Re: Should Abortion Be Legal?

My views, in a nutshell, is that abortion is obviously a polarising argument. It's not a minority that is either for or against abortion, western society is generally split 50/50 on the subject. Some think it is murder, others do not see it this way at all.
Therefore, nobody should be forced to have an abortion that they don't want to have, and likewise, nobody should be forced not to have an abortion that they do want to have. It is the choice of the individual.
Men especially, while they can have an opinion, that is all they can have, because they cannot ever have an abortion.
20,000,000 of the 46,000,000 abortions performed worldwide annually, are performed in countries where abortion is illegal. So don't think for a second that changing the law will stop abortion. It will simply make it unregulated and dangerous, where the rich are the only ones able to afford 'safe' abortions, while the poor are forced to have risky abortions or have children they simply cannot afford to raise.
Arguing abstinence is useless. People do not think about what may happen 9 months later in the heat of the moment. They didn't 50 years ago, and they don't now. A brief look on the US policy of promoting abstinence and as well as a look at the US teen pregnancy rates, backs this up.
If you don't want an abortion, don't have an abortion. But you don't have any right whatsoever to make others miserable for choosing to have one. It takes a lot more guts to admit that you cannot raise a child in the way that they deserve to be raised, than it does to label someone a murderer because they have different views than you do.

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