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See, I do see a huge difference between those things. I think that abortion should be legal, because everyone, including pregnant women, should have the right to control their own body. And, because there is no immediate option to deny use of one's body to a non-viable unborn human without resulting in its death.

But I certainly don't feel that abortion is the same, ethically, as never being pregnant. And I don't think that many people who have had elective abortions (or medical abortions, for that matter) really feel that way either. Even women who don't regret their abortions (as many as 70% or 80%) seem to express that it was an experience that they will never forget - which is not something that women who have never been pregnant seem to express.

I think that they are ethically different, because of the impact on the woman/couple.