re: #189 Ian MacGregor

Even in these situations the abortion cured nothing. Pregnancy is not a disease.

Tell that to the 14 year old impregnated by her father and denied an abortion by him. Tell that to the 18 year old supporting herself and struggling to go to college. Tell that to the woman trapped in an abusive marriage and trying to leave, whose husband flushed all her birth control pills down the toilet and has raped her every night since, deliberately to impregnate her.

In such situations, the women do think of their condition as harmful. It is harmful. And it’s not for you to decree that their abortions were unnecessary, or ‘cured nothing’.