I encounter multiple views on the subject of abortion weekly from posts, news articles, and the nearby clinic which usually has protesters on the sidewalk on Saturday mornings.
This is the logic I use when dealing with this subject:
I do not like the idea of terminating a fetus. There is only one way for an unplanned pregnancy to happen and those who get pregnant should need to own up to their action.
However, there are situations where terminating a pregnancy is the correct thing to do (in spite of what my former Congressional representative Joe Walsh stated).
If a fetus is determined to be non viable or dead, forcing a woman to deliver would be cruel.
If being pregnant puts the woman's life at risk, forcing her to deliver would be dangerous.
If the pregnancy resulted from a crime, forcing her to deliver would be unfair.
Anyone who disagrees with those three concepts really needs to examine their morals and imagine if that woman was their daughter.
There is one problem with allowing abortion in those cases: Where to draw the line on who is or isn't eligible. This is the same problem encountered when determining whose lives could be prematurely terminated to improve the human race.
(Side note: I could imagine the movie scene where I die as the song Joy by Apollo 100 plays followed by the caption: The Madman on the Loose is dead... And by one person, the world is a better place.)
Having guidelines to determine who is eligible for abortion would cause people to deliberately harm themselves to qualify for one the same way some people who are unable to get one do anyway.
The idea of making abortion a choice for all becomes logical in a world where population is increasing and the long term survival of the human race is not threatened by it.
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