Abortion... please don't flame!

[twinstars]

I think any woman who wants an early-pregnancy abortion, for WHATEVER reason she thinks is good enough, should be able to obtain one safely and legally. I would NOT put any kind of rape/incest qualfications on that. It doesn't matter to me what kind of sex the parents were having when the baby was made (consensual or non). I don't think children should exist to "punish" the parents if they were being "bad" at the moment of conception.

I don't think it matters how the fetus was made, it's still the same fetus. If you believe abortion is taking a morally meaningful "life," then it's the same life regardless of how it got there. For that reason, I don't agree with rape/incest type restrictions on who can have abortions and who can't.

I don't believe that there are a lot of women who have multiple abortions as birth control. I think that to go through an abortion (even an early one) is a huge deal, emotionally, so if a woman thinks it's the best choice, then who am I to tell her she's wrong. No one can be more of an expert on a woman's circumstances and situation better than that woman, herself.

So, the way I look at it, it's pretty clear-cut in cases of life and death. If the mother thinks it's best to end the pregnancy, I can't think of any reason why she shouldn't be allowed by law to do so. If she has other (born) children who need a mother, it's almost selfish of her NOT to end the pregnancy if there's a good chance she might die.

All that said, I don't know what I'd choose if I were unmarried and pregnant by accident because my birth control failed. But I'd want all my options to choose from.