[Cathryn Crawford]

How do you justify your views?

Let me remind you again, I ask because I'm curious, not to start a fight. Only a discussion.

[Long Cut]

Fair enough, you seem of good will. I do not think it is right of me, or by extension, the State, to force a woman, against her own will, to carry and bear a child she does not want. Pregnancy, after all, is a long and sometimes dangerous process, and I cannot IMAGINE giving any government the power to compel anyone to go through it. An adult human owns at least their own body.

I'm not absolutist about it...minor children should have to notify their parents and recieve consent as they would for any invasive procedure. And the concept of partial birth abortion truly horrifies me.

I cannot imagine, however, a more statist approach to this issue than wishing for the police power of the government to be brought to bear...to force a birth. The concept of a state having that kind of power horrifies me as well.