Better Prevention or Changing Attitudes?

I don't care how many times you all hear this but it seems as though people like me need to remind you all that abortion is wrong. How can anyone be SO cold hearted to say that its alright to kill a baby. Its plain and simply murder. As for people like nycgirl, who admits she murdered her baby, I can't imagine how deluded she allowed herself to get. Saying she feels better to have murdered her own flesh and blood. Look if you REALLY don't want the baby then care for the baby till you can put it up for adoption but don't murder the kids.
Don't be fooled by thinking that an embryo is an "it" because thats a BABY in the making, your baby. God blessed her with that child and she just threw it back in his face. It really is sad.

Shame on the doctors who commend it too. What about your OATH doc?! What happened to it? You rather kill life then bring it into this world? Can you even find your hearts any more? Deluding yourselves with the thought that a baby is an "it". You Doctors are not even doctors but criminals allowed to live threw some shrewd twisted loophole in the system which is also full of corrupt heartless people.

I have every right to be angry at these cold hearted people because for a brief moment ,my mother too(she was 17 almost 18), was deciding to do an abortion with me inside her. She told me herself when I was able to understand. I'm very happy to be alive today. I'm 27, union sheet metal worker, and VERY satisfied to be ALIVE.

I think it would be informational for many of your readers here to have the opportunity to read Francis Collin's book, (Francis is head of the Human Genome project, with over a 1000 geneticists under him) His book is titled The Language of God and offers a coomon ground for scientists and believers to meet. Francis is a believer in Jesus Christ and believes abortion is wrong. He presents discussion regarding bio ethics which applies not only to abortion but insight into today's just released news regarding cloning. The great news in these latest abortion statistics is this generation of 20 somethings are a very moral generation and choose life over death. We will all be surprised at the choices, kind, informed and educated choices they make. These young upcoming scientists will find solutions which help all. Yes their is great heartache allaround...we need to link up better those paying 50,000 for a baby to adopt with the desperate-(sometimes older) women who find themselves with an unwanted pregnacy. Love covers over so many things. We need to love one another and help one another find good solutions to the pain each finds themselves experiencing. With these thoughts know that many just like me will be marching to repeal roe vs wade (the supreme court abortion law) next week. Remember we are not your enemy but are trying to help each make wise, informed decisions. In fact we would like to help and not hurt you.

Now if we can just get people to stop encouraging POST NATAL abortions, we are all set. The use of RU486 is wrong, but stuffing a kid full of McDonalds food four times a week and letting him bake in the sun with no sunscreen all summer so that he gets heart disease and melanoma by age 25... hardly "pro-life." Nobody is perfect, folks. Look inwardly and examine all the harmful and potentially fatal practices you participate in EVERYDAY that affects ALL of that so called SACRED LIFE around you and around the world. How many children in Iraq did YOU indirectly kill today so that you could get a democracy set up there that would allow for a pipeline to be run through the center of their country (former United States ally Sadaam Hussein wouldn't allow it) so that we could extract their oil cheaper and continue to run your SUV? How many children will YOU kill the course of the next generation, because YOU can't take the extra time to recycle, and end up dumping mercury cell phone batteries into the food and water supply thus increasing the cancer rates? If you really want to be PRO LIFE, ban war, ban the use of trans fats, ban smoking. Hey, I am pro fetus too. I wouldn't encourage anyone to have an abortion, my beef here (as a vegetarian) is simply to ask people to take a deep breath, and truly examine if your practices are meshing with your beliefs.

I am still waiting to hear pro choice r's opinion about partial birth abortion. Must be unjustifiable!

Your faith blinds you . . . . a funny twist of fate if I do say so myself. Making abortions illegal would be a horrific error on the part of Americans. First, any time you try to take a right way from Americans that they have previously held and heavily used the outcome is very negative. Case in point: the Prohibition of Alcohol only lasted 14 years and in that time it gave rise to the most power organized crime rings of our country???s history and the production, sale, and consumption of alcohol also continued only without any government regulation. People killing each other over alcohol . . . . yet another success for the religious conservatives of this country. Second, our country will go bankrupt. Thanks to Bush???s holy war in Iraq, our country is in the most debt we have ever been in. By making abortions illegal while having laws that allow for any mother to leave their baby at any hospital, police station, or fire station without question, you are basically just inviting people to dump their unwanted kids into the government foster system. Even if I am conservative and say that only 50% of the people who are forced to bring their children to term choose to give them to the government (The other 50% either keeping the child or having an illegal abortion) then that still puts about 500,000 babies into the system. As of last year, the average cost of housing a child in the system for a year was nearing a million dollars. That would add an additional 500 Billion dollars per year into a budget that is already strained. Just to give you a sense of how much that is, in 2007 the United States spent 586.1 Billion on Social Security and 548.8 Billion on Defense. Throw in the cost of enforcement as well as the increased crime rate that will result over time (as proven by the statistical fall in crime over the last 25 years caused by legal abortions in areas where unwanted children are more likely to commit crimes) and ending abortion would become one of the most expensive programs in the country. Are you willing to pay about 10% more of your income in as taxes to cover it? You???re a conservative so probably not.

In conclusion, I personally do not like abortions, but I am not going to stand here and say I wouldn???t have one because I won???t ever face that decision. When it comes down to it, Jesus may not like it, but that has no relevance in the political scene. The simple fact is that the country needs it.

Let's see... birth control is more expensive (much more) now, so fewer women are using it.... and abortion is only available in 23% of US counties. I'm pretty sure it's lack of access. Abortion is expensive, often requires a trip across state lines, a "waiting period" that keeps women away from work and children, and access to abortion clinics is extremely limited. If there is a change in attitudes, it was necessitated by costs and limitations on abortion, not the other way around.

For me it's not about whether or not I think it's right. It's that I have no right to make other people's decisions for them, and I sure as hell don't want someone else making mine. Every single situation is different and individual. Abortion has been happening since the dawn of time, and it makes a lot more sense for there to be safe, regulated option available, than women ending up on a kitchen table in unsterile conditions being destroyed by some back alley butcher. When everything is said and done, how can you trust a woman to raise a child when you couldn't even trust her with the choice.

It's imperative to vote for pro choice candidates as it's clear the anti choice side will attempt to withdraw the freedom of choice from women. Along with the pro choice election results, we shall move The Supreme Court back to the center where it belongs. As strong as the anti choice side is, the pro choice will be there as well representing the majority of Americans.