Livre d'Or

Hi, thanks for dropping by and for this comment. Sorry it's taken a while to get back to you; I tend to be slow about following up discussions, by LJ standards.

I completely agree with your point that the debate can degenerate into just yelling at strangers, not understanding their religious and cultural background. That's definitely one of the things that bothers me about the issue.

I'm not actually bothered by the fact that some people might "abuse" the choice to have an abortion. It's more the case that many women end up in bad situations for all the reasons lavendersparkle outlined in her original post, economic, social, sexism, whatever, and this pushes them into having abortions. Instead of fighting the problems that made it necessary for vulnerable women to have abortions in the first place, pro choice advocates seem to be celebrating the fact that the supposed "solution" of abortion is available.

Also, a good point that criminalization isn't an effective method of preventing abortions. That's a big reason why I don't consider myself pro life, though it's secondary to the fact that I think the pro life movement as actually constituted is evil.