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The abortion question is not a question of whether women should have the right to choose abortion. It's whether or not any government has the right to keep a woman from exercising her right to abortion.

Women have the right to abortion simply because women are women. Their creator, whether it is God or a god or whatever originated the species Human Being, gave women and only women the ability to conceive and, inherently, the right to abortion.

I'm not a woman. I cannot presume to know the thoughts and feelings a woman experiences when she contemplates abortion. She may be concerned only for her future. She may be concerned for the consequences of giving birth, believing her child may suffer for myriad possible reasons. She may be worried about the inconvenience or discomfort of pregnancy, the pain of childbirth. She may be worried the child will have physical or mental handicaps if born. I can only imagine.

My experience is that people who would deny a woman her right to abort, so-called Pro-Lifers, have seldom if ever regretted their birth. Their lives and those of their friends have been, for the most part, lives they've enjoyed. They know little or nothing of the reasons a woman would abort, the reasons a woman would go against the natural maternal instinct to bear children, an instinct that can be incredibly strong.

Pro-Lifers believe their god is the only god of importance, so important that governments should subordinate themselves to her or his will; I fairly certain a staunch Pro-Lifer would say, "his will." Laws enforcing their god's will must be made and enforced.

Pro-Lifers profess to be advocates of children un-born. This sounds good and, I'm sure, makes them feel good and righteous when they try to deny women their right to abort.

In truth, it is women who contemplate abortion and abort that are child advocates. Ask a person raised by parents who didn't want her or him about abortion. Ask a person born addicted to crack about abortion. Ask kids standing on street corners selling drugs who expect to die before they're 18 about abortion. Ask kids who follow gang leaders because their parents have figuratively or literally abandoned them about abortion. Ask any death row inmate about abortion. The answers may surprise you. They may not.

We in the U.S. are supposed to be governed according to the principals upon which the U.S. was founded, clearly expressed in the Declaration of Independence, and according to the U.S. Constitution. Law prohibiting abortion not only denies a woman her unalienable right to abort, it denies her right to liberty and her right to pursue happiness. Law favoring any religious believe over another is contrary to the First Amendment of the Constitution.

No government has the right to prohibit a woman from choosing abortion.

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