OK, I’m coming out of the closet. I’m pro-life.

[pauljulian]

131. Should they be rare also? How about the need for them be rare, instead?

I would like to see the need for pap smears to be rare... a cure for cancer, HPV, etc., would do so. Do you see the difference?

This is what I've been saying, and to any that are not bound and determined to take offense, I would think that is what anyone has been saying.

It seems that for one to desire that the necessity of an abortion be less, it's taken as an attack on choice.

Why do some folks here refuse to see the difference? Granted, this is one of those issues that folks just yell across the fence about without ever listening, but why has it been necessary for folks to attack those on their same side of the fence?

There is nothing anti-choice at all about desiring to see more education and contraception that the need for abortion might be lessened. (and, in the case of rape or incest, along with a fast track to the clinic for the victim, a guarantee of life in prison in a cold, dark place for the perpetrator).

It is amazing that folks who consider themselves so liberal and open-minded will refuse to see any discussion about abortion outside of "it just is, that's all" as an attack on choice.

Once and for all, at least for me, I consider it an act of human caring to wish that there will never be a child born that is not wanted, and to hope that as much help that can be given before it ever becomes a thought, let alone an issue, is all to the good.

Or, are you arguing that unwanted pregnancy is a good thing? I doubt you are arguing that any more than I am arguing for any restriction on the right of a woman to seek this procedure. It is the need for such that I would wish to see diminished... that every pregnacy that does occur would be because the woman chooses it to be so.

Based on the words of some here, I'm sure this statement will be taken as what it is not... and flamed accordingly.