[Charles H. (The_r0nin)]

The sad fact is that, two hundred or three hundred years from now, free peoples will look back on us with the same disgust and incomprehension that we look back on slaveholders with. Abortion is the slavery of the twenty-first century, and we will be remembered in history for what we do to oppose it.

Quite frankly, many of the folks on this thread who are supportive of the girl's "decision" sound very much like the slavery-apologists in the mid-nineteenth century. Of course, they were "against" slavery, but you couldn't just set free people who had been dependent all of their lives! They wouldn't know how to survive on their own, so it would be too cruel to just free the slaves. Maybe if we worked into it slowly...

Either abortion is right or wrong. Period. Either an innocent child is being killed, or it isn't. Period. The argument that we should be committing immoral acts to avoid temporary hardships or unpleasantness is to be ignorant of the fact that almost all long-term benefits require short-term pain. If doing the right thing was always easy or painless, then no one would ever do wrong. But it isn't, which is why you are judged by doing the right thing even when it is difficult.

In your quest to be "sensitive" to the issues, some of you are just being apologists for evil...

[theinwithin]

America has lost its way.

[verity]

"The sad fact is that, two hundred or three hundred years from now, free peoples will look back on us with the same disgust and incomprehension that we look back on slaveholders with. Abortion is the slavery of the twenty-first century, and we will be remembered in history for what we do to oppose it."

I think this is wishful thinking, Chuck. Society is far too pragmatic to morally evolve in this manner [IMHO].