I see a lot of anger and extreme views here, what I don't see is WHY people who don't know about Abortion history BEFORE Roe vs. Wade came along, insist it is a private matter that all the states (BOTH Democrats and Republicans) denied to women, who were then forced into back alley style abortions, often with damage and even tragic results. Meanwhile the Conservatives of Today still carry the attitudes of the States that legislatively denied abortion for many decades, while the Liberals have learned to ignore everything Conservatives bring up, some that are actually reasonable.
Conservatives insist Abortion is Murder, while Liberals insist it is a private matter to kill a life, both positions are 100% into their position without any hint of Compromise, which means that both groups are extremists. That is why it will never be resolved as long as enough extremists on both sides have control over their position. Neither side willing to make compromises to end this standoff over a rather simple controversy. This thread is a classic example of hardened positions, which I view are being overly emotional, hostile and even stupid.
I consider that IRRATIONAL behavior, since life is terminated in so many ways, some so much more disturbingly. Millions die every year to diseases, Famine, Cancer, murder, accidents and so on. Life doesn't seem so sacrosanct or precious since death can come at anytime, to ANYONE! Conservatives claims that life is holy/sacrosanct which is absurd as the evidence is all around you that life is always fragile and easily crushed, everyone ultimately dies. Liberals at times show a casual approach to ending a life in their bodies, some even treat it as a form of birth control. Neither side really respects life fully with those viewpoints.
Have you watched Animal kingdom shows where EVERY Day lions, Cheetahs, Leopards, Hyenas, Jaguars and many more Predators swoop down on their prey in gory fashion, sometimes being eaten while still alive, animals that get drenched with blood all over their bodies, I am sure those Conservative will weep over those gentile grass eaters violent deaths...……, its a hard world out there where life is crushed so casually and easily on a daily basis. Yet to Conservatives, Abortions should be 100% prevented, an illogical approach, since you will never meet 99% of the people who does it. How can it be so personal to you when you NEVER see it first hand! This is a BIG world we live in, you get angry when Mugabe in Africa has someone murdered, did you speak up for the dead person? Weep over that dead person?
My wife had TWO abortions (within two weeks of conception, both times) done in my home, using a chemical that induces it, the cost was $250 each from Planned Parenthood. It was done because the father of the aborted tissue were from another man, which I can't allow come to term in MY family. Those are VALID examples of having an abortion, one that Conservatives would condemn me for, I say you are an idiot, since it is NONE of your freaking business on how I protect my family's bloodline and manage my family size and health.
Meanwhile I see too many Liberals get abortions over and over, indicating that their decisions to preventing their pregnancies are not being pursued, they seems to care less about it, which understandably bother Conservatives who have to foot some of the cost for their immaturity. That is what Liberals bothers me a lot on is their insistence that institutions that does abortions are getting some of their funding from American Taxpayers, after all they say it is their bodies thus their decision to have abortions, but unfair to people who don't believe in them, who are forced to partially subsidize them, who don't do abortions at all. If it is indeed YOUR body, your decision as you liberals like to say all the time about getting an abortion, then YOU PAY FOR IT!
I paid for mine out of my wallet both times since it was MY personal decision to do it, did any Conservative get injured over MY decision? Did you weep over a small pile of black and red colored slimy cells you never met?
The only possible solution is a Compromise where something along the lines as allowing abortion legally to a certain point such as NO later than the END of the First Trimester, outlaw the the Second and Third Trimesters and Partial Birth (how can women wait 9 months to finally abort a now fully grown infant is beyond me, it is sheer madness) Allow all forms of pregnancy PREVENTION medication/Pills, and promote education on how to manage your family decision in a rational manner. Preventing unwanted pregnancies is a worthwhile pursuit, why would anyone oppose it?
Abortions should be rare when people will be responsible adults on their sex life and family planning. It isn't that hard to do, Chronic Abortions among some women are indicative of poor planning and education, some are just dumb as hell. They should be FORCED to pay for it out of their pocketbooks, don't subsidize promiscuous immaturity!
Have at it, but not going take your extremist opinions seriously as they are too dumb and without foundation.