this is THE DUMBEST argument that is made for abortion. will you cut the shit already? everyone knows that women are not getting abortions because they are raped. how can people like you cling to an argument like that when it is so far removed from the reality of the situation. i personally support the decision in roe v wade. i believe that the people who passed the law had their heart in the right place. in the 70's the right argued that if they passed roe v wade, that it would be too slippery a slope and there would be tons and tons of abortions every year simply as a matter of convenience. the left called those people crazy bible thumping idiots. now here we are 30 some odd years later. we have close to 2 million a year in the U.S. Less than 7% of those abortions are for reasons of rape/incest, danger to the mother, or danger to both mother and fetus. Yes i believe if a woman is raped she should be allowed to have an abortion. but the fact is that the majority of abortions are for reasons of convenience. so cut the shit already.
Actually, it's the most important point in the whole discussion.
If you truly believe that abortion is murder, then it is so across the board. There can be no dispensation for raped or incest victims (the numbers are under-reported, but I digress) or the health of the mother, since a life is a life. There can be no deciding by man which one should live, the cards have to fall where they may. I'm assuming there are a plethora of men out there willing to raise the child of their wife's rapist.
Also, if abortion is truly murder, then punishment should follow, as in the death penalty or life imprisonment, since it would be considered first degree murder. That includes, the woman, the man, if he helped, all doctors, nurses, etc... Currently, rape victims are given a morning after pill immediately upon arrival at hospital, so that goes.
Acceptance of anything less is hypocrisy and the admittance that abortion really isn't murder at all.
Religious fundie leaders have finally admitted their real goal, which is to get rid of birth control. Bush policies have followed. So all those people out there currently utilizing the pill, the patch... anything other than condoms, are guilty of murder too, right this very minute.
ps... one person's inconvenience, is another person's desperation.