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We have a thread about abortion in this section already!

I support and agree with everything Ruth has already said. Abortion is a personal choice that women make based on their personal circumstances. I made a choice at 16 to have a baby and I can tell you it was never easy. I am lucky in that I have a loving supportive, nurturing family, many other teenage mothers are not as lucky as I was and are left isolated and lonely. They end up resenting the very child they made the decision to have.

The great thing about this country is we as women are all entitled to a choice about what we do or do not do with our bodies and that includes the decision to terminate a pregnancy.

Not every woman that gets pregnant and wants to end the pregnancy is irresponsible, often contraception fails, no contraceptive is 100% effective, so what about them? Do those that have had failed contraception get classed as irresponsible?

The care system is bursting at the seams, there are not enough "suitable" adoptive parents to take all the children already in our system. I would certainly not want to be responsible for putting a child into the local authority care system in this country, it isnt a pretty life. They move from home to hom, foster carer to foster carer. What kind of life is that? Some end up in the system through circumstance, but to bring a child into the world knowing that is what you plan!!