Reply #86: The word "rare" does make it sound like one is apologizing for abortion. [View All]

[PinkyisBlue]

There's too much discussion about abortion in our country, period. As you state in your post, abortion should really only be discussed by a woman, her doctor, and anyone else she wishes to discuss it with.

Secretly, I do hope abortions are rare, but I don't like to see this thought articulated, because it does sound like an apology, an admission that it's a bad thing. For some women, as Ida Briggs described in her post, abortion is her best choice. And, ideally, other forms of contraception should be used if a woman is using abortion for contraception (which I do believe is rare). But I digress, as it's really none of my business why any woman chooses to have an abortion. It's difficult enough to try to make the right choices in my own life without trying to evaluate someone else's choices. And I am glad that abortion is a choice.