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The risk, the burden, the physical changes and the stigma is all put on the woman. A man cannot be the one to decide something like that. He has no connection to the child. Have you ever met a woman that just learned she had an 18 year old son? Men are donors. Until men can be implanted with the fetus and carry the burden, they should have no right to it. The woman becomes a mother some time during gestation - a man doesn't become a father until that kid pops out.
I'm always questioning myself on the topic of abortion and the death penalty and I can honestly argue both sides with myself because they are both huge moral and ethical gray areas for me.
The one thing that isn't gray to me is the legality of it. I definitely think it should be legal because people are going to do it anyways. Making it illegal is only going to trade abortions for murder convictions and dead mothers from botched back alley surgeries which I can't do.
I hope some day with education and conditioning we can get rid of the need for abortion. It does upset me that there are stupid people out there using abortions as birth control because there are much easier ways.
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“It is better to be rich and healthy than poor and sick” - Dave Barry
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