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There are plenty of moral arguments for abortion, starting with knowing that the live you may give some child could be in extreme poverty, or in an abusive home, or a life of some kind of hellish deformity.
There is no moral high ground in pawning off a child onto someone else to raise, if you have the means to abort it.
In some cases abortion is the ONLY moral choice.
I don't care what you call it - sweet lovey dovey gift of yaweh or bone sucking parasite, if it's not growing in YOUR body, you simply have no say or even a RIGHT to say what someone else does with THEIR body. The old biblical standard should apply here: a fetus is not human until their first independent breath. The rights of the mother trump the rights of whatever she grows inside her.
