Snake, What I'm talking about is the fact that there are many women out there who don't have the first clue about birth control or how their bodies work. Planned Parenthood does NOT offer abortion services. They offer education and counseling. If the woman is already pregnant, then they help her by presenting ALL options, including abortion and adoption. But they are mostly about offering education, counseling, and gynecological services to women who can't afford to go somewhere else. And their mission is to help PREVENT future pregnancies, which is implicit in the name of the agency. They are all about pregnancies that are PLANNED.

As for your decision when you were young, of COURSE you are filled with regret. It is a gut-wrenching decision. Any decision involving an unplanned pregnancy is bound to be charged with regret, no doubt. But perhaps it has helped you to appreciate the children that you have now even more, and maybe that's something good that can come out of that.

I know that this is a difficult topic, and one that is bound to cause anger or offend. But I think that as long as men don't live up to their responsibilities as parents (need I really go into the subject of deadbeat dads?), then women need to have that right.

Smitty, I know what you're saying. I never did understand the rationale of the part of Roe v. Wade that allows such late-term abortions. The only thing I can think of is the timing of amniocentesis that may reveal problems. If anyone knows for sure why that was included in the law, please share that with us.