Georgia bans most late-terms abortions, assisted suicide - Yay or Nay?

by (▪‿▪)DoctorWhoGuru(▪‿▪) Posted 2012/05/02 04:11:32

Related Topics: Abortion, assisted suicide, Legislation, Georgia, Abortions, Outlaw, Governor, suicide

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Georgia Governor Nathan Deal signed into law two pieces of legislation on Tuesday to restrict late-term abortions and outlaw assisted suicide in the state.

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socokid 2012/05/02 14:22:09

Nay

+4
Less than 1% of procedural abortions occur after week 20, and is almost always due to some medical emergency. So, slightly "meh" on the abortion legislation.

Outlawing assisted suicide, however, is just cruel, horrifying insanity. IMO.
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Donald Eric Kesler 2012/05/05 05:04:43

Nay

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Everyone should have the right to control what transpires within their own bodies. To suggest that the state has the right to legislate what transpires within an individuals body is the height of absurdity.

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Jake 2012/05/03 20:04:05

Nay

+1
How dare they take our FREEDOM from us! Com'on all you FREEDOM LOVING AMERICANS! Don't you DEMAND your RIGHTS along with ME? Why are you welcoming the goverment into your wombs and death beds to let THEM tell YOU what you can and can't do. FREEDOM demands that these laws be turned aside - IMMEDIATELY!

Obviously the Republican Governor and Legislature are really communist-nazis-socialists with a New World Order Agenda.

(How does that taste, righties?)

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Snow 2012/05/02 23:32:12

Nay

+1
Nay to both-- this is why I want to get out of this state ASAP.

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Brandi Angela 2012/05/02 22:19:53

Nay

+1
I am pro-choice, however how late are these 'late' term abortions. My opinion is that if the fetus has a good chance of living outside the womb without any assistance from medical techniques were it to be born premature at this time, then abortion should not be an option. It shouldn't take a woman that long to realize they don't want to be a mother/give birth. However I am all for assisted suicide for terminal illness. If someone I was close to was terminally ill and wanted to die on their terms before the pain got too bad before their mind started to deteriorate and asked me to help them end their life, then I would help them (if it was legal).

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teckila 2012/05/02 21:27:09

Yay

+1
Some situations are really difficult and I don't want to judge women who decide to abort. But in general I am against this. As for assised suicide I find that really weird! In my country we have associations who visit institutions where old people are living and offer their "help" for suicide and now they want to legalize assistance fro suicide. It is kind of crazy I think!

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socokid 2012/05/02 14:22:09

Nay

+4
Less than 1% of procedural abortions occur after week 20, and is almost always due to some medical emergency. So, slightly "meh" on the abortion legislation.

Outlawing assisted suicide, however, is just cruel, horrifying insanity. IMO.

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sjalan to socokid 2012/05/02 15:49:04

+3
Were one of my female family members in need of a late term abortion and the state law prohibited it and that female family member died as a result of that law, I would hunt down every single one of the pukes that voted for that law and give them a summons to trial for wrongful death. and then strip them bare of every asset they owned. Same for the governor.

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socokid to sjalan 2012/05/02 17:41:18

The article seemed to suggest it is allowed if the life of the mother was in danger.

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sjalan to socokid 2012/05/02 21:25:21

+1
From what my cousin, who lives in Atlanta, says the hoops that a woman would have to go through are extensive and would never be guaranteed that she would be able to save her own life. For instance tubular pregnacy would be noted within a reasonable time because of the complications that it produces in a woman. But a major birth defect such as extreme spinabifita would not be recognized until early in the 3rd trimester. The effect is that the woman would have no choice but to birth a brain dead child. That is just plain wrong.

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socokid to sjalan 2012/05/03 11:40:47

That is just plain wrong.
It most certainly would be. Thank you for that insight.

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sjalan to socokid 2012/05/03 20:18:29

+1
The anit-abortion groups are taking this way to far and women will revolt this fall. They are pissed off and I know how it is when my wife goes from a slow boil to pissed off. The blanket condemnation of EVERYTHING in site that she doesn't like gets a real reworking. Right now she is working agianst the local state representative who voted for these outrageous laws. She said if they don't win this time she will run for office in two years against the "B******rd" At 76 she is still a ball of fire when she gets worked up.

