# Should a ten day waiting period be instituted for abortions? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [December 28, 2012, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-a-ten-day-waiting-period-be-instituted-for-abortions/645356 "2012-12-28T04:35:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![gunchris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecb155/32.png) [@gunchris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gunchris)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2012, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-a-ten-day-waiting-period-be-instituted-for-abortions/645356/1 "2012-12-28T04:35:38Z")
Currently, their is a ten day waiting period for your right to own a gun in CA, if rights are subject to these kinds of laws, why cant the state implement them across the board? _Waiting periods for abortions, its for the children._ ---
**Author:** ![Grumman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/43a26b/32.png) [@Grumman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grumman)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2012, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-a-ten-day-waiting-period-be-instituted-for-abortions/645356/2 "2012-12-28T04:45:42Z")
An abortion is less bad the earlier it is, so obviously not. If it’s early enough, when the clump of cells hasn’t developed a human nervous system, it should be at will. If it’s late enough, when the fetus would be able to survive outside the mother’s body, it shouldn’t happen at all. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2012, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-a-ten-day-waiting-period-be-instituted-for-abortions/645356/3 "2012-12-28T04:50:58Z")
Is that going to be the latest talking point? I wonder which it came from, the NRA or the anti-choice crowd. Maybe they’re working together now. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2012, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-a-ten-day-waiting-period-be-instituted-for-abortions/645356/4 "2012-12-28T04:51:30Z")
> [@gunchris](#): > > Currently, their is a ten day waiting period for your right to own a gun in CA, if rights are subject to these kinds of laws, why cant the state implement them across the board? > _Waiting periods for abortions, its for the children._ Medical procedures do not require mandatory waiting periods. ---
**Author:** ![gunchris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecb155/32.png) [@gunchris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gunchris)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2012, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-a-ten-day-waiting-period-be-instituted-for-abortions/645356/5 "2012-12-28T04:52:13Z")
in CA, you have to wait ten days to get a gun. A single mom found out the hard way when she testified against a hells angel in Alemeda, she told the cops that he said he was going to kill her and they simply told her they would be patrolling her neighborhood and to call if she saw him. They killed her son first and made her watch, then her. She needed a gun immediately not in ten days. Most women know if they’re pregnant or not, whats ten days? I know its a _right_ but so is gun ownership. Come to think of it, no one should have an abortion unless they have a background check too. ---
**Author:** ![gunchris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecb155/32.png) [@gunchris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gunchris)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2012, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-a-ten-day-waiting-period-be-instituted-for-abortions/645356/6 "2012-12-28T04:54:00Z")
> [@davidm](#): > > Is that going to be the latest talking point? I wonder which it came from, the NRA or the anti-choice crowd. Maybe they’re working together now. it came from gunchris, he thinks its a great idea, like gun control\* is for the children\*, so is this! ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2012, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-a-ten-day-waiting-period-be-instituted-for-abortions/645356/7 "2012-12-28T04:54:25Z")
A background check for an abortion? Now I know you’re not serious. ---
**Author:** ![gunchris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecb155/32.png) [@gunchris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gunchris)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2012, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-a-ten-day-waiting-period-be-instituted-for-abortions/645356/8 "2012-12-28T04:56:31Z")
> [@IvoryTowerDenizen](#): > > Medical procedures do not require mandatory waiting periods. many states do not require mandatory waiting periods for guns either. Abortion is a right and gun ownership is a right, lets treat all rights equally. ---
**Author:** ![Ibn\_Warraq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e19b73/32.png) [@Ibn\_Warraq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ibn_Warraq)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2012, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-a-ten-day-waiting-period-be-instituted-for-abortions/645356/9 "2012-12-28T04:57:52Z")
Well, this is slightly more original than the attempts to parody the arguments put forth by the gun control advocates. I’ve always found such attempts at parody rather puerile. I don’t recall too many of the pro gun control advocates on the dope starting threads suggesting that gun control was wrong because owning guns was excellent therapy for people with small penises. ---
