Reply #43: Really good pre- and post-natal care by a qualified doctor [View All]

can decrease abortions. Raising a woman's self-esteem and educating young women about how to avoid getting pregnant help too. Women should have the choice of abortion. Believe it or not, it can be necessary for medical reasons. Besides, it would be much more difficult than anyone can imagine to police abortion.

So, the emphasis should be on giving women real choices including help with child care so that raising small children while going to school or working is not an impossible burden. In the end, however, women have to have the right to choose. After all,you can hardly blame women who have abortions, when the fact is that, for longer than any of us can remember, more than a few men have chosen to walk away from their children and leave them with no support. Abortions mostly happen when a woman has some physical reason for not completing her pregnancy, is far too young (or too old) or when the father refuses to take responsibility for his child. Maybe we should make the dads pay for abortions. What with DNA evidence to establish paternity, why not?