Abortion does NOT kill babies, teenagers or old people. To be any of those things you have to be born. Abortion terminates pregnancy, and kills a fetus. A woman who has decided to have an abortion knows what the consequences of having an abortion are. She also knows what the consequences of not having an abortion are.

During WW2 my cousin said goodbye to her boyfriend who was going overseas. Two months later she got word he was killed in action, and she found herself pregnant. She had no access to a medical abortion by a competent practitioner. Faced with that fact, she killed herself. I think of her when people like you, Graham Preston, want the right to harass women going to an abortion clinic with an lying, emotive sign. The women have thought it out. They know what they are doing. If legal abortion had been available at that time my cousin could have had one and got on with her life.

Maybe you could have a little compassion for a pregnant woman who has a good reason for wanting an abortion.

If you succeed in making abortion illegal you will bring back the backyard butcher, the coat hanger attempted abortion and suicide.
To prevent unwanted pregnancies adequate contraceptives should be available along with instructions and training on how to use them when engaging in sex. That will eliminate the necessity for most abortions. Quite possibly, you are against that, too.

'Abortion does NOT kill babies, teenagers or old people.'

dear oh dear davidf saying lies often enough never makes it truth. At least try being a little honest.

Does it matter if Nazis killed Jews? If babies are seen as 'uncorrupted' by you, are they innocent? If so, why should that be a reason for murdering them?

OzSpen,
Two utterly irrelevant arguments. The Nazis killed many innocent already born people !
No-one aborts or rather kills babies after birth !
Abortion is performed before a foetus becomes a born baby !
Prevention must surely be morally better than the prospect of a miserable existence.
The immorality is when people have abortions for convenience.
Many young expecting mothers more often than not do not have the luxury of support especially from those who condemn them.

Dear runner,

You just call me dishonest. My post is entirely honest. Apparently dishonesty is disagreement with you. Safe and legal abortion is a hard fought right for women. You just call names with no justification and seem to have no regard for women.

david f

you have previously claimed to be a man of reason ands truth. Denying the humanity of the unborn is outright lying. Biology and reason and morality are all against you and many other deniers.

Dear runner,

No mate it is you who is lying.

A fetus is a potential child, teenager, grandparent. So is an egg in a test tube which has been fertilised by sperm. That joining of DNA is not a baby nor any of the above.

davidf's point is completely valid and just because it doesn't fit in with your warped pseudo-religious misogynist viewpoint it doesn't reduced that validity, not by a single jot.