So, I got my wrist slapped about my opinion on abortion yesterday so thought I'd ask what the deal is. Just to preface, I don't want children. I never have and, heading into my 30s, I still don't think I ever will.

My general thoughts are mainly pro-choice. If a woman wants an abortion, she should be able to access one. I don't believe that men have a devolved entitlement in that decision, but ultimately given the woman is having the abortion, surely she gets more of a say in that one?

OK, yes that's open to abuse, such as trapping men into lifetimes of support or getting free rides on the state. Aside from the fact that happens anyway without abortion ever being in the picture. But the alternative is, for example, some higher legal power decides that in a particular case, an abortion should happen against some girl's wishes and then said female is led away and hello 1984...

Then the argument that a girl getting an abortion is denying a man the privilege of his offspring, such as in the case yesterday. I don't remember the details exactly, but some guy convinced his pregnant girlfriend to go for adoption over abortion and then at the 8th month told her they were keeping it.

It seems to me this guy knew what he wanted all along and it didn't seem like this girl was into it. I would have thought a more RP attitude would have been to let her have her abortion, next her, and if you want kids so badly, wife up someone who's into you that much and get going. Instead the posters seemed to be damning the girl simply because a family is something she didn't want at that point. And if a girl doesn't want a family at that point, in what way was that ever going to be a happy upbringing for the kid?

I doubt I'll change my opinion on being pro-choice. I fully whole-heartedly agree that everything in terms of family law is so overtly swayed always in the favor of the girl. I watched my cousin's divorce rape unfold after she was unfaithful and he's barely able to scrape out a living back with his parents. The ace card for her were the kids, the irony being I distinctly remember sitting in a pub with him going through the ins and outs of whether they should have aborted their first child.

Like I say, I doubt I'll change my opinion much. I don't view abortion as birth control, I view it more as an "I fucked up" kinda get-out clause. Yes, I'm aware that it can also be dangled in front of a man who may be unwilling to be a Dad for whatever reason, but even so to me it does more good than bad. Plus I doubt I'd be able to hang onto my scouts badge of being able to form my own opinions if I allowed myself to be swayed just because TRP told me to (or even a girl told me to).

But, I'm always interested in the other side of the coin, if only for the sake of nepotism. So, spell it out. Why is TRP so anti-abortion?