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socokid to sjalan 2012/05/04 00:16:52

Heck yeah. If I lived there, she would have my vote. ;-)

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AshtonInTheWake 2012/05/02 12:22:26

Yay

+1
Here, check it out. Murder is wrong. Killiing a baby is wrong. I don't care what name you give it, fetus, it's still a child. Now, I want the next pro abortioner to look at the person to the left of you. Now, shove a knife through his throat. Blow his brains out. Suck the blood from his veins. Watch him bleed out. Cut open his jugular and watch him beg for mercy before his eyes fade out watching the blood on your hands. However harsh my words are... I don't condemn you. But Now, imagine doing that to a baby. It's the same thing. Again, I don't condemn you. It may sound close, but I've got personal stake in this. I'm just trying to inform you on the mental anguish you will start to feel later on in life. Don't do it, man. It's not right, and the shame will eat you alive. It's not a woman's body the moment the sperm fertilizes that egg and they start developing, the body starts forming. Don't want the kid? Don't get knocked up, simple as that. Realize that you couldn't take care of him or her? Adoption. There are many families who would love to have a child, yes, families that can't have children of their own. Don't be selfish. Don't be a murderer. Have you imagined a perfect guy or girl for you? Have you imagined what they looked like, their personality, their likes/dislikes, m...

Here, check it out. Murder is wrong. Killiing a baby is wrong. I don't care what name you give it, fetus, it's still a child. Now, I want the next pro abortioner to look at the person to the left of you. Now, shove a knife through his throat. Blow his brains out. Suck the blood from his veins. Watch him bleed out. Cut open his jugular and watch him beg for mercy before his eyes fade out watching the blood on your hands. However harsh my words are... I don't condemn you. But Now, imagine doing that to a baby. It's the same thing. Again, I don't condemn you. It may sound close, but I've got personal stake in this. I'm just trying to inform you on the mental anguish you will start to feel later on in life. Don't do it, man. It's not right, and the shame will eat you alive. It's not a woman's body the moment the sperm fertilizes that egg and they start developing, the body starts forming. Don't want the kid? Don't get knocked up, simple as that. Realize that you couldn't take care of him or her? Adoption. There are many families who would love to have a child, yes, families that can't have children of their own. Don't be selfish. Don't be a murderer. Have you imagined a perfect guy or girl for you? Have you imagined what they looked like, their personality, their likes/dislikes, morals... Now, imagine ripping that person away from someone else, someone else, just like you, who's longing for that person in their lives. See what I mean? If the kid's raised right, with respect and love, they'll end up a good kid.
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socokid to AshtonI... 2012/05/02 17:50:02

+2
How deranged.

Do you treat a human the same way you treat a chimpanzee, a bunny rabbit an ant, a rock?

Then how could a sane person suggest shoving a knife into the neck of a stranger... a person that can feel pain, is self-aware, has memories, families, friends, etc... is the same as a stranger ending the progress of an unfeeling, unaware growth in in their own body (not yours)?

Take one of the 10's of thousands of orphans we have in this country right NOW.

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AshtonI... to socokid 2012/05/03 12:26:28

Call me deranged, love. Call me what you will... But murder is murder, no matter who it is, or how young they are.

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polkastria 2012/05/02 10:53:48

Nay

+2
Some families have to wait for testing to come back and they are the ones that will want access to late term abortions.. For non medical issues.. I don't agree with late term abortions. But having been one of those parents that had to wait till the pregnancy was far enough along for some tests... those parents need all their options open if the results come back badly.

I'm all for assisted suicide as long as it's not from depression or something teenage and overly dramatic. I watched my grandfather die very slowly and painfully from cancer. No way I would do that to my family. I'd rather go when I choose to go. And have some dignity at the end.

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Vinny 2012/05/02 08:43:34

Yay

+1
I know I couldn't go through with an abortion!!

