outsidI always crack up at the hypocrisy with the pro-life advocates who are totally against abortion, but yet support the death penalty. You can't have it both ways! You're either pro-life or not. There is no middle ground.
The bigger hypocrisy is the need to destroy 2A "for the children" when how many million are aborted each year?
The OP asked if "Abortion was "ok"". Legally? Legally we are supposed to separate church and state; so God and religion shouldn't be part of law. So now we go back to when does life begin; at conception, at the first heartbeat, or when a fetus is viable is outside the womb? I think abortion should be illegal except in cases of rape, harm to mother. I don't believe abortion should be an automatic "right". For one, its not just the woman's body, its also the man's DNA. If both agree to abort, its still murder. I see it more as a justifiable manslaughter in cases of rape or harm to mother. Why should it be allowed in cases of rape? Because of the severe psychological harm to the mother. (Whoever above said we need to castrate rapists - I can get 100% behind that).
Now - is abortion OK ethically or in the eyes of God? The issue of abortion in cases rape or harm to other may be more difficult to ascertain, since abortion wasn't readily available in Biblical times. That God's judgment call; not mine. The closest I found was this:
Matthew 18:14: In the same way your Father in heaven is not willing that any of these little ones should perish.
That being said; he did allow non-Hebrew infants to die via the Angel of Death (Exodus 12:23), and also allowed infants to perish in in Sodom & Gomorrah and in the great flood of Noah in the Old Testament. He asked Abraham to sacrifice his son Issac. On that basis, one could extrapolate "justifiable" abortion. But inconvenience should not be a reason.
Now this may be even more controversial: Tax-payer dollars. While I do wish there is more support for young, unwed girls to get care to delivery when committed to adoption; I also believe individuals also need to learn how to be responsible for their behavior. The far left/communists have got this far in good part because of the destruction of the ideals of the nuclear family. You shouldn't be pushing out kids just to get a bigger welfare check. Pushing late-term abortion, esp. when a fetus can survive, is absolutely disgusting. The sale of fetal parts is horrid. Lets not forget, Planned Parenthood was founded by a eugenics proponent who believed in white supremacy.
My girlfriend got pregnant unexpectedly and was talking about abortion, even went to the clinic when I was trying to talk her out of it.
Which brings about yet another issue: what about father's rights? How many fathers don't even know they fathered an aborted child?