Abortion should not be made illegal

Ladies and Gentlemen
Over the past few years the public in Britain and Ireland have been campaigning against abortion. A variety of people have very different views on this matter and I am here today to tell you mine.
Parliament, for many years, have been contemplating making abortion illegal, in the hope to try and highlight contraception and safe sex which would reduce the amount of sexually transmitted diseases spreading for example HIV and AIDS. Parliament thinks that if women know that they cannot have an abortion if they get pregnant they will be more likely to use contraception during sexual intercourse. I do believe that this is true but, I just do not think banning abortion is the right thing to do.
Firstly, put yourself in this position: you are a teenager or young woman who has been attacked and raped. Just going through that is a colossal trauma, and in many cases women have to go through years of counselling to face up to their attack. Secondly imagine then f...