Another sensitive and divisive issue in our country is abortion and the right to life. As I said yesterday, I believe that abortion is a matter of personal conscience and, therefore, I have a very hard time understanding why anyone can get so concerned about it that they want to march on Washington and lobby their representatives to legislate against it.
My personal belief is that as a practice of birth control, abortion is wrong but in situations where the mother's life is in jeopardy or a young teenager is not ready for a child, I think it's justified, if the teenager and her parents agree. The rest of us may not like that decision, but the rest of us don't have to live with that decision, and it's really none of our business.
I would be very upset if the right to lifers succeeded in overturning Roe v. Wade and making abortion illegal. If that were to happen, the practice of abortion would still continue but return to the situation of non-medical people performing the procedure in unsanitary conditions causing serious illness or injury. So, no matter how I personally feel about abortion, I realize that the practice will continue whether it's legal or not, and I would much prefer that it remain legal so that whenever it is performed it is performed by medical professionals in sanitary conditions.
It seems to me that although this is a very sensitive issue, we must be reasonable about how we deal with it and I believe that the Roe v. Wade decision was a very reasonable legal decision. If you don't like abortion or your religion says you shouldn't have one, you don't have to have one. But just as we discussed yesterday, don't ask me or anyone else to believe what or how you believe. And, don't ask my representatives in Congress to force me to believe what you or he/she believes either.
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