I don't think it should be legal for any other reason than because if it's outlawed, there's no way for the authorities to follow every single person in the entire country. We would go back to the days where families with money could afford to have the doctor pay a special visit to the house while poorer families would not.

And desperate times call for desperate measures; especially with teen girls. Better to abort a fetus in the first couple months than find some grizzly discovery near the end of the pregnancy or after they've given birth. We still see it with the odd case now and again of some desperate girl (usually from a strict and religious background) who does her best to hide it and then gives birth and throws the baby away in the trash, or a river or wherever.

The interesting thing to note about teens is that among the youngest who lose their virginity are evangelical teens, with a national average clocking in just under Protestants and Catholics at age 16.3 compared to 16.9 for the other two groups. But among the more religious groups you'll find that STD's and pregnancies are higher because of abstinence-only education, which is only one part of the education they ought to be getting, and not the whole part.

So what really gets my goat on abortion is that it's the very strict crowd against it that is also the most reckless. It's like they want sex to be as dangerous as possible for you if you do it out of wedlock.

I already think there are too many people on the planet. Teach kids to glove it especially and for girls to go on the pill. This ridiculous notion of chastity-pledges and abstinence are a myth and there ruining people's lives.