As a man I can't imagine surrendering my body to the government. Why are some women actually anti-choice?

Question

As a man I can't imagine surrendering my body to the government. Why are some women actually anti-choice?

Answer 1

Because I am a mother. I believe that when a baby has been created that child deserves to be protected and nurtured. Don't all children?

Answer 2

If you have a newborn baby, then kill it then it's murder.  If you kill it five minutes earlier in the womb, then drag it's dead body out, then it's acceptable to anybody who voted to allow partial-birth abortions.  To any decent human being with an ounce of conscience, this is appalling.  To many pro-choicers though, it's something to be defended!  This astounds me!  Look, if you are a reasonable person, then you must agree that we have to draw the line somewhere, and that somewhere must be considerably earlier than the due date.  I don't generally believe in controlling people's bodies, but in some cases it is necessary in a civilized society!

Answer 3

I am tired of paying for those "choices" with my tax dollars.  If you want your birth control, pay for it on your own.

Answer 4

I think pro-life people should surrender their babies to the government so they can be trained to be geniuses. It's all for the common good right?

Answer 5

No one is "anti-choice."  The correct term is "pro-life."  In the US we are supposed to have the rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.  Life is the first and most precious right we have.

Women can choose not to have s*x.  It is not a right guaranteed by the Constitution.  

Your first statement makes no sense.

Answer 6

Than why did you surrender your brain to the liberals?

Is laying over a sink with music to cover the grinding sound really easier than going to the drug store With some it would cover the crying as a few would have that capacity I don't want to even think about it nor do I want to pay for it

I have no religion just decency

Answer 7

I tend to lean toward a pro-choice position.  However, you must realize that surrendering your body (as a man) to the government would involve only you.  Matters regarding abortion involve both the woman and the life that is growing within her.  Women who are anti-choice (pro-life) take the stance that abortion is murder.  Just as you have taken a narrow view of the debate, they also tend to do the same.  To them, killing an unborn fetus is the same as killing a full-grown human.  In your statement, you not only display evident disagreement with that judgment, you completely ignore the fetus in the question.

In my opinion, matters are not so black and white.  I think that protecting the rights of a zygote [1] or a newly formed embryo [2] as a living thing within the woman is little more than protecting the rights of an invasive parasite insect within the woman.  The insect is also a living thing though I concede that it has not potential to develop into a human.  Additionally, the means of contracting an insect parasite differ markedly from the means of "contracting" the parasite that may develop into a human.  Again, these are not black and white matters.

Abortion opponents may blast me for this view.  In this, we all should remember that these are subjective value judgments [3].  They will get no disagreement from me though that killing a fully developed near-term fetus is repugnant.  I'm not sure that I want the government to forbid even that practice, and I know that I can not imagine myself in the place of a woman who makes that decision.  But I can hardly resist feeling contempt for such an action.

Surely women who have lovingly born children must be well understood for wishing to stop that evil.  I join them in that wish even though I prefer more voluntary means for doing so.

Answer 8

Probably every woman wouldn't like it if the government was over

their body or into their personal business. But yet the pro-choice

people want to stick their nose in other people business that doesn't

affect them at all. If they so interested in kids, why aren't they adopting them? Rather, kids being abused!

Answer 9

Some of us who were already adults when abortion became legal don't really see it that way.  The point at which a woman surrenders her body would have been before the abortion would have a need to be considered.  

I would still never consider abortion, legal or not.  There are people who find it to be unthinkable.  There are more and more methods of birth control available all the time.  Teens seem to feel that if they get caught, they can just do away with the resulting consequences.  

Our entertainment media has made our young people think they are outsiders if they do not engage in sexual activity by the age of 16.  Most states don't even require that a teen tell their parents before they get an abortion.  At the same time, they are treated like children in every other way still completely dependent upon their parents.  Its illogical and leads to irresponsible behavior more than if abortion was still illegal.  Teen pregnancy is much more common now than it was in the 50's and 60's.

Answer 10

Some sheep like types can't live their lives without the government telling them what to do. Sad but true how they surrender.

Answer 11

This question is easily answered if you look at it at the stand of "When does life begin".  That's where the difference is, not the "choice".

Okay, for example, you're a MAN, you say, and you can't imagine your choice getting taken away.  So, why should the government prevent you from going to your hateful neighbor's house and killing him with your baseball bat?  Isn't that taking away your choice?  Of course, the answer is NO... because taking him out would be murder.

That's the same as the women who you say are "anti-choice".  They believe that life begins at conception, therefore, freely choosing to remove that baby is murder and needs to be constitutionally protected just like your neighbor's life being protected.

And just like murder - there are times that it is justifiable - self-defense (the baby is endangering the life of the mother) is a popular one.

So, if you open up your mind to the REASON behind the anti-choice, it is very easy to understand.

Pro-choice women have no "constant" definition of when life begins - at 3 months, at 6 months, at birth?  I don't know.

Answer 12

Are you not making a choice when you have s*x w/o protection?  The government passes no judgment on your ability to make that choice, as well it shouldn't.

When you conceive a child, you create a living thing.

Answer 13

Religion makes people do crazy things.

Answer 14

Your beliefs have nothing to do with your s*x. Some men wouldn't mind surrendering their body to the government.

Answer 15

They're brainwashed and emotional.  

Answer 16

You can't imagine surrendering your body to the government?  Never heard of the draft (conscription), have you?  Individual liberty only goes so far: in times of national emergency, your body is not yours.  

