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In case you haven't noticed, abortion is usually a very painful experience for the baby, so I really don't see the rationale behind painfully killing a baby to prevent it from dying a painful death LOL. By the way, have you guys ever heard of "Post Abortion Syndrome"? Look it up.
A human doesn't develop awareness until they're at about the age of two, which is about the limit of how far back human memories go, as these two are directly associated with each-other. Furthermore, the would-be baby is going to experience pain no matter what. They already KNOW that the baby is going to die. There is no way it can "only be better". If she kept it, she'd be giving "birth" to a dead baby, thinking about this the whole time it was inside of her. End the pain now, or wait the rest of the term, go through the pain of giving birth, and have to deal with the fact that there is now a baby that's been waiting to die since it was conceived.
I don't think of abortion as birth control, but there are certain situations where ignorant outsiders shouldn't put it upon themselves to judge others. You are not god, you're not even a priest. Don't pretend like the bible doesn't say you're not supposed to act like this towards another human being.
I'd also like to point out that it's easy for someone to say "the woman should give birth to the baby no matter what if it's healthy" when you're not a woman and the problem will never apply to you.
Let's say, hypothetically, I get raped, and as a result of that, I get pregnant. I honestly don't know if I'd be able to keep it. I wasn't ready to have the kid. It wasn't a choice I made to get pregnant, and I don't know that I wouldn't see the man's face every time I thought about the baby. Let's say the baby is born, and it looks like the man? What would I do then? Would I be able to look at it? Do I turn it in somewhere? The person that grows up will eventually think neither parent wanted him/her? I don't think the child is to blame, but I also know that unless I'm put in that situation, I don't know how strong or weak I'd be when faced with the problem.
I know abortion can cause it's own problems, and I know that people always want to hope for the best, but until a person is faced with the possibility of carrying a baby they never asked for for nine months, or a baby that's doomed to die anyway for nine months, then maybe I'll think about what they say. I don't think abortion is taken to be lightly. If someone has a good reason to do it, even if I may or may not have done the abortion myself, I'd at least understand.
Not everyone who gets an abortion gets it because they're sex-happy and abort because they have no self-control. All these self-righteous women are doing is making an already awful experience even worse.