If people had the bloody sense to take precautions, there would be much less demand for abortions.

Easy to say, Peace, but not always the easiest thing to do. I know from personal experience of being married to a man who wanted sex whenever HE wanted it, had no interest in taking precautions and kept me too short of money to be able to do it myself. Result - three pregnancies in four years - the last baby born when I was just short of 22. After that my doctor arranged for me to have an IUD fitted free.

When I first got pregnant at 17 - no sex education and the "If you love me" bit from the guy - I would have gone for an abortion, if it had been legal. As it happened I was lucky in life and things turned out well for me. That is not always the case.

I've seen a friend through the process and can quite understand her reasons for going ahead with it. She did not think that she could get pregnant then so precautions seemed unnecessary within a long term relationship.