[MortMan]

Please give equal time to the ALREADY BORN women whose lives are wrecked when they have to carry an unwanted foetus to full term, and the anguish of raising a child in poverty.

Perhaps the woman should havethought about that before sleeping with the man - and NOT after.

[newzjunkey]

I'm not surprised it's a New Yorker with that plea. It isn't as if the woman has no options. She's not exactly cursed to "raising a child in poverty."

How about giving the child up for adoption! The last one hardly wrecks her life. And in many places she could just drop the child off at a hospital or fire station within 72 hrs and walk away, no strings attached.

We cannot make it any easier!

[LalaB]

Are lives of women truly “wrecked” when they “carry an unwanted foetus to full term?” It seems more of an inconvenience, a challenge to personal selfishness, in today’s society.

It’s only a matter of nine months; after which the baby (something called a foetus is easier to kill) may be adopted into a loving home.

Pregnancy out of wedlock does not cause women in the Western world to be shunned in this day and age; women cannot use that an excuse. It boils down to the inconvenient interruption and unwanted physical changes.

The teenager in the article justified killing her baby - with the grandmother’s complicity - because she wished to attend college. Does an innocent baby deserve to die because a teenager wishes to continue (in all likelihood) unprotected sex with even more partners at college?