Quote Originally Posted by amsterdam
it is sad that poor folks use it as birth control.
I agree... it's fucking disgusting... I once heard a girl say "I don't use protection". When asked why not she replied "Who needs to when you can get abortions so easily?". That kind of thinking is fucking horrible, but of course, just because SOME people think like that (and they're probably the majority) it doesn't mean that abortion should be banned and the choice of having an abortion taken away from people who actually need it...

It disgusts me that Torog shows no understanding towards the women (some of them children) who are raped or are made pregnant through no fault of their own and who are unable to care for a child.. these people should, in my book, be allowed abortions... failure to provide these people with the facilities for a proper abortion could be a danger to BOTH lives, as many young pregnant women, when refused an abortion, resort to getting a 'blackmarket' abortion, or even trying to perform the abortion themselves.. this, we can all agree, is unnacceptable.. ergo, these people should be given the option of having a safe abortion in a professional environment. I value life just as much as the next guy, but I can see how abortions can often be necessary.

Torog, you and I are never going to have an abortion. We will never know how it feels to have an unwanted baby growing inside of us.. We will never know how it feels to be raped and then find out you are carrying the child of the person who raped you... So how can we decide whether these people should be allowed abortions or not?

My last point was going to somehow compare the banning of abortions to the criminalisation of Cannabis.. but i'm stoned and I forgot what it was. Peace.