Does anyone think that making abortion illegal will only make women want to have the procedure more?
90620
I think women will have them if they want them, They just go underground to do it. (in otherwords, back room operations ect)\nor just travel to a place where they are legal. \nI think they should be legal. \nThe death penelty is legal.. and a human is a human, even if one is a criminal.
705476
To help someone in a time of need is a lot different than the liberal point of view.\n The liberal plan does not encourage the recipient to stop taking "charity",but to keep on taking it. That is why we have generation after generation on welfare.\n Abortions are going to happen,either naturally or medically. I think both sides of the issue should sit down to work out some sort of compromise to allow medical abortions for legitimate reasons,not on demand.\n  A woman who needs an abortion should be able to get one that is safe and would allow her to have children later if circumstances allow it.
127848
I think should be a CHOICE.  I am not for using abortion as birth control, but if there are other factors involved I think it should be up to the woman.
996901
Pro-choice. If I was raped I might not want to have the baby. I probably would-because the baby didn't do anything, and I'd probably end up giving it up for adoption, but I still want to be able to choose. And why should anyone have the right to make that choice for other women? I'm also pro-choice because with abortion legal at least its quick, safe and doesn't kil the mother or simply deform the fetus. before legal abortions there were still abortions, they just were unsafe and killed many desperate young women, and those who didnt die faced criminal charges.
270678
From what I understand about the case, the states determined abortion laws, and still do.  So, if it is illegal in one state, a woman can travel to another to have the procedure performed.  \nBut, I have always wondered the answer to this myself.  I assumed it would outlaw any abortions except those to save the mother's life.  But, that assumption must be wrong or you wouldn't have asked this question.
119870
Abortion should never be legal.  I hope the Supreme Court, with its new memebers will put an end to the partial-birth procedure.  From there Id like to see Roe itself overturned.
1258
While abortion obviously affects women's bodies, maybe that is only 15% of the issue?  Perhaps the other 85% are social, religious and scientific?  So the parts dedicated to women's reproductive rights aren't the major parts of the issue, but rather the unknown and arguable stuff that I just gave an 85% weight.
821638
Snoooooore. Snoooore.\n\n(yawn), er...ah yes, abortions will continue happening worldwide, no matter what you and your kind try.\n\nIt's a human factor, like war, prostitution, murder, etc. You can't eradicate it. Period. Good night! zzzz
875169
That's the main confusion most "pro life" people make. Being pro-choice does not mean that I am pro-abortion. It means I am for the rights of the people. Nobody is for abortion. Nobody wants it to happen. The facts are though, if you allow the government to strip you of your rights, no matter what they are, you will never get them back. And it makes it easier for them to take away more and more rights. I am pro-choice because the Supreme Court ruled that the Constitution gives a woman the right to decide what she will and will not do with her body, and I am pro-constitution, and pro-peoples rights, and pro-choice. Besides, no matter how you feel, in the end it's none of your business what a woman does choose to do with her body. If if offends you, then don't do it. If you choose to teach this to your children, right on. But if you want to take away more of my rights, then you can stick it up your............
431445
What anti abortionist want is for it to go back to the way it was. Girls will still get abortions but will end up in makeshift clinics and backroom places to get them from unqualified people. Her is a question for them, how are you going to like it when your daughter is found in a back alley bled to death with a coat hanger hanging out of them, I know it is a gross thought but it happened in the 50's just that way. I think that any governments choice to try to legislate morality is wrong and could be the downfall of that government. \n   That being said I am against using abortion as a form of birth control. It is just wrong, especially with so many alternatives that one can use. With abstention being the best. However it is a fact that girls will still get them and you won't stop it with laws.
83456
People can..and do ..go outside and kill whoever they want(they call it murder),they also get abortions(i think to worry about someone elses baby while it's still in that person,is just plain nosey.)It's still attacted to the mother,her body,her choice.This choice is essential for multiple reasons,the more they are restricted the harder it is to get them,meaning the more dangerious it is for those seaking one,you someday in your life may need the very abortion your so apposed to,would'nt it be nice to have a clinic that offered this procedure in a sanitary and non bias envoriment?If you think i have no right,i was almost an abortion,choice is the word here,people should have it.but if somone is'nt ready for one reason or another to be a parent they should be able to make that choice without the judgment of others.
