My problem with this is that if, as kerry wishes, the choice is left up to the woman and she has to deal with the sin and it truely is between her and God, then why is there a law that it it illegal to commit murder? That is between the killer and their God isn't it? I guess in my book, abortion and murder are the same thing. And while we are at it, why don't we let them kill off the elderly who have become a burdern on their children? (/sarcasm). Sorry, you hit a nerve.
In pregnancy counceling the aftermath, or emotional effect is never discussed. I had a friend who'd had an abortion in her college years. She never married the guy. Sometime later, when she had married a diferent man, she became pregnant. She said that she'd shoved the guilt of the abortion as far back into her mind as she could possibly manage. When she sat in the doctor's office for the pregnancy with her husband, they asked her a routine question. "Is this your first pregnancy?" She said it hid her harder than a ton of bricks and she cried and cried! After that she devoted her time and eventually became president of a pregnancy crisis center which educates against abortion. It was hard work, but they had great sucess in educating, and persuading mothers to the alternatives.
Sadly, her second child was diagnosed with leukemia when he was three. He died when he was six. I think a part of her felt that it was punishment for the abortion, that at this point, had been so so long ago.
Then you're in complete agreement with God. For a woman who believes in God and accepts His Word, there is no choice to be made, for God Himself has already decided.
The unborn are living and human and we are commanded to afford them the same protection against murder as anybody else.