There are several reasons why abortion should be outlawed, or at least severely restricted:

1. It is an act of violence.  Many people oppose war and the death penalty because they destroy human life, and oppose hunting for sport because it destroys animal life wantonly. How can humans unborn be given less consideration than animals?
2. It encourages a throw-away attitude.  If we are opposed to littering and want more people to recycle bottles and paper, why throw away unborn children?
3. It leaves many couples who can't have children with fewer opportunities to adopt.    Experience indicates that people who are parents, whether by birth or adoption, tend to be more disciplined themselves, because they have to teach their own children how to behave.
4. It would force people to be more disciplined in their sex lives.  Knowing that abortion would not be an option would make many people think twice about having sex without using protection.
5. My wife has disabilities from birth.  If she had been aborted, I probably wouldn't be married now.

We need to get RELIGION out of the abortion debate. To oppose birth control and insist on abstinence is hypocrisy and reason enough to shut down the Catholic Church. The sex drive in some organisms, and perhaps in some people, is even stronger than the instinct for self-preservation. Natural selection made sure of that!

To lessen the number of abortions we need to do the following:

1. More sex education in the schools.   Those who claim that such education encourages more sexual activity put the cart before the horse. I know from experience that abstinence pledges simply do not work. Period!
2. Better and more readily available birth control methods.   Even condoms often fail, so they should be deemphasized in favor of the pill or even sterilization. And sterilization should be offered for FREE at most hospitals.
3. STOP ALL ABSTINENCE PROGRAMS!  Discredit them publicly with the facts.