I’m with natedog on this one… There are times when I’d agree with an abortion, like if the pregnancy has a high chance of killing the mother before she can bring it to term, or if a woman gets pregnant as a result of a rape, then yeah, an abortion should be an option.

But if you just don’t want the baby? Or “it was an accident”? Or, “I can’t take care of this baby for financial/medical/emotional/psychological issues”? Tough shit. There’s this little thing called responsibility which seems to be an anathema to the modern mindset. You don’t want a kid? Then maybe you shouldn’t have gone out, gotten drunk and opened your knees for some fella who seemed quite charming at the time. Our actions have consequences, sometimes unforeseen, that we have to be responsible for. And sometimes, those consequences suck; like having a nine-pound screaming larva tear it’s way out of your vagoo.

If you want to make absolutely sure you don’t get/get someone pregnant, don’t have sex. It’s not a difficult a concept. Because no one *needs* to have sex. There is (unfortunately) no terminal illness that can only be cured with sex. People *want* to have sex (not that I blame them 😛 ), but if they do, then they have to take responsibility for the fact that someone might get pregnant. Even if you use protection, a condom might break, the Pill might fail for some incredibly unlikely reason, or he might not quite pull out in time. But the main purpose of having sex is to get the woman pregnant, so even if you’re taking precautions, you still need to realize that doing so always carries a risk of winding up with a bun in the oven.

There’s plenty of infertile couples out there who would love the chance to adopt a kid, so if you really can’t take care of a kid, put it up for adoption. Having to squeeze one out, and having to hear about it for the rest of his life, would be a lovely lesson in personal responsibility for women and men respectively.

And while we’re at it, let’s get rid of the morning after pill for anything except an emergency measure in rape cases. That should probably cut down on the number of, “I wasn’t on the pill and went out to the club and met a guy and despite him not being clever enough to bring a condom with him when the only reason for going to the club is to try to get laid, I boinked him anyway because I knew I could just get the morning after pill the next day but then I got herpes” stories, and that’s a good thing.