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Either inform me when men can get pregnant, or maybe we should have more women have a say in laws regarding abortion.
I'm not a fan of partial-birth abortion either, not by a long shot... Usually if there's a problem of some kind, a woman should abort earlier in the pregnancy. But I was at the march. And don't believe what the press says, either. At least a million attended that march... Not all of us got counted. Not by a long shot.
And I really hate it when pro-lifers discuss abortion because religion is brought into the issue too often for my liking. When does the soul enter the body? At conception? Well, alright. What if the zygote splits and becomes twins? Do two souls enter the cell? Three? What if one gets aborted? Does the soul go to heaven? Does it get reincarnated? Are we prepared to make distinctions here, in our supposedly secular society?
You can't make laws regarding something that needs to be taken on a case-by-case basis.
And I'm not even going to mention the fact that pro-lifers are more prone to violence anger, and gory images during protests or outside clinics. How is showing a bloody image of an aborted fetus good for the children that are present at the demonstration? We didn't parade about color photos of infants in garbage cans, or abused children.
Finally, I would like to propose two scenarios. Woman A gets pregnant at age 18, accidentally, but her religion forbids abortion. She drops out of school and raises a child whom she resents. Woman B gets pregnant at age 18, but realizes that she is in no position to raise a child. She aborts it and waits until she's thirty to raise a child in a loving environment.
Which child is better off?
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