I know 1 woman and her offspring whose husband abandoned her and strongly urged her over and over to have an abortion and gave her advice on how to do it--this was in the 1940's. She did not have the abortion, never remarried, and her son became a happy successful professional with a family of his own.

I cannot tell you exactly how many girls I know who have had an abortion; there are several. The abortion in all the cases I can recall were basically for birth control--at least 2 of the children who were aborted were the result of casual sex with a partner whom they did not know well.

My son has told me about a girl he knows who was raped at the age of 15 and had an abortion. I have no problem with an abortion under such circumstances.

I apppreciate your well thought out responses.


The question is not, Can they reason? nor, Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?
~Jeremy Bentham