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These post may be graphic and upsetting, do not read if you are easily upset. I am holding no punches.
Please read this post first.
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I am pro-choice. I am, really, really am. I think a women should have a right to choose whether to have sex. I think a women should have a right to choose whether to use protection (which will prevent the vast majority of unwanted pregnancies). I think a women should have the right to use the ultimate birth control, abstinence. In cases where this choice was removed (incest/rape) I think that the male should be punished SEVERLY. But again, and I do feel soooo bad for women that have this happen to them, don't see that as an excuse for murder.
The argument is that women should have a choice, and in the vast majority of the 1.2 million abortions in 2004 they had a choice. They chose to have unprotected sex. So lets give some margin for contraceptive failure, can't imagine that would be more then 2%, but lets say its 10%... you still have 1.08 million abortions for no reason other then its inconvenience. 1.08 million babies killed because a women didn't choose to abstain or use protection.
Now let me touch on one side of this argument... the Catholic church messes this up big time. They are pro-life, but they are also anti-contraceptive... one of the worst stances I've ever seen.