Kevin, you just said...

"If women who don't want abortions feel that because of poverty and lack of support and all that they don't in fact have a choice to carry on and give birth, you don't think that matters? I find it hard to believe that."

Who are these women who don't want abortions and are forced to have them? Women who have abortions want them! But most women do not have access to abortion and therefore have no real choice! Choice means to "have or not to have," an abortion.

Once again, most women on the planet live in abject poverty and also do not have a choice about giving birth. They are impregnated and give birth because they have no choice.

I went back and read most of this thread and you men have mostly ignored the issue= "ABORTION" and talked mainly about capital punishment. Stick with that issue, Kevin. You are not qualified to
speak about what most women want. But you have done a passable job of obfuscating your opinion to get yourself off the hook on the issue of FREE ABORTION ON DEMAND FOR ALL THE WORLD'S WOMEN!

Since you have changed the point of your argument, I can say that yes it does matter that the American women who have access to abortion as an alternative to raising unwanted children are lucky they have three hundred dollars and a ride to the clinic. Most women don't have this choice.   

Love, harpgirl