The decision on the legality of abortion is the same as that of same sex marriage, it shouldn’t be decided by 9 possibly senile attornies in black robes. It should be decided by the legislative branches of the states. That is the purpose of a democracy isn’t it? To allow the majority to make the laws? In those states where the majority would vote in favor of abortion, there would be abortions. In those states where the majority were opposed to abortions, abortions would be illegal. In every country where they have had a vote wherein Abortion was legalized there have never been the problems we have with it here. Why? Because it was the decided by the will of the people, not 9 lawyers in black robes.

Throughout the history of this country, there have been those who pushed for social revolution and those who sought social evolution. Those who sought social revolution invariably had it come back biting them in the ass. Those who worked toward social evolution were infinitely more successful. Who had a greater effect in heightening awareness about the evils of slavery? John Brown who tried to start a slave revolt with his raid on the Harper’s Ferry armory? Or Harriet Beecher Stowe with her book “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”? Who made more progress in advancing the cause of civil rights in this country? Malcom X with his “By any means necessary” rhetoric? Or Martin Luther King Jr’s “I have a dream” speech and insistence on non violence? In both cases the former started movements which resulted in their own deaths and became little more than footnotes in history, while the latter changed the very thinking of those who initially opposed them and became icons for their positions for all time. While John Brown and Malcolm X both sought revolution, Harriet Beecher Stowe and MLK sought evolution.

Any attempt to legislate from the bench is going to face stiff recurring opposition because it is an attempt at social revolution rather than an attempt at social evolution. Resistance to social change is like flying a kite. Does the kite rise higher when it is opposing the wind or when it is going with it. The harder you press someone to go against their current position, the more that they resist. The more you work to subtly convince them of the worth of your position, the less resistance you will ultimately face.

IMO, a woman that feels empowered by this is not a woman with a lot of self respect. I’m secure enough with myself that I don’t need to be empowered by murder.

“If you don’t want an abortion? DON’T HAVE ONE. ”

It is even easier than that, Eben. If you don’t have sex and don’t get pregnant, you won’t have a baby to get rid of.

These stats really put things into perspective though don’t they?

It’s back to the old I’m unable to post thing again.

I’ve come in through a proxy server just to let you know.

Options are good.

Women are in a unique situation here to which men have no business attempting to limit them in any manner shape or form.

Think of the unwanted children who have not been born into an uncaring and unloving world to a mother ill-equiped and indisposed to child rearing. Think of the money that’s been saved the taxpayer if nothing else in the form of ADC and welfare.

There are many (I among them) who believe a woman ought to have utter and complete dominion over her body and what transpires on it, in it, and to it.

I, though male, will always believe that a woman has the right (often the obligation) to terminate an unwanted pregnancy so to quote figures like you have here and compare them to undeveloped fetuses is ludicrous to me unless you’re speaking from some sort of a religious point of view – in which case I won’t even give you air time.

As you insist on attempting to repeal Roe versus Wade and the empowerment it gave women to the ultimate say over their own lives and futures (not to say that of unwanted children) you continually, IMO, empower the males among our ranks to dictate the moral code for both sexes.

Do not be fooled. You’re buying into a continuation of a very dangerous ethic by relegating the women who need the availability of an abortion of to the back alley butcher or the doctor who would be (should there be any success in moving progress backward) considered nothing more than a criminal.

It’s very easy people:

If you don’t want an abortion? DON’T HAVE ONE.