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susan BN-0 2012/05/02 08:27:51

Yay

+1
Yea for the late term abortion,undecided for assisted suicide.

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Z 2012/05/02 07:54:24

Yay

+1
Yay for decrease in abortion, nay for decrease in assisted suicide.

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Andrew 2012/05/02 07:40:25

Yay

+2
It is a start!

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john Kills 2012/05/02 07:25:02

Yay

+3
Glad to see they are doing something right. This still doesn't make up for the barry birth certificate flub up.

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Jiorgia 2012/05/02 06:55:04

Yay

+1
i am actually pro-choice, but i think late term abortions (after 20 weeks) should ONLY be for medical reasons, if it has taken you more then 20 weeks to decide whether or not you are going to have an abortion then thats your bad. (sorry guys but this is a major thing).
the 20-25 week mark is actually rather important in a pregnant womans development, she has just realised that this is actually happening, she is having a baby, her life is going to change, many freak out and abort only to then regret it as this panic stage is just a phase.

if you have gotten that far in your pregnancy, you should have to stick it out, put the baby up for adoption if you still dont want it.

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Jiorgia to Jiorgia 2012/05/02 06:56:27

+2
but NAY for outlawing assisted suicide.
i'm pro choice remember.

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EmoMcParland 2012/05/02 06:35:15 (edited)

Yay

+4
Murdering children is wrong 3D Ultra Ultra sound 28 weeks. My Grand daughter
My Grand daughter on the way home full term

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susan BN-0 to EmoMcPa... 2012/05/02 08:24:55

+2
She's beautiful.

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Marleneemm 2012/05/02 06:24:43

Yay

+3
I'm for a ban on late term abortions.
if you don't want the child, then give it up for adoption.
there are many childless families who would love to have a child.

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666_Maggots~PassionForGlory... 2012/05/02 06:18:42 (edited)

Nay

+2
Meh, I'm not much a supporter on that... People should be able to do whatever ever they want with their body, AND YES a baby is part of the womans body! It's
inside her! Pfft and I'm all for death.

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Andrew to 666_Mag... 2012/05/02 07:43:14

+1
So at nine months on the due date, you should be able to exterminate the baby as long as it is still inside the mother? Do you comprehend how sick you sound to even the liberal?!

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666_Mag... to Andrew 2012/05/02 14:55:55

+1
Cool. Do you really think I care?

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Andrew to 666_Mag... 2012/05/02 21:25:25

Obviously not! You're still barbaric!

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666_Mag... to Andrew 2012/05/02 21:28:13

Okay, looooovely.

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justnotsaying (: 2012/05/02 05:59:48

Nay

+3
It's the woman's choice. If people want to die(assisted suicide) it's their choice, can't force a person to live. Guess they will just find other alternatives.

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Andrew to justnot... 2012/05/02 07:44:29

You don't need assistance to commit suicide. If you don't have the courage to do it yourself, perhaps you aren't sure of what you really want!

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billie.... to Andrew 2012/05/02 10:35:48

+2
In a comatose state, unable to eat or drink unassisted, I'm pretty sure you would need help to end your suffering... and as for using the word 'courage' to imply that's what people need to end their lives? It takes more courage to live. This isn't about courage.

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justnot... to Andrew 2012/05/02 15:22:26

+1
As the person below me stated; some sick people do need assistance.

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NYCbrit 2012/05/02 05:37:14 (edited)

Yay

+1
... on the late term abortions, Nay on assisted suicide. Late term abortions are horribly unnecessary in addition to being morally reprehensible and just plain vile. Regarding assisted suicide...We put animals out of their misery yet we can't chose this for ourselves and that is wrong IMHO.

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beach bum 2012/05/02 05:24:58

Yay

+2
yay

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Harjot 2012/05/02 04:53:09

Nay

+2
I disagree with both practices but prefer to leave moral decisions to the infividuals involved.

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Andrew to Harjot 2012/05/02 07:45:24

+1
So if the baby wants to live, you support its protection? Do you ever consider that aspect?

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jeane to Harjot 2012/05/02 13:23:46

I don't kill Jews but that is someone else's moral decision.

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