Let me give you a few common examples of when an abortion is used, and what I think about it in that particular case:

1) Just... because. Parent is over 18 years of age, and just doesn't want the responsibility.

2) The parent is under the age of 18, and doesn't want the responsibility.

3) Rape/incest

4) Giving birth poses a significant health risk to the mother.

I think these 4 cases pretty much outline when an abortion is used. The first two are overwhelmingly more common then the second two; and kind of perplexingly they are also the ones that I would be against.

Should people put a blanket ban on abortion? Of course not. In some countries in Africa, abortions are illegal, and in many cases the mother dies giving birth, when an abortion would have saved her life. Not cool.

On the other hand, abortions that fall into the first two categories are debatable. Is the baby 'alive' at some point during the pregnancy? At what point? Would it be murder to kill the baby?

While I can't (and actually don't want to) answer any of those questions, what I can say is this: you have to be accountable for what you do.

Its that simple. You have sex with someone, you get pregnant, you have a baby. No easy way out.

The third and fourth cases cloud the issue. The percentage of abortions that actually fall into those categories are minimal. The majority of people that have abortions are in the first two categories, and when someone says they are against abortion, they mean they are against the frivolous use of abortions.

As usual, you can't expect anything to really develop on this issue, since all the politicians are too chicken to actually have an opinion on it. Ask any presidential hopeful of 2008, directly, "do you support abortion" and they'll give you a mountain of bull.

So who cares? Do what you want, its a free country.