If the particulars of Roe vs. Wade were overturned and tweeked...the "hanger abortion" and the "back alley" abortion rate would be booming...therefore posing more of a health risk on a woman than legal abortion is today!

This country has taken sooooooooooooooo many steps back into the past since the current Bush administration. I can't bear to see another in such a delicate subject.

For those who think that abortion is "murder"...where is the support of these mothers-to-be and the willingness to care for ALL of these babies when the mother carries it to term and cannot care for it...whatever the circumstance? I may be wrong (it's happened...once!), but I know of NO SUPPORT GROUPS OR ADOPTION AGENCIES OR AFTER-CARE CLINICS directed by Pro-Lifer's!!!!!! All I know is that pro-lifer's, in front of a clinic, badger and demean a woman into feeling 5000x's worse than they already do! They spend more time on posters than they do on help for the person they are demeaning!

These babies could end up in orphanages and never be adopted! A lot of the babies would have special needs...ie: addictions, birth deffects...etc. Some would spend their lives with their birth mother in sub-human situations that you and I can hardly imagine.

You can say it all you want, "abortion is murder"...but to ever have to walk a mile in the shoes of one who chooses to abort is the most compelling walk you'll ever take! It's not an easy decision!!! Most of the girls/women educate themselves of the hazzards, know the risks, understand the moral issues, hide in shame, get pelted with relentless accusations upon entering a clinic, live with depression before and after, and keep a secret for the rest of their lives! A LEGAL secret at that!

I'm with BIBI on this issue! If it isn't YOUR body...don't tell me what I can and can't do with mine! I'll handle the morals in my life! You've no right to tell me how I should live...according to YOUR rules and morals. Just because you wouldn't do it...doesn't make me a monster! You don't know me or my circumstance. Don't inflict your feelings on me and I'll return the favor! I would NEVER go around preaching to you that you should abort! Don't tell me I shouldn't! You didn't know me before...and you'll not know me or care for me after, no matter what I choose!

Conversely...If there is any chance that you can carry to term and know that you can make a childless person/couple happy with your gift of life...more power to you!

Abortion isn't about being FOR death. It's about choice. Clinics don't overwhelm a girl with the pros of abortion...but instead, talk of ALL the choices available so that she can make an educted decision...one SHE can/must live with. After all...it is HER life...NOT YOURS!

If she HAS to go back to the days of dark alleys and coat hangers...SHE WILL. No matter what you do with this law...a girl will do what a girl's gotta do!

P.S. That G.W.B. has had the opportunity to make another Supreme Court appointment makes me feel even more compelled to find the end of the planet so I can jump off!

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