Abortion

Rape victims:

women who are raped and become pregnant as a result I feel should have the right to choose weather or not she carries the child to term.

http://www.equip.org/articles/abortion-and-rape-answering-the-arguments-for-abortion-rights/

A woman who becomes pregnant due to an act of either rape or incest is the victim of a horribly violent and morally reprehensible crime. Although pregnancy as a result of either rape or incest is extremely rare, there is no getting around the fact that pregnancy does occur in some instances

Mothers health:

women suffering from sever complications due to pregnancy have the right to do something about it. If her pregnancy is impairing her physical health the why not have the option for abortion.

http://www.preeclampsia.org/health-information/faq

Preeclampsia and other hypertensive disorders of pregnancy can be devastating diseases, made worse by delays in diagnosis or management, seriously impacting or even killing both women and their babies before, during or after birth.

Severely disabled children:

How is it fair to tell a woman what she can and cannot handle as far as a disabled child. Just because, for example, say I were to conceive a child who were to be born with down syndrome and my friend Susie were to conceive at the same time with the same circumstances and she decided to abort because she could not dedicate the necessary time to care for said child. How is it right to say she dislikes my child based on its disability just because she couldn’t carry her own to full-term.

http://www.spiked-online.com/Articles/0000000054E3.htm

|A woman whose attitude to her pregnancy changes when she finds it is affected by an abnormality is not making a social or political statement about |

|the abnormality, or about born people with that disability. She is making a statement about herself; what she feels she can cope with and what she |

|wants...