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Well, we agree that it is one of the secondary choices that one should be free to make *after* getting pregnant. However, I would say that the really responsible thing to do would have been to not take the risk of getting pregnant in the first place.
Well, once again I am politically pro-choice, but let me think about this abstractly. If abortion was made illegal (I think that's what you meant, through you wrote "legal"), which I don't advocate precisely because of the reasons you cite (back-alley, whatnot), then yes it would be legally "forcing" a mother to carry a baby to term (or risk her health by having it done back-alley, etc).

However, I don't dispute you on that point. What I disagree with is the idea that a woman has no choice when getting pregnant in the first place. Women do have responsibility, they do have the power (again, unless poor/uneducated) to use birth control correctly, to ask their partner to use condoms, and to even practice abstinence if all else fails. To say that making abortion illegal would be forcing women to do something they don't want to do may be correct, but it ignores the logical precedence that a woman chose to take the risk of getting pregnant in the first place. I would guess that very few instances of abortion involve a woman feeling "forced" to have risky sex and get pregnant. It is still a choice.

I cannot logically be pro-choice about women getting rid of pregnancies without also being pro-choice about women preventing a pregnancy. That's all.

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