Are you for or against abortion? Why?

Question

thanks

Answer 1

Against. I don't really understand how we (as a country) decided that not allowing a woman to kill her unborn baby would be cruel to her. I believe in freedom and choices. I don't think one of those choices should be killing a living human. Somehow America was convinced that a child that exists ,but for the next few months is still in its mother's womb, can be denied our country's most fundamental right, the right to life.

Answer 2

against.....when a woman says it is her body then how come they cant tell that baby when to kick and roll over...seems to me she is killing another body

Answer 3

I think you'll find it pretty tough to find anyone who will say they are "for" abortion. It's more likely you'll find people who say they accept it as a neccessary evil. (pardon the expression).

I agree with abortion for several different reasons. Firstly, if it's a case of the pregnancy endangering the mother, the fetus being massively disabled, or the pregnancy resulting from a sexual assult, I personally believe abortion should be freely available.

Many people also object to abortion for "social" reasons. I live in the UK, and recently there has been a big debate regarding social abortions. I have to side with the pro-choicers on this one. I live in Scotland - a country with areas of massive social deprivation. It is not unusual to see 17 year old girls with 2 or 3 children in the area. They are ill equipped to be mothers and take no responsibility for their children. If I have to watch one more innocent child being dragged up in a family of uncaring junkies or alchoholic's I will scream! These children have very little chance of love and support and ultimately will end up as teenage parents themselves in 15 years time. It is the most tragic waste of life imaginable. Many are in childrens homes around the area and few are adopted. If they're not white, healthy and under 3 years old, they are stuck in the system for life, with no chance of adoption.

If children are not going to be brought into this world with loving commited parents willing to sacrifice everything for their childs happiness, then they should not be brought into the world at all. There aren't enough potential adopters out there to make adoption a viable option, and the system is not equipped to raise neglected children in place of a loving family.

I would rather know that 50 incapbable pregnant girls in this area had abortions because they weren't capable than watch one more child being raised in a life of neglect and low expectation.

*edit*

I am also aware of the concept of people objecting to abortion  as a form of "birth control". I know a girl in a school I taught at who had had 4 abortions. While I strongly object to this, I think this is a clear example of how totally irresponsible she is and why she should NOT be having babies!!!

*another edit!*

A question for everyone who believes that a fetus is a separate entity from the mother, and is life regardless of the stage of growth it's at - how do they feel about IVF? This is a process in which 8 or 10 zygotes are created, but only one or two are implanted. Is IVF murder?

Answer 4

i believe it should be legal.  i don't think it's a person until it can feel... and sometimes later in the pregnancy there is a medical risk to the mother.  i don't place more value on a person who almost is than a person who already is.

Answer 5

Well Iam a bit on the fence. Iam against capital punishment and abortion, however I admit that I feel its a good thing thrashy women spare us their offspring.

Answer 6

I would like to see a form of birth control that guarantees 100% against pregnancy without killing one's s*x life. Until then, I'm pro-choice.

Answer 7

Like most men, I am not "for" abortion.  I don't see it as a "choice".  I see it as a "necessary evil".  If I was a woman I might see it as a "choice".  

I however don't think of women as "baby making slaves", as so many men do.  I respect their wishes.  Men usually only ask a woman to get an abortion because they don't want to pay child support.  Women will seek an abortion because they don't want, or can't afford the burden.

I take every possible precaution.  I had a vasectomy.  I get my fertility checked every five years as "extra insurance".  I usually only date women that are also sterile.  But if for some unforeseen reason, i make a baby.  I would expect the mother to get an abortion, and I would gladly pay for it.

I was an unwanted child.  I KNOW it is better to be aborted that raised by parents that resent you for "ruining their life".

Answer 8

against abortion.

although you have may heard this several times, abortion to me is murder. It is. You could be killing the scientist that will find the cure to cancer or HIV or you may be killing the next president that will lead this nation correctly! It's murder, and it will always be to me. to the people that say the 12 week mark, do fingers, legs, and bodies make life? do they? I'll leave that for you to ponder.

God Bless :)

Answer 9

No one's "for" abortion. What we are for is people having the liberty and freedom to make individual choices. Big difference.

Answer 10

i am not "for" abortion. i don't feel that abortion is a "good" thing, nor is it the solution for every woman that finds herself unexpectedly pregnant.

however, i am "for" a woman's right to decide whether she will carry this child or not, up to the 12 week mark.

