Quote Originally Posted by Awill3449
Abortion should be legal. It should not be up to the government. If you dont want to have an abortion because its "wrong"...don't have one (if you're a woman). It's really that simple. But those who feel it is acceptable as a last resort should have a safe option available.

Let's face it. Legal or illegal, abortion will be around. In this case, I think it should be safe, clean and professionally done so some teenage girl isn't giving herself an abortion with a hanger. Maybe people should think more about consequences, but you can't legislate sense.
I agree with this statement. Abortion, in one form or another, has existed for hundreds of years.

I think I've got an interesting perspective on abortion - I was diagnosed as infertile when I was a teen and I am at a high risk for passing on serrious genetic disorders, and became pregnant at 21, which was a shock. Both my fiance and I agreed to go to Planned Parenthood. Something happened there that neither of us can explain. We saw our son. (Well, we didn't know it was a boy, but you know what I mean.) We went back home, talked about it, and we decided to keep baby Jeff. He's a wonderful child, and we both love him. He is 4 and a half months and just learned to roll over this week, and he cut his first tooth too!

But because of this, I had my tubes tied two months ago by my doctor. Jeff is totally normal, but the odds weren't good. I don't want to have to make the choice to abort a fetus who has a serrious genetic disorder. If we want another child, we'll adopt.

There is so much grey ground in regards to this issue that I believe it must be left to the parents (or parent, as the case may be with deadbeats). I'm glad the option was avalible to me, and I'm glad it's avalible to others, and I hope it continues to be that way. I am very much in favor of father's rights in regards to this issue, however. I had a classmate in college abort a child out of spite for the father, and that was the most disgusting act I'd ever heard of. A baby is 50/50, and both parties should be on the same page.

I don't think that abortion should be so cloak-and-dagger. Let people see the images of how it is preformed. It is not a plesant procedure. Perhaps this will motivate them to think before having unprotected sex. But this requires open sexual education courses in every classroom, in every high school. We should remove the culture of shame that surounds birth control, abortion, and adoption. I beleve then we'd see some real change.

Sorry for writing so much... the topic interests me.