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In Canada we've all ready given the choice to the woman, the person who is impacted the most by an unwanted pregnancy.

I'm very surprised that this is still an issue in the United States considering how much everyone values their own individual rights. Usually American's stand in great force to protect these individual rights. So would you want your government to have the right to make decisions such private decisions for you? Once you start giving up the right to make informed and educated choices regarding your body what else will you allow your government to decide for you?

As in Canada, there shouldn't be restrictions on abortions except for the age of the fetus, the woman must be of age ( or have guardianship representation) and she must be made fully aware of the medical procedure.

Setting restrictions would just be a time consuming dictatorship. If a decision is made resulting in a woman being turned down for an abortion, where whould she turn to for an appeal on the decision? A woman who is in need of an abortion only has a small window of time to do so and tying that time-frame up in red-tape and bureaucracy would only result in forcing desperate women to go underground for these medical services. Many times these types of abortions are done without medical professionals and are botched causing permanent damage or loss of life. How can that be okay?

Making the decision to have an abortion is hard enough, but then to be made to justify your decision to group of impersonal decision makers would be an horrendous experience to go through. The only reason I could ever see this type of panel put together would be to make it as difficult as possible for a woman to get the abortion she is seeking. When a woman has to make the choice to have an abortion she isn't looking for an excuse, as I've heard some narrow minded, anti-choice people say. She is making a choice that only she can make.

If the United States took this route there would have to be guidelines to be determined and set in place. Who has the right to decide what those guidelines would look like? The guidelines would have to be based on non-medical issues, since it has all ready been established that the only reason a woman could recieve an abortion, medically, would be if her life was endangered. So would a wealthy women qualify for an abortion or would it only be women living poverty. Would you want your goverment to be able to determine which pregnancies can be terminated?

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