Quote Originally Posted by heycarrieanne
I am very pro-choice, but I think that abortion should be the very last option a woman should use. That being said, I find it very interesting that the so-called "pro-life" people want to force women of all ages to have babies whether they want to or not, then they turn their back on these babies and do not want to help the mother support them. And these same pro-life folks do not want to teach children about birth control, only abstinence. (These are also the same people who allow their 12 year-old daughters to dress up looking like hookers from the Avenue aka Paris Hilton!) High school and apparently some middle school kids are going to fuck -- teach them right from wrong at home and tell them not to have sex until they are older. But also tell them that IF they make the choice to have sex, they should be responsible about it. There is nothing romantic about being knocked up at 15 and having a kid at 16 and missing out on high school and college.
Woh! You've made some very broad and sweeping statements there about pro-choicers. I certainly tend towards being one, yet very little, if any, of what you say here applies to me. I think there will always be varying degrees within any moral philosophy, therefore we can't assume everyone is the same, regardless of what 'labels' we tag them with.

I have various reason's for my feelings. Most are private, but I can tell you a good friend of mine's mother gave birth to her just two months short of her seventeen birthday, and you know, I'm kind of glad she did.