>> Ask the question another way; do you think the issue of abortion as it relates to women's health should be a choice control by the government or the individual?
What I think isn't really material. I'm sort of moderate on the issue but I do know that abortion has been used by some women as a primary birth control method. I think that is wrong when something approaching half the population believes it is killing babies. I can respect that view, and there is no sense to allow it. When I was young I knew many women/girls who had abortions, and I never once condemned anyone for it.
But today, we have plenty of alternatives. In effect, the abortion as a birth control alternative is an outmoded, unnecessary procedure being pushed only by providers of that service.
As a birth control method, abortion fails miserably compared with other methods in terms of safety, cost, and long-term potential negative effects.
Just on the facts, there is no medical justification for general use of abortion as a birth control method.
The use of abortion in this way ranks, in my mind, with using plastic surgery to install fat-assed lips on women's faces, extreme surgeries in an effort to emulate Barbie's look, other outrageous surgical treatments that are simply unnecessary.
To your point above, I believe we should do everything possible to discourage young women from relying on abortion as birth control. Having known many women who had abortions at some point, I believe an inordinate number are affected emotionally by the process, and that is not healthy, and an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. |
