> Women have ALWAYS found ways to abort an unwanted baby. These methods have been dangerous, unsuccessful, and often unsanitary. Abortion MUST be legal, and there must be trained doctors available to perform this procedure without fear of being arrested or abused by others.

I have thought a lot about this point of your argument, and I believe that there is a flaw that has not been pointed out yet, and I must address it (despite my wish that this drawn out thread could die a peaceful death).

The problem is this: This argument, by necessity, requires a moral foundation. In reality, the issue of whether or not women should be given a legal means to have an abortion depends on whether the abortion is morally right or wrong. If having an abortion is morally wrong, then I do not believe that abortion should be legal--we should have no reason to feel responsible for what people suffer through while carrying out immoral activities.

Conversely, if abortion is morally acceptable ("right") then you are correct--it SHOULD be made legal, without question. The real problem here, then, becomes one of the morality of abortion. I will NOT try and present an argument one way or another on that issue; all I'm saying is that this particualr argument is really just another aspect of the morality debate, and should not be used on its own as a reason for abortion to be legalized.

Don "Hoping he said that politically enough" Monkey