Which scenario is better: abortion is illegal but common or abortion is legal and uncommon?

Most of the debate about abortion (outside of what the religious nuts do, which I don't really consider "debate" anyways) is regarding issues of access to pregnancy. At what stage in the pregnancy should we provide easy access to abortion, and for what reasons?

After all, a zygote is much different than a third trimester fetus.

The problem is that you'll get a lot of us on the pro-choice side, who will say that aborting early enough in the pregnancy (before the 3rd trimester is a common line) is not morally reprehensible at all. Aborting becomes more reprehensible as the pregnancy continues to later trimesters, and the fetus picks up some cognitive functions.

Since we have already decided through the courts (agree or not, it's irrelevant) that the woman's right to bodily security trumps any rights of the fetus (if any), the focus needs to shift to access.

Not to mention your repulsive comment about women who have sex before marriage being "immoral".

Not to mention that you seem to be very poorly educated on the topic. Sure, the first category of women who abort are those in their teens, but the second is women in their mid-late thirties.

If you want to stop abortion, why not think about teaching safe sex practices, instead of this "abstinence-only" garbage?

Yes, it's wrong to kill a baby. However, it's not wrong to abort a fetus that is inviable and lacks sentience. It is therefore not wrong to allow women the right to choose whether they want this inviable, insentient organism feeding off of their nutrients and growing inside of their bodies or not.

And you're right about sex education being totally upside down in this country. It's a demonstrable FACT that the states with the highest incidence of "absitenence only" education also magically have the highest rates of STDs, abortions and teen pregnancy.

I'd prefer to live in a world where women took responsibility for their own actions and where abortion was treated with the disdain that it deserves. A world where unwed mothers (and fathers, let's be fair) were not a chance to cheer, but a source of shame. A world where the children of unwed parents are put up for adoption by the millions of stable couples capable of raising a child properly, rather than perpetuating the cycle of unwed parents-poor child-unwed parent in their own right.

The only way to prevent abortions is to prevent pregnancy in the first place. Legal or illegal, they will happen.

I'm going to go with option C.

If you don't want kids.. it's really not that hard to prevent pregnancy. Abortion exits because people are freaking morons.

Of course make it legal.