Eric,

On average there are approximately 3600 abortions performed in our country daily.  Less than 2% of those abortions are done as the result of a rape.  The vast majority (75%) of them are done because the baby would interfere with work, school or other responsibilities...read, convenience.  I think we've made them much more acceptable and available than they should be.  I think very few people actually know the horror which plays out in abortion clinics daily.  The abortionist is quick to point out that the growing fetus about to be aborted is nothing more than a mass of tissue or something similar to a clot.  How many abortionists would be comfortable backing that up with an ultrasound?  I'd guess zero.

Life begins at conception for me.  If we're facing a situation such as Kathryn's where the child's life won't be sustainable outside the womb then I'd agree that an abortion would be appropriate.  That's a far cry from a woman whose baby is totally healthy and on the verge of delivery but for selfish reasons is aborted.  Is this the kind of 'choice' those in favor of abortion are seeking?  I hope to one day see this choice no longer available because it's wrong. 

How many women are living with the guilt of an abortion in their past?  Seeing their pregnancy through to delivery would certainly have created a hardship in most of those cases but that's life and life goes on.  Years later they could look back on the child they brought into the world and know that what they did was right.  The decision to keep the baby and possibly give it up for adoption is made so much more difficult by the easy lure of abortion.  How much easier is it to schedule an abortion a few days out than it is to spend months carrying a baby to term and give it to a loving family?

Even the baby of a young woman who is raped or impregnated because of incest would be considered no less worthy than any other pregnancy.  I would never expect legislation with that type of wording to have any chance of seeing the light of day and so I'd not push for it.  I do think that pro abortion crowd has gotten ugly and greedy in its effort to make abortions acceptable without any stipulation whatsoever and in doing so they're beginning to see a backlash.

Here's an over-the-top question for anyone which just struck me.  Since partial birth abortion is nothing short of placing a baby in a waste basket rather than in a woman's arms; how absurd is it to say that maybe we should give a woman one week after delivering her baby to decide if she really wants it to live or die?

Kevin g