Abortion is a horrible choice and practice. It’s a very tough decision that I’m willing to bet most woman don’t make lightly and the fact that woman are willing to make the decision and live with it with the frequency that they do speaks volumes about why this should remain an option on the table.

The fact is that many, many, many (get the point!) babies are born in the US each year that are unwanted or are ill able to be cared for. If you believe that babies are brought up on a steady dose of Jesus and love alone in this day in age then you really are not in touch with reality. It is essential that parents are monetarily and morally able to cope with parenthood. Now, I’ll leave the whole argument of how most people who willingly have babies shouldn’t be having them for another blog but as far as this topic goes…
I don’t think the vast majority of teenage pregnancies are wanted and I think that aborting these fetuses is only a positive occurrence. It simply comes down to most of these woman cannot afford to keep these children and most of the time these father’s do not stick around, they biologically do not have to and so what you get is a poor, uneducated teenager left with the decision of having another human life to take care of when she can’t even take care of herself OR aborting the fetus and moving on with her life. I’m in favor of the latter. I think that it is repressive not to give her this option as she is statistically not likely to make anything of herself ever and will be burdened with caring for a child with which she is ill equipped to care for in the first place. So not only is it unfair to her (and her parents, who ultimately will help in raising this child) but it is unfair to the kid. I surely know that if this were to be the circumstances in which I came into the world I myself would rather you abort me because I know that I would like a fair monetary and moral shot at life rather than some poor, piteous and resentful one.
Furthermore, being that a lot of these accidental and teenage pregnancies are unwanted or unexpected and these mother’s cannot financially support the health care (both before and after pregnancy) for themselves or the kid, along with the whole plethora of other expenses kids incur
who do you think pays for what cannot be paid for?
Why the taxpayers of course!
I do not want to pay for another s mistake and a whole slew of social programs and incentives aimed at helping out unwed and single mother’s out when a lot of them can be prevented.

In the case of rape or incest, and yes it does happen more frequently than it should (I’ll throw out alarming statistic for people, that 1 in every 3 woman WORLDWIDE, in her lifetime will be a victim of a sexual crime, whether it be molestation, incest or rape, what the population of the world now? Do the math it’s a lot of woman!)…these cases should really be a no brain er. The girl/woman didn’t even choose to have sex why should she bear the burden of responsibility of none other than a complete bastard child? The reminisces of rape and molestation last a lifetime why make that hurt and mental torment all the more evident by making her tote around a direct effect of that horrible event?

I also believe that as long as the death penalty remains (humans putting people who are actual alive and breathing and full fledged adults) in effect that abortion arguments are lame at best…for Christ’s sake we go to other countries with an army to kill other people, how is that really justified? Why is killing others who threaten our freedom or those who are considered unwanted and deplorable to society much different from a woman needing to make a decision about a fetus with no coherent thought much different? It’s not…

I know I sure as hell don’t remember floating around in utero..but I’m sure those were the good ole days..

Everybody is welcome to their opinions but these are the facts and woman have a VERY tough life in society and even in the US as it is. I think the true way to avoid such conundrums is to teach COMPREHENSIVE sexual education in schools..and not just abstinence. I think the curriculum should INCLUDE abstinence but it should also include all traditional methods of birth control and the consequences of sex. To not educate our kids properly on sex is absolutely astounding and ridiculous…and quite frankly unacceptable. I’m not that old and grew up in the 90′s and kids were talking about kissing and sex and the whole nine yards in 4th grade. And I come from a very wealthy area of the country not some back woods boring town.

If you did, you would know that life begins at conception.

And no, not all pro-life people are against birth control. In fact, we are in favor of all kinds of birth control, including the oldest form of birth control of all — abstinence.

The rape/incest/health of the mother straw men are trotted out once again. Nonsense. You both want the right to feel as good as you want, and everyone else be damned. As far as the “I’m not letting some stranger mooch off my womb” argument of the lunatic you cited to, I reiterate: if you don’t want some stranger mooching off your womb, don’t f#uck around. It’s really quite simple.

