Abortion (this is a position paper!)

If abortion were safer, more women would be more comfortable with having an abortion because they would not be so afraid. Abortion should be legal for cases where the woman was raped even if it is not legal for everyone, just because there is a small minority of women whose circumstances are so horrible that they require it. If abortion is legal and safe, it is likely to be even less rare than it is. I think abortion can be justified if the woman was raped; the reasons to have an abortion can actually overcome the reasons to not have an abortion and getting rid of the child can help her destroy the memory of the rape. What about rape or incest? I cannot judge this. Abortion kills a baby that could make another family happy. But isn't it going to condemn women to incompetent butchers if abortion is illegal? Even in the current situation there are butchers. A woman who decides to have an abortion is probably not prepared to take care of the child. One of the things that would make me not want to have an abortion is that it is quite unsafe. I think that if girls had more choices like this, fewer girls would have abortions. Abortion clinics do not have to comply with the same standards as hospitals and regular clinics, so women can die from the various complications of abortion. As I said in the first paragraph I think that abortion is wrong and i would never have one but I do not think that it should be illegal. If schools and colleges provided free childcare during school hours, girls could drop their babies off and visit between classes.