ABORTION.......

From the same source you have quoted (AGI USA)

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Abortion is a common experience: At current rates, about one in three American women will have had an abortion by the time she reaches age 45. Moreover, a broad cross section of U.S. women have abortions. 56% of women having abortions are in their 20s; 61% have one or more children; 67% have never married; 57% are economically disadvantaged; 88% live in a metropolitan area; and 78% report a religious affiliation. No racial or ethnic group makes up a majority: 41% of women obtaining abortions are white non-Hispanic, 32% are black non-Hispanic, 20% are Hispanic and 7% are of other racial backgrounds.

No racial or ethnic group makes up a majority.....

Now let's examine your horror stories about abortion.
The facts are:

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Vacuum aspiration (the suction method) is the most common type of abortion. It is a surgical procedure that involves anesthesia and can be performed within the first trimester of pregnancy. In vacuum aspiration, the cervix (bottom part of the uterus) is gently "dilated" (opened) about a quarter-inch, a narrow tube is inserted through the vagina and cervix to the uterus, and then contents of the uterine internal lining are vacuumed out. The procedure takes only a couple minutes and the woman can usually return home later in the day.

Abortions are more rare in the second trimester, which begins in the 13th week of pregnancy. In these procedures, a medication called prostaglandin is generally given in a clinic. This results in uterine contractions, which can last some hours, and usually is accompanied by some anesthesia. Many doctors who will perform first-trimester abortions will not perform them during second trimester; women may need referral to specialists with greater experience here.

Third-trimester abortions (after 24 weeks) are reserved for severely deformed fetuses or for when the mother's life is in danger.

The following statement is your opinion and you are
certainly entitled to it, however has no merit in a court
of law, gladly so, I might add.

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The unborn obviously resides within the mother and is desparately dependent upon the mother for safety and well being, but the unborn is biologically not part of the mother's body.

>>>> pro choice
It bothers me when I hear women hollering about wanting choices. I wish people would call abortion what it is. The conscientious decision to kill an unborn life. The only way to stop a life from developing and growing once it has been conceived is to kill it either inside or outside of the womb(except natural death). Get rid of the euphemisms.
Barring those instances where a woman has had a pregnancy forced on her, such as rape, isn't becoming pregnant a choice?

So what happened? Was it beyond her(his) ability to keep from becoming pregnant? If so then where is the choice in that?

Doesn't choice begin long before the need for an abortion?

I guess what really bothers me is to hear it sound like abortion is a choice to prevent pregnancy.

It bothers me to hear how life is regarded as if it has no value and no respect because it is so easily expendible.

That is my opinion. People will do what people will do.

aurorell,
"pro choice" is a recognized term, which indicates the support for a woman's right to choose if she opts for abortion or if she decides to continue with her pregnancy. Pro choice is
not equivalent to abortion, pro choice allows the woman to
have an alternative, including full-term pregnancy.

It really pisses me off when I hear someone talk about "choosing life", and then never consider what happens when a pregnancy is taken to term, and an unwanted child is born.

I think that people who are militantly anti-abortion, should be obliged to raise and support at least one unwanted child. I say "put your money where your mouth is"!

Abortion should not be a method of birth control. People should be responsible for their actions. What about adoption?

Shortages of children available for adoption have been the norm in this country for years. Demand far outstrips supply and many have gone overseas to adopt.

Probably you knew this already so what's your point?

Bring as many "unwanted" children to my house as you wish and I GUARANTEE that I will find homes for them where they are wanted and loved. I will put it in writing with money in escrow that is yours if I fail to perform.

Calamity Jane is right.
There are always kids waiting for a loving home.

And if there weren't: in my opinion that'd be a good thing.

Regardless of all that, adoption isn't a feasible answer for all unwanted pregnancies.

>>>>>>pro choice allows the woman to
have an alternative, including full-term pregnancy.

It seems to me that abortion comes after the fact. Wouldn't you say that women wanting abortions do so because they feel that they made wrong choices that led to unwanted pregnancy.

The choice has already been made.

So to say that there is a choice to be made BETWEEN bringing a baby to term and having an abortion doesn't make sense to me.

She's pregnant and that's a fact not a choice. She can't really choose to bring her pregnancy to term because (barring natural death) it's going to happen, regardless- unless the woman makes a conscientious decision to kill the life growing within her.

You're not choosing between life and death. By the time someone feels they need an abortion a new life already exists.

Perhaps you don't believe that it is a new life, but I do...

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and so for me I see it as only having one choice.

You're choosing death. That's the choice. IMO

I just don't like the terminology- pro-choice.

I once read a story about Dr. Albert Schweitzer. It seems that Dr. S used to make his native helpers capture the flies that had gotten caught in the screening of the buildings and tents and release them unharmed outside. The person who told this story was someone who had gone to offer his assistance to the doctor. His first impression was that the doctor was so kind a man and so reverent of life that even the flies were spared. Actually when he asked Dr. S about this the doctor said that it wasn't about the flies. It was about the reverence of life. It seems that at one time one of his helpers refused to help care for a patient because this patient was of another tribe and each tribe had distain for the other. By encouraging his helpers to reverence all life even in its smallest form he hoped to foster a spirit of caring and reverence of life for life's sake in his helpers. It doesn't seem that supporting abortion would help to foster that same reverence of life.

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Shortages of children available for adoption have been the norm in this country for years. Demand far outstrips supply and many have gone overseas to adopt.

Probably you knew this already so what's your point?

Actually, I haven't, as there is no shortage of adoptable
children in this country. One trip to your local Social SErvices
would prove you otherwise. That's where the abused children
are registerted, the unwanted children, and the children with
special needs.

How do I know? I adopted a child from Social Services!

There might be a shortage of blond and blue eyed infants,
but there is no shortage of children waiting for a home.

Real Life wrote:

Bring as many "unwanted" children to my house as you wish and I GUARANTEE that I will find homes for them where they are wanted and loved. I will put it in writing with money in escrow that is yours if I fail to perform.

Calamity Jane makes an excellent point. Does your "deal" include older, abused, emotionally disturbed, physically handicapped, and mixed race kids?

CalamityJane wrote:

Your description of abortion as only relating to the woman's body is incorrect since the unborn's body is the one that is chemically burned during a saline abortion; or hacked, sliced and dismembered during a D&C abortion; or in the case of a partial birth abortion the unborn's head is pierced at the base of the skull and a vacuum sucks the brain out.

Now let's examine your horror stories about abortion.