Why I am Pro-Choice *and* Anti-Abortion

(in most cases).

Whether you are pro or against abortion, it should be clear that the government cannot be the body that makes the decisions.

There is an essential difference between abortion and other kinds of murder. And, yes, abortion is murder - the worst kind of murder. It is the only form of murder that the murderer has to cut into their own flesh to commit. So, part of the crime is already paid for in advance.

The plain truth is; there is no earthly court that is equipped to deal with the enormity of the crime of abortion. It is wholly unlike every other kind of murder. That is why I say: it is not the job of the government to decide these matters.

The matter has to be referred to a Power that is able to see the consequences of abortion over all of the generations that the decision affects. No earthly government can do that. Any woman who has an abortion has to answer to all of the generations she prevented from being born - all of her own descendants' Souls who didn't come into the world because of her selfishness if the abortion wasn't essential. There are moral reasons to have an abortion - rape, incest, extreme deformity. This is not a job for government. And government cannot save a woman from the consequences of her decision. Unnecessary abortion is so heinous a crime, any woman who does it must face the full weight of her decision.

Governments are also not very wise about deciding what is and is not a necessary abortion. They tend to outlaw *all* abortions and cause horrific suffering.

I'm a citizen of the US (by birth), of Israel and The Republic Ireland by acquisition.

I've seen what outlawing abortions does to women. When I was in Ireland, there was a case of a woman whose baby had died in utero. They won't even perform abortions on women whose feti have died. They have to wait to go to term and deliver a dead baby.

Here in Israel, abortions are legal and on demand. But before having an abortion, a woman comes before a committee that explains other options to her and the medical pros and cons of having the abortion. I think that is the most balanced way.

I would, however, add to that that women should be made to understand that they are making a decision for countless generations. She needs to know what she's really about to do.