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Does abortion qualify as healthcare?
I'm not going to express my opinion on this. I'd like to know yours.
@End of the Trail: No...no, I wouldn't. You failed to answer. Cool story bro.
@ realistic girl: Thank you for a sincere response. In regard to the point you made about every operation performed by a doctor qualifying as healthcare, I am curious to know whether you consider, too, sex-change operations and breast implant procedures to be healthcare?
As I see it, healthcare must involve caring for one's health. I don't see how the procedures I mentioned fall under these parameters. I suppose this is a different question altogether, but what are your thoughts on this?
@Really?: I will address your question, even though it in no way answers mine. The concern surrounding the issue of federal funding of abortions, as I see it, comes down to three important points:
1) The Hyde Amendment is an impermanent law, as it is renewed annually by Congress. The Republican party meanwhile is drafting a permanent solution to the problem. We'll see what comes of that.
2) When you take (1) into account, you also have to consider the battle of semantics. Obamacare is concerned with healthcare, and if you consider abortion a qualifying facet of healthcare, then through a battle of linguistics you have eked it under the radar.
3) In regard to the federal funding of Planned Parenthood clinics which provide abortions, you have not an issue of directly funding abortion, but an issue of provided fungibility.
@Rolling: I think there are discernible differences between a sonogram and an abortion. Chiefly, a sonogram is used to determine the health of the fetus and can enable healthcare providers to take preventative measures against any number of complications that may arise. In this way, a sonogram is comparable to an x-ray, not an abortion.
I think there are many reasonable arguments to suggest that abortion is not simply the removal of "something" from a person's body, but the termination of a human life. I suppose we are getting again into a battle of semantics when one speaks of the mental or emotional "harm" caused by a pregnancy.
I appreciate your reasoned answer just the same.
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- JayLv 79 years agoFavorite Answer
It could. Even those that are adamant against it, I'd think, would see places where it can help improve the health (or save the life) of the mother.
- 9 years ago
Yep, it's a medical procedure that removes something from the body that could potentially seriously harm or even kill the pregnant person. Even if it potential to harm the person physically is low, there is still the harm it can cause psychologically and emotionally.
It's considered health care when a pregnant person simply gets a sonogram, why wouldn't an abortion be considered health care?
- Anonymous9 years ago
Yes. Any case where a surgery has to be performed by a doctor is considered a part of healthcare.
Especially, in the situation of a ectopic pregnancy, miscarriage, C-Section that result in the death of the mother. I am told by some doctors I know, Maternal death due to pregnancy is an under covered and growing issue in the United States at the moment.
- JanianLv 79 years ago
Here in the UK it depends on the circumstances...
To receive an abortion at the tax payers expense you must see 2 different doctors and they both must agree that you will suffer physically or mentally because of pregnancy.
If they don't agree you must have the procedure done privately.
EDIT - the same goes here for cosmetic surgery, if you were born deformed or injured then the NHS will look after you as it affects your mental health. If you just want bigger boobs you have to pay :-)
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- Call me IshmaelLv 79 years ago
I am a conservative republican and a right to life advocate and I do walk the talk. many years age Sherri Finkbine should have received an abortion in the United States and it should have been classified as health care. She had taken a medication that was unknown to contain Thalidomide.
Source(s): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherri_Finkbine - Anonymous9 years ago
According to the abortionists.
Used to be a mother would die before causing any harm to her baby.
But since the unborn have been downgraded that ain't so anymore.
The equivalent is Hitler's downgrading of the Jews.
- 9 years ago
The way I see it is when Planned Parenthood aborts 3,000 babies a day they should for One be called Unplan Parenthood, and killing a baby doesn't seem like anything to do with Healthcare- but seems more like Murder to me.
- Really?Lv 79 years ago
It is against6 the l;aw to use fed money for abortion so what is the point?
castration of men is the solution. One child and cut it!
Viagra is the cause of sex crimes
- carolehi5Lv 69 years ago
No, it qualifies as murder and if you want to pay for murder of infants, that's your choice, an unwise choice, but your choice. You do not have the right to make me pay for your sins or force me to help pay for someone else to murder their infant.
