Well Egan, I must say your reponse here has taken me completely by surprise.

Yes you are right, people will do it anyway, but is making it legal "right" when you consider a life here? People tend to think a little harder if these options are not readily available to them. . I dont have the full answers, because the of alternative backstreet abortion horrors. But I am definitely dead set against it (even if its' done behind the white coat and clean surgical gloves of a doctor, the act itself remains the same). Certainly now it has become an option and I remember a friend said to me once "well it doesn't matter, if I get pregnant, I'll just go get an abortion".

I can't quite see it as being the same as banning alcohol. But i'll say this. In my country New Zealand, when they lowered the drinking age because they felt that as the underage were doing it anyway, they might as well make it legal....far from helping matters, they worsened it ten fold. Now it is further out of control. Though we will never stop these things, and making them illegal of course does not stop the problem, making them legal or lowering the drinking age does not necessarily make a bad situation better, and sometimes worse in the long run.

Banning alcohol? They'd be riots I know!. Banning abortion? Before it was made legal as such, though there were the horror stories of backstreet abortions, the rate of abortion was NOTHING compared to the statistics we have now. Sometimes if you let a foot in the door, ...well you know the rest.

But as it stands? It is legal, so certainly my words on here are not going to change that reality.