I was the ‘pro-life’ arguments here and well I don’t care how you turn it but fact remains that a child won’t be very conscious of their own actions until after PUBERTY, abortion when it’s 2 weeks or killing it when it’s 1 year old, the child won’t realize what’s going on and therefore I say it’s not ‘wrong’.
It’s obvious that people want to stand up for something that doesn’t have the tools to defend itself against the practice. But hey, isn’t that what parents are for? Making the right decisions for children that can’t yet? Teaching them, taking care for them?
If a mother is too young to handle it, has no finances to back it up, got pregnant because of a destructive relationship, or whatever situation it may be that will mean a bad childhood for the fetus, I think that it’s the right thing for the child to have an abortion.
Look around at all the people that have had poor childhoods. Abusive, divorce, teenage moms that had no choice but to send them to daycares, how much pain does that amount to in this world? And if you’re about to say, well there’s good help for those people think again. Particularly in the USA professional help is not only extremely poor, it’s also very commercial. It costs you a truckload of money and you hardly get anything for it except for some lame diagnoses the insurance companies like to hear (while a good and knowledgeable friend can help you more and often for free).
Seriously have you witnessed what shit people go through as a result of a bad childhood? It’ll break your heart. And THAT is something you don’t wish for your fetus. That is why there is abortion. I hope for the love of God that a group of narrow minded men aren’t going to be suppressing this right.

Another thing, if a woman is simply being stupid and makes the choice for an abortion, would they have been smart enough to raise a child anyway? And if women are smart and still chose for an abortion because of the bad circumstance, then doesn’t that save her to be child a lot of agony?

Protecting something that can’t protect itself is fine, so long you don’t come up with worse solutions then the problem.

You want to stop abortions? Start by ending the politicalization of our bodies. Better yet, vagina-havers should stop sleeping with anyone who doesn’t care about female sexual/reproductive health.

I can’t speak for anyone else, but I’m not comfortable with the term pro-life because I think of my own take on abortion as pro-life–the life of the woman rather than the life of the fetus.

This also ties directly to your statement about the fetus as a living being. There are numerous arguments about when life begins, and I don’t think rehashing those here will do us much good. I firmly believe that the woman facing an unwanted pregnancy–who has undoubtedly been living her life for numerous years–is the one with the right to life, and the right to live that life in the way that is best for her.

-Libby