With the Right to Choose seemingly going back up for debate, I find myself struggling with my own position on the matter. The biggest issue for me is that, besides rape, incest, and health of the mother, I can completely see the argument that abortion is wrong and tantamount to murder. The way I see it, if a woman was even two months pregnant and someone caused her bodily harm that led to a miscarriage, I think a murder or manslaughter charge doesn't seem out of the question. I can't envision anyone patting the lady on the back and saying, "Hey, don't get too worked up. It's not like it was viable."

On top of that, I also have an issue with "The Right to Choose". I agree women should have the right to choose what to do with their bodies and if they are impregnated by rape then they should be able to abort the child but in the case of a standard unwanted pregnancy, the woman already made her choice when she had sex. She chose to take part in an activity that has life changing consequences; it doesn't exactly seem fair that she can just do away with said consequence and end an unborn baby's life as a kind of mulligan.

But all that being said, I'm still Pro-Choice. And while most advocates don't want to say this, the bottom line is that sometimes it's just better if these kids aren't born. While Pro Life advocates claim that a potential great person might be getting aborted, you can also argue that we're eliminating highly probable bad parents and point out that crime rates drop when abortion is legalized. Yeah, it's harsh and maybe I'm jaded after 11 years of working in reality television but a little self-prescribed population control doesn't seem so bad to me.

Still, I'm all for a ban of late term abortions, maybe even moving into the end of what would be called mid-term. I'm also opposed to using public funds to pay for abortions however I am NOT in favor of stripping insurance companies of tax breaks if they cover abortions. Basically, I'm in favor of enforcing the law we already have in place in the Hyde/Stupek-Pitts amendment. While I don't think the government should spend money on abortions, I also don't think it should punish companies that offer them.

In the end, though, I think the biggest issue isn't about abortion as much as it is about the ridiculous amount of money and energy that is put into fighting about abortion. My dream is that after the election in 2012, both sides of the abortion issue agree to put a moratorium on spending and divert all of their funds and tell their supporters to instead donate their money to organizations that help our families and improve the state of care and education of our youth. Instead of fighting to ban abortion, why improve the world so perhaps people would actually want to welcome their child into and wouldn't be scared that they wouldn't be able to provide for a little one. Don't ban a woman's choice on abortion; help her so that maybe she will choose life.