So far I think one of the best comments made in this thread was made by
Midnight
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What I think and I believe and how I act is no one's business unless it hurts or affects them. What someone else believes or does with their body and its issue or potential issue is NONE OF MY BUSINESS. I don't have to like it, I don't have to approve. Pro Lifers - get out your bibles or what have you - Right or wrong - we have one thing NO ONE should be able to take away from us. FREE WILL. You do not and should not control me, Nor should I you when it concerns the one thing in life that is our own to control. our own body.
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When I was 15 I was a victim of sexual abuse - in blunt terms I was raped. There is no way in the world I could have carried any child that could have resulted from that to term, I had not been on birth control prior to the incident as I was not sexually active and those of you that work in medicine or look at the facts know that the morning after pill which is what I was given in the emergency room is not 100% effective. Until my next period after the attack I was terrified that I might have been pregnant, I cried pretty much every day, every time I looked at myself I felt ill thinking that I might have been infested with some parasite that was fathered by that man / boy. That's honestly how I felt about it, to me it wasn't a child it was a parasite, it was the ends of all my hopes for life, if I had been pregnant I would most likely have been kicked out of school (I went to a religiously based school) and I would have major problems going back and doing anything that I had planned for my life with a young child in tow.
If I had been pregnant from that attack every day would be like living the act over again. Would I have gotten an abortion - without a second thought. You can tell me that child has every right to live and that it is just as important as I am and I will admit a big part of me agrees with you but I would have still gone and done it anyway and I still would today.
After having made that decision and facing a part of me that I don't like very much I find I can't judge anyone else on making a similar decision for their own individual reasons.