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1) Straight male
2) 40
3) Lutheran, but not practicing
4) Pro-choice. Do not agree w/the pro-life (are there people that are anti-life). Why? Because it's not my place, or yours, or anyone elses to tell someone what to do w/their body. As much as I can agree w/the arguments for abortion (rape, incest, et al.), it is her choice. Another problem I have is that there are enough struggling chhildren in this world. The pro-choice (?) people might change my way of thinking if they started talking to young girls (i.e. 15, 16, 17), and said "You know what - You're pregnant, and honestly you cannot raise this child. I will raise it for you". Pro-choice wants to insist that the child be brought into this world (before it even is a child), regardless of circumstances.
Should abortion be a cure-all to end-all - of course not.
5) Legal (see above).
6) I wouldn't think of asking her to have the abortion. I'd hope she'd rather not.
7) I've helped a couple through the process, up to the doctors office. Friends of mine (as were the guys). Not my place to judge.
On a sidenote - it's always easy to talk about how girls should have their babies. And then once it happens, the focus is gone. The fetus is the focus of attention, until it is born. Then that one is passed up for the next fetus. Must be why you never see a college-tuition program for the "fetus that was almost not born". Words come easy, but it's the action that takes work.
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