Are you Pro-life or Pro-choice?

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Metallicube said:
I really don't even get what the pro lifers are fighting for in the first place.. Even if abortion would become illegal nation-wide, this would not stop some women into going into desperate measures to fix desperate situations and go through some underground procedure that would make legal abortions look like baptisms. The fact is this, abortions are always going to be around whether we like it or not, like someone here said.. might as well keep it legal, so it could be kept clean and highly regulated. Like I said, I'm not promoting the use of abortion by any means. I think it should be used as a last resort, but the important thing is it needs to be kept legal for those extreme situations that call for it.

I don't understand why many pro-abortion folks make this argument.  You may as well ask why would we make robbery illegal when, after all, people are still going to do it?  Surely you don't believe that just because certain people are going to murder someone anyway we shouldn't make it illegal and do all we can to stop it.

I'm also not sure what you mean by "extreme situations."  According to the American Medical Association, abortion is never medically necessary.  There are super-rare circumstances, such as that detailed by ArtofAngels a few pages ago, where it's basically a choice between the mother's life and the child's.  In that case, since there are two lives equally at stake and obviously only one is able to choose what to do about that, I could understand allowing abortion.  But any other case is just not necessary at all; it is done for convenience, which makes me sick (killing for convenience).