Abortion and Health Care reform

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I wasn’t going to weigh in on this subject. Because I am Catholic and because I have had a personal experience in my life (a friend) that made me really pained on this issue.

I think abortion should be legal and unhindered by laws that go beyond establishing fetus viability.

BECAUSE:

When I was younger, around 19, a friend who was in a steady relationship came up pregnant. We were not kids we were old enough I guess. But after a few weeks she started to have this pain in her side. Well we thought maybe you should go get checked out. She did. It was then we learned about a condition called an ectopic pregnancy my friend had no choice but to have an abortion or both her and the baby would die.

So there you go.  You make abortion illegal it is a slippery slope. Denying payment for procedures that are abortions likewise condemns women.

Personally I think it is a sin, but medically sometimes it is necessary and so it is a morality decision (past the viability of the fetus, which it then becomes a life on it’s own outside of the womans body – I think) … and here we go again. Because what I think is influenced by my religious beliefs. And I would no more support stoning then forcing someone who does not have my religious views to think about it the same way that I do.

That is where crossing religion with law will end. The stoning of people. Plucking out of eyes. Think about it. Can you legally force morality on a human being with free will? If the answer was yes then the death penalty would mean no murders would take place in areas that have it. So………