World estimations of the number of terminations carried out each year is somewhere between 20 and 88 million.

3,500 per day / 1.3 million per year in America alone.

50% of that 1.3 million claimed failed birth control was to blame.

A further 48% had failed to use any birth control at all.

And 2% had medical reasons.

That means a stagering 98% may have been avoided had an effective birth control been used.

I am a 98% pro-lifer, 2% Pro-choicer, who has no religious convictions at all . I didn’t need the fear of god or anything else to come to my decision, just a good sense of what is right and wrong.
You see we were all once a fetus. Is it beyond the realm of possibilities that when your mother first learned she was carrying you, she may have considered her options? What if she had decided to terminate? Would that have been OK?
You would not exist, if you have children they would not exist, and your (husband or wife) would be married to someone else. You would have been deprived of all your experiences and memories. In this day and age with terminations being so readily available and so many being carried out, if you make it to full term you can consider yourself lucky.
Lucky you had a mother that made the choice of life for you.

Don’t you think they all deserve the same basic human right, LIFE?

At the point of conception is when life began for you. This was the start of your existence. Your own personal big bang. Three weeks after conception heart started to beat. First brain waves recorded at six weeks after conception. Seen sucking thumb at seven weeks after conception.

I am convinced that in the not too distant future, people will look back at many of the practices of today with disbelief and horror.

The issueof when life begins and how late terminations should be allowed in a pregnancy is a secondary issue because abortion does exist for a t least 6,000 Iriah women a year.Whether you agree or not, women having to resort to travelling to England, using anti-ulcer drugs such as Cytocec and backstreet abortion clinics ( http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=65902) is not the way to deal with the issue.

Free, legal abortion would reduce the number of women having late term abortions, reduce the associated medical prblems that can arise from late term abortions and full post-abortion counselling would help women deal with the emotional impact.

I respect pro-life views but simply stating that abortion is murder does nothing to address the current situation. Abortion is a reality for thousands of womenwhether people agree with it or not. Free, legal abortion would reduce the possible negative aspects for the women. Having to go to England only increases the chances of foetues ( being at a stage which people believe they are capabale of life) being terminated.

If the right of a prenatal human is negated by the fact that it cannot live independently, then what does that say of people hooked up to life support machines? What does it say of aids victims who lack viability? If the inability to live independently negates one’s right to life, then what does that say of neonates, who let’s face it, wouldn’t exactly prosper if you dropped them in a jungle. And what will happen in the next couple of decades when work on artificial wombs has been completed? Do advances in medical technology somehow mean that humans become more worthy of a right to life at an earlier stage?

And while the idea that a woman would have to go through with a pregnancy she did not want is disturbing, the notion that one individual’s right to life supersedes another individual’s right to happiness is untenable. Just because I make you miserable, should not mean that you get to kill me, however much you deserve happiness.

All to often the debate just turns into a shouting match which really achieves feck all. In the end of the day it is a scientific question not moral in my opinion.