it seems a bit odd to me that rate-it-all is about rating your experience with a product or service and helping to spread the word about side-effects and benefits of such. However, all I see here is a moral debate! I came upon the abortion rate-it as I looked through methods of birth control to hopefully find one that is right for me. I was curious as to what the physical and emotional side-effects of abortion were and was interested in hearing waht those who had had the service performed had to say about it, since you never hear anyone volunteering at a dinner-party to share their abortion experiences. I am thinking about trying to have a baby with my husband and have been avidly researching contraception, pregnancy, miscarriage, cesarean, and abortion, in order to get as much information about what can happen to the female body in such times as i possibly could. but you have all turned this into another moral debate instead of a source of real, un-polluted information. Shame on you! I am a fervent feminist and feel that a woman has a right to do what she chooses with her body, especially in cases where her partner is informed. This doesnt mean that I am pro-abortion. Merely pro-choice! and i very much agree with einahets's entry wherein he/she goes over some of the scientific and moral debate. I am morally opposed to abortion but politically pro-choice! But, again, this isnt a moral debate. It is a source of information for consumers of goods and services. Shame on all of you for preventing young men and women from finding real information about the true-to-life effects of abortion. Such information may well prevent abortions. Or it could go a long way to helping young women cope with it once they have made that decision.