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My take on the issue....
Before abortion was legal in the US, women had it done. Poor women hurt themselves (and their future chance to have children) with hangers, and rich women had their fathers or mothers hire doctors on the side to do it safely. Remember Dirty Dancing? If a law passes making abortion illegal again, abortion won't stop. It won't stop at all! Especially among the wealthy, and especially since there are new drugs and techniques that can easily be brought in from other countires, and there is a work force of physicians and nurses who know how to perform surgical and medical abortions who believe that it is a morally acceptable choice. If such a law passes, poor women without access to resources (rural areas) will be the hardest hit. Millions of women will still have abortions, and they will be disporportionately rich.
Also... there is a lot of debate about when a person becomes a person. Some people don't think an embryo is a full human being, and some do. These differences in opinion are due to many factors, one of the larger being religion. Now! Since we have a country that mandates the seperation between church and state, I object to people imposing their religiously-bases beliefs upon others. What one person decides is therefore spiritual, and is between herself, the father, and her respective God.
And while I'm all for having the choice to have an abortion, actually having one is a totally different issue!
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