Opinions please

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240. they are equal

in the narrow sense that they all limit self-determination - they restrict choices, even choices only involving a person's own body or own health or risk.

You mention grave health risks, and yet

to avoid "grave health risks" is NOT a reason given for very many abortions. It does not even make the list among the reasons given.

http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/fb_induced_abortion.html

"The reasons women give for having an abortion underscore their understanding of the responsibilities of parenthood and family life. Three-fourths of women cite concern for or responsibility to other individuals; three-fourths say they cannot afford a child; three-fourths say that having a baby would interfere with work, school or the ability to care for dependents; and half say they do not want to be a single parent or are having problems with their husband or partner."

This other google result says 3-4% of abortions are about the mother's potential health problems http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/policy/abortion/abreasons.html

Further, being forced to allow a baby to be born, certainly does NOT require somebody to "take on the economic, emotional, and health responsibilities for it against your will for the rest of your life ..."

First, because it is quite legal to give that baby, once born, up for adoption.

Second, even if you kept the baby, the economic responsibilities legally end when the child reaches the age of 18. Not the rest of your life, only 18 years.