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Metallicube on 20 January 2008
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elprincipe said:
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.


*rolls eyes, yes I'm implying that we just make robberies legal as well.. Come on, that is a different arguement entirely and you know it.. Abortion is not a "crime" no matter how you want to spin it.. it is a legal and legit procedure that is offered for situations that call for it. Like some people mentioned here, pro-lifers get tied up in their "moral" values and let it interfere with logic. 

Making abortion illegal would just make matters worse because there would be no legal, well trained doctors performing the procedures and women would resort to unpleasent and far more dangerous methods by underground organizations that probably wouldn't be nearly as well trained to keep the procedure clean and safe. Would you really want this to happen?  Because the way I see it, making abortions illegal would simply hurt the cause of you pro-lifers. We would be doing far more harm than good by making abortions illegal nationwide. And even the women that would shy away from underground methods would simply travel to another country to get it done. No matter how hard the pro lifers try, abortion is never going to go away, so we need to keep it legal, and therefore safe, clean, and highly regulated.

Like I said, I am not "pro abortion." I don't see abortion as a good thing by any means, only as something that may be a necessity. The important thing is that the woman has the choice of whether or not to do the moral thing, and I trust most women would, (and if they wouldn't, I'm sure they have a damn good reason). I'm not for killing babies and I'm sure nobody who's pro choice is.. I think that abortion should be used ONLY as a last resort, (mainly rape, or if the life of the child/ mother is threatened). The morallity of this issue should be looked at by the individual scenarios, not abortion as a whole. Pro-lifers see this as a black and white issue when it's not the case. The Government should never have the right to gain the power to have the say over what happens with a woman's body. End of story. For me, this is more of an anti-government intervention issue more than abortion issue.