Simplicity -- A Pipe Dream Gone Mad

According to our no-choice friends, abortion is 
a simple straight forward question: 
Shall we allow people to murder babies?
And the answer is also quite simple:
OF COURSE NOT!

BUT...
If their view represents 
the truth,   the whole truth   and   nothing but the truth,  then 
why is the abortion controversy filled with heated debates and endless arguments.   See the page titled:   What if Abortion Was Illegal?

Unfortunately, there is no simple, single answer to the problem of unwanted pregnancy.     Here's one of the few things we can say with certainty regarding this controversy:

Birthing a child is NOT the answer 
to EVERY unwanted pregnancy.

This topic brings forth many different responses and there’s a huge array of factors to consider.

  The underlying meaning of abortion and the controversy surrounding it are so complicated  that it takes a considerable amount of study to obtain a clear, complete picture of all the factors involved.

  The decision to terminate or not terminate a pregnancy produces numerous, significant, irreversible, long-term consequences.

  Terminating or not terminating a pregnancy is an extremely personal, highly emotional, life-altering decision.

  For many women, terminating or not terminating a pregnancy is also a religious  decision.   

  The context in which each pregnancy occurs is completely unique.

  Abortion raises countless, unanswerable, religious questions.   Most people are ignoring the religious aspect of his controversy.

  There are numerous, conflicting, religious beliefs regarding when an individual human life begins.

  In scientific terms, nobody can say when an individual human life begins.

  In scientific terms, nobody can answer these two questions:  What is the nature of a fertilized egg?  What is the nature of a human being?  There are numerous, conflicting, religious beliefs regarding these two questions.

  Choosing to become a mother is, at minimum, an 18-year commitment.

  There is a enormous emotional cost to women who are forced to bear unwanted children.   

  There are  enormous financial costs women who are forced to bear unwanted children.  (Raising a child can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars.)

  The vast majority of human beings want the right to make their own decisions regarding abortion and motherhood.

  Terminating or not terminating a pregnancy is a biological/medical decision.

  The woman herself and her family are best informed regarding the circumstance surrounding her pregnancy.

  The woman herself, her family, and her medical caregivers are the ones who know best how to respond to her pregnancy and what decision is the right one for her.

  Terminating or not terminating a pregnancy has tremendous, long-term, life-altering affects on the pregnant woman.

  Forced motherhood pushes long-term, negative physical, financial, emotional and psychological consequences onto women.

When you consider all these factors,  it's just not realistic to apply one  (and only one answer by force of law)  to every situation under all circumstances.   Forcing every woman to carry every pregnancy to term and birth still another unwanted child is about as practical and realistic as saying everybody must wear the same size shoes.   It also violates everyone else's God-granted right of self-determination.

Religious and political freedom offer us one simple answer to the abortion controversy:   "If you don't like abortions, don't have one."

To our anti-choice friends we say:  "How about providing open, honest and complete sex education?   How about providing birth control to those who are sexually active?   How about simply telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth  about sex, conception, contraception, abortion etc.?   And how about simply sharing your beliefs and convictions and  inviting  other to join you?"

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