I see both sides of the fence. On the one hand, you at one point were a fetus, and therefore had the potential to be aborted. Think of it from the fetus side. When you do that, not only are you bringing in the "abortion is murder" side of things, you bring into it "when does life begin" debate. On the flip side of that, if your prochoice, and think the woman should be able to decide for herself. At what age can the female decide to do this, since the age of concent in many places differs very much, your probably going to end up matching a womans choice of abortion to the age of concent. If we follow the radical pedophilic group in the Netherlands, that age is 12. If you follow the laws that US Military members must adhere to, that age is 18. Many US States put the age at 16. I feel it should be 18+ in all cases, you get to make adult choices when your legally an adult.

Beyond even the party pollitics of it all. You come down to simply how much freedom will you allow a person. We have all kinds of laws that tell us to do things we think are just too intrusive. For instance, where I grew up at (Pocotello, Idaho USA) they have a law that says you must smile (look it up on google). Is this intrusive, you bet it is. We also have laws that restrict how fast we drive. German Autobahns have many sections of road that have no such limitation, believing that if you desire to risk your own life by going 200mph, thats your choice.

So it simply comes down to us deciding how intrusive we are going to let the government be.

I don't play party politics. I vote for the cannidate that says they will do those things that I feel are in my best interest (unfortunately they usually dont do that).

So now the question becomes, how do we get them to legislate in the way we desire?