Only thing I can say is it's the "easy way out". I'm personally pro-choice, just so you know. But I think that there are certain sides that some people don't like to look at. Like say some silly 12 year old makes a bad decision and gets pregnant. Her body isn't developed enough to carry a child. She could end up dying HERSELF in the process. Then she loses the baby AND her entire family and friends lose HER too. I think that there's so much focus put on the "innocent" life and all that we sometimes forget about the already living, breathing humanbeing before us.
What if she has cancer or some other terminal illness. You can't tell a sick woman that she can't be intimate with her husband because she's sick. She would most certainly die while carrying or delivering the child.
There's the obvious case of rape which I don't think should ever be regulated. To me that is just sooo cruel on the poor woman. It's a constant reminder every single day for 9 horrible months of that terrible situation. She's so emotionally scarred already and then for someone to expect her to go on and deliver this child which is the result of something so heinous as rape, is just cruel. Some people are sooo unaware of how rape can affect women. I would have a hard enough time accepting that I was raped and would need my own help, support, and counselling, but then to also try and eat for two and keep it alive because of some criminal, I don't know if I'd be able to handle that.
Another case is if the woman is mentally unstable. She could get pregnant for any number of reasons (rape, sexual molestation, illucid moments where she thinks she can make the right decision about sex, etc). But then how do you expect her to take care of herself and nurture the child inside of her. What if she is psychopathic, or mentally challenged. She wouldn't know what to do and would just end up hurting the baby AND herself.
What if a woman gets pregnant by accident (it happens) because she made poor decisions. Should she be punished with possibly losing her job, her career, her schooling and more? It's not like she can just carry it for 9 months, pop it out and go on her way. She needs to make scheduled appointments to check her health, do all kinds of tests, see different doctors, take off a couple weeks or months from work for maternity leave, and more. And she would have to pay for all that out of her own pocket. So then what becomes of her mortgage payments, her car payments, her other child(ren), her college tuition, etc.? No one would be willing to help her, because society would see her as "just another unfit mother".
What if she is a young woman (still lives with parents) and happens to make a poor choice, or is in bad situations some other way (prostitution, etc)? What if her parents are abusive and punish her for it? Is the life of the baby worth the life of the girl?
I DO NOT however believe that it should ever be used as a type of "birth control". Like with the mindset of "Oh, I'll just have sex tonight and if I get pregnant I'll just get that taken care of next week". Because no woman would willing WANT to go through that. Abortions can be so dangerous for the woman and bring up so many health conditions in the future, and even jeopardize future pregnancies for when she IS planning for a family. I honestly believe that every woman that gets an abortion has some kind of honest reason that people just don't want to hear. Anti-abortion rioters and others need to open their minds sometimes and think "there MUST be a reason". But they don't. They automatically assume that she's a horrible person and should be shunned from society. And that's not the way to go about it. She has enough going on emotionally, physically and mentally, she doesn't need people throwing eggs at her and making signs about it.
And what about all the abortion doctors that have been killed by anti-abortion rioters? Is that fair? He helps women return to their daily lives and tries to do what he can for their health or any other reason there might be. But in return he is killed, leaving his wife and kids to fend for themselves. Isn't that not murder as well? But people see it as "good in the long run". Killing him now will save thousands of babies in the future. No, the women will just go somewhere else.
I think if there was more SUPPORT out there for pregnant women and teens, we wouldn't have this type of problem today. Go into any supermarket. Look for a pregnant 15 or 16 year old and listen to what the people around her say. She's a whore, she's stupid, she's going to mess up her life, she's not going to amount to anything, etc. Don't you think she would resent all that and might consider abortion just to escape the criticisms of an extremely cruel society? But maybe if someone walks up to her, hugs her, and says "you're brave, I know you can do this", she would consider keeping it or putting it up for adoption. But society isn't like that. It's so sad sometimes.
Speaking of adoption, I know many adopted children as well. Some realize that they're parents just wanted a better life for them, but yet others hurt themselves every day (physically or mentally) telling themselves that their parents didn't love them and didn't want them. They feel foresaken by the ones that were SUPPOSED to care and really can't relate to it. Which brings about the lack of good adoption clinics and foster homes in the world. I know one boy that was left on an orphanage's steps in Korea before being adopted by an American family. But in the meantime he lived a horrible life in that orphanage and punishes himself everyday because he blames himself for his parents not wanting to keep him and love him. He's had quite a bit of counseling, but I don't think he'll ever truly be able to understand or accept it.
I know many teens that have babies, and it's so so hard for them. They tell me how they cry themselves to sleep at night because of the things they hear people whisper about them, and THAT'S the reason that abortion rates slowly escalate. Women want to just pretend it never happened and try to maintain their respectable life. But instead they are punished, scarred, and spat upon by the things we say and the looks we give.
I know you probably don't agree with many of the things I may have said, but I think that's a pretty decent rebuttle. Especially that last paragraph. I appreciate the fact that you asked the question the way you did and avoided name-calling and didn't bring lack of intelligence or education into it. But just remember that society has a long way to go before anyone even begins to understand others around them.