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As a pro-choicer, I have to say a big "So what?"
I'm glad she regretted the fact that she had an abortion, hopefully it made her smarter about her decisions that led up to being put in a situation, but simply because people have remorse for their actions doesn't make it proper to make it illegal.
There are consequences for every action, and sometimes they aren't good ones.
Further the pain inflicted during legal abortions carried out by medical professionals is going to be far less than the pains that would occur when women are forced to turn to back-alley abortions.
While I think that abortion is probably not the best thing for anyone, I think that making it illegal brings about far more negative consequences for women than it helps.
Honestly I'd prefer it if through preventative measures (increased sex education, information/access to birth control - including condoms and emergency contraceptives, increase in children given up for adoption) we were able to make abortion obsolete. However conservatives seem to want do nothing to prevent the need for abortions just as much as they want to do away with them.
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