I'm pro-choice about everything; abortion, drugs, school choice. My stance on these issues is anything but purely ideological. My father was a drug addict, and I attended a private school in the 11th and 12th grades, so I was able to see just how horrendous public education is. But those are topics for another thread.
Abortion is not a good thing, and in a perfect world, it would never happen. Restricting a woman's right to control her body is also a terrible thing. Unfortunately, we can't eliminate both evils, so we must choose.
If abortion were to again become illegal, it could be dramatically reduced, but only if we turned this country into a police state. The United States would cease to exist as a nation of liberty. This is a very heavy price to pay. People don't move to the America to lose freedom, and they don't move to oppressive nations at all.
As I see it, making abortion illegal is profoundly unpatriotic, and anathema to all that is special about America.
