hey kurt,
yes i am aware of pre-mature births. Thats after 20 weeks. thats about 5 months. I hate to inform you of this but I don't know of any woman who will jump up and down for joys as she skips to the abortion clinic singing "Yey me I am getting an abortion today and i have carried for over 4 months!".

If the baby endangers the life of a mother, the mother has the right to abort the baby. What makes it so much more special than a woman's life who might have a family or other things she is taking care of?

Second, lets say in my religion it is un-ethical to remove tumors. You Kurt have a tumor and want it removed. But because my religion forbids it, I have tons of money and bought a lot of politicians, I get to make the rules. I make laws to make sure that the operation to get the tumor removed is as hard as possible to get.
Guess what Kurt, you get to either die or go into the back alley and hope that the guy there knows what he is doing with his rusty instruments.

Yes I know a baby/fetus is not a tumor blah blah blah. I just want males and others on this thread to realize that abortion is a personal choice. Sometimes it is a matter of life and death. And yo might not have all the answers.

Woman have abortions because they are desperate. I took emergency contraseptives because I was desperate - and you know what, Planned parenthood wanted to tell me all kinds of ways to have safe sex so that I wouldn't need their services again ( so far for the money grubbing abortionists).

I took a mental poll and realized that all these people I know had kids who were totally unplanned.
They are all democrats or progressives or whatever. So the myth that as soon as you feel bad about your pregnancy you will rush off to have an abortion is a myth. People have unwanted kids all the time. They include me. (if i was aborted i wouldn't have know about it so doesn't make me upset at the least)
So abortions are emergencies. Please don't fuck that up. Alternatives to abortions are fine as long as they don't entrap women and force them to make a choice that sometimes in this society it has to be economic one (that bush for me kurt).