A part of me believes in a woman's right to do as she sees fit with her own body. Another part of me is put off by the waste of human life. I've seen videos of aborted fetuses who were still alive when pulled out and it is not pretty. It looks like murder to be quite frank, because you can see its already developed to a stage where it has all the basic body parts that every human has (in the videos I've seen). At the same time, there also seems to be a double standard in the "pro choice" pathos. If a man doesn't want to have a kid and walks out of that kid's life, he's known as a deadbeat. If a woman doesn't want to have a kid, she can have an abortion and be labeled "pro choice." I don't think the fact that a woman carries a child in her body makes the child more hers than the father's. But when it comes to abortion, she has the absolute right even if the would-be father objects to the abortion of a child that is just as much his (because its her body). Still, it is a very difficult question because there are legitimate cases in which abortion is justified..as in when it presents a medical danger to the mother and might kill her or, perhaps, when she has been raped.
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