It shouldn't be a black or white subject. Personally I feel abortions should be banned unless it's a case like kitler mentioned or rape victims.
despite my very liberal politics in most places i do consider myself "pro-life". "choice" comes with "consequences" and if you're having naughtiness than you might get pregnant. the fetus (without human intervention) would grow into an adult human being and ending that does not feel particularly moral.
however, as i mentioned above, it's not just one life it is two intertwined. i firmly believe that the life of the adult women is worth more than the unconscious clump of cells growing into a human. in situations where the women's life is endangered i think the only opinion that should be respected is the
opinion of the women's. even if the odds of death is low-ish (like 25%) no one in government should should be able to tell the women she is mandated to die to give a fetus a chance at life. that (to me) is more immoral than a thousand abortions.
I also think rape needs to be an exception.
what i said before is i believe "choice" comes with " consequences
" but getting raped is not the women's choice and she shouldn't bare the consequences
of that crime. it's like punishing her twice. ...by not having the exception for rape men may feel be motivated to rape women solely to satisfy their desire to breed a women. our laws should not entice men to commit crimes.but i don't think abortion should take the place of "birth control". pregnancy may not always be planned or desired but the "choice" occurs before or during naughtiness not 20 weeks into a pregnancy. in life you often time have to deal with undesirable
consequences and ending the fetuses life because you made a mistake is not moral to me.
i especially don't like
pregnancies being ended because the fetus is determined to have downs syndrome. raising a kid with downs syndrome is not as easy but we wouldn't allow an adult with downs syndrome to be murdered. i don't see the difference between murdering an adult and aborting a fetus when the motivation is knowing that condition exists.