No waiting at Pregnancy Counselling Centres

Abortion Grief Counselling Association (AGCS) has sent letters to all members of federal parliament asking them to consider strategies to cut the number of abortions, including a ban on coercion.
"Across Australia the (pre-abortion) counselling…

Bit of a straw-man argument weez….elbows don’t equal foetuses…

Adam, I also don’t see the difference between an elbow and a fetus. Until birth, it’s still a part of the body in which it resides, like any proper elbow. You can bet that if I had a uterus, I’d be in full charge of operation of the device and its contents. Fortunately, the law of the land in Australia agrees.

Since Australian women can control their reproductive bits, there’s no just or lawful cause to make that control more painful or hazardous than necessary. If there’s going to be abortions, they should be as safe and comfortable as possible for women. Restriction of access to painless, nonsurgical abortion is nothing more than punishment for choosing to terminate a pregnancy. We don’t punish people in Australia unless they break laws- and terminating a pregnancy is completely legal.

A vote against RU-486 is a vote in favour of needlessly inflicting pain and risking women’s lives.

Adam, does an elbow equal an empty uterus?

Adam: It’s called a metaphor you dick. A straw man argument is something else entirely. In this case, the metaphor is a device to help you see the issue from another angle. Obviously you missed this entirely because you remain wilfully ignorant and blinded by dogma.

Hear hear. (The original post, that is.)
Hopefully they’ll allow the pill in, might be worth dashing off a few letters to MPs in any case.

Kate, I agree- this is one item that really does require letters to MPs. There’s no logical or just cause to subject women to the risks and discomfort of surgical termination when the same thing can be accomplished with a pill.

The failure to approve mifepristone for pregnancy termination ought to attract a big, fat criminal negligence claim on the government.

Perhaps you used the wrong metaphor. Try asking a bloke if he would like to wait for his scrotum to drop off or if he would like a little pill to fix the problem. JT

JT, I was trying not to be terribly graphic… but you’re not far wrong. 😀

I’m a woman we always go straight for the brain.

JT, then how do you deal with Bronwyn Pike and Tony Abbott? No brains…!

How hard is it to short circuit a robot?

OK, JT, here’s the plan: I will distract them with a jug of wine and some Jesus bickies I nicked from a cathedral. You search around for their OFF switches.

CLICK!

Problem solved.

[…] Barney, let’s get our terms straight: if you’re not changing its nappies and feeding it, it’s not a child, it’s a foetus. A foetus is part of a woman’s body, not unlike her liver or elbows, until she gives birth. A woman has the ultimate right to choose what she wants to do with her elbows and liver. Why can’t she control her uterus and/or her foetus without some man’s approval? Worse, when she’s already been violated in the worst imaginable way, why should our laws victimise her yet again? […]