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I feel that if the mother has taken precautions against pregnancy, or if she was raped, then abortion is completely acceptable. The same goes for a pregnancy that will result in severe birth defects.
What I have a problem with is abortion as a matter of convenience. If you don't use birth control, then it's your own fault and the child should be given up for adoption. It should be a way to fix a problem that has slipped through the cracks, not to compensate for your own negligence or incompetence.
I believe that life begins at the point of viability. I wouldn't personally advocate abortion after the point at which it develops a functioning nervous system, but I wouldn't condemn it either.
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