Answer 11

I am for abortion when: a person does not have the resources to properly raise a child; the pregnancy is the result of rape, incest or accident; the pregnancy is not wanted for almost any other reason. I am opposed, though I don't think government should interfere with, abortion for birth control and s*x choice. I believe that government forced abortion is unconstitutional and immoral and that any law opposing abortion is unconstitutional.

Abortion is a natural right because abortion in the long run saves lives. http://www.prolifeismurder.com

What many people don't know is that until I was 40 years old and ran the numbers myself, I was pro life. I thought that the pro lifers had researched the result of their actions. I soon discovered they did not research the effect abortion has on born and loved kids. And I researched the Bible and found that it is directly opposed to the pro life movement. But what changed my mind is the fact that being pro life causes death. Math does not lie.

Answer 12

well personaly i would NEVER have a abortion.

but i dont think its right to tell people not to.

its there body.

and im not going to judge people if they do.

Answer 13

Against for the most part. Medical abortion is one thing, where the mom's life is in peril if the pregnancy continues (as in an ectopic pregnancy). Though I hope and pray I am never in that position because it would be horrible to have to choose. But to just kill a baby because it's an inconvenient time to be pregnant (pregnancy is never convenient! LOL), or because you don't want a baby, or whatever else....I don't think we deserve that right. And that's what more than 90% of all abortions are done for! Very few are done because of rape (most rape victims take a morning after pill) or medical necessity.

If a woman doesn't want to have a baby she should do the responsible, mature thing and not have s*x. Yeah, it's hard. I've been there and done that. But if that is what it takes to make sure you don't have an unwanted pregnancy, do it and stop whining about "why should I have to go without s*x?" Wah, wah, wah. Grow up and just do it. There are bigger things at stake than just how randy you will feel.

Abortion doesn't just kill a baby. It also does serious long-term emotional damage to the mother. Most women who abort have lots of guilt and regret. They are haunted by what they did and they never forget it. There are also health risks involved when you forcibly end a pregnancy, not to mention scrape out your uterus with a knife. It can also really hurt the father of the baby. Did you know that some men actually get post-traumatic stress disorder when their woman has an abortion? It's true. The baby isn't the only victim, although it is the main one.

Answer 14

Abortion should be safe, legal and RARE.

Emphasis on RARE.

Answer 15

I oppose the legalization of abortion because I believe that a fetus is an entity that is separate from the mother: while it is dependent on the mother for survival, it is not part of the mother's body. Because it is a separate being, the mother should not, by law, be able to kill it. The fetus is alive, and is a potential human being. As such, the fetus has a right to live under the Constitution. If you kill it, you are violating its rights.

Besides, when a child is born prematurely, it is considered a person. And, because anyone who kills a premature child outside the womb is charged with murder, the same standard should be upheld within the womb.

There is no justifiable argument for abortion. If anything else, we as a society should outlaw abortion on the CHANCE that life begins at conception. If we play it safe, and outlaw abortion, what do we have to lose? Women don't lose any rights, for the right to abortion was never a right in the first place. Some might say that children who are conceived due to rape or underage s*x have no right to live, and, in fact, they'd be better off dead. But underage girls aren't forced to keep their children: they can put them up for adoption, and just because a child is the product of a violent crime does not make its life worthless, nor its right to live nullified. And if abortion isn't a crime, then we still don't have anything to lose. After all, children have never been a necessary negative aspect of people's lives: only poor judgment has led to such a result. But, on the other hand, if we legalize abortion, and life really does begin at conception, then we have everything to lose, for we have committed, and are actively participating, millions of murders.

So, which possibility has the more dire consequences? More children, who can be adopted, or otherwise cared for, and raised in loving homes, or a horrific incidence of mass murder? We have to ask ourselves we are willing to take such a great risk in allowing abortion.

Answer 16

Against I feel that it is murder.  There should be exceptions for the health of the mother, rape and incest.

But I do believe that anyone should have the right to choose which moral path they choose in life.

Answer 17

I'm not jumping up and down saying "hey let's all abort our fetuses" here....(wow, mental image lol) but I do believe that women should have the right to an abortion if they want one. I don't think it should be a method for birth control (which I do know of a woman who does this- yikes).

