Originally Posted by
Grohenbird
If you want to shame women for being sexually active, you could head back to the dark ages where women only get to do housework and raise children.
I agree with you to the extent where economics shouldn't be a factor in the abortion argument. However, this isn't about shaming. The fact is, abortion is being used as a form of contraception in the US and the UK (in the UK ever since the '67 act), with around 1 million unborn children getting destroyed each year in the US. Nearly half of the pregnancies there are unintended and four in 10 of these are terminated by abortion (
Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, 2006).
You also made the point that rape cases are hard to be determined as legitimate. This is correct, but not the main veto against abortion due to rape. The 'abortion due to rape' argument persists that the baby is solely responsible and not the rapist. People for this issue will base their arguments on emotional difficulty, and not objectively. The baby is innocent and cannot be blamed for anything, so it's not a justifiable reason for abortion.
The argument that the mother's life is at risk is a difficult problem and I suppose you could make room for it, though whenever I ask somebody to give me an example of a case such as this, they're unable to.
The fact remains that the majority of abortions are due to irresponsibility. Abortion being made illegal is not to shame them or to punish them, it is to protect the unborn child's life. Pretty simple, really.