Majorities say abortion should be legal in some, but not all, circumstances
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I the woman cannot afford to have that child then she should not be having sex ,how unresponsible can you be. Give the baby to someone who wants it. And fix her so she can't have anymore. Seems like she wants to play then she should be able to pay the price of it! If it was that easy everybody would do it. I think that our society has to many choices for this, My God we are talking about a life not just another toy. I wonder what is wrong with everybody. Look at all the people who want kids and can't have them, Why not let them have your child to take care of it. But instead we charge thousands of dollars to adopt them out. Talk about wanting to get rich off of peoples love for a child. Then you have kids who kill because they are scared of what the parents wpuld say. Have a place to give these babys a home instead of looding the little angels. Because they are angles. Andpeople are killing them because they dodn't want to deal with reality. My daughter was supose to have downs, doctors wantes me to abort. I said no I don't care I will take care of her. So I had a perfect daughter nothing wrong. Guess what ? the test was wrong. And three months after her birth. My son of 5 yrs. old was killed in and accident. Know what would have happened if I would have lost both. Iwould have gone crazy.
yea man
i belive that only under the circumstances in which the pregnancy was caused by rap or inscest, or if the mothers life is in danger to the point of death should only be when abortion should be a choice.
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