Yes, all abortions are about personal convenience to the mother. "hmm...nine months? I think I have a dentist appointment, I had better go get an abortion".

You've obviously never spoken to my aunt, who feels that a woman who is in college should automatically have an abortion because the birth of a child would delay her graduation.

Or of Margaret Sanger, FOUNDER of Planned Parenthood, who felt that the "mud races" should be controlled by abortion.

Sounds like convenience to me. But stay with your talking points. They make advocating for legalized genocide sound MUCH nicer!

When abortion is illegal, women die. Around the world more than 200 women die each day from unsafe abortions. There are estimates that prior to Roe v. Wade, between 5,000 and 15,000 women died annually in the US due to unsafe abortions. Making abortion illegal is not the answer.

Genocide? I'd go with mass infanticide, myself...but genocide might apply...but it's not exactly systematic...hmm...

~Zoo

How many die from abortions this year? Add that to the number of babies who died. Then we have the real death toll from abortion. I bet it is a LOT higher now.

I wouldn't say that Pro-Lifers care less about the mother than the child; they simply recognize the sanctity of life, and the need to protect it regardless of circumstance or personal convenience to the mother. The trouble is, by attributing zippy monikers such as "anti-choicer" in reference to those who oppose abortion desensitize us, deceiving us (or as the case may be, our teens and tweens) into believing it is indeed our choice to make. Thus, if one is "anti-choice", they somehow infringe upon an individual's rights to make decisions, when in fact isn't the exact opposite the truth? Aren't Pro-Deathers (do you mind if I use that term?) infringing upon the rights of the unborn by giving parental "rights" to it's life or death? I have always been tickled by the pro-choice argument that a woman should be allowed to choose what she does to her body. While I agree, she should have every right to her own body, the inevitable truth is, in regard to abortion, her body has never been the one in question - has it?

I just wanted to highlight Wildflower, because she's right on. Couldn't say it better myself.

I've noticed the term "anti-choice" here and take offense to it.

Loca, we are not "anti-choice." We are ANTI-ABORT or PRO-LIFE. Your choice is to have sex or not have sex...do what you want with your own body, that's your choice. But when a baby is conceived, I believe the "choice" ends there. You have the choice to keep your boxers/panties on or off.

When a child is conceived this "choice" (to abort) affects another human life, not just your own. Who's going to speak up for the unborn's choice if not for the PRO-LIFERS?

The womb should be the safest spot in all the world, yet we have made it a war zone.

That term is misleading...as is pro-choice. It really should be pro-abortion and anti-abortion, because that's what the argument is really about. Most people are pro-life AND pro-choice if you really take the term at face value. I like living and I like making choices...

~Zoo

So it's better when it's illegal, because that way, both mother and baby die.

I'm no fan of the idea of abortion, but I understand that what Meg says is true:

Pretty much. In this case it would forbid doctors from performing it...but those potential mothers that are determined enough will find a way to do it.

~Zoo

Whan abortion is legal, women die. When abortion is not even an issue, women die. As far as I know, with the exception of those living this day, every woman born has died.

Whan abortion is legal, women die. When abortion is not even an issue, women die. As far as I know, with the exception of those living this day, every woman born has died.

Exactly.

You'll have to forgive my "insensitivity", but I struggle to pity those who have lost their lives in the effort to end the life of another. If having an abortion is important enough to a woman that she is willing to die for it, she should be fully prepared for that consequence, should the situation arise.

It's called accountability, isn't it? Something our nation as a whole has greatly lost sight of.

only if they're us citizens on home turf. perhaps we should construct an abortion clinic at guantanamo or in bulgaria or romania? apparently the latter two have fortified facilities just going to waste.

sooner or later texas or virginia will be rushin a pregnant woman into her berth in the state's execution chamber.

how will yall like your blue-eyed boy then, mr death?

"Abortion is the outcome of failed abstinence teachings and the inability of young people to obtain birth control."

Abortion is the outcome of an overstimulated sexually, immature culture. The inability to deal with the consequences of certain actions is a deterent to those actions where there is maturity. The sexual culture we live in today has everybody thinking that, a) sex means you're mature, sex is the norm. Also, sex is everywhere, leading everyone to think about sex even more than they already do on their own.

Excellent statement. I wish they had the buttons for insightful in the forums.