Legal barriers, such as the blanket 20-week gestation limit, no mention of unmarried women in the clause of contraceptive failure, the need for physician’s consent – all constrain and deny women reproductive justice.
Pakistan failed to understand the fiercely independent psyche of the Afghans and Pashtun nationalism, which has dominated politics in Afghanistan since its emergence in 1747.
Tajikistan did not want to extend the lease because of apparent pressure from Russia & China over non-regional military personnel at the air base, it is learnt.
On 21 Oct, a buzz went up that the govt had released full list of gallantry award recipients along with Op Sindoor citations. I put an AI caddy on the job. It took me into a never-ending rabbit hole.
Apart from the suggestion on removal of the 20 week limit, I agree with everything else the doctor has written. After 20 weeks, the foetus becomes a live baby. It’s murder to abort it after 20 weeks unless the health of the mother is at risk or there is some severe complication. In case, a rape victim wants an abortion after 20 weeks, she can be given the option of giving birth and then giving the baby up for adoption or to an orphanage. However, the baby should not be murdered.
Common sense reality tells us that a mother does not own the child in her womb—the ties are not ties of ownership but ties of deep belonging. Her tiny daughter or son belongs to her and she belongs to her child. It is the natural intimacy of two human beings, not of owner and object, or master and slave.
It’s not just “her” body—in every pregnancy there is another body, an active little body, a tiny daughter or son, a tiny somebody, deserving a mother’s protection, a father’s protection and the protection of the law.
A mother’s unborn child is already here, already in existence, being protected and nurtured in her/his mother’s womb.
The truth is that we women have no “right to choose” to have the abortionist inflict a deadly harmful procedure on another human being–in our power and under our care–no matter how small or dependent or ‘unwanted’. No human being has ownership and killing rights over another human being.
Adequate nutrition, the protective environment of the mother’s womb, and benign medical care are “basic rights” of every new human being and because of their fundamental necessity to the nurturing of life; they are the unborn child’s minimum and reasonable demands on her/his biological mother, father, their families and their community.
A mother nurturing her little daughter or son in her womb is exercising her natural duty of care. It is just the ordinary care owed by every mother to her child–nothing extraordinary–just exactly what our reproductive systems are equipped to do. It is just what our mothers did for us and what our grandmothers did for our mothers and what our great-grandmothers did for our grandmothers.
Apart from the suggestion on removal of the 20 week limit, I agree with everything else the doctor has written. After 20 weeks, the foetus becomes a live baby. It’s murder to abort it after 20 weeks unless the health of the mother is at risk or there is some severe complication. In case, a rape victim wants an abortion after 20 weeks, she can be given the option of giving birth and then giving the baby up for adoption or to an orphanage. However, the baby should not be murdered.
Common sense reality tells us that a mother does not own the child in her womb—the ties are not ties of ownership but ties of deep belonging. Her tiny daughter or son belongs to her and she belongs to her child. It is the natural intimacy of two human beings, not of owner and object, or master and slave.
It’s not just “her” body—in every pregnancy there is another body, an active little body, a tiny daughter or son, a tiny somebody, deserving a mother’s protection, a father’s protection and the protection of the law.
A mother’s unborn child is already here, already in existence, being protected and nurtured in her/his mother’s womb.
The truth is that we women have no “right to choose” to have the abortionist inflict a deadly harmful procedure on another human being–in our power and under our care–no matter how small or dependent or ‘unwanted’. No human being has ownership and killing rights over another human being.
Adequate nutrition, the protective environment of the mother’s womb, and benign medical care are “basic rights” of every new human being and because of their fundamental necessity to the nurturing of life; they are the unborn child’s minimum and reasonable demands on her/his biological mother, father, their families and their community.
A mother nurturing her little daughter or son in her womb is exercising her natural duty of care. It is just the ordinary care owed by every mother to her child–nothing extraordinary–just exactly what our reproductive systems are equipped to do. It is just what our mothers did for us and what our grandmothers did for our mothers and what our great-grandmothers did for our grandmothers.