The most recent attack on abortion rights is focused on late term abortions. The debate over abortion has always split between those who believe that women, in consultation with their health care providers, are capable of making their own decisions about when they are able to take on the responsibility of a child, and those who believe that women's choices must be regulated by the states and courts. Unsuccessful at outlawing abortion, anti-choice forces are focusing on late abortions in an attempt to deny access and choice to another group of women.
Women have abortions to prevent real tragedies in their lives.
Women just like you, your sister, your daughter, your mother, your friend. These real women could be any of us. But as the Christian Coalition, the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, and the Right have led the debate with graphic descriptions of the fetus, not one of these real women is in the picture. For women who need later abortions, the statistics about number of procedures and the distinction between types of procedures is meaningless. Whether we are 1 of 500 women or 1 of 50,000, if a woman has decided that for her own well being and her family's that she cannot continue her pregnancy, this has to be her decision.