If Fay and Methinks would be honest and admit that what they really want is to preserve the ability to kill their own children, should one come along and “inconvenience” their busy, good-times lives, I think they’d garner a little more respect in my book. As it stands, you’re nothing more than selfish hedonists.

And I really dig the Margaret Sanger argument, that those lousy low-class women will spawn children left and right that the rest of us will be forced to support. As a previous commenter noted, that already happens… it’s called welfare. And those moms don’t put their kids up for adoption, since the American taxpayer has been forced to pay the freight on these women’s pleasure pursuits since before I was born.

I like sex as much as the next person, but when did it become a recreational sport in this country?

I am a rape survivor.

I am pro-abortion.

I am a false rape accusation survivor.

I am anti-false-rape accusers. I support stiff jail terms for false rape accusers.

See how it works. Make some shit up under cover of anonymity.

LOL! I’ll debate you when you learn the definition of a “straw man argument” and that neither aggressive assertion nor hyperbole constitute an argument. Until then, anything I write will merely sail right over your empty head just like my previous posts.

I am pro-abortion.

Straw man fringe argument for _you_ maybe. Maybe not for me, not when I was 13 years old and scared out of my mind, because all I’d been taught at my (missionary baptist) school and church led the circular thinking eating my brain away – “Good girls don’t have this happen to them. If anyone finds out, I’ll lose all my friends, become a total outcast. Everyone will say I’m a slut. If they find out I’m pregnant, I’ll get kicked out of school, and church, and then I’ll have nothing. I’ll be nothing. I’d rather die.”

Not the most logical train of thought? Yeah, I was thirteen. What did you expect? As it was, given that there was no planned parenthood nearby, no options, I remember two weeks until I could get enough money without anyone noticing, and get to a different small town to buy a pregnancy test. And I was dead set that I’d slit my wrists in the shower if it came out positive.

I’m better now. I’m older now. I’m willing to work with and vote for pro-life politicians if they cover other issues that I consider absolutely vital – gun rights, self-defense rights, smaller government, lower taxes… which are just as vital to me, especially that self-defense, as the ability to control whether or not I can control my own future or find it tied to a child.

…and now I’m going to post this anonymously, because no matter how strong a woman I think I am, I still can’t bring myself to ever admit this bare-faced in public. And it eats at my soul that I know my silence lets my rapist go free, but I cannot take that step. Not even now.

Let the market work – offer pregnant women who want to abort the option to be paid for carrying the unwanted fetus and surely there will be plenty fundamentalist Christians ready to adopt the newborn children.

That system already exists, it is called welfare.

The problem is that you don’t really want that sort of child. Just ask countless school teachers across the nation.

Where does the belief that forcing women liberal enough to consider abortion to have unwanted children and then raise them is better for anyone?

Women have been aborting babies since the beginning of time,

This is not actually true. For a long time the only way that women were able to deal with an unwanted pregnancy was to abandon the child soon after birth, and this same approach is used today in primitive societies.

It is only be in the last few hundred years or so years that women have been able to procure abortions, and even then, given the state of medical knowledge, it really has only been since the mid 1800s that they were safe.

If you have any contrary information, perhaps you could enlighten us. Shit, women used to die pretty often from infection resulting from childbirth, do you then that abortions came with any really lower probability of infection and other complications?

The notion that opposition to killing defenseless people is a religious idea is news to me. If there is a religion that says they should be killed, I oppose it. If, however, it takes religious belief to say they should be left to live, maybe we actually do need forced conversions. If secularism is the admission that cannibalism is a right, then we should welcome a latter day Torquemada. hoho

Criminalizing vagrancy is endorsing indentured servitude. Right? I mean, if I can’t legally sleep on a park bench, I might as well be a galley slave. Right?