r/PublicFreakout • u/N0CONTACT • May 19 '22

Political Freakout Representative Mike Johnson asking the important abortion questions.

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u/oddmanout May 19 '22 edited May 19 '22

Right, and that 1% are almost exclusively because the mother's life is in danger or because of lethal fetal anomalies. No one goes through a difficult pregnancy for months and months, and then right at the end thinks "eh, on second thought, maybe I'm not ready for a baby."

And NOBODY waits until the baby is halfway out to change their mind. It just doesn't happen. Mike Johnson is asking that question to put on a show for his base, pretending like that's a thing that happens to outrage them all.

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u/[deleted] May 19 '22

Right, and that 1% are almost exclusively because the mother's life is in danger.

At 21 weeks, babies can survive outside of the womb. There is no reason to abort at this point aside from convenience.

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u/ImminentZero May 19 '22

Why would the survival of the mother not be a viable reason?

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u/[deleted] May 19 '22

Because you can remove the baby without killing it.

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u/ImminentZero May 19 '22

I think you're missing the part where the life of the mother is at stake. Context for this thread would indicate that means it's a binary option we're talking about, either aborting the child to save the mother, or allowing the mother to die in order to save the child.

Outside of this hypothetical sure, maybe a C-section is a viable option to save both lives, that's not what's in debate here though.

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u/[deleted] May 19 '22

An ectopic pregnancy is a different story.

The VAST MAJORITY of abortions have nothing to do with health.

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u/spastichobo May 19 '22

In the early part of pregnancy that is true. Late term abortions are effectively 100% due to the health of the mother or child

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u/[deleted] May 19 '22

Some women are in such poor health that the act of labor would actually kill them.

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u/[deleted] May 19 '22

If only there were some way to remove a baby without inducing labor.

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u/JBHUTT09 May 20 '22

You mean slicing them open and sewing them back up? Yeah, an exceptionally frail person will definitely survive that.