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It's not turning a blind eye, it's accurately interpreting that forcing a woman to give birth when she wants an abortion will be detrimental to her mental healt
by swores 4y ago
It's not turning a blind eye, it's accurately interpreting that forcing a woman to give birth when she wants an abortion will be detrimental to her mental health, thus making her abortion legal.
Sure it could have stronger wording in law, but it's not causing any problems as it current is. But you've misunderstood it from your first comment, where you wrongly said it is a "criminal offence" when done here in England which is just entirely wrong.
- mytailorisrich 4y ago> But you've misunderstood it from your first comment, where you wrongly said it is a "criminal offence" when done here in England which is just entirely wrong. No, I never wrote that that abortion was always a criminal offence. I wrote: Abortion is not on demand and any abortion that does not satisfy the legal criteria can thus be a criminal offence. It is no more than a statement of fact. This the law. "Mental health" is a very fuzzy term and it is not enough to say it to make so. It's just that at the moment no-one wants to create trouble on this and are indeed turning a blind eye by taking the approach you mention. But if for some reason authorities want to create trouble then they could just use the law as it stands as well. And indeed there are calls to decriminalise abortion because it isn't in law.
- mbg721 4y ago
- otikik 4y agoMaybe “disorder” is not the exact right word to use. Still, there should be a distinction in our words between “a regular, wanted pregnancy” and “a pregnancy which came as a consequence of a rape”, for example.
- mbg721 4y agoThose are few and far between; grasping at straws to get the outcome that we want is closer to the truth.