[IsiliRunite]

Our inability to predict all of the complications that can arise in a pregnancy is unfortunate, but the option of abortion beyond a certain stage of development seems like a frail attempt at keeping humans empowered. Its good to have options, but ending lives past a certain stage of development in a calculated decision loses site of what the babymaking process is about. Life isn't perfect, and creating life isn't either... the fact that things can't be perfect does not justify ending a life. If a woman develops a complication that might end her life without endangering the life of her children, beyond whatever arbitrary point policymakers decide on, that is truly unfortunate. Babymaking is serious business. It would be good to focus on treating the mother, maximizing the amount of life that can be preserved with medical attention. Sometimes people die, though. That's life. Think about the consequences of your actions before you do them ie getting knocked up effecting your wallet and your health.

I buy into the ability to control your body under normal circumstances, but the body most affected by abortion is the fetus'. Sex and conception are in a realm beyond the individual person... mulitple parties civil liberties must be taken into account as well. I keep coming back to this point in my mind, as I write these responses, and I think that's where people who support the right to have an abortion (or the right to not be told you can't, more formally) and those who do not disagree... 'pro-choicers' view the fetus as an extension of the female form while 'pro-lifers' view the fetus as its own entity with its own rights.