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Originally posted by Major SONAR
[B]What I hate is the US government pays for this (if you are on govt. assistance). If you choose to have the procedure, then pay for it yourself... Don't make me pay for your freakin' abortion! Damn... I pay for enough crap as it is!
Here here. I don't have kids, so I shouldn't have to pay any kind of education tax. And I don't fly, so I shouldn't spend any money subsidizing that industry. And I don't agree with most military interventions, so I want the right to withold tax-moneys on that. And I'm not old, so I don't want my money used to help old people. I don't watch tv, so I don't want any of my tax-money being invested in state-run programming. I don't have anything to gain from upheavals in the Sudan or Nigerea or whatever--don't spend my tax-money on intelligance or military interventions there. And i definately don't want ANY of my tax-money used to further the ends of uber-wealthy elite families or corporations and their various interests.

If only it could be so.....
""I think that a lot of uneduacted/poor people use this as a form of contraception. Come on people... wise up and use a condom!!""
Having known several women who have gone through thie procedure, I can quite assuredly tell you that the VERY invasive procedure of having an abortion done--on ANY of it's various levels (emotional, physical, mental, spiritual) is devestatingly difficult for most women. When I say most, I'm talking 99.9999999999999999999999999999 percent. Obviously, someone strung out on crack or whatever and within inches of death doesn't have a lot of morals, but you can hardly use that very rare case as an example of the vast majority of women who deliberate over this issue for agonizing moments. And probably reflect on it for the rest of their lives.
This is indeed a touchy subject. Please refrain from asanine, trite observations.
Keek.