My personal feeling is that abortion is just as much a feminist issue as it is a pro-life issue. I think women have been sold a very shoddy bill of goods. The other argument one hears is that abortion is a more merciful solution for the children of the poor than growing up in destitution. That's implying that poor people should consider abortion when they get pregnant, because it's sure better than raising children in poverty and isolation. But there are lots and lots of poor women who curse their poverty, and then on top of it all they feel driven to the abortion clinic when they get pregnant, just because society has few other options.
Abortion leaves far, far too many psychological scars.
But it's the cheap way out. This calls for a little bit of courage. I urged my friend not to let the agenda of the far right limit his agenda. Here in the Netherlands we have the lowest abortion rate in the entire Western world. That must mean that lowering the abortion rate, or trying to, is a thing worth doing.