I'm pro-choice, but against abortion. If that makes sense.

Answer 18

The first time I started to look at abortion as a political issue, at around 11 or 12, I thought about the "cute baby" that was being "murdered". I didn't think it was acceptable.

By seventh grade, when we learnt about the different stages of development, I started wondering why a simple zygote was referred to as a baby. Then I started researching on both sides of the debate. Pro-life arguments always revolved around what the bible said. I wondered: Are people so ignorant that they believe everyone is in sync with their beliefs? Then it angered me that some pro-lifers thought that abortion was OK in cases of rape, incest, or the mother's life being in danger. I wondered: If pro-lifers are about the sacredness of life, then why is the life of a fetus of a rape or incest somehow less valuable? If it is really about life, then how do they reach the conclusion of which life is more sacred, the mother's or baby's? As I was exposed to the sexism still prevalent in society and of the fact that 77% of anti-abortion people are men, I realized that being pro-"life" is only about controlling women's lives and bodies. It was about punishing women for commiting the horrible crime of having s*x.

That year I was raped. I remember my frantic efforts to remove every scar the rape left behind. Then it hit me. I could have ended up pregnant. What would I do then? I mean, I couldn't bear to see a mark of that b*****d on me, how on earth would I ever be able to carry a living part of him in me? It hit me that there were random strangers who were for subjecting terrified rape victims to be stripped of dignity and sanity after they have been through horrible atrocities, just because they believed abortion was wrong.

It was probably around this time that I realized that I have absolutely no right to dictate my opinions on someone else. There are many more factors that contributed as well, but this was probably the most eye-opening.

Today I'm pro-choice because I'm not:

-a pregant woman who cannot support a child at this stage in her life (highschool teenager, college student on loans, unstable job) but doesn't believe she could give up the baby once it was born.

-pregnant outside marriage in a society (South-Asia, Middle-East, North-Africa) that will ridicule me (make me an outcast, deem me illegible to ever marry because I'm no longer a virgin)

-a woman who is genuinely tokophobic (extreme fear of childbirth)

-a woman who is on drugs and cannot do anything about being an addict

-a woman who is in an abusive relationship and believes that a child will tie her to it forever

-a woman who has just found out that she has a terminal illness that needs immediate treatment (chemotherapy for cancer)

-a woman for whom carrying to term will risk her health and life (pre-eclampsia, toxoplasmosis)

-a woman whose fetus has a horrible genetic defect that will render him/her "dependent" for life if he/she was born

-a woman who is a victim of incest by a close relative (her own father or brother)

-a woman who was brutally raped and doesn't want to have a living memory of this nightmare living in her for even a second

And if I'm not in the shoes of these women, I have no right to tell them what to do. So it really doesn't matter if I'm for or against abortion; what matters is what these woman believe. Yeah but I'm definitely against people shoving their opinions down someone else's throat.

Answer 19

For choice, which does sometimes make me 'for' abortion, I guess, although that's probably not how I usually think of it.

While I don't advocate that every pregnancy should be terminated, I do think women can decide for themselves, based on their own personal situations and life experiences.

Sometimes I might disagree with their decision, but it's THEIR decision.

Most people who oppose the legal access to safe abortions are people who don't trust women t make the 'right' decision ~ in other words, the one the anti-choice folks want her to make.

I do. Every woman will make the decison that is right for her, and that it is that choice which I respect.

Cheers :-)

Answer 20

I am absolutely against abortion.

Everybody had the right to live.

Although a women also has the right of choice BUT that choice is the choice of contraception.

Answer 21

Against. I don't think calling an unborn baby a "fetus" suddenly makes it inhuman. Sure women should have their rights, but so should the baby's rights of life.

Answer 22

yes and no.    

the only way i believe i abortion is when it is in fata danger to the mother. if not, like some girl just doesn't want a baby she shouldn't abort it for no reason. i think it's selfish and besides a baby would freakin' die!!!!! but yeah hope that helps

Answer 23

Honesty I'm against them; only when some woman decides to spread her legs without thinking as to what she's doing and, or has the attitude that she can do it because all she has to do is get down to a clinic and 123 bye bye baby; those I have no heart for.  However, women who have been brutally raped and or carry a killing disease that may harm both her and the baby; then and only then I'm for it.