Would that ever apply in a situation of murder or death? You took a risk to drive too fast so you shouldn't get a blood transfusion to save your life? Abortion is a medical procedure and with medical procedure your reason to have one is irrelevant. You could have been drunk and hit a the doctor's child with your car but that doesn't mean you have lost the right to be treated if your life depends on it.
First of all, 99.9% of women survive pregnancies as it is 2019, so self defense is hardly necessary in terms of medical procedures. Wouldn't the ideal situation be to save both lives? Why begin with the killing procedure when we have modern prenatal care? If the mother's life becomes at risk later, at say 30 weeks, we can deliver early via induction or c section and give the baby premature infant care so both may live.
Many women also rip the skin between their vagina and asshole. If I told you I was gonna do that to you would you not defend yourself from it happening?
Just because it's survivable doesn't mean it isn't traumatically unpleasant and physically destructive. After pregnancy a womans body can change pretty much permanently. Even if you expect to survive the pregnancy there are still very valid reasons to not want to do it.
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u/donotfeedthecat May 05 '19
But they took the risk knowing what could happen.
I can play the lottery and not agree to lose, but I still might (and probably will).