I believe illegalizing abortions (at least PBA's), or severly restricting the circumstances for abortion does do much more good than it does harm.

Think about. You are a woman who just learned you were pregnant. You did not expect it, and you are confused about what to do. You want to have your baby, but you are afraid of it, you are afriad of child birth, and you are afraid about what will happen once you have this baby. Abortion becomes a widely accepted thing, and it is perfectly legal, there are people who refer to it as little more than getting a mole removed. So, these people, who are made more prevalent because there are no laws against abortion, try and convince you that getting an abortion is the right thing. They tell you that it doesn't hurt, and it gets rid of the 'thing' that is inside you... afterall, it's convenient, isn't it? So they tell you to go get 'it' removed, reiterating how much it's no big deal. So this woman, who was talked into abortion by these people, goes and gets an abortion. She is devastated and shocked at what she just did.. she didn't realize all well what she had done, until after she had done it.

Putting greater restrictions on abortion will serve to help prevent things like this from ever happening. Restrictions on abortion is the first step to stopping people who are on the fence from killing her child. However, I do know fully well that that is not the final step. It will never be the final step.

After restricting abortions, immediately, more information needs to become available to all people even thinking about abortions. Education on the matter is a must, not a left wing view, not a right wing. The facts, and only the facts. This mother does not need people telling her "Oh, it's alright to get one, it's your body, who are you to have to put up with something you don't want?" And similarly, they don't need people telling her "If you get an abortion you will go to hell. God wants this baby to be born, so that is what you'll do." They simply need to be told the facts. That your baby is, in fact, a growing living thing, and that if you go through this abortion, you will loose your child, it will be dead. They should urge them to search at all alternatives before getting an abortion, and should fully know the emotional, physical, and psychological hazards getting an abortion may have. And no, urging people to not get an abortion is not a right wing view, and I certainly hope you don't think it is. Urging people to try their hardest to preserve life, is a trait I should hope is shared by all people, regardless of their political position.

And yes, it is true about some women who tried to give themselves abortions because it was illegal. And once more, women should be educated that that is no solution at all. There will always be some stupid people who make idiotic decisions, but if we can educate these women, and tell them that there are other ways, they will think twice before trying to mutilate their child, and themselves.

Again on the self abortion thing. You see a couple horrible images of a woman lying dead because she tried to abort herself, I saw one myself, and you think "oh my god, everyone will do this if abortion is illegal." But that is not the case. Let me ask you all this: What about all the babies that are killed in an even more greusome manner, intentionally, by both a 'doctor' and the mother herself? Look at the difference in numbers. Hundreds of abortions happen every week, every DAY, but you do not hear of every single time this happens do you? No, because the life of an unborn child is valued as important by the media. However, every time a woman dies trying to self-abort, you better believe that you hear about it, be it in the local news, a paper, the net, or national news. So look at the sheer differences, let's say that every month, there are 10,000 abortions, there is 1 woman dead from a self- abort as well (and the numbers aren't even that way anyway, a self-abort happens maybe once in a long while, very rarely in the U.S.). If you can reduce that one number drastically, but slightly increase the other, isn't it worth it? Let's say you illegalize many forms of abortion, and that number drops to 4,000 abortions, to 6 self-abort deaths. Isn't the survival of 6,000 babies worth the loss of 5 ignorant, mal-educated women, who made an awful decision? The needs of the many, do outweigh the needs of the few. If you spare 5 lives, to save 6,000.. then there is no doubt in my mind it is worth it.

But at this point, I believe that the right course of action is being taken. Bush is illegalizing PBA's, not all abortions. He will never outlaw abortion all together, he never could. He is simply righting a terrible wrong commited by Clinton in the last administration.