Quote Originally Posted by cheeseburger
About this specific case, to my knowledge there are several things that aren't quite as you say they are. First, in no way did the 16 year old 'have' to have sex with the guy. You don't get pregnant by accident. Many people don't understand this, but you need to draw the line somewhere. Nature drew this line for us, and you can't blur it: you have sex, you have an approximately 30% chance of getting pregnant ( think thats the number). People need to grow up and take responsibility; the sooner this happens the better.
What about the person who does take responsibility, uses multiple forms of birth control. That drops your odds of getting pregnant to a much smaller number. Are they not taking responsibility?
That's my current situtation, and if I get pregnant I will get an abortion.
I am careful when I have sex, I take every reasonable precaution and am certainly not paranoid enough to abstain in order to avoid the chance of pregnancy. If I do conceive I will still take every step to avoid pregnancy. I don't believe I could responsibly carry a child to term, even given that I wouldn't raise it myself, and I feel that dealing with a full term of pregnancy is a greater consequence than an unlikely birth control failure deserves.

Also, some of these arguments, 'what about the 16 year old girl' sound eerily similar to the case used by Bill Napoli to describe someone who might be worthy of an abortion which garnered him near-universal outrage and the title Sexist Asshat -
"...a rape victim, brutally raped, savaged. The girl was a virgin. She was religious. She planned on saving her virginity until she was married. She was brutalized and raped, sodomized as bad as you can possibly make it, and is impregnated. I mean, that girl could be so messed up, physically and psychologically, that carrying that child could very well threaten her life."

Who are you/we to judge which specific circumstances deserve the right to have an abortion? A poor 16 year old college student, what about a mother of 4 on welfare? Is she badly enough off to deserve it? A dancer who would lose her livelihood for at least several months? A financially supported but mentally instable woman?
If we start drawing lines like that, who gets to decide?