Abortion should NOT be rare.

[kdmorris]

120. This is getting so tedious

Look - there are so many freaking programs out there to help people at risk of Type 2 Diabetes to prevent Type 2 Diabetes - weight loss programs and education to help people learn to eat right and exercise, etc - BEFORE insulin becomes necessary. So, there are definitely things being done to try to make Diabetes less common/more rare. I would like to see the need for medications for Diabetes become super rare and uncommon, through the use of prevention programs. Once you get to the point of needing medication, you are in reaction mode and, frankly, it sucks.

No one (especially not my husband) is saying that we should deny insulin to people who DO get Diabetes (or abortions to women who DO get pregnant)....

VERY simply put - using your analogy - most of us would like to see unwanted pregnancies become rare/uncommon - BECAUSE of sex education that isn't abstinence education and access to birth control for women/girls who are capable of becoming pregnant (and also men/boys who are capable of getting women/girls pregnant). And then, if all of that fails and an unwanted pregnancy results, anyway - access to abortion should be safe and legal - just like insulin. In countries where birth control is fully accessible and sex education is taught to teenagers, the abortion rate is much less than ours. It is rare for them to have to have an abortion because prevention is practiced more than reaction.

You are becoming tedious in your attempts to make everyone who would like to see birth control be just as safe and legal (and accessible) look like we are anti-choice.

Before you excoriate me for "not understanding"... I am a woman, a mother, a Diabetic and have had an abortion.