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I am asking why once a woman is already pregnant it is considered more traumatic to carry the baby to term and adopt him or her into a family than aborting and ending the life of your own child. There was no rape in 99% of cases women seek abortion. 
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DP here. And it's because for the majority of people who get abortion (actually, for the majority of Americans), fetus =/= child. They don't view getting an abortion as being the same as ending the life of a child. Many religions are very clear on the point when a baby becomes a human, and for most of them it's after birth. Insisting that fetus=child is 100% putting your religious beliefs on another person, and it's a violation of my First Amendment right to force me to subscribe to a different view than my religious beliefs dictate.

From a secular standpoint, we can still decide as a society to make abortion illegal, but we cannot do so while appealing to theological arguments. And the reality is that most Americans don't want the logistical consequences of banning abortion. When the details come to light, they want exceptions (which are practically very difficult to enforce).

So all of the arguments that anyone makes to ban abortion are either religiously motivated, ignorant of reality, or disingenuous. I think the loudest voices are people who care so little for what the US stands for and our Constitution that they see no problem forcing their religious beliefs on everyone, but many of them have become sophisticated enough to at least pretend not to use religious arguments. Then there are people like you, who don't even realize what you are doing...but you expose the entire movement with your language.[/quote]

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