Not only women, but couples, have a right to say whether or not they want to keep a baby. It's not fair to put restrictions on what we can and can't do to our own bodies. Besides, not all pregnancies are planned. Isn't that what FLEBHS is all about? Accidents happen. Pro-choice all the way.

Actually, once self replication has begun, the embryo is no longer "Part of Your Body" but rather an entity contained within your body. Sperm is the product of a male's body, and eggs are the product of the females body. Once combined, however, a unique individual exists.

I was Pro Choice for quite a while, but Science (Not Sentiment) guided my reconsideration of the issue.

Truth be told, what is removed from you is not part of YOUR body, but rather the body of an unborn child.

I agree with factoverfiction. Among other things, the argument that it is a woman's (or even a couple's) right to abort a pregnancy is not scientifically sound. Accidents are all well and good. I believe that making mistakes is an inevitable part of life that should even be embraced, but when it affects another life, a developing life, it has nothing to do with accidents or mistakes. Abortion as "birth control" is reckless and irresponsible. It should be illegal.

If an "accident" does happen, there is another choice: ADOPTION. You wouldn't have to take care of the baby, or, if you started feeling guilty, you could have an open adoption.

Besides, if you mother had aborted you, you wouldn't be able to go vote to have the next generation of your family destroyed.

pro choice is not only a womans choice but a womans right. Not only the government gave us the freedom of choice but God himself gave us free will. so if a woman chooses to abort a baby that is her decision and not any one elses.

I am pro-life. Yes, it is your body, but there is another body within your own, I do not feel that you should have the choice to kill that being. However, I do think there are rare times in which with a doctor's consent, that an abortion may be preformed, such as the child being so deformed that it is not even recognizable as a human being. I think that aborting a baby because of a defect such as autism or down syndrome is extremely cowardly. I think that people would be much more cautious when it came to sex if they knew that they couldn't just take a trip to the clinic and get their uterus scraped of the beating heart and the developing flesh. Maybe people would take some responsiblity of their actions, and think of the consequences before they sleep with anyone.

"it is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish."
-Mother Teresa

also. a mere 5% of women raped are actually impregnated by the rape.

so if there are around 64,080 women raped in a year, then around 3,000 would have resulted in pregnancy. However there are around 46 million babies aborted in a year. And yes there are women who are hiding the fact that they were raped, but realistically, there probably aren't that many compared to the amount of babies being aborted. So most of those abortions are due to other reasons.

"Only 1% are performed because of rape or incest;

1% because of fetal abnormalities;

3% due to the mother's health problems."

the rest are because of "birth control"

(statistics from http://www.abortiontv.com/Misc/AbortionStatistics.htm and http://www.rainn.org/statistics/pregnancies.html)

YAY Willow!! I personally do not believe in abortion, I do not support it BUT I do believe that each individual should have the option to choose. It would be a shame for South Dakota to set the standard for other states, it is a unique state that is conservative split between extreme poverty and wealth. A state where wealth and race are over represented by white males. So who are the rich white males to decide for young women what we/you/me will do with our bodies and lives? Grrrrr.

Abortion is a very tricky topic. However, its 100 % wrong to have an abortion because its really cruel. A person who decides to have an abortion is making a decision to kill an innocent and helpless child. If a person does not want a child they should use protection to prevent it, instead of making a mistake and wanting to get rid of it quick and easy. Its truly wrong and if your ever in that position think about your unborn child !

i don't believe in banning it.
so many people say that having an abortion is killing a life, and yes at a certain point it is. but there are many woman out there that know they want to have an abortion before they baby is even developing.
i would rather know that woman out there are having abortions than woman who aren't fit to be mothers
having children. not everyone wants to give a child that they gave birth to up for adoption.

I support the people of South Dakota and their bravery to stand up for human rights, the rights of a unborn human being to live. This is not just a religious issue or just some issue for rich white males to be concerned about. If you think about it 50% of the people aborted are woman. How is that promoting woman's health? If Roe v. Wade is overturned it will be the greatest victory for woman's rights, state's rights, and human rights in the last 35 years.

Just wait until it’s illegal to terminate a pregnancy in this country. Women will not be able to go to college or have careers besides working in a call center or a Taco Bell. We will struggle and our dreams will die. All the progress made over the past 40 years will be undone and then we will all learn what our grandmothers had to live with.

Just wait until thousands of children live in worse poverty than they ever have before. Instead of having a brother or a sister, the next generation might have 5 or 6 all trying to live off mom’s 7 dollar an hour job at Wallmart.

Just wait until you realize that a zygote, blastocyst or fetus is not a person but a clump of cells. You’ll realize that Jerry Fallwel’s sold you and our generation a bill of goods and sold freedom down the river. Unless you’re an evangelical, in which case you’ll profit off of women’s suffering with money, power and control.

Insisting that a clump of cells is more important than the suffering of women who are actually alive here and now is hysteria. It violates common sense. Come to your senses and get off the cross, we need the wood.

Just wait until our daughters' and sisters' blood is on your hands. All of you self-righteous, smug "pro-life" people will finally find out what "murder" really means.

hey i would just like to say that i think its up to the mother and father to make the decison. i personally dont want the goverment making all my choices. some might but not me. i think it is a choice and i dont think they should make a law for there to be no abortion. lets just ask the government if they were the ones that went through lets say a rape would u really look at ur child the same or would u think of it differently. i personally dont know . if u can love u and ur child then dont get an abortion but if u cant support u or ur baby and u dont love it then its ur choce adoption or abortion.

hey i would just like to say that i think its up to the mother and father to make the decison. i personally dont want the goverment making all my choices. some might but not me. i think it is a choice and i dont think they should make a law for there to be no abortion. lets just ask the government if they were the ones that went through lets say a rape would u really look at ur child the same or would u think of it differently. i personally dont know . if u can love u and ur child then dont get an abortion but if u cant support u or ur baby and u dont love it then its ur choce adoption or abortion.

It's very sad how young people think of themselves in such a selfish way... who has the right to take a human life? what if you were the one who is being aborted? It's not putting a law on our bodies, it's setting moral values and standards in our society. Give the babies in adoption if it's a difficult situation, but don't abort them! We have become a selfish and narcissistic society..... very sad..... so many people have been raised under very difficult circumstances and they were not aborted. And they have made a difference in this world... if you abort a child you could be killing the next successful and influential human on this earth.