1008585
It is conceivable that the US Congress might try to pass a law outlawing abortion federally. \n\nWomen who have taken their reproductive freedom and personal privacy in this area should be aware that the shrill vocal minority who oppose freedom of choice are doing their best to deprive them of their rights.\n\nThe countervailiing position to the argument that a fetus is a human is that, so is the impregnated female. She is not an incubating machine who should have to bear the seed of a rapist or a relative to term just to satisfy the moral smugness of a minority of the populace.\n\nolderandwiser is right on. I am buying up stock in coat hangar factories right now.
142530
There are a lot of us afraid of that. It's just a matter of time until they challenge Roe vs.Wade in the supreme court, and with the new justices appointed by Bush, it could easily be overturned. That would be a travesty. We have too many throw away children in our society now, and I was alive before Roe vs. Wade. I've seen what horrors illegal abortions can produce, and there will be illegal ones if it's overturned. \n\nThese people who are so pro abortion have no idea how many children will suffer if it's overturned. Is it better to have a child born then abused, neglected or abandoned than for a woman to have an abortion? And what right does anyone have to make that judgment for another woman. Moreso, what right does our government have to make that decision for a woman. It's her body, and it should be her decision. She's the one who knows her circumstances. \n\nYes, I agree that she should have thought about that before she got pregnant, but there are reasons that women get pregnant other than promiscuity, and once again, it's not our place to judge another.
763767
Its not Morally right. I consider myself to be pro-choice. I would never look down on or criticize someone who has had an abortion but I know that in my heart its wrong and not an option for me. But I would much rather have these women who have their mind set on doing it go to a clean sterile facility and not some rusty shack and but their lives at risk as well. These women are mothers, daughters, sisters, aunts etc. I think every one knows its not morally right they aren't motivated to have an abortion bc its morally right I think they choose to because of situational factors. N I think most women feel guilty, ashamed, embarrassed and wrong about their option but they felt that was their only way out
250070
The big problem is that there are a number of issues that can not be dealt with by simple answers. First is the fact that if women who wish an abortion are denied, they may (and many do) find another way. It can be through ancient "home remedies" or though "back alley" abortionists, both of which can be highly dangerous and the results have killed women or made them seriously ill.\n\nBy legislating proper abortion clinics where women can go for a professional and safe procedure, out of existence, law makers force many women into an unsafe situation that can easily kill them.\n\nThe belief that abortion is murder is held by some, but not all, people. As we are not speaking about the killing of a human that is already born, the controversy over when the fetus becomes a viable human being will continue.\n\nIf a woman is raped, is it fair to force her to accept a pregnancy?\n\nMany "right to life" folks also do not believe in contraception, or the "morning after pill" that prevents pregnancy and this places a great deal of hardship on  women who would be forced into that idea if laws were changed.\n\nThere are many questions, but at this time, few answers. It basically comes down to belief and personal ideas of morality. \n\nI also note that we in the US don't really give a hoot if we kill thousands or millions of people in wars, but will object if one abortion is done. Real confusing.
946591
A woman has the right over her own body, regardless of whether there is a zygote, embryo, or fetus present.  It is not a "baby," regardless of the necessity of that word for emotional appeal.\n\nLook, here's my take on things: if you are so opposed to abortions, then stop trying to make them illegal and make them unnecessary.  Work to provide better free or at least affordable health care.  Work to improve sex education for our youth.  Make birth control easily accessible and cheap.  Establish better support for women who wish to give up a child for adoption.  Provide better assistance to people of low incomes who have children.\n\nTHOSE are the major contributing factors to abortion procedures, and if you and all other anti-choice protestors are so caught up in fixing things, then FIX THOSE THINGS.  \n\nI'm pro-choice, because in our society women need to have that option.  I'd love for elective abortions to be completely unnecessary--and so I am trying to fix the problems that lead to them, rather than trying to punish women already in difficult situations by removing their rights.
498582
Of course they would if they got in a position where they didn't want a child.  When a lot of those pro-lifers do get in that situation they will try to say something like "Oh I'm not like to the other females, because this or that happen, so this is why I'm having an abortion".  It's usually okay for them, but their anti-abortion when it's someone else.