I have a friend

I sat in the bath tonight in attempts to delay tomorrow by drowning my fingers until they were pruned up. Amidst the bubbles I allowed my thoughts to float away into randomness. Tomorrow I will accompany a friend of mine to have an abortion. As a woman this carries some sort of passage that I guess is a right. We will return to the place that I had mine almost three years ago. There is a tiny part of me that wonders about the what ifs, but overall I know I'm okay with the decision I made.
However, I know what my friend is going through. All the uncertainty circling around an array of hormones that have hijacked your body is not a fun place to be. I hope there aren't any protesters tomorrow and yet part of me knows I am denying my Catholic obligation to at least say, "Hey,are you sure you want to do this?"
I reviewed my philosophical argument of the famous violinist and the notion that life begins conception. It is a hard place to be, between those two thoughts.
In the randomness of my thoughts I ran across this notion: It has nothing to do with life or death of the unborn. It has to do with the division of economic resources. I'm fairly confident that if this country offered health benefits, adequate child care, and a proper education my girlfriend would consider an abortion even less, and I can say with almost certianity I would not have chosen to terminate my pregnancy.