Hello Forum,
This is my first time posting on your particular forum, though I have enjoyed reading the conversations that take place here.
I believe abortion is wrong. Period. But one must remember that it is legal when done in a hospital or clinic. That is, if you can afford to pay for it, you can have your "fetus" (child) surgically removed and killed. That is, if you can pay for it. And its not cheap. The danger in this law is that for those women who can't afford to pay to have this procedure performed in a sterile, clinic often will look to other means to kill the baby, including, drugs and other types of abuse. Now whether or not she meant to kill this child while it lived in her womb is not the question when it comes to the law of abortion. No one questions the legal motives when you go to a clinic...it just makes one wonder. Disproportionately, minority women fall into the group of women who are too poor to pay for the surgery. If abortion in a clinic is legal for those who can pay, why is abortion in a crack ally for those who can't illegal?
Whether abortion is right or wrong (and I believe it is wrong) you can't punish certain types of people for the method used, when the end is the same as others who can use "choice".
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