Word: musts
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That does not mean that all women who get pregnant should be forced to have the baby. There are competing constitutional claims for both the mother and the fetus, a potential rational being, which must be balanced. Sometimes this balance would mean that some women should be allowed to have abortions, even if their lives are not in danger...
...women who would seek illegal abortions and thus put their health at risk if the Supreme Court ever overturned its 1973 Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion. (Attorney General Richard Thornburgh recently predicted that the Court would overturn Roe and let states enact their own abortion laws.) The government must address this problem and the problem of punishments for violators before it can ever safely and successfully illegalize abortion...
...while the author's concerns on this front are justifiable, it's hard to understand why he repeatedly implied that women inevitably must have sex and get pregnant. The author completely ignored the simple fact that a woman gets pregnant when two adults have sex, an act from which both women and men are usually free to restrain...
This country's laws have recognized that minors are not completely rational and cannot be held responsible for all their actions. No one is born knowing that sex leads to babies, so no one can be expected to make a rational decision about sex until educated. The state must insure that all citizens receive this education even if the state itself doesn't provide it. If teenage women do not receive this education, they should not be held responsible...
Instead of snow football, we yardlings must play mud football. Instead of warming our shivering bodies by winter fires, we have to turn off our heat. Instead of Kahlua and cocoa, we have diet Sprite...