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It amazes me that on such an open-minded forum such as Helium that the abortion debate is so closely matched. I'm even more amazed at how outspoken people have become over the rights of others. It's a simple premise - if you don't agree with abortion, don't have one. Having the right to choose doesn't mean that YOUR choice will be made for you, nor does it mean that you'll ever have to agree with the choices of anyone other than yourself.

What the pro-lifers of the world don't seem to take into account is the fact that no woman ever WANTS to have to make the decision to abort. No woman ever sets herself the goal of walking into a clinic to terminate an unwanted pregnancy as a part of her "10 things to do before I die" list. The depth and intensity of thought that must go into that decision is impossible to understand for those who have not been there themselves. Most pro-lifers want to make the issue one of religion, but it is not. It is an issue of woman's rights, of human rights, and of freedom to manage your own body. Until birth, an embryo (or fetus, or baby, or collection of cells, or WHATEVER you want to call it) is a physical part of the mother's body and just as she is the only one that can control the food she eats, the drinks she consumes, the drugs she partakes in, or the lifestyle that she lives, she is also the only one that can fairly decide whether or not to continue the pregnancy at all.

This isn't a debate about the moral and/or ethical implications of abortion. This is a debate about choice. A woman shouldn't be forced to carry a pregnancy that she doesn't want anymore than she should be forced to become impregnated or to remain 'without child' when that choice was equally unwanted.

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