In response to:
"Abortions will happen whether they are legal or not and there is no way around this inconvenient fact ."
Murder happens regardless of its illegal status - should we simply legalize murder? Oh wait, we already have, at least so long as the victim is still within the womb.
"Trying to stop abortion by making it illegal is like trying to stop a forest fire by pouring gasoline on it ."
Actually, legalizing something tends to increase the behavior, particularly when it is subsidized through government funding, encouraged as a means of "sexual responsibility," and hidden by euphemisms and hysteria to prevent any honest discussion as to its grave repercussions, as is abortion.
In 1995, feminist leader Naomi Wolf called for a pro-abortion movement “that acts with moral accountability and without euphemism,” noting that, “With the pro-choice rhetoric we use now, we incur three destructive consequences -- two ethical, one strategic: hardness of heart, lying and political failure.” That hardness of heart was fully manifest in the profane video produced by the Center for Reproductive Rights celebrating the 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade.
But let’s go back to October 16, 1995, when the New Republic published Wolf’s remarkably candid article entitled, “Our Bodies, Our Souls.” Wolf made reference to “Dr. Joycelyn...
More women have died from legal abortions than ever died from illegal abortions -- another hard fact you keep denying because it doesn't fit your preconceptions.
Seriously -- DO YOUR HOMEWORK. It took me less than 30 seconds to find data from a non-"pro-life" source that shows your tired old talking point to be bogus as a 3-dollar bill.