**Author:** ![gunchris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecb155/32.png) [@gunchris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gunchris)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2012, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-a-ten-day-waiting-period-be-instituted-for-abortions/645356/10 "2012-12-28T04:59:54Z")
> [@davidm](#): > > A background check for an abortion? Now I know you’re not serious. why not? You say you’re in philly? you didn’t hear about this? [http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=news%2Flocal&id=7906881](http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=news%2Flocal&id=7906881) when you attack civil rights you attack all civil rights, lets do it! ---
**Author:** ![gunchris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecb155/32.png) [@gunchris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gunchris)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2012, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-a-ten-day-waiting-period-be-instituted-for-abortions/645356/11 "2012-12-28T05:02:23Z")
> [@Ibn\_Warraq](#): > > I don’t recall too many of the pro gun control advocates on the dope starting threads suggesting that gun control was wrong because owning guns was excellent therapy for people with small penises. Surfing and mc riding is better for that then gun ownership, duh! you put both between your legs ---
**Author:** ![Ibn\_Warraq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e19b73/32.png) [@Ibn\_Warraq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ibn_Warraq)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2012, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-a-ten-day-waiting-period-be-instituted-for-abortions/645356/12 "2012-12-28T05:02:49Z")
> [@gunchris](#): > > why not? You say you’re in philly? you didn’t hear about this? > [http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=news%2Flocal&id=7906881](http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=news%2Flocal&id=7906881) > > when you attack civil rights you attack all civil rights, lets do it! Er… you’re aware people need to get licenses through the AMA to practice any form of medicine including performing abortions. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2012, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-a-ten-day-waiting-period-be-instituted-for-abortions/645356/13 "2012-12-28T05:03:49Z")
> [@gunchris](#): > > **Should a ten day waiting period be instituted for abortions?** No. There should be no waiting periods at all for abortions. Waiting periods for abortions like other anti-abortion measures have the sole purpose of persecuting women. In the case of waiting periods they are especially harsh to poor women, for whom traveling long distances repeatedly is a major burden. > [@gunchris](#): > > Currently, their is a ten day waiting period for your right to own a gun in CA, if rights are subject to these kinds of laws, why cant the state implement them across the board? Guns are not abortions. > [@gunchris](#): > > _Waiting periods for abortions, its for the children._ No, they are about woman-hating bigotry and nothing else. The anti-abortion movement is composed of scum who care nothing for children or for anything else but the persecution of women. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2012, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-a-ten-day-waiting-period-be-instituted-for-abortions/645356/14 "2012-12-28T05:04:12Z")
> [@gunchris](#): > > many states do not require mandatory waiting periods for guns either. > Abortion is a right and gun ownership is a right, lets treat all rights equally. No, let’s not. Lets make logical, not asinine decisions. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2012, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-a-ten-day-waiting-period-be-instituted-for-abortions/645356/15 "2012-12-28T05:07:30Z")
Foeti do not shoot people, so there is no need for a waiting period. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2012, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-a-ten-day-waiting-period-be-instituted-for-abortions/645356/16 "2012-12-28T05:11:49Z")
> [@gunchris](#): > > They killed her son first and made her watch That was neither abortion nor was it indcestuous porn, thus no need for a waiting period. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2012, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-a-ten-day-waiting-period-be-instituted-for-abortions/645356/17 "2012-12-28T05:16:12Z")
I would be in favor of a 10 day waiting period for starting another gun control thread on this MB. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2012, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-a-ten-day-waiting-period-be-instituted-for-abortions/645356/18 "2012-12-28T05:21:56Z")
> [@IvoryTowerDenizen](#): > > Medical procedures do not require mandatory waiting periods. Sex-change operations do, I believe; two years at minimum. Understandable, since irreversible. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2012, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-a-ten-day-waiting-period-be-instituted-for-abortions/645356/19 "2012-12-28T05:33:32Z")
> [@gunchris](#): > > Come to think of it, no one should have an abortion unless they have a background check too. :dubious: For . . . ? ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2012, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-a-ten-day-waiting-period-be-instituted-for-abortions/645356/20 "2012-12-28T05:34:11Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Sex-change operations do, I believe; two years at minimum. Understandable, since irreversible. There’s also the worry that the person may not actually be transsexual, but just emotionally disturbed in some unrelated fashion. Unfortunately at the present the only way they can physically diagnose gender dysphoria is to cut open somebody’s brain and visually inspect certain internal components; which would be crippling or fatal for live subjects. So they feel the need to be extra careful. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-a-ten-day-waiting-period-be-instituted-for-abortions/645356.md?page=2)