The doc Lake of Fire covers the issue well. Those who are staunchly anti-abortion don't seem to care about the quality of life of the child after it's born- or it's life expectancy. Unwanted children die in poverty, starving, all the time. Young mothers who could have taken the comparatively humane option of abortion frequently find other ways to dispose of the child after birth. Without legal and safe abortion, unhappy pregnant women will try other options; carbolic soap douches, coat hangers etc- these are effectively suicide attempts.

No, abortion shouldn't be a form of birth control. It's a horror. But there are worse horrors without it.

And you cannnot be anti-abortion and pro-death penalty. It's a contradiction.

Please tell me how choice controls women, and what confused holy roller coined that misogynistic term. The evangelical pro-Life movement seems to operate entirely on saying "the poor babies" - but not the children. Babies are cute and innocent and cuddly and deserve the right to live. (THEY do!) But if they have no chance to, it's tantamount to saying torture is ok.

The headline in my local newspaper today said 2x as many children in Colo. are living in poverty as in 2000. We have the fastest growing child poverty rate in the nation. There is no way the most devoted prayer or moralizing can save these children.

In all of the posts so far, no one has mentioned other options. The woman has a choice other than abortion---adoption. There are so many childless couples in this country, if she isn't able to care for the baby she should put it up for adoption. The Pro-Life movement has taken quite a beating in this thread, and no organization is perfect, but the Pro-Life movement is not about controlling women. Woman always have choices: we should chose to be responsible when we have sex and if we are in the situation of an unplanned pregnancy, we have the choice to allow a couple who are financially and emotionally prepared to raise a baby adopt it if we are not.

It all comes down to one's view of life: does it began at conception or with the first breath taken outside the womb? This could be debated in a million threads and there will never be a concensus. Most people's minds are already made up on that subject and no amount of debating will alter their belief.

The death penalty is a completely different issue from abortion: abortion is about innocent life that has done nothing wrong, the death penalty is about violent criminals. Every life has meaning and is of value, but I believe one can have different opinions on both subjects.

I don't support Abortion or the Death Penalty.  I fail to see how people reach the contradictory position of supporting one but not the other.

If human life is precious and valuable, then you can't support either imho.

The argument that poverty or inconvenience to the mother or a range of other life events that people across the world live through daily...are somehow worth than being executed is a curious one...

Being adopted myself, yes, adoption is a great option.  For many women, this is a possibility.

However, pregnancies cost money, too. You don't just go about your life as normal if you're giving up a baby for adoption. You need special nutrition and physician monitoring. 

Minority babies, I hate to say it, just aren't in demand for white middle class childless couples.  

Mothers on drugs, or smokers, or drinkers aren't going produce viable offspring, either.

Although I am unable to entirely approve of abortion, ethically, I believe that abortion should remain legal due to overpopulation and the possibility that certain mothers will be unable to provide positive lives for their offspring. However, I believe that governmental programs should significantly discourage inconsiderate behavior which will cause pregnancy, such as education programs and advertisements.

Click on movies and watch the movie Destiny.  It is a short movie about abortion. 

http://www.jerrimanthey.com/