No it isn’t. If you make that argument then surely all women should always be in a cycle of pregnancy, birth, weaning, pregnancy, birth, all their lives, right? Because otherwise they are missing the chance for all of these different people to be born.

Different baby? Please. You don’t stand in a supermarket choosing between identical cans of coke. You just pick one up and buy it. It doesn’t mean you’re missing out on the other coke, because it’s Always The Real Thing.
Similarly with a foetus, do you think a jizzy egg suddenly has a fully formed personality? Do you think that personality is sent to limbo for all eternity if you don’t give birth to it? Come on. It doesn’t matter if I buy a Big Mac or Fries, so long as I’m Lovin’ It.

Nuts to this! Where’s my bourbon? Where’s Daddy’s bourbon?

Also, to all the comments above stating that abortion is murder because it is a living BEING perhaps what you really mean to say is that it is a living HUMAN, because I doubt you are so concerned with the “murder” (murder is in quotation marks since according to some definitions murder refers only to killing of humans, while according to other it is simply killing) of innocent animals, plants, bacteria, etc. And if this is your argument, then why isn’t it morally wrong to hunt for sport, to spray pesticides on things we dub to be “harmful pests”, to kill the weeds invading your front lawn or even to kill humans we deem “evil and undesirable” using the death penalty. I know some of the examples are far-fetched, and killing of some living organisms may be justified since it is essential to our own survival, but my point is why are humans more special than other living beings? Or why are unborn humans better than ones who have lived and developed memories and experiences, have felt what life feels like and been able to reason about it? I hope that from the above questions it does not seem as though I support murder, I am simply wondering how we justify some killings but not others, and still pretend we are morally pure.

As a final point, although I DO NOT think that abortion should be common enough to serve as a form of birth control, it HAS kept human population growth down, at least by a small percentage, which in the grand scheme of things is good. One of the greatest challenges we face is the growing population of humans on earth! If you really take the time to think about it, the gargantuan population of people (which just keeps getting bigger) is the cause of many of the issues we face, which will only get worse in the future. I hope it doesn’t seem that I condone mass murder of people; I am simply saying that birth control is essential to our further survival as a species, as counterintuitive as that looks at first glance.

Also, you want to take away a woman’s right to choose–
to choose to have a baby or abort a fetus. You want the government to create a law that takes away a person’s rights (presumably to preserve the rights of the fetus). Interestingly enough, the fetus doesn’t have a choice either. You are forcing it to live. Perhaps it doesn’t want to. According to the World Health Organization, over one million people died from suicide in the year 2000 alone. Of course, you can’t know what a fetus wants.

So, to kill or not to kill. Kill a child rapist and murderer? Sure–it will save the lives of his future victims, right? But not little baby Hitler or Stalin, because they are a tiny little fetus?

In bringing God into the argument, only God can decide who lives and who dies, right? So, why did God give us the knowledge of contraception? Oh wait, that was satan. And since all children are innocent, doesn’t aborting them send them strait to heaven? I’d like a one-way ticket my self.

In taking God out of the equation, let’s look at the animal kingdom. No abortions, right? Oh, except that they eat their unwanted babies. Or if they’re sick, they leave them to die. But we are more civilized, right?

Abortions have been around long before they were legalized. And prior to that, unwanted babies were left out in the wild (the story of Romulus and Remus, or even Moses, tossed in a river to ’save’ him).

So really, a woman currently has the right to choose. To choose what happens to her, and her baby, just like mothers who choose to drown their kids in bathtubs or strip to have the money to send them to privat school. Nothing good can come from taking away womens’ rights.

I know a lot of you think that women need to take responsibility for their actions…what if it wasnt there choice to get pregnant? What if they had to have a child that they did not want in the first place? They may hate that child and look at that child with resentment and see it as a burden? Why would you want to wish that upon anyone?

It is our right as human beings to have a choice. We will be the ones who must live with our actions.