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[quote=Anonymous]To answer the thread topic completely off the top of my head without having read previous posts, since the title specifically asked why it's a personal issue for individuals:

(1) I think that I personally would be highly unlikely to choose to have an abortion, but the idea of the government telling anyone what medical procedures they can or cannot have, or telling anyone what they must do with their own body, is chilling to me. I do not believe that a fetus growing inside of someone is "a human life" until the fetus reaches the point in its development at which it would be viable with medical assistance. Until that point, it is a growth inside of a human body (parasite has too negative & loaded a connotation for me to generally use it here, but by definition it seems accurate). This is the same reason I am in favor of legalizing the consumption of any/all drugs by adults -- something shouldn't be a crime unless harm is done to someone else the rights of another entity, and I want the government away from people's bodies.

(2) This country doesn't have enough of a social safety net for me to believe that "pro life" people who are against abortion are truly "pro life" for the babies that will be brought into this world by a parent who didn't want them for whatever reason and might or might not be capable of taking care of them. Until we fix the adoption process, reform foster care, drastically reduce the number of children living in poverty, support parents who need to balance working to earn an income and caring for their child by making *quality* daycare affordable and universally available, and have much more effective preventions against child abuse and domestic abuse, I don't think anyone has any right to be forcing someone to bring a kid into this world if the kid won't be loved & cared for. Too many kids who are already born know what that's like all too well, and the last thing I think anyone needs is more people brought into such an existence.

(3) I can easily imagine myself, personally, being a victim of a certain crime and the result being an unwanted pregnancy I did not consent to that is a constant reminder of a traumatic experience and that continually puts my health at risk. If abortions are made illegal except for "cases of r*pe or inc*st", as I have heard proposed -- first, that would probably require the victim to report & prove the crime (not a standard I consider acceptable), and second, I don't have much confidence such an exception would last long.[/quote]

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