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1. male heterosexual
2. 19
3. roman catholic (don't stop reading, please)
4. i am pro-life for multiple reasons, some stemming from moral reasoning, some from medical reasoning. i believe that a lot of pro-choice defenses encompass a woman's right to choose what happens to their body: this would be a completely valid argument if there wasn't another body depending on hers. in the case of a pregnancy i believe that the woman, no matter the means through which she became pregnant, has the responsibility to support and care for her physical dependent. a woman should not have the right to terminate a responsibility and treat a child as an inconvenience. it is her choice to decide what to do following the baby's delivery (keep it? adoption?), she has no right to curtail another life out of practicality. medical reasoning includes the physical and mental stresses that a woman can incur following an abortion (inhibited sex drive, severe depression, thoughts of suicide, physical deformities, etc). even considering the woman's right to her body argument, the medical stresses still hold down a pro-life stance without my "bible thumping" moralism.
5. should be illegal for all of the above reasons. additionally, if someone kills a woman carrying a child, he is charged with double murder. this is commonly accepted legislation and should transcend the abortion issue.
6. no, even considering rape and incest, i would openly encourage putting the child up for adoption before so much as thinking of asking her to abort the child.
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and that's the end of that chapter...
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