A question for pro-choice people?

Question

I am pro-life but I do understand there is a difference between being pro-choice and pro-abortion. Since no one can deny that the majority of abortions are simply an after the fact method of birth control, and seeing as how s*x-ed hasn't worked, how do we solve the problem? If you say we leave it alone, then I am wrong, that would make you pro-abortion. Right?

Answer 1

No.  Choice is the key word hear.  I believe in a woman's right to choose.  I wouldn't have an abortion.  That is my choice.

As it stands right now, abortion is legal.  

Answer 2

s*x education hasn't failed.  Schools have stopped teaching thanks to the Bush administration forcing them to teach "abstinence" which has been a glaring failure. My position on abortion will never change.  If you don't like abortion, don't have one. Otherwise, mind your own business.

Answer 3

Nope.

Real education and health care would reduce not only the number of abortions, but the 6.3 infant mortality rate for every 1000 births in this country.

Real education and health care would also reduce the spread of AIDS and STDs as well.

Abstinence Only is not education.

Did "just say no" win the war on drugs.

Answer 4

Anybody who says that they are "pro-choice" but are not "pro-abortion" are obviously ashamed of themselves.

Answer 5

Nobody is pro-abortion.  Anyone who is pro-choice would rather the girl didn't get pregnant in the first place.  Nobody wants her to get pregnant, not wanting to, and then have an abortion.  That would be 'pro-abortion'.

Dan Quayle himself, basically a leader of the pro-life movement in his day, said that if his own daughter came to him and told him she was pregnant and wanted an abortion, that he would counsel her against it, but he would support her in her choice.  So is Quayle pro-abortion?  Of course not.  I think that was a very honest and sensitive way to look at it.  But it brings up the question: Why did he want a law to ban other fathers' daughters from making the choice he would let his own daughter make?

I think s*x-ed works, but kids don't get it.  Parents fight to keep it out of the schools, and maybe that's a good thing.  s*x education, like religious education, belongs in the home.  The problem is that parents don't teach their kids about s*x, maybe because they figure if they don't know they won't get into trouble.  

President Clinton said that instead of banning abortions he wanted to make them much more rare.  And he did!  Abortions declined sharply during Clinton's terms and began heading up again in the 2nd or 3rd year of Bush's presidency.  Was Clinton pro-abortion?

As for abortions being used as birth control, well I guess you could see it that way.  But they shouldn't be used as the -primary- method, and they aren't, or at least only very rarely.  If you let kids have other methods of birth control--the pill, condoms, etc., and the information they need to avoid pregnancies--abortions would be necessary MUCH less often.

If you want to look at the actual statistics, in fact any way you look at them, 'abstinence only' s*x education doesn't work as a means to reduce abortion.  Abstinence-only s*x ed means MORE abortions wherever it's tried.  So you have a choice--teach kids abstinence, or have fewer abortions.  Looking at it that way, it's the pro-life people who are 'pro-abortion'.

Answer 6

The answer is to stop teaching kids that if it feels good, it's okay to do it.  Deferred gratification has given way to immediate gratification as a philosophy of today's life.  People don't want to wait for marriage.  They just want to go ahead and s***w.  They not only see nothing wrong with this, but they see it as "the way things are."  And... if they either don't pull out in time or just flat don't realize pregnancy can happen to them, kinda like being paralyzed in a car accident can happen to them, then they've got Planned Parenthood right there on the corner.

Abstinence only education, (person below me,) doesn't work because it's a band-aid over the real problem, which is the abstract idea of immediate gratification vs. deferred gratification.  

And I don't necessarily think abortion should be illegal.  An unwanted child is a miserable child.  The thing I'm saying is that there would be less abortion if people would learn a little responsibility and self-control instead of being taught that it's okay to do it if it feels good.

Answer 7

Pro-choice is belief that a person has control over their body-life, abortion or could be in their death, and pro-abortion is regarding a woman having control over her own fertility - pregnancy while pro-life means that no one has a choice, everybody has to keep living even if they are a serial killer, a terrorist, etc..

I do agree that there is really no difference in taking a birth control pill than aborting a fetus in the first trimester.  I do  not agree in abortion once a fetus is at a stage that it could live on it's own, which has been proven to be at 24 weeks ( with the help of medicine) but it would seem that a person should have control of their own body not anyone else's just their own.  It is a shame that people can't even take care of their own life and their own families but they sure want to tell everybody else what they can and cannot do.

Answer 8

I agree, something has got to be done. A lot of repubs want NO s*x education at all - they spread lies saying they teach the kids about ...things I don't even feel comfortable typing (they do not teach kids this stuff - I got s*x ed, I know first hand). They need to start making condoms available at school. Anonymously available. I don't want my kids to drive drunk - I hope to God they don't but you know what? Kids still drive drunk (even good kids) and they need to be taught. I am not going to deny my kids knowledge and hope they just don't do something that teens have done since time began. I am putting my daughter on the pill, if she agrees, when she is 14 - long before I would EVER want her to have s*x. Teens are bonking - they were in the 20's, 30's, 40's, 50's too! Wake up! Protect your kids! Think about all the disease they are potentially catching and spreading.

Answer 9

s*x-ed is limited at best due to very puritanical ideals. Abstinence is the big thing now. Not recognizing s*x will happen regardless. The other part of this is the male population not being taught that they play a part in this. They have a responsibility to guard against unwanted pregnancies also. I don't think anyone is pro-abortion or anti-life. We just feel the government does not have the right to tell anyone what to do with such a private matter. This shouldn't be and isn't a political matter.

Answer 10

I am Pro-Choice because I believe that it is not anyones business to tell a woman what to do with her body. Let's face it, until the baby is born it's part of the mother. I am Pro-Life for myself because I think it's wrong but it's not my place to legislate what someone else does.  

Answer 11

The problem of unwanted pregnancies will never be solved. However, we can work to reduce their numbers through education and readily available birth control. It is also every parents job to monitor their children's behavior and instill moral fiber.  

Answer 12

Pro Choice is anti life----- period.  A woman has many choices, and she chose to create a new body, a new life.  Now she wants a do over with out the baby ever making it's choice.  

Choose abstination.

Choose contraception.

Choose adoption.

Choose a D & C.

Choose the morning after pill.

Let's call pro choice what it really is, Anti-Life.