Okay I finally have some time to reply to this topic.

"My body, my choice"—the catch cry of the women pro abortionists. I used to agree 100% with that, however, the more I think about it, the more this god-like attitude that implies if you created the life you have the right to destroy it, kind of irks me
I get that Alex, but what gives me the right to play God on you? If my wife got pregnant again (please no, please God no ) I would do everything in my power to convince her to have the baby if she didn't want to. I wouldn't try to force her though. How can I? I don't have to go through the potentially life-threatening pregnancy, she does, and if I can't force my wife; how can I possibly say you have to do it?

I just can't help feeling that it's becoming all too acceptable in our society. I guess, to me, overly liberal attitudes towards abortion sometimes have me feeling like a little like we're on the verge of becoming Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World", and that bothers me.
I have to disagree. Individual choice is what keeps us from becoming Alphas and Betas.

Yes, kids do make mistakes. And when they do, you need to discipline them. Why? For their own good. So that later they won't make those mistakes. If you're 12 and you steal a candy bar, you get scolded. If you're 30 and you steal, you get thrown in jail. Better to learn while you're young, wouldn't you agree?

To me thats the whole point. You need to tell kids that, even if they don't understand it, if they do ___ they will face the consequences. Then maybe, when they grow up, they'll realize that yeah, mommy was right. Even if you don't get punished, doing ___ is bad. And meanwhile, they never did ___ because they knew they would get punished if they did.

Returning to abortion, if a kid gets pregnant, goes to an abortion clinic, gets an abortion without telling her parents, she won't know she's done something bad! Heck, it was fun!
I'm sorry cheeseburger, but I have to say I think comparing having a child to discipline your teen is...hell I don't know the right word. I mean I'm trying to picture myself telling my daughter, "No, you are going to have that child and you're going to like it! That's your punishment for fucking. Now go to your room and think about what you did." I really don't think that's the way to go.

Even if I did think that was okay; what kind of life would that be for the child? At some point don't you think the kid would realize that Mommy thinks of him/her as a punishment and not the joy a child should be? Also that's my child having that kid. What am I supposed to do? Throw her out on her ass and make her take care of it herself? No way I'm doing that, so now I'm raising her kid too because she's finishing school and going to college if she wants. I take care of my own. So where's the punishment? Sure I know there are parents out there who would chuck the kid out in the street and tell 'em they deserve it, but what kind of lesson does that teach? That people only care when you don't fuck up? I dunno if that's wise.

One last thing: I've held the hand of three women who have had abortions (not my children, just very close friends who's boyfriends couldn't be bothered) and none of them said to me later, "Heck, that was fun!"