Let me first say that I am not in favor of abortions on the whole, but I do feel it's a necessary service that is needed in specific cases. I also feel that nobody has the right to tell a woman what she can or cannot do with her own body, and any that she has created. I have seen many unwanted pregnancies where the women did not terminate, and those children later became abused, sexually molested and in some cases even killed by parents who never wanted them in the first place. A fetus cannot survive outside the womb in the very early stages, so therefore it is not alive without the support of it's mother. It is much better to terminate at that time, than to bring a child into this world that is unwanted, uncared for, and unloved. Pro lifers like to picket the clinics with huge pictures of what a terminated pregnancy looks like, for the sheer sake of shock and awe, but did they ever see a crime photo of a child with his or her head bashed in, because a parent got sick of hearing them cry? I don't like to see women using abortion as a form of birth control, but I do feel that given to certain situations, where a mother feels she is incapable of raising a child, or there is a rape, illness, or chance of birth defects involved, then abortion can prove to be an alternative for these women. In a perfect world, all children should be loved, wanted and cared for, but unfortunately this is not a perfect world.