On a planet that is facing cataclysm by over population of the human species, there must be a world view that says every new member of the species must be a wanted one. Also, that it is socially responsible to want just two. The guilt that women feel is a result of centuries of Christian mores. There needs to be a new narrative that speaks not only of personal choice but also of global responsibility.

Maybe there could be a system where instead of aborting, the baby is adopted to a different family, never know who may or may not develop interplanetary space travel or whatever.

This 'women's right to control their own bodies' is pathetic; they should try contolling their bodies by keeping their legs together, for starters, and stop hawking themselves about, maybe stop drinking and losing natural inhibitions. If they cannot control themselves or their bodies, take more care with contraception. Hell's bells, they can even get the morning after pill. Even if they have the morals of alley cats, they need to be pretty dumb to get pregnant if they don't wish to. Apart from the odd occasions of rape, danger to a woman's life if she continues with a pregnancy or if a scan reveals a hopelessy disabled child, there is no excuse for abortion in modern times. The very idea of abortions of convenience is contemptible. Irresponsible women are also contemptible.

no ttbn you're contemptible. If only you had a brain it would be worth explaining to you the facts.

Priest's and their less committed cousins Ministers should spend their time on useful religious ideas like how many angles can dance on a pin head. Please leave reality to the rest of us. The various churches have made an profitable industry out of peddling guilt.

Heaven? Filled with unwanted boys and girls?

Like those abandoned and left to starve to death in some war ravaged hell hole or in some third world country, where they die of dehydration caused by easily remedied dysentery!

Easy for the better off white male to decide on some stone age antiquated and entirely unprovable belief system, what other folks are allowed to do, after forbidding contraception?

Who gave you a right to decide for others?

Perhaps if they were the ones getting pregnant and having to carry a baby full term, then feed, clothe, house and educate it during the formative years on an income of $2.00 a day?

Then they may be able to remove the blindfold, the earplugs and perceive the real world through very different eyes; and or circumstances, which they are unable to actually comprehend!

LET US SHOUT ABOUT UNHOLY, NEVER ENDING, BLIND TYRANNICAL ZEAL!

About endless injustice and zealots turning indifferent blind eyes to all the above!

Heaven? What, where? That place above that there mountain, way up there among them clouds, where there ain't no fields to plow?
Alan B.

Nice to see someone standing up for the unborn. I would have preferred if he didn't bring religion into it though. It adds nothing to the argument. Abortion is wrong simply because you are robbing someone of the opportunity to live out their life. No different to killing a newborn baby or an adult.
There seems to be a bizarre double standard in this country where it is claimed a woman has the right to control her body even to the extent of killing her unborn child, yet she cannot carry a child for someone else (surrogacy) for money. Likewise a woman can kill her unborn who has not consented, but cannot assist a consenting terminally ill adult to end their life.
If we really value human life, we need to have consistency in our approach to it.