There Should
Never Be An
Abortion!
If you don't want to have a child, DON'T GET PREGNANT! It is as simple as that!
If you don't want broken bones, DON'T GET IN A CAR WRECK! It is as simple as that!
You can avoid car wrecks by never being anywhere that a car can come in contact with your person.
You can avoid pregnancy by never being anywhere that a man can come in contact with your person (or you can be born a man and simply not worry about it).
Now, I really hope you think this is stupid. If you don't, no sense in reading on because I am going to talk about anti-freedom anti-choice anti-American anti-abortion logic (sic) and it's difficult to imagine anything more ridiculous than arguing over whether a person should have control over her own body. I am a traditional conservative (don't confuse with Republican). Real political conservatives believe in individual rights and a non-intrusive government (darn, I can't be a Democrat either). You can't be a conservative and argue that government needs to know everything you discuss with your doctor and control whether you have a child. If government has the power to tell you that you must continue a pregnancy, then it follows that government has the power to tell you that you can't. That would mean that government would have the power to require abortions (think China!). The argument about government power is central to the argument about abortion. It is an argument that will continue. It is an argument about whether a religiously driven government should be able to control every aspect of a person's life. It is an argument about whether the spirit and the word of our Constitution is any longer alive, but power of government argument is not what the abortion argument is really about.
The anti-abortion argument is a religious argument, period. In deciding who has the high ground, we simply need to decide if one interpretation of a religious ideology can be forced upon our nation as a whole and upon each and every one of its female citizens. If the answer is reasonably, "Yes." and we decide the evangelical right-wing should be the interpreters of freedom, then abortion is wrong and should be illegal. That, of course, comes at a price. The Taliban got that in Afghanistan and it is still running strong in Iran and many other countries. People in those countries are paying the price.
It's a child, not a choice. To believe that, you must have faith (faith: the abandonment of reasoned thought for which you get freedom from responsibility). You must have enough faith to deny science. Any reliable scientific text and legal definition of a viable fetus points to the absence of any signs of life (as attributed to determining whether any human is alive) in the first 20 weeks. The fetus is not considered viable until the 28th week. I know! The argument is that it is still alive. But, when an adult dies of say, a heart attack, there are still living cells in the body for a long time. Should we not begin the burial process because, "It's alive"? Let's face it, the issue is never about science. It is about religion. It's about making people accept a religious point of view and making them live by it and ignoring the founding principles of this nation in the process.
When the founders of the Constitution set forth the Bill Of Rights, they argued long and hard about why the amendments were needed. It is more clear from their arguments than from the final words that the Bill Of Rights was always intended to provide for individual freedom. On of the clearest forms of that freedom was defined as the freedom of individual citizens and the country as a whole from religious intolerance (think intolerant people). Nothing is more fundamental to the Bill Of Rights than exclusion of religion. from the laws by which the people of the United States are governed. If we allow religious zealots to force religious beliefs into the laws of this country, we have abandoned our Constitution. Forcing religion. upon the citizens and the country is anti-American.
But, shouldn't I respect your religious beliefs? Why? I'd be an idiot to respect the beliefs of someone who has no respect for mine. I'd be beyond idiocy to respect a belief that says I should be put to death for exercising the freedoms guaranteed me by the Constitution. No! I don't and I won't respect your religious beliefs if you don't believe in freedom and science unless it is convenient. I will still support your right to believe and you may have my pity, but sorry Dudley, respect has to be mutual.
We can debate abortion rights and religious power forever. We won't really resolve anything. In the end, the religious zealots will turn this country into another Iran (only with Christian stamped on the stationery) or they will just be an anti-American nuisance.
If the anti-freedom people win, there will still be abortion. Banning anything that people really need or want is futile. If we haven't yet learned that with guns and drugs, we really are a nation of idiots.
During the Vietnam Conflict some 50 thousand Americans died in Southeast Asia. Some data indicate that during that same time, more causalities can be attributed botched illegal (often self-induced) abortions than all the American causalities in Vietnam. If you are a typical anti-abortion zealot, you will probably rationalize that those women should be dead. If you are a reasonably compassionate human being, you will be saddened and you will want to see steps taken to ensure that innocent women in similar situations are never victimized again.
There are some other important sites you should visit such as the Abortion Clinic Guide where you can find a current list of abortion doctors and abortion clinics. You can also visit Abortion Doctors Lookup even though it has a similar list with less information.
doctors & clinics list