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As most of you can probably guess, I'm VERY pro-choice. In fact, keeping Roe v. Wade as the letter of the law is one of the few causes I can honestly say I'm willing to do anything for.
I have a friend who was essentially raped by her partner (he would start having sex with her while she was asleep, bastard). When she found out she was pregnant, abortion was the only option. Why? In addition to the circumstances of conception, she suffers from a condition that would threaten her life if she was to become pregnant. So, off to PP she went. Most of us would probably say that she was totally justified.
There are too many grey areas to say that it's right all the time or that it's wrong all the time. I don't like abortion--I know exactly what it is, how it's performed, and what happens. BUT, women have been aborting since the beginning of time, with less than safe conditions. To ensure safe conditions, and to protect women when having a child would threaten their lives and emotional well-beings, it must remain legal. There are just too many grey areas to make a blanket statement that applies to every woman and her situation in this country.
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