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I am 100% pro-choice, I don't care what the mother's reason is it's her body and her choice.

Personally, I don't think I would ever be able to have one, but I've never been in a position to have to decide. If I found myself pregnant tomorrow, my opinion might change.

I am Catholic so on a personal basis I am against abortion for myself. As a woman, I would stand and support my sisters in their choice. I believe each one of us has the right to make that decision, so I am 100% pro choice. I will add I am offended when I see men demonstrating and blocking entrances to clinics. If you men are so against abortion then keep it in your pants, or get a vasectomy .......this is a woman's issue and it is a woman's decision not a man's. So men, butt out of our health issues....

I have to say I disagree about men having to but out when it comes to their children. Just like a woman can already start bonding with a child before it's born, so can a man. I would think they'd want to have a say on their child being killed, whether it was still in the stomach or not born yet.

As for the subject itself, I think it's murder and am against it.

I'm pro-choice because I think the government trying to interfere more would just screw it up and we'd have more backyard abortions, mangled women and suffering kids with bloody coat hangers all over again.

So I agree with it being the woman's choice, we all pave our own roads in our own ways.

I will agree with we all pave our own roads, but the bottom line on abortion, in my opinion, it is a woman's health issue. Growing up in a city I knew many men, including my four brothers and most of their friends, that had five, six in some cases ten baby mommy's.... now working in social services, I see it first hand . You will never convince me that men have a right at the abortion table. Until a man can carry a baby nine months and go through the health risks associated with the birth of a child, they don't earn the right to tell any woman what she should do with her body. If men are so against abortion, then prevent it at the source, they do have that right, but once they freely dispose of their bodily fluids they have freely given up the right to say anything ....

Personally I am against abortion and I would never get one. that being said I do not push my beliefs on anyone and I agree that it's a woman's choic to do what she wants with her body. No one can tell anyone what to do with they're own bodies. I don't look down on people who've had one, I don't discriminate them or not talk to them because of their choice. I have my personal beliefs and everyone else has theirs and I'm fine with that.

Joanne♥~Bookworm Extraordinaire wrote: "Personally I am against abortion and I would never get one. that being said I do not push my beliefs on anyone and I agree that it's a woman's choic to do what she wants with her body. No one can t..."

could not have said it better, Joanne....

Mark I understand your thoughts on this issue and respect your right to have them. Having said that Abortion is a women's health issue and not a man's health issue. We could discuss education for men on their sexual habits and how to prevent unwanted pregnancies but we would be going off topic. Or we could discuss how pregnancy can occur even when using every precaution and birth control product out there, but again this would be off topic. Or we could discuss the number of unwanted babies in an over burdened child welfare system and foster care system. Now having said that, as a woman I personally would not end a life within my womb, but we are not talking about what I want or what my religious beliefs are but a law that protects all my fellow sisters out there who have the same rights as I to make an extremely difficult decision concerning their health, their bodies and their lives. I certainly do not want to go back to the bad old days before abortions were not performed in health clinics and hospitals but were performed in back alleys or at home with coat hangers, chemicals or worse, where 50 to 60 percent of women back then died of infections and hemorrhaging or faced sterilization because of infections but I guess you would feel this was God's will. As far as your judgment of individuals as being selfish and blind well I believe I will let God judge what is in the hearts of so many women who have to make these hard and in most cases life changing decisions and not you...You see, being the age I am, I am older than dirt now, having seen the product of back alley abortions as an ER nurse, I would never ever want to go back to those days again. So this is where we differ because you see, I did not witness in all those years in the ER any men die of illegal abortion only many sad and lonely women.