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Does anyone have any logical reason not to have a law against abortion other than some people might break it.
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Isn't that enough? You probably don't remember a time when abortion wasn't legal. Do you have any idea how many young women, poor mothers, etc. were maimed, made sterile and killed when it was illegal?
YOU CAN"T STOP PEOPLE FROM MAKING STUPID CHOICES, you can't legislate away the fog of desperation that usually precedes such a decision. People smoke, they do drugs, they drive too fast drunk without a seatbelt, and they get abortions. As we have seen over and over, all we can do as a legislative body is to try to make things as safe as possible, provide as much counseling as possible without infringing on their rights, and hope that we have taught them well enough to make the right decisions. So, we make cars safer, remove smoking to non public areas, treat the drug users, and provide a safe last resort for desperate women.
It should be up to the community, chuches, parents etc. to give our children the tools they need to avoid the situation all together.
For anyone to suggest that it isn't a horrible, agonizing decision to come to for everyone involved, they would be lying. No matter how traumatic that loss is, the loss of your 15 year old daughter to a desperate choice in a dirty hotel room is absolutely devastating. And unacceptable.
So once again we are at the crossroads of comprimise... good luck to us all...