@101 -- of course abortion is birth control. What else would it be. You're preventing a birth.

Now that that's out of the way, again... how is 1 abortion acceptable but 6 is not? Is a fetus 1/6th of a human life? I don't understand. It's not like our murder laws allow someone to kill and devour 5 people without consequence but then once you're killed and devoured a sixth person you've gone too far!!!!

Look, it's either murder or it isn't. And if you feel that it's murder, that's fine, but you need to own it and stop with this half-assed "look at my sparkling morals" hand-wringing.If it's murder it should be illegal. Full stop, no exceptions.This means you want mandatory jail time for women who get abortions: If I contract out someone to kill my husband, I go to jail as well as the killer. None of this "we'll pray for the silly woman who got suckered into murdering her child" nonsense. One in four American women will be serving a life in prison term or face state execution if Abortion Really Is Murder. And if you are fine with that then by all means picket and protest and wave bloody fetus signs. But if you aren't fine with that then get the hell off your high horse and accept that this is a matter of personal privacy. A woman's "number" (whether it be weight, sex partners, or # of abortions) is her own business and none of yours.

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