Herman,

In saying "There is more evidence for than against the personhood of an unborn child. Should not the benefit of the doubt then rest with the one whose life is in the balance" it is obvious that you either avoiding the issue or lack the ability to understand.

Using your logic, I could be forced to donate blood or even a kidney to someone that needs it.

Also "For example, society incarcerates those who are a threat to society. They no longer have “sole right over their body"

Wrong! they have lost their freedom of movement and association, but not any right over their body. If they had, we could force them to donate blood or other tissue, which we can't.

I find strange your associating pregnancy with committing a criminal act.

The act that obliges doctors to refer patients to more open minded practitioners came about because of abuses of trust by doctors who chose to lecture and bully patients rather than give them sound advice.

While Peter is right that they should rather seek a clinic than see their GP, the reason they see their GP is because they are nervous and wish to discuss it with a familiar face, which places their GP in the position of trust.

The act is not requiring the doctor to be involved in procuring the termination, simply to refer them to some one that can discus all the options. The act makes it difficult to abuse the patients trust.

Net junkie,

"In America, before Roe v Wade, abortions did happen. But they only happened when necessary to preserve life"

Rubbish. Nearly as many occurred as after RVW, the difference was that they were done safely and thousands of young women didn't have to die needlessly.

The anti choice activists are fighting a battle that was lost at the dawn of reason using logic from the dark ages.

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"abortion is murder, the extermination of the powerless by the powerful"...
Camille Paglia, a feminist who nevertheless supports abortion.
At least Camille Paglia is brutally honest and not a self-serving sophist
like the abortion apologists on this forum.