ABORTION

America made a mistake when it decided to allow people to legally take the life of defenseless babies. Let's repent of our wrong and set a new standard for the whole world. Let's protect life!

As women, we have proven that we can reach the stars. We are captains of industry, political leaders, airline pilots and doctors. Yet we cling to our right to abortions because we still don't want to be accountable for our contraception decisions. How tragic, to paraphrase Mother Theresa, that it is acceptable to take a human life as a matter of convenience.

Contraception doesn't alway work and what about in the case of incest and rape, should a woman have to live with a choice she didn't choose to make in the first place? I think both of the above comments are ignorant and only based on religious stand points.

Do you realize how many children we have right now in foster care and orphanages? How about those who are homeless and on the streets? Just because the mother and/or father didn't want them or could not care for them. What kind of life are you really giving that baby? So unless, Daniel Krauss 6and Mary K. plan on adopting all of these children, I believe a woman should have the right to choose.

Everyone applauded Palin for "choosing" to have her last child but they entirely missed the point that she had the right to choose in the first place. She did nothing more than thousands of women do everyday and that is choose to have a special needs child. Personally I do not believe I could have an abortion but until I put out my hand to the woman in need and promise to support her emotionally, spiritually and most importantly, financially, then I feel I, nor anyone else, has the right to dictate to her what she should do. It is rather pompous of anyone to take the right away from a woman, girl, child while not in turn offering her all the support she needs, and I mean ALL support, to help her have and raise her child. It is very easy to sit in our safe surroundings telling someone else what they have to do but go out there and put a face to all these women that you want to help run their lives. Tell it to the woman who is being beaten everyday, to the woman who can't feed the children she already has, to the young girl who's father decides he likes her too much or the woman walking home from her second job at night only to be raped. Can you honestly tell them they have no rights in choosing what to do with their lives?

i find it interesting that so many people are willing to speak out against abortion who are not willing to help these children or their mothers in any way. it's very easy to flap your lips or type on a keyboard about what someone else should or shouldn't do, isn't it. but when is the last time any of you complainers actually helped someone???

Every time I hear that this issue is about "a woman's right to choose", it makes me cringe. I believe the real question is, "Is this a real human being inside the woman's womb?" Legally, biologically and historically speaking, there is no doubt that from the moment of conception, this is a human being. It might be in an early stage of development, but it is a human none-the-less. Thus, the question must be, "Is it ever right to kill a human child?"

Both my mother and my wife were adopted, so had either of their parents chosen abortion, I would either not have been born, or would not be married right now.

As for Katie's comment - I have been involved in the local crisis pregnancy centers wherever I live, (in both material and financial ways), and I agree that we need help women who need assistance. We also tried to adopt through both private and state agencies, but were rejected by the state (due to the biases of our social worker in Massachusetts who chose to give children to both single & gay parents rather than a professing Christian couple like my wife and I) and could not afford the cost of a private agency adoption (starting price was over $25K!).

-If a man beats up a pregnant woman and invariantly kills her unborn child, he goes to jail for man slaughter or murder, not for the assault on the woman itself. So to say abortion is any different other then the female is hiring somebody to murder her unborn child, is just plain politician double talk. I believe a woman's freedom of choice until conception, now there is an unborn child to protect. If the choice of sex was taken away (rape) then the day after pill has a place.