This should not even be up for debate, abortions should never be made illegal. No one has a right over a woman uterus except herself alone.

Abortions have been happening for 1,000s of years. Women used to use abortifacient herbs to have abortions. Making abortions illegal will not get rid of abortions, it will only make them less safe as more women pursue back alley abortions. Pro lifers try to shift the importance of the baby's life as more important than the woman carrying the baby, but history has shown that will never be true. The pregnant woman will not allow others to dehumanize her and always be the one to choose in the end, and just by this act, she makes it fact that the woman's life is more important than that of an unborn baby.

I love how every "pro-life" men suppose that a raped woman should accept the children as a gift. Well and what if she's your wife ? Like, you know, not all raped woman are single drunk teenage girl who love party! A raped woman can be also your christian wife ... would you accept your wife's and her rapist's child as a gift of God ?! Would you love him? Really ?

If this bill passes it should include an amendment that states that all rapist should have a complete removal of their genitalia as part of their punishment.

It really pisses me off to think that a bunch of old men are deciding on what should be a womens' decision! Maybe if the deal was they should all have a ....vasectomy!!

There are so many reasons to keep abortion legal but we should aslo be more responsible, like considering one night stands, affairs and sexual education for kids. In eastern Europe, especially in my country, sexual education is missing badly. Even parents are against for kids teaching it at school. But they don't realise how many little girls ( 12-14 years) are giving birth to unwanted babies and abandon them, kiling them or filing the orphanages with then which are a terrible place to live in. In my country abortion is still legal but it is blamed by the church and also sexual education is blamed. At the moment I am pregnant and I love already this baby so much. I realy don't know what should I do if I will ever be in a situation described in this article. It is terrible to even think about it. 😔

As a monogamous woman in a hetero relationship, most women I know who have shared private stories of abortion had them because the father did not want the pregnancy and they didn't feel able to raise a child alone, thought it would jeopardize their relationship with their husband or partner, and didn't want to bring another fatherless child into the world. Even when women want children and are impregnated by men they love they still find themselves faced with this decision. What do you do when birth control fails and the man you love says I'm not ready for a child and asks you to abort it? It is an untenable situation with only regrettable outcomes even within a marriage.

Even if abortion was more than just getting rid of a fertilized egg, and you were actually killing a living being, it would still be moral to do so. No person has the right to live off of the organs of another living person. That’s why the government can’t force you to give a kidney to anyone. This law would set precedent to allow the government to force transplants. Of course that won’t happen but it’s the same concept. Also if you support a woman’s right to choose then stop saying abortion isn’t birth control. Anything stopping a baby from being born is birth control. If it’s okay to do it because a woman was raped then it’s okay to do it because a woman was just forgetful about taking the pill. There’s no difference because either way it’s just the removal of an egg. Half of you saying these dumb things have had miscarriages you weren’t even aware of.

The only thing more maddening to me than having to revisit the whole Roe V Wade decision is the seemingly intelligent pro-choice people who keep making the same mistake over and over in these arguments. They ramble on about women's rights and reasons for abortions that, in their minds, are all valid reasons for abortion being legal - like doing so is suddenly going to change the mind of the pro-life group. It won't. For the pro-life group, this isn't about women's rights. Most of them are religious and believe that women are to be subservient to men. So forget about all of your women's rights arguments. They aren't going to get you anywhere here. There is only ONE valid argument that the pro-life people care about, and the pro-choice side isn't talking about it - the lives of fetuses. The one thing that no pro-choice discussion that I have heard yet is saying is that limiting abortions to 6 weeks (like in the Georgia "heartbeat bill") will actually INCREASE the number of abortions.

I did nor hear a single argument in this to justify murdering the baby. I echo that these are horrible situations and that I have led a life that has not brought this heartache into my life. My wife had issues with her pregnancies that led us to close ourselves off from future children. I regret that every time I see a baby or think about it. Rape, illness, poverty, etc. Are all sad, but the baby does not deserve to die because of it.

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Really? The people against abortion get their comments hidden and the people that are for abortion can say whatever they like? If you don't think abortion is violent, you clearly don't know what is involed. If you believe a child is a 'clump of cells' you clearly don't know anything about science.

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if you don't want to get pregnant then stop having unprotected sex! Use a condom, IUD the pill...There are several ways to prevent getting pregnant. If it happens carry the child to term and give it up for adoption. Be responsible don't kill it, its a human being, does that not matter any more?

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Some of those stories were nothing to do with health, they were convenience. I can never agree with abortion, you're killing an innocent child that has human rights of their own. I have empathy for children that are abused and become pregnant but other than that I see no excuse for it. The other exception would be if the baby is a danger to the mother's health or the baby wouldn't survive outside the womb.

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To kill a baby is never valid, it's a crime.

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A human life. Growing inside you. Arising out of whatever circumstances. With whatever challenges you and he or she may face. Yes, it is a he or she. The next potential J.R.R Tolkien or Mahatma Gandhi or Marie Curie. And you kill it. Abortion is horror, selfishness, and cowardice. Nuff said.