Abortion & Prostitution: Harm Reduction

I’m about as anti-abortion as they come within the pro-choice camp. I don’t like thinking about the difficult decisions that would have to be made if I were to get a woman pregnant at this point in my life when I’m not ready to raise a child. Not that it would be my decision at all, which bothers me from a gender point of view. Since I have no viable solutions to that issue, I’ll leave it as a side-note. The pro-life brigade has all sorts of tactics for trying to lure me to their side. “What if that child was destined to be the next great scientist or world leader?” Actually, that child’s destiny was to be aborted. Funny how people who believe in destiny fundamentally misunderstand how it works.

Abortion isn’t 100% safe for the mother from a physical standpoint. Note the deliberate usage of the words “mother” and “child”. Abortion is even less safe psychologically. No, it doesn’t thrill me and my baby-killing cronies to know that many women suffer as a result. I find it appalling that some women use it as a form of birth control. So how can I be pro-choice? Because the alternative is worse.