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I am curious, what do you call indiscriminate?
Example
A woman uses birth control, ends up pregnant.
She has no insurance and will be faced with emergency Medicaid in an area where she will have to spend long periods of time on multiple bus trips to get to a scheduled appointment at the county clinic (there will be many). Each time she will need to miss work because she cannot commit to what time she will be able to get to work that day.
She is part of the working poor, so she is housing insecure....missing a paycheck could mean potential eviction. Missing one day of work could mean her phone or electricity gets turned off.
Because she has emergency medicaid and less than optimal access to medical care she is more likely to have bad consequences to be found later. One of my severe complications was found AFTER it had already affected my kidneys. I felt no symptoms. I felt fine. After I received initial treatment I was told to take off work for the rest of my pregnancy (nearly 3 months). How many women who are working poor would go back to work and pray for the best...because....well....rent? My OBGYN saw a very subtle sign and investigated further. How many doctors at a overburdoned understaffed county clinic have that time??
So if she decides she is too under resourced to safely continue the pregnancy, do you call an early abortion indiscriminate - if so, why?
I call it homicide due to irresponsibility. If you're going to take the chance of getting pregnant knowing you can't afford it, deal with the consequences in a decent manner.
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