Abortions are not a good thing, but they are better than the alternative

[etherial]

She told me if her parents found out she was pregnant she would be disowned and kicked out of the family home. She also told me that her brothers would murder her boyfriend, and I believed her. About an hour after her operation I and my nurse saw her and her boyfriend walking out of the clinic hand in hand, and I said to my nurse, "Look at that. We saved two lives today."

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Re: Purely talking about "cost" in terms of money,

[dirkcjelli.livejournal.com]

Massachusetts is a wonderful example of how intermediate "progress" can be worse than the eventual goal which is sought after.

Some times, compromise is death and one party in a debate is 100% correct.