Reply #76: Agree -

[selmo7]

I certainly don't think abortion is morally wrong. One of the possible outcomes of sex - birth control or not - is possible pregnancy. IMO - it is the right and moral thing if one chooses to terminate a pregnancy before allowing it to continue thereby, giving birth to an unwanted child, especially in an environment where there is no healthcare, no means to support that child and even if the mother is going to carry to term knowing they are filled with contempt, resentment, anger, anguish, shame and worry - all unhealthy for a developing fetus. Native American peoples in many tribes have a tradition (they consider moral) in their ways of choosing to abort if it makes sense to do so. They exercise reason rather than rigid notions of morality. Some tribes believe that the quickening (when the human soul comes alive in the fetus) comes when the mother receives the first kick. I think that's an interesting barometer.

What it comes down to is choice and that choice is THAT WOMAN'S CHOICE ONLY - PERIOD.

I am sick and tired of the moralizing about abortion and sex. Sex is part of growing up, just like riding a bike.
I am sick and tired of suppression of eros and subconscious and overt misogyny.
I am sick and tired of the belief that unsafe and illegal abortion is preferential to safe and legal abortion. With that abortion goes back into the hands of the mob - more $$, crime, blackmail.
I am sick of tired of the cavalier notion to just give up your kid for adoption, when that option is loaded with all kinds of emotionally haunting problems, including the birth trauma of separation from the mother.