North Dakota has banned abortions

A cop out of what, exactly?

Shotgun weddings galore.

Its dumb, the kids grow up in disfunction unprepared households, don't have the environment they need, become delinquents, and go on to commit crime, use hard drugs, and all the other things that contribute to a thriving society.

A cop out of a proper argument against whatever it is referring to.

Not really. OP posted a thread and asked for opinions. I gave mine - that North Dakota is clearly as backwards as ****.
If OP had posted a thread on abortion in general, fine taking it down to grassroots. But as this is referring to a specific example, I don't need to start my post with 'So the morality of abortion is blah blahblah....'

I have no issue with that at all. A perfectly reasonable opinion.

It is whenever the year 2013 starts being thrown around as if that is worth anything at all.

Do you think that it'll increase or decrease unplanned pregnancies?

http://news.yahoo.com/north-dakota-lawmakers-approve-measure-could-ban-abortion-234631803.html

Here's a point. If you don't agree with abortions, don't have them. It's not fair to impose a law on others that agree with abortion.

Imposing your beliefs on others and forcing them to do something that they don't want to do is wrong.

Women have terminated unwanted pregnancies for thousands of years

making it illegal is proven not to lower the rate of abortions

Someone else has read Freakonomics!

Actually no, is it good?

That is a VERY late term abortion.
Early term you just take a pill and it comes out your vag along with your womb lining
Mid term they just suck it out.

The issue really is not as simple as both sides like to make it out to be. It's not "just plain murder" and it isn't about letting women do what they want with their bodies, because it isn't just their bodies, it's the childs as well and if the fetus has been defined in a persons mind to be a child, ie. a person, then yes it is murder to them so of course they're going to want it to be illegal.

The issue essentially boils down to when we determine the fetus becomes a person and all the rights that that entails. I can't imagine anything but science giving us a good answer for that.

True - I personally identify religions as being a faith following a deity though, which Buddhism isn't. I'd definitely say it is a faith, and it's very spiritual, but Buddhists are just lovely really, they just take life as it is and don't bully others into believing what they believe

Oh, is that all they do?

I'm very undecided on abortion, but this new law is ridiculous. It won't help matters, it will just increase backstreet abortions.

I don't know if that was sarcasm but it is hardly the terrible process that everyone makes it out to be...