Have you ever wondered while those mean ole pro-lifers oppose an abortion exception which allows a woman to abort her unborn child for mental health reasons?
It isn't because they're insensitive to the pressures faced by the pregnant woman. Rather, they know that such an exception would by nature be so subjective as to allow any abortion.
LifeSiteNews reports that in New Zealand Justice Forrest Miller found that the vast majority of abortions in that country are being performed under false pretenses using the "mental health" exception.
Approximately 18,000 abortions are performed every year in New Zealand, 98.9% of which are carried out on the grounds of mental health concerns.
Yes, that figure said practically 99% of the abortions in New Zealand are being done on the "mental health" exception.
In South Dakota in 2006, 2.1% of abortions in the state were performed for reasons of emotional health, which is essentially the same thing.
Since 84.6% were done in South Dakota for no other reason than "The mother did not desire to have the child," do you think we'd see the percentage done for "mental/emotional health" reasons drastically increase if that was one of the few or only exceptions remaining? Undoubtedly.
Mental and emotional health justifications are simply too subjective to be enforced. Any sort of mental distress, anxiety or discomfort could be used to justify an abortion.
The exceptions for rape, incest, the life and physical health of the mother allowed in South Dakota's Initiated Measure 11 are, while inconsistent with a true pro-life position, the most reasonable compromise that could possibly be made.
Based on polls taken in 2006 which found that over 70% of South Dakotans would support a pro-life bill like Initiated Measure 11, it should pass this November.
HT to the VoteYesForLife.com blog.
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