Ok, so here's my stance on abortions: I'm pro-choice in terms of legality because I don't feel that I have the right to impress my views on a situation that I'm not a part of and thus don't know the whole situation.
That being said, I think abortion -is- the killing of a future human, and thus equitable to murder.
My girlfriend and I have been sexually active in the past (she uses the pill for contraception). I don't like condoms, thus we didn't use them (we were both virgins before each other).
However, we are not in the position to raise a child nor even to carry a baby to completion. We're both still in college (she's a freshman). Thus, if we -did- conceive, we -would- abort the baby. (This is entirely her decision, and I support her in it). However, I can't help but feel that I would feel terrible about it since I would be committing an act I believe to be morally reprehensible.
This brings up the age-old question: Assume that you could earn x amount of money (or whatever reward you want) if you would merely take a gun and pull the trigger at someone's head. There is one bullet in the magazine, the rest are blanks. Thus there is a y chance of it actually happening. Also, you would not be prosecuted at all for the death if they died.
How big of a reward would there have to be before you were ok with pulling the trigger? Conversely, how small would the chance of death have to be before you were ok? 1 in 10? 1 in 10,000? 1 in six trillion?
So that's the dilemma I'm in. Currently my gf and I are sexually inactive, but every month that passes is another month we could be having wild, fulfilling sex to add to our relationship (and a sex life -does- add to our relationship. We're ok without it, we just miss it ;_
. I'm not looking for you to answer this question for me but just provide some insight that perhaps I haven't thought of before.