Usually agree (critical). Abortion should be available to women who have been raped or cannot survive the pregnancy. Yet, how can I be pro-life and condemn an infant to a life of poverty or misery when they leave the womb. Until a social welfare system that is workable and cost affective is installed to help those who truly need the help, I cannot condemn a woman for having an abortion unless it is for trivial reasons (gender selective, etc).
Exactly the same here.
But that logic implies the child is better dead than poor. That and the point of laws isn't to condemn people, it's to get them to do or not do things, in this case to get them not to have abortions. How any of us feel about the woman as a person is beside the point of whether or not she should have the right to an abortion.
I'm going to be honest. I didn't read the last few sentences of Sanchez's post; I must have just skimmed through them. My position is that we should have exceptions for rape, incest, and the life of the mother, but I do not think economic reasons are an acceptable excuse for an abortion.
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