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to *assume* that all women need to spend more time "thinking" about having an abortion. Of course there is nothing "wrong" with waiting and thinking about such a decision as you so disingenuously suggest --
Because that is what these prescribed/enforced waiting periods are based on, this insulting and ultimately diminishing assumption that women are prone to less-than-rational, snap decisions regarding their health and well-being. Have you ever been treated as a simpleton and incapable of making your own decisions? Would you like to have that codified into law? That's what these rules do, period-- and only to women.
Oh, and try reading the passage you quoted very carefully -- she wasn't suggesting that *all* women need enforced "thinking time", she was talking about cases when the patient is clearly still struggling with her decision. Because, even though we are fragile, and in desperate need of strong, manly men like you to force us to stop and think about these difficult decisions that we usually take so lightly -- in the end, at least for now, it is our decision.
I certainly hope that you do your part by sticking to your vow of chastity-- the very best way to stop unwanted pregnancies, right? Then you don't have to worry about irrational women making these snap decisions to terminate pregnancies on a whim.
