Should the government stop abortions?

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Originally Posted by stretchypanda

I suppose with the case of birth control "accidents" I'll just have to go back to my old argument: The purpose of sex is reproduction. If you are engaging in sex you should and eventually will have to accept that responsibility. If you can't handle that responsibility, you don't have any business having sex.

You see, I don't think the purpose of sex is just reproduction. Biologically yeah it is, but we're not just rabbits, or dogs, driven by our genes to make muchos babies. Interestingly, dolphins have sex for pleasure too, I had to interview one for this class project.


I don't really agree with abortions and I think it's a doctors responsibility to make very clear all the other alternatives to women, which I'm sure they do. It also alarms me that 16 year olds can get pregnant and then have an abortion without their parents knowing, I just don't think a 16 year old can make that kind of massive decision on their own especially when they're emotionally all over the place as they will be just getting knocked up.
So yeh, I think abortions are generally wrong, but I think banning them would be stupid, as has been said before it would just open up a new market for back street abortions, (which is incidentally why I think many drugs should be legalised, but thats another tale.) and also women deserve the right to a choice at the end of the day.