As a Catholic I can't say I agree with abortion. Every life is sacred, and that's also why I don't agree with the death penalty. Whilst I disagree with abortion, I also respect the opinions of those who do and understand that in some cases abortion is viewed as a necessary.
Personally, I don't like my taxes going to the provision of abortion. I didn't like them going on the bank bailout and I don't appreciate them paying for the subsidisation of pointless subjects, like golf course management, at educational institutions. But seeing as one can't choose where ones taxes are spent on, due to the purchasing and bargaining power of the collective being more powerful than that of the individual, I would rather see something which I find abhorrent, but also traumatic and potentially dangerous to the two lives at stake (ironic, I know) be carried out in safe, clinical conditions rather than in a back-alley somewhere that could potentially terminate the life of both mother and child.
Now we've established that I find the act of abortion abhorrent, I find the late termination of foetuses at risk of 'physical or mental abnormalities' more so. In a world were equality is thrown around so much that it is at risk of losing its meaning, we are actually living in a very unequal world. To say that a person with disabilities is just as equal as someone without disabilities is disgusting considering they're not treated equally before birth. To give special consideration for late term abortion 'if there is substantial risk that if the child were born, it would suffer from physical or mental abnormalities as to be seriously handicapped' is admitting that equality is as meaningless as it has become.
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