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I'd make my usual comments about this being what happens when you let your country be founded by puritans, except that even here in Oz we've got idiot politicians in power who seem to think they should be able to make choices about other people's sex lives.
For those against abortion I say:
Abortions are (almost always) a result of unwanted pregnancies. This lost life so often spoken about is the life of an unwanted child, born into a family unprepared for them. This is not a good life.
Many abortions are the result of accidental pregnancy. The potential babies lost here should not have gotten to the conception stage. The parents have actively tried to prevent pregnancy, this is just a last resort when contraception fails.
Anyone who tries to deny a woman access to abortion when she is carrying a child resulting from rape is, as far as I'm concerned, a prime example of why some pregnancies should be terminated.
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