[BeyondBewildered]

Amadeus, the strech mark comments are really uncalled for and insulting. Women are not as stupid as you would like to believe. We don't need to see a sonogram to know what an abortion or a fetus is. Very, very few women make decide to abort based on such superficial reasons. It seems you have an idea of what abortion is in your head; a stupid slut who "spreads her legs," and kills her baby to avoid stretch marks. You simply refuse to see any other viewpoint. Does making the right choice really count in the eyes of your god if it isn't a choice?

I don't need someone to "force" me to have sex to think that I have a right to have sex and an abortion. I'm married, not relgious, and neither my husband or I desire to have children in the foreseeable future. I don't want to carry a baby and give it away. I don't find that moral. To me, it is more responsible to timely terminate a pregnancy than thrust yet another child into an absolutely horrible public child care system, or hand it over to a religious family.

Although some surveys report 90% of America is Christian, the official census number is 76.5. There are also 13% of us who are completely nonreligious. What about our rights? Why aren't our views important? Abortions being legal does not put your soul in jeopardy. You don't even have a uterus; you'll never be put in a position to abort or not abort. You want to impose your view upon others. You want the government to force everyone to do what you feel is right. That is the slippery slope Amadeus. Giving the misinformed religious masses control over other people's body and morality.

No one has addressed my concern about what birth control options are available to me if we define human life as starting at conception. By that definintion, I and many other women have probably had dozens of abortions by using birth control. It seems that pro lifers don't quite realize that when they start using that logic, they are really arguing to get rid of most forms of birth control and essentially all reproductive rights. Well beyond getting the many men all female pro choicers obviously sleep with to finally use condoms. You really fail to realize the public health hazard that carrying every pregnancy to term would create.