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In reply to the discussion: Hillary Clinton Answer On Abortion Leaves 'Pro-Life' Senator Speechless [View all]MADem
(135,425 posts)YES it should be rare. In fact, nowadays, they are getting RID of "whole knee" replacement and going to partial knee replacement. One of these days, maybe they'll find a way to repair knees with a needle full of space-age "bone cement" or even stem cells, so they don't have to chop out the bone and put in metal or ceramics. Any invasive procedure that involves a doctor CHOPPING on you should be as rare as one can manage. If it's possible to avoid it, one should.
It used to be that to remove a gallbladder they had to gut a patient like a fish. Nowadays, they poke a few small holes in the patient and slide that thing out without leaving much of a scar. That old style slicing-and-dicing is "rare" nowadays and good thing, too. The only place they'd do that kind of old school surgery nowadays is in places where the newer equipment isn't available.
Dogging Clinton for using "rare" as if she means something other than "Gee, if women had access to education, family planning, medications, doctors to prescribe birth control, PLAN B, etc., that would make abortion less of a front-line option" is just a cheap shot.
As for pregnancy, it should be as rare as the person carrying the fetus wants it to be.