While I would encourage all to choose life, rather than abortion, I fail to see the wisdom of forcing anyone..
Just as prohibition did not work for alcohol, prohibition will not work for abortion.
People will do what they feel is right for them, whether it is against the law or not.
And I will not force a victim of rape or incest (which is almost always,also rape) to go through 9 months of forced torture simply for the sake of the child. (especially in the case of incest, where often the mother is still a child herself )
The only true answer is a broad socially conscious change in attitude toward, and responsibility for the creation of life.
One way of doing that is to stop being so publicly "understanding" of people who choose to abort.
We must stress the importance of life without threat, but still refusing to condone it as a correct choice.
We must make people understand that abortion, simply for "convenience" is an immoral, despicable, sinful choice.
And we must hammer that into the skulls of everyone we meet, whenever the subject arises..
When enough people change the way they think about the unborn, and begin to respect the promise of new life, and then take responsibility for bringing it into this world, and protecting and raising it to adulthood, there will be no need for laws against abortion.
It just won't happen very often..
"While I would encourage all to choose life, rather than abortion, I fail to see the wisdom of forcing anyone..
Just as prohibition did not work for alcohol, prohibition will not work for abortion.
People will do what they feel is right for them, whether it is against the law or not."
Let's see if your logic holds good when we substitute the words "armed robbery" for abortion:
"While I would encourage all to choose life, rather than ARMED ROBBERY, I fail to see the wisdom of forcing anyone..
Just as prohibition did not work for alcohol, prohibition will not work for ARMED ROBBERY.
People will do what they feel is right for them, whether it is against the law or not."
On the basis of your logic, then, your government should de-criminalise armed robbery because people will continue to do it whether it is against the law or not.
With this level of rationalisation, you may as well scrap all law - anarchy is the only system that holds good by your standards.
"And I will not force a victim of rape or incest (which is almost always,also rape) to go through 9 months of forced torture simply for the sake of the child. (especially in the case of incest, where often the mother is still a child herself )"
Pregnancy is not torture, abortion is both torture and murder. You would compound the crime? Have you neither love of life or of God?