We need to change the perception of extremists that abortion is murder. If it were the case then performing doctors, midwives, and the men and women involved should be subject to life imprisonment or death in states where there is the death penalty. This kind of harsh justice — even minimal jail sentencing — obviously is not going to become reality, not even the pro-life wing would suggest it. Consequently the perception should be that women at a given time inclined to abort should be extended the realistic latitude that she is not ready financially, emotionally, or of age to be a mother. The extremists who perceive it as murder should desist from interfering with contraceptive tools and education that would prevent a woman from having an abortion altogether, but at the same time should propagate adoption, as a viable alternative, in addition to rewarding the natural mother, provided designated adoptive parents exist, in lieu of adding to already crowded orphanages.

Copyright © 2006 Richard R. Kennedy All rights reserved. Revised: February 13, 2006.

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