Oh, yeah... Because allowing more people to be born when it's their own fault they got pregnant is slavery... I getcha... So, I suppose if you cut off your own leg, you'd expect to collect disability and not be questioned about why it's a clean cut?

I just think people should think before they have sex. If they just follow whatever urges they have, and that's alright with you, then I guess that means when someone has the urge to run around and kill people, that'd be peachy-keen with you too. Yes, I have had sexual urges. By your logic, that means I HAD to have sex right then and there. Guess what? I didn't, because I thought about how that would effect the other person.

Love is a stronger need than sex. I'd rather stick with love than feel like I have to screw something every five minutes. If my partner's okay with it, and I feel like we can handle all possible outcomes, THEN sex will be open to me, but I'm not holding my breath.

Let's face it, abstinence is not, nor will it ever be, an option for someone who doesn't want to get pregnant--it's simply not a reasonable thing to ask. Because human beings are sexual creatures, chances are we're gonna screw when we feel horny, and that's the bottom line. However, we are a bit smarter than your average animal, having created things like different types of birth control, etc, but that stuff doesn't always work.

Here's an interesting dilemma: Husband and wife already had kids, they've left the nest, husband has a vasectomy, hubbie and wife take the opportunity to spruce things up in the bedroom again since the kids are gone and amazingly enough, wifey gets pregnant. :o But how?! Well, those things (although rarely) don't always work either. Mum's already way too old to be caring for another child, dad the same, and they've already made the decision (ala vasectomy) to not have anymore children.

What I'm trying to say is IT'S NOT ALWAYS A MATTER OF NOT THINKING BEFORE YOU HAVE SEX. Sometimes it really was just some freak accident. But asking/expecting someone to not have sex, before thinking of ever possible scenario that may result in a pregnancy under every possible circumstance, is just plain ignorance imo.

women say "its my body i can do what i want"....well....if they are so worried about their body, shouldnt they realize that it is most likely going to be more hazzardous to your health having the abortion than not having it?

http://www.mycpc.org/abortion_risks.html
http://media.www.dailygamecock.com/m...75-page2.shtml

So ya....pregnancies may be a hard thing to endure. And ya, i dont know what it is like, but i know many people who do. ANd as stated before, the pain of childbirth is one of the most painful things in life, but that pain is only for a period of time. The pain they will feel post-abortion is for a lifetime, and the pain of childbirth pales in comparison to that lifelong pain.

I don't know... The difference is that a foetus, if let be would form into a human being... It is the START of the process of life and the developing that leads to a human being. If we weren't in such control of medical science a baby would form, unless there is a natural miscarriage. You can't say it is wrong for people to treat cancer just because it is also the growth of cells etc... Cancer will not form a human being in several months time... It will instead do nothing less but kill the patient.

The process of life, even if just in my view if you all seem to believe otherwise, starts with conception. The baby (and I call it a baby, because I feel a term like "foetus" takes the eventual humanity out of it) would develop, in normal circumsatnces, and be born fine... I don't think it is right for us to cut this chance of a life short. And it's sad that so many people write it off as a simple abcess of cells with no human value whatsoever.. The difference is that it is a multiplication of cells brought about by two people, and that would eventually develop into a human being.

But hey, we all seem to be on different sides here, I can sort of see what you are saying, I just beleive that people hide behind the "it isn't human" label to make the act of abortion seem forgivable and acceptable at the best of times.

It's alright to be against abortion--you're certainly entitled to your opinion, but outright saying THIS is how you're gonna feel if you get something like this done is completely ignorant. When you become a woman, get pregnant and have an abortion, you would obviously be more entitled to say something like that, if you would feel any pain at all. Not every woman who gets an abortion will regret it for the rest of their lives. I'm sure there are a good number of people who will and do, of course, but I've met some who knew it was for the better.

I didnt mean to say that it is GOING to happen to you, i meant to say that there is a fairly good chance it could. I was also just trying to say that there are many dangerous health risks if one was to get an abortion. Risks that a lot of people are not aware of.

Then you should've said so.

And it's true there are many risks, but hey, it's the choice that they make. Obviously any [surgical] procedure is going to be dangerous, and chances are if you're going to get it done legally and by an accredited doctor, he's going to make sure you're aware of those risks. Then again, if you are not seeking professional help, like ANY OTHER medical procedure done without the supervision of an individual who knows what s/he's doing, those risks are still going to be there.

Education of abortion isn't as bad as it used to be, and people are learning more and more about it and still taking their chances. To me, that clearly says that even if people are becoming more educated, they're still not letting that get in their way.