That's quite different from the issue of choice.  A woman's reproductive system is hers, not the government's.  There is no such thing as a national emergency that justifies denying a woman her choice in regards to having a child. Sarah Palin needs to back off pronto!

Answer 17

They aren't anti-choice...they are pro-life and are sick of seeing people use abortion as birth control...nice twist though.

Why is Obama for "government healthcare"...or is it "socialist healthcare"...oh how we twist our words

Lets talk about choice shall we? I don't support abortion and I definately don't want to be forced to pay for someone else to have an abortion, which is what I would be paying for with my tax dollars under his socialist healthcare plan. Do I get to make that choice though? Yes I do with my vote for McCain/Palin

Answer 18

Because they actually have some moral fiber, I'd assume.

EDIT: You know, I don't know why I keep using the word 'moral' when it comes to pro-lifers. I think 'humane' works a lot better.

Answer 19

It's called accountability and protecting the life of the innocent. Even as a man, you should be able to understand that concept.

Answer 20

I have been saying that for years:  anti-choice is much more accurate than pro-life when speaking about abortion.  The answer to your question is religion, something we need to evolve past if we want to progress spiritually.  Please don't anyone try and say that religion and spirituality are the same thing because they surely are not.

Answer 21

Because an unborn baby isn't part of your body! Yes, it's "in" your body, but it isn't your body. People who are pro-life are not "surrendering their bodies to the government". They're standing up for rights-- the rights of babies. If a woman doesn't want kids, she should get a hysterectomy because newsflash, that's what those parts are there for!

A baby is...

-Undoubtedly individual (has its own body, it's own DNA, isn't the mother or the father)

-Undoubtedly unique (not a dog or a tree)

-Undoubtedly living (growing and multiplying, obviously not dead)

-Undoubtedly innocent (and therefore, not responsible for the circumstances surrounding his/her conception)

I believe in the sanctity of life. If you allow abortion, what's next? Killing people who are mentally challenged, ill, or bed-ridden? Killing your children who are already born because "you don't want to be a parent"? Give me a break.

Edit: Someone answered and said "why are people who are pro-life pro death penalty".

1.) Not all are

2.) An unborn baby is innocent, so why should it have to pay for someone else's irresponsibility? Someone who murders is guilty as sin. They made a conscious choice to do so and need to pay for their actions.

3.) I'm a Christian and according to GOD, "whoever sheds another man's blood, by man should his blood be shed" (aka, death penalty for intentional murder, Genesis 9:6)

PJ- Are parents not supposed to have unconditional love for their children? So if they think this child could potentially be a hinderance to their life (mentally ill), they should kill it? HA! And what about adoption? There are so many people who would LOVE to be parents, but can't have kids. By giving the baby up for adoption, you'd be doing 3 favors:

1.) Giving a child to someone who couldn't otherwise have one

2.) Putting your child in a home where it can and will be provided for

3.) You don't have to raise it. So I guess you would've done yourself a favor, too.

Answer 22

Some people really do focus more on the potential child rather than the mother who is alive and making decisions right now.  Kids are brainwashed at a young age how horrible abortion is, but they are never told the other side of the issue, birth defects, not enough money to care for a child, unstable home life, etc.  I don't understand anti-choice people, they just don't have all the facts and don't care to know all the facts.    

Answer 23

Ignorance.

Answer 24

Because there are some ppl who want to push their personal beliefs on the rest of the world.

Abortion is not a political issue. It's a personal one. These choice-rs assume that women use their option as a form of birth control or that every woman comes to this type of decision easily.

If they want to quote the Bible, it's funny how they always for get the part that says, "Only God can judge"  or maybe I just made that part up.

Answer 25

If the government forced women to have unprotected s*x, then you might have a valid point. But last I checked, I had the choice whether or not to use protection while having s*x....see, you can be pro-choice and anti-baby killing (and non-religious).

Answer 26

Because some women have morals and values. As a man, how would you feel if you had a child with a women, and she went and got an abortion without ever telling you that a) she was pregnant or b) your child is now dead. It's such c**p that is even allowed. It's wierd how the most liberal state in the Union is pro-abortion and claims that it's just a heap of cells not a living being, yet when you kill a pregnant mother you are charged with double homicide. Adoption is the answer, not murder.

Answer 27

What are you talking about, seems like i should know something about this.

Answer 28

better yet...why are people who are pro-life also pro-death penalty? And even better yet would they support the abortion of a baby if they knew he/she would grow up into a person they would convict and sentance to death......

Answer 29

As an unborn child (all organs develop in 8 weeks) I can't imagine being murdered simply, because my mommy was irresponsible.  Close your leggs.  You play you pay.

Answer 30

It is simple really.  Pro-choice sees abortion solely as a means of birth control, thus to give it up seems foolish when it is so convenient and takes care of an unwanted pregnancy preserving her status quo.

Pro-life sees abortion as the killing of a viable person that had a specific purpose in the world.  Thus, the emphesis for them has never been about HER body, but as pro-life implies it is simply about preserving the life inside her body and speaking for the unborn.  

If you were to trade places with a pro-lifer and truly believe that these fetuses really were babies, then it would make sense why they would feel so strongly. Knowing that more of these babies have been aborted than all the deaths in all the wars combined makes pro-lifers sad and upset.  Some have taken it too far, but YET, if you truly believed that each abortion was a child being brutally murdered are they doing enough.