[Waychel]

I think some of us are forgetting here why abortion is legal in the first place. Abortion is legal because the Supreme Court ruled it was a matter of body and personal privacy over religious or moral views. To make abortion illegal would be overstepping bounds by the many (the country, or government rather) regulating the control of any one woman to make decisions regarding her own body. More or less, the woman comes first before the baby, so at conception it is the woman's choice if she wishes her body to go through with the pregnancy or not. Morality has nothing to do with it at all, it’s a matter of rights concerning body and putting those rights over morality. These are after all the Jeffersonian principles that our country was founded on.

In my opinion, "life" does not begin until the beginning of the third trimester, when the fetus is developing fully into a baby with a functioning brain. Most abortions however take place during the first trimester, when a fetus is forming and has not yet developed any real brain or limbs. So unless you believe in life upon conception due to religious views, the "life" of a baby doesn't really begin until sometime into the third trimester from a scientific perspective. Which, abortion has been illegalized to be carried on recently in the first place, if I recall correctly.

Abortion also offers closure. Many act like it is so easy for a woman to go through several months of pregnancy, only to give up what has developed into her own child, to complete strangers. Would you want to give up your own child? Would you want to live knowing that child may not ever have a family, may go hungry, may not have a life worth living at all? Personally, if I was in such a situation, I would rather choose to abort a fetus before it develops into anything rather than remember giving up that baby and being tortured with that every day of my life. Before you say adoption is everybody's option, I think you should have a child for yourself and see if you would choose to give it up in that scenario.

Honestly, this is all blind to circumstance. Abortion costs money and likewise it is a dangerous procedure. Whether a woman chooses abortion or adoption, BOTH are emotionally wrenching decisions to make. They are also personal decisions to make. Try to think if you would be in the situation right now to stop working for several months and care for a child - alone. Try to think if you would be able to give up your child to an absolute stranger not knowing what would happen to them. Then think if you wouldn’t choose to instead undergo an abortion before that blob of cells began to develop into much of anything.

Everyone has different philosophies on life and nobody has the right to dictate another person's or regulate it for them. Especially when lifestyles and circumstances vary so greatly. Stop being so egocentric and judging the lives and circumstances of so many women who's stories and reasons you don't even know.