Now, I personally feel that if you're mature enough to have sex, you're mature enough to have a child, but I'm also pro choice as hell when it comes to just about anything. You have just as much right to shove a shaft of stainless steel through your septum as you do of getting a tattoo on your face as you do in having your foot removed 'just for funsies'
And when it comes to Abortion, I feel like it's at least enough involved in that realm of what a person decides to do with her body to make it morally right to go about the process.
Yes, there's something "alive" in there, and a potential fully developed human being. I understand that. However, the choice to abort or not to abort not a decision that can be made by anyone but that person who has to make that decision.
I feel like far too many of the people who are anti-abortion are either men who would never have to go about carrying a fetus for 9 months, or are just people in general who have never been put in a situation where they've had to make a seriously tough call on something that has to do with their future, much less the decision to have a child or not.
These same people go about calling those involved with performing abortions, or those who choose to have one, murderers, and whores, and overall sinners who are going to hell.
I feel if those same people could either A: put down the bible for 20 minutes, or B: even remotely relate to the situation that someone who's in limbo might be in.. they would realize that their attempts to dictate someone else's decisions about what they do with their body and their 'potential child' has nothing to do do with them, and they should just, simply, shut the FUCK UP.
Yes, abortions are a gruesome procedure, and it's really kinda 'fucked up' when you think about the whole process... and if you are highly religious and feel it's immoral in general, that's fine. But ultimately, it's not up to you, and ultimately, it's better than the alternative...
Even if it was deemed "Illegal" in this country... You think that would change anything? People are gonna fuck. People will get pregnant. It happens. Abstinence is not a reality - humans are simply WAY TOO HORNY. It's biological, so get over it. Abortions are going to happen just like drug use will continue to happen, and I am 100% for offering this procedure, because without it, a lot more coat hangers and attempted miscarriages are going to kill pregnant women. Not to mention... a lot more orphans...
Now, I know I this is a bit slipping-slope, but...
-We don't need more child-abuse of orphans like what happened in Romania after the fall of Nicolae Ceausescu (He mandated a national policy making abortions illegal simply to increase the national workforce... and after the iron curtain fell, some sick things happened to kids - lots of child pronz and smut films.. kids were told to have sex with each other... torture each other... even kill each other. This same thing happens on a lesser extent in countries like Mexico - yes right south of us - and Chile - who has a national no-tolerance policy against it)
-We don't need mass orphanages like in china, where the only way out is to become cheap labour for Walmart bullshit...
-We don't need more orphans being taken in and forced to work for blood diamonds and become child soldiers in Africa... or be taken in by Al Qaeda and other extremist terrorist factions to murder innocent people...
... It sounds weird, but we need medically safe, and health-mandated abortion available in this world. The alternative is even more sickening.