Reply #18: Most people including most liberals (and me) agree with you.

[JDPriestly]

Women should not feel they HAVE to have abortions for economic reasons. Some women really do have to have abortions for medical reasons -- such as when neither the mother nor the child can survive the pregnancy. (It actually does happen, trust me.) And then there are rape and incest -- situations in which a woman has to decide whether her revulsion against her unborn child or her fear of serious genetic disorders are too great to overcome -- and will harm the child. The problem is that in our society women are compelled to choose abortion by economic necessity. First, there are women who are too young to care for their child. Then, there are women who already have more children than they can provide for. These women need far more support from society as a whole. Abortion is not a form of birth control. The problem is that the Christian right is hypocritical on the issue. On the one hand they want to punish women who have abortions. On the other, they want to make poor women and their children suffer in poverty if they don't abort. There is a better way, and you have described it very well.