Whether you think that you are "pro-choice", and not "pro-abortion", you still think abortions should be performed.
I have never heard a good reason why abortions should be legal. It seems that they only allow women who made poor choices an easy way out of their responsibilities. I am pro-choice, you have the choice to not have unprotected s*x. These are some of the reasons I have heard:
"If it were illegal, they would be performed in an unsafe and dangerous manner anyway."
Through this same logic, we should legalize murder because because they are legal, people do it anyway and they do it in an unsafe and painful manner. We should probably legalize theft too, people are going to steal things anyway and will probably do it in an unsafe and dangerous way.
"It is a woman's body, she has the right to do what she wants."
At the point at which another life is inside of you, it is no longer your body, it is their body. It is not a parasite, it is a living human being that will become a baby if left alone. An important aspect of of our humanness is the ability to control our bodies, but a more important aspect is our self discipline and morality.
"It is not life."
It breathes, it eats, it reacts to stimuli. It is life.
"The mothers life is more important."
Abortion is the most selfish thing I can think of. Women have abortions for many reasons, most of them dealing with "it will ruin my life", "I am not ready", "I cannot afford a child." Do you notice how all of these revolve around "I"? The life of an innocent baby is just a valuable as the life of the mother. Adoption is very viable alternative to abortion with many families wanting children.
"Anti-Abortion advocates are only so because of their religion."
I am atheist. Many Christians will not steal because it is against their religion. Would you legalize theft because most people against it are religious? Obviously not.
"The child's life will not be worth living, it will be full of suffering."
Frankly, who are you to decide the future of any person. You do not know this for sure and absolutely cannot gauge at what point a life would not be worth living for someone else. I cannot imagine any person in the United States that would choose non-existence over being born. People do commit suicide, but it is their choice to do so and no one else's. They are in the best position to make this decision.
Innocent life is the most valuable resource we have and it should be protected at all costs.
Protecting womens' lives in the case of a pregnancy endangering the mother's medical well-being. While the life of the baby is important, the need to protect the health of the mother should be foremost. However, this only accounts for less than 1% of abortions.
Pregnancies as a result of rape/incest. Answer: Adoption. While this is a tragedy, it would only make it worse to kill the innocent child who had no choice in how he was created.
I probably missed some reasons, but please enlighten me. Responsibility is the most important aspect of our humanity, with it morals, compassion, duty. honesty, honor are brought about. If you make a bad decision, it is your responsibility to deal with the consequences and not be given an easy way out. Abortion is just an easy way out for women that made poor decisions. It is wrong to kill innocent human life.
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