implies the whole nation - not just all those capable of getting pregnant and women generally - has a reproductive health interest in its decriminalisation
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One more thing: don't give "pro-life" campaigns benefit of doubt about how many lives they want to save. Their movements never strongly promote pre-/neonatal healthcare reform. They don't actually treat the death of a fetus as murder.
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