Fight Club - "I Want To Have Your Abortion"

So, in reading NRO, the writers are still misunderstanding the abortion issue. Ponnuru and Solenni both write from a pro-life aspect, and their main observance is that there are not that many, if any, women who are proud to have had abortions.

This majorly confuses the issue. Promotion legal abortions is not endorsing people to go out and have abortions. Its not saying "you're not cool unless you've had one yourself." The name of the sect isn't pro-abortion but pro-choice. Being pro-choice is trying to prevent injury and harm from illegal abortion. Abortions, legal or not, will always be present. If they're legal, hopefully we can have these women have abortions in clean sterilized clinics with trained professionals doing it. If they're illegal, the methods for abortion can go from doctors performing them illegally on clean grounds to back alley actions to coat hangers in the bathroom.

Yes, I played the coat hanger card, namely because it isn't a card. When I went to UofM pre-student camp, one of my counselors had us play a political game, and I was the only one who was extremely firm in being pro choice. She was from Africa or South America, and went to a private school. She said there were somewhat regular occurances of seeing lots of blood on the floor, and every now and then a coat hanger abortion would go wrong. But, it was because having an abortion was illegal in that country and it would bring shame upon the family.

I have read where coat hanger abortions lead to permanent damage or death. And, since we'd be losing the unborn child anyways, why do we have to lose two people? (God, that almost sounds human) If they become crippled, they may become a burden on society. And, that is what being pro-choice is about. It isn't about being happy that people can get abortions. It isn't about reveling in the mistakes young women (and their boyfriends, the women don't deserve all the blame) make. It isn't about killing innocent kids. It is, at least to me, about preventing senseless preventable injury and death as a leading result of stupidity.

So, if abortions became illegal, then the pro-lifers would be right. The number of women regretting their abortions would go down...because they'd be dead.