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<blockquote data-quote="othluver" data-source="post: 3272990" data-attributes="member: 219511">Other than PASmith&#039;s point about maybe that woman does need an abortion, I don&#039;t like examples like that. (I get its just a quick anecdotal thing by the way ) They&#039;re very extreme examples that are also incredibly rare, but they seem to get mentioned a lot as a way of saying &quot;look, this is why abortion is bad because of women like this.&quot; Its the equivalent of when you have a discussion about the welfare system and someone says &quot;well look at this story about an immigrant family with 16 kids and they were gifted a mansion.&quot; Its an outlier that doesn&#039;t represent the vast, vast majority of people that any end decision is going to effect. It would be like if I went and found a story about a girl who was raped by her father, was forced to keep the pregnancy because abortion was illegal and she then commited suicide. Its an emotive case for making abortion legal, but its such an extreme and rare situation that its really not worth much in the overall debate.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="othluver, post: 3272990, member: 219511"] Other than PASmith's point about maybe that woman does need an abortion, I don't like examples like that. (I get its just a quick anecdotal thing by the way ) They're very extreme examples that are also incredibly rare, but they seem to get mentioned a lot as a way of saying "look, this is why abortion is bad because of women like this." Its the equivalent of when you have a discussion about the welfare system and someone says "well look at this story about an immigrant family with 16 kids and they were gifted a mansion." Its an outlier that doesn't represent the vast, vast majority of people that any end decision is going to effect. It would be like if I went and found a story about a girl who was raped by her father, was forced to keep the pregnancy because abortion was illegal and she then commited suicide. Its an emotive case for making abortion legal, but its such an extreme and rare situation that its really not worth much in the overall debate. [/QUOTE]

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