A tough topic

I hate abortion. I don’t mind telling you that. In fact, if I had to guess, I’d wager that more of you reading this would agree with me than would not.

Having said that, I get it. I get that some women who find themselves pregnant feel as though they have little choice but to seek out a termination of their pregnancy. I won’t pretend that I know what it’s like to be in that situation and I won’t pretend to know a woman’s body better than she does.

I was pro-choice for most of my life. It was a stance that made sense to me, because I knew, of course, that I would never get an abortion and I knew that my wife would never get an abortion. So, really, it didn’t affect me at all.

I wasn’t so much “pro-choice” as I was “pro-not-myproblem.”

And I guess, honestly, I still am. I hate the idea that there are places in this country where women can get an abortion almost as conveniently as they can get a tooth pulled.

Abortion-on-demand is wrong, but outright outlawing it is, at least to me, worse.

Because abortions are still going to happen. Women here in Arkansas are still going to have unwanted pregnancies.

All the lawmakers in Little Rock are going to accomplish with this new abortion law is cause women to get backalley abortions, harm themselves and force miscarriages, or go elsewhere and get one.

Abortion is terrible, and it should be a last resort after every other option is exhausted.

I won’t debate you on the tragedy of the thousands of abortions that are performed in this state each year, but I will argue that the real tragedy is how some of these women (and girls) became pregnant. And because of that, the procedure needs to remain available.