So I was reading an old old article from the american journal of sociology written by an official from the department of psychological warefare about the effect of the revelation of the holocaust on the german people. They simply blamed the nazis for it. Few, if any, assigned direct blame for the atrocities with the german people. I thought that was interesting, the level of "oh well, not my problem" attitude they talked about when interviewing civilians.
Women's life: yes; physical health: no; mental health: no; Rape: no; Incest: yes; Fetal Impairment: yes; Socioeconomic: no; On Request: no. No abortion is allowed after the first trimester.
Curious, but why does your nation exclude on the premise of rape? Usually this and incest go hand in hand as the only exceptions when it comes to restricting access
Actually Townside you can put an asterisk next to "mother's life". After taking into consideration necessity and the lack of alternatives, the principle of double effect allows certain treatments for Ectopic pregnancies; i.e. those that do not directly kill the embryo, but may result in its death as a second order effect.
http://www.ncregister.com/blog/kschiffer/xxxxwhen-pregnancy-goes-awry-the-moral-ending-to-an-ectopic-pregnancy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_double_effect ^ If anyone is interested in the details of the argument.
Warlock is by far and away my favourite spellcasting class, mostly because of the flavor. To the point that my character in the next campaign I'm playing in is a jury-rigged Hexblade (there's no Warlock class in Pathfinder, so I had to multiclass Fighter, Havocker Witch and prestige class into Eldritch Knight to get the build).
Nights edge
Warlock is super neat, and I too like it as a spellcaster. It just has a time and a place
Not surprised. Pushing the blame on Germany and forcing it to pay reparations it felt it didnt need to pay didnt end well the first time.
Belle ilse en terre
Menna shuli
Backstory for that character, noting that this is a living campaign world and stuff refers back to previous characters and events:
Penelope Austracius is the fourth of seven children, and the only girl in a rich Chelaxian merchant family. When her family left back to the homeland at the end of their merchant license in the city of Magnimar, she stayed because she didn't quite agree with the diabolism of Cheliax. Trained in fencing, she decided to become an adventurer, but her ego generally just had her duelling and doing basic mercenary work as a bodyguard. Then she met Brazza Breaks-Where-She-Steps. She and the giant warpriest wound up fighting alongside one another, and Penelope became inspired by Brazza's morals to try and be a better person. The two met up several more times and began a relationship, which eventually led to Brazza asking Penelope to marry her, giving Penelope a masterwork scimitar in place of a ring. However, Penelope still had her ego even after all this, but now it manifested as a lack of self-worth in comparison to Brazza, one of the famed and immensely powerful Heroes of Sandpoint. She decided that she would say yes, but disappeared to find an adventure as big as the one Brazza had gone on that had led to the end of Runelord Karzoug. To aid in this, she began to look in other places for a way to become as powerful as the woman she loved, and came across the rumours of the new goddess, the Redeemer Queen. Reaching out to this enigmatic entity, she found it willing to give her power, but the chaotic goddess of whimsy and travel would have her own purposes for the lovestruck duelist...
Nights edge
Eww homosexuality
But for real though, you put way more work into your characters than anyone I've ever played with so it's always neat to see what that brain of yours cooks up
Belle ilse en terre
Menna shuli
I like knowing where my characters come from. It makes RPing them easy peasy. Also, my DM likes having us tie our PCs to old PCs, which means we have to consider those links (Penelope to Brazza, for example). I also deliberately made this character have a big family so I can roll up her brothers in the future if I want to.
Also, not exactly homosexuality. Brazza is a confirmed asexual from past play, but would have that big gay energy in terms of romantic interest. Penelope is bisexual, and a bit androgynous in general anyways.
Why should the child be punished for the sins of the father?
Menna shuli
Why does the mother, who had no choice, get punished for being the victim of one of the most vile crimes by having to be responsible, financially and otherwise, for a child? Why should a woman have the physical stress of carrying a child forced on them when they were already raped?
Arguments like "why should the child be punished for the sins of the father" always subtract the mother from the equation.
MS is a no across the board. Although it doesn't stop back-alley doctors or the private doctors of the princely caste from doing it anyways, with varying degrees of safety.
When it comes to the abortion issue, it is hard to say what is right or wrong. While I personally am not for it, I remember the horrors before Roe vrs Wade. When crooked doctors set up chop shops in filthy hotel rooms or desperate girls took metal coat hangers and tore their insides up trying to give themselves an abortion. A line has to be drawn somewhere. New York and Alabama have gone to the opposite ends of extreme. My wife and I are both babies born from rape, her mother was 13 mine 16, and we were both given up for adoption. So I have a hard time supporting abortion for rape because if it had been legal then neither one of us might be here.
Polar svalbard, Nights edge, Miklania, and Dragao do mar
Menna shuli
I won't linger on the issue, but I can tell you from the experience of my mother (who has been lawyer for the local counties Family and Children's Services for over 30 years) that a good amount of children by rape do not wind up having good lives, nor do their mothers. Having abortion be legal is not the same as having it be mandatory. People should not be forced to carry a baby to term when they had no say in the creation of that baby in the first place. That can be devastating on the body of the mother, even potentially deadly, and even if adoption is an option after the fact, that doesn't change the effects of pregnancy itself. Could have beens only stretch so far.