I say legalize abortions...

Galena, I am not for punishing the woman, I am giving stiff punishment for the backstreet practitioners with no bailable warrant. Women want to abort, give them scalpels and whatever that causes them pain... they gotta feel it is risky for their lives and know how the helpless child must feel...

if you are against safe and legal abortions being availiable to women then there will always be some women desparate enough to resort to risking their lives. and a thriving market of people that don't have the knowledge or the facilities availiable to them offering the service. women will always seek to end unwanted pregnancies. isn't it better that they don't resort to risking their lives and bodies to do so? we have to put the people here and now first. some of these women have children. and another child could be more than they could support. would you leave them desparate enough to risk their children being motherless? this is the reality of abortion being illegal.

Galene - if women realize that there is a risk of life in it for them, then may be they will take those pills...why should risk of life to a grown up woman be weighed higher than risk of life to a helpless young fetus? Aren't we discriminating here? @Anora - hi :) Yeah - I want to cause physical pain - rather scare women off because of physical pain - even fetus does feel pain you know. Its been proved recently. Just because it cant express, it doesnt mean it doesnt feel anything. I am not taking a severe step against mother... the choice is hers... she can choose to suffer ... and suffer alone... with risk, or start taking precautionary measures. Anora ... there are remote chances of pills failing. In general people can use pills like they brush their teeth... why cant they do it? @ShiroiNooto - law is about "let ten wrong doers get away with it, rather than let one innocent suffer". Here, I see the child as an innocent one. Agreed there can be instances where the woman is raped, or the woman is likely to give birth to a child who would have deformity or health issues. We do need to think a way out for that category... but other than that, women are being lazy when they dont take those pills. Surely, you are not willing to condone laziness in comparison to life?

If a lady suffers rape she wouldn't want to get pregnant through it. I would understand a lady in that terrible situation having an abortion or giving the baby up for adoption. In the case of a girl pregnant through incest then that would be one of the exceptional cases where an abortion might help a girl that is suffering. I personally wouldn't ever choose to have an abortion. My three year old disabled son is just as lovely as normal person. I would suggest make abortion illegal if the woman's life isn't in danger. If she got pregnant in rape or incest then she could be approved to have an abortion. Then 98% of abortions would be stopped and just the very tough stories get through the net. I read a story about a lady that survived abortion. That was chilling and no baby deserves to be aborted.

This is what is going on currently in India: http://www.indiatogether.org/manushi/issue126/abortion.htm

What about incest or rape? Most rape scenarios don't result in pregnancy mind you but in the case of incest I would want to know that they were still legal. In the US one of the problems that occurred when they were illegal was backstreet butchers. There are hundreds of cases of women who were scarred and unable to have children after having had one done. It's nice to know that they are safe and regulated now as a surgical procedure. Namaste-Anora

Hi meluan! I miss you!

Number one that is another false analogy. The point is that you are talking about taking a life for a life, and that is absolutely not justified in my mind. You want to talk about a right to life, one of the biggest questions involved in the right to life is the question of when does life begin. Human gestation is 40 weeks long with most deliveries occurring between 37 and 42 weeks. According to science babies born before 23 weeks of gestation generally do not survive. I understand there are miracle cases but that is the general rule of thumb. Babies born between 24-26 weeks can survive with added help but they will have a prolonged stay and can develop many problems outside of the womb. Most abortions occur before the 9th week of pregnancy typically between 4-5 weeks sometimes earlier if a woman knows she's pregnant. http://www.abortionno.org/Resources/fastfacts.html\ The following is what the development looks like three/four weeks after conception: http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/medical/IM04045 Again, I feel that if you are going to hold women accountable for birth control you need to hold the man accountable. He can also use male birth control to prevent this. Namaste- Anora

Namaste Anora. :) Actually you put it pefectly - "beats the pants of back ally coat hangers". That is all that this law does... spoils from pregnancy being enjoyed by those people, are now being shared by larger medical fraternity... I think the woman should feel there is a risk in it for her life, then she would take preventive measures... and in cases of failure, sue the pill manufacturer... then the pill manufacturer should take over the monetary responsibility... to the extent...justified...but failure of the pill has to be confirmed...I am sure they will find a way once this direction is thought of.

You again bring up sacredness.. and I speak in terms of right to life. :) If due to my irresponsibility another person meets with a major accident and loses his car, you would ask me to compensate monetarily an amount equal to the car he lost, but if due to my irresponsibility, another person loses life, you would condone me?

In Nicaragua abortion was outlawed in 2006. I saw a documentary about it and one lady went to have a secret abortion with a doctor doing this which is illegal. Not many ladies would feel confident to abort their own baby and yes this would get abortion numbers down significantly.

Actually Hatley - I am proposing that she learns how to abort her baby herself... the prospect would scare her ... and she would automatically stop being pigheaded as you put it. :) I think if it were dished out like that... the woman would indeed take those birth controle measures because this time it would be her life at risk. She could blame no practitioner, sue nobody for doing a shoddy job, ....dont worry sweetie, pregnancy numbers would come down drastically if women were scared for their lives.

Exactly, I thought that way too Maximax. Which also implies that people are not using the existing birth control measures! If an underdeveloped nation like Nicaragua can show some improvement, then developing and developed nations would show a whole lot more. Point is people just want to be lazy! And are ok with killing life rather than stopping being lazy. I also weighed the number of lives at two ends - on one end are abortions due to laziness, and on other end abortions due to rape, incest, pills failures, and abnormalities. I believe numbers point towards lazy women as murderers.

Ajay - my intention was exactly that. If the woman is not going to get proper medical attention, and can have a lifetime's problem aborting her child, then she is likely to take precautionary measures. As things stand, few women do. Not because such pills are not available. But because they are too lazy to pop one in!

Hi Lady, you are one of the few who got my intention. ... :) Yeah, intention is to scare women and make them choose other ways of birth control that are less hazardous. As things stand, they just have to walk in doctor's clinic at 2 pm, and are back at home by 6 pm to watch their favorite television program - something seems to be wrong about it - a person not feeling even guilty about the life that's aborted?

Hi hardworkinggurl - honestly I was upset today because somebody dropped a child... used the method as if it was a birth control measure... so annoying... agreed its her right, her choice, her finances, and her world... but hey, she could've afforded those pills... it was her laziness as well.. down with laziness.

I so understand as the two women I mention I do not seek them out any more and when they call and or text me I get pretty upset with them as for crying out loud these women are in their late 30's and can certainly afford birth control but continue to abort as if it were okay each time. Ugh.

ONLY in a perfect world...and if we lived in a perfect world, there would be no rapes.

Mikhaaail, there are ways to stop that pregnancy now, aren't they? Without abortion...

That sweetie is the only time it is ok - I mean when health of the mother is in danger... Welcome to myLot zidan_zidan. :)

Bhanuji, if there is risk for her life, wouldnt she try to prevent pregnancy through other ways like contraceptives? The object is that - to make it risky for her so that she tries to prevent it rather than seek cure.

I agree. We are so short of people who genuinely love us. And here we go about killing a child that would love us. Sounds crazy to me. So - I use self abortion as a deterrant to stop abortions. I truly dont like a human being in whatever stage having no decision of his/her fate. That includes human fetus.