I'm pretty liberal for the most part, but I've always had an issue with abortion, and I think there's an area here that gets somewhat overlooked.

Aside from the "is it a human, isn't it, can it think, or breath, etc." arguments, there's something else. An unborn baby at only 2 months can feel pain. If it can feel pain, that means it's aware of itself. It also means you're inflicting injury. If you're inflicting injury, you have to ask what are you injuring?

I do feel a woman has a right with her own body, but let's face the facts, there are only 3 reasons you get pregnant:

1) Didn't bother with a contraceptive.

2) Accident, contraceptive didn't work.

3) Got raped.

If you don't bother with a contraceptive then it's your own fault. That leaves the other 2.

Accidents happen, not your fault. So should you have to bring a child into the world because of an accident? (more following)

Getting raped, as a man who has never been violated that way I won't even try to pretend that I know what that's like. Not your fault either, so again, should it be your burden to carry and raise the child?

So, let's start from here. Of those 2 reasons, which is more likely to happen? Accidents by an insanely large margin. Getting pregnant through rape is such a small fraction of a percentage that despite how often it's brought up in abortion discussions, it's something that happens rarely. (I have seen "statistics" from 140 a year up to 64,000 ... so ... I dunno? I just rarely hear about it in the news, mainstream or not.)

Abortion should stop being used as a form of birth control. It should be used for very very few reasons, none of which are light.

1) Mother will die giving birth.

2) Young girl raped.

Actually, sitting here right now I can't think of any other reasons that those that would be acceptable for inflicting pain and death on a tiny human. And as far as accidents, or whatever else might pop up, there is such a thing as adoption.

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