Abortion as birth control should be illegal.

I will reply in order with your comments. "Unenforceable" --It wouldn't be difficult to check for things like the age of the mother, how far along she is, and whether or not she was a victim of rape or incest. There would be patient confidentiality as always, of course. Would there still be underground abortions? Maybe. .. but should we feel bad for people who break the law? If they weren't raped, they put themselves in such a position. "Abortion is a complex issue to which even the opposition to it tends to agree that it's a valid medical procedure, unfortunate, but sometimes necessary. " --I completely agree. Such problems are further compounded by high cost of medical care even if nothing goes wrong, which one expert summarized as: "So how much does it cost to have a kid without insurance? According to my experience, just about $12,638.31" --This is a problem with our healthcare industry that needs to be corrected also. That said, many would argue that you should not have a child if you can't afford one. Attempting to have no exceptions to allow abortion, leads to the level of negative intelligence seen in the United States House Committee on Science, Space and Technology's "legitimate rape" --Do you mean no exceptions other than medical or rape? I already conceded those as morally neutral. However once decent and logical exceptions to allow it are in place, it becomes foolish to try to over regulate under what circumstances a woman is allowed the procedure. . --The problem is figuring out what's decent and logical. "For rape or incest (both illegal in the USA), would a conviction be required before she gets the procedure, or a mere accusation? " --Good point. I would say on accusation for obvious reasons, but if she turns out to be lying she should go to jail. False rape accounts are uncool, whether to hurt a guy or dodge parental responsibility. But I doubt a lot of women would lie about such a thing. "Good decisions include financial decisions. Pregnancy as proven above, is very often a bad decision for such. " --So we should address the problem with an easy cop out? This is going to increase responsibility amongst youth and young women? When they know they can have unprotected sex and get pregnant over and over and have abortions? And then one day when they want to get pregnant and find that they can't due to scarring? Is this really teaching them to face their choices head on and do the right thing? "If any man claiming to be the father was enough to prevent (or delay until genetic testing is done) an abortion, there would probably be nutjobs activists going in and claiming to have fathered the child of any woman entering an abortion clinic" --LMAO! ! You are probably right. But they get those anyways. .. and paternity tests are not uncommon especially when applying for state assistance anyways. Tanif requires one, for instance, at the father's expense if the child turns out to be his. Like 90$ "No option is guaranteed. Further getting into these moral areas, some states have inflicted the social experiment of teaching abstinence only, leading directly to increased pregnancy rates among the already financially disadvantaged" --Few things in life are guaranteed, save death and taxes. Birth control methods mentioned above are 90-99% effective. Abortion also has a chance of causing infertility or even infection and death in rare cases. Speaking of the financially disadvantaged, the poor, minorities, and women under 25 are most likely to seek abortions. This is inherently tied to socioeconomics, and THAT is where we should begin in trying to address these issues of birth control, parenthood, and poverty that leads to abortions. " In the United States alone, there are millions of women like me, spending at least some of their waking life in an agony of anxiety and longing and hope and prayer and grief, trying everything from herbal supplements to special lubricants to expensive pills to having holes drilled in their ovaries to get pregnant. They obsessively pee on sticks to the point that it becomes a literal addiction, and many of them suffer repeated, heart-wrenching miscarriages. Meanwhile, every day, 125,000 women a day pay a doctor to murder the miracle we would literally give our right arms for. " -- . http://www.lifesitenews.com... "You can look at any chart showing historical fertility rates in the United States and see it bottom out after the Roe v Wade decision in 1973 and staying around those levels. Because fewer and fewer are working for every retiree, our current level of taxation nowhere near covers what the requirements for Social Security and Medicare will soon be. " -- . http://townhall.com...