How strongly do you feel about abortion, and do you oppose or support it?

Question

How much does life mean to you?

Answer 1

I'm strongly pro-choice.  I would never personally get one, and I know I'll never need one, but I do recognize that, even though I'm against abortion personally, I don't have the right to take that choice away from another person.

Answer 2

I'm neither for or against abortion, but I am definitely PRO CHOICE.  Having a baby, especially in a bad situation -- incest, rape, health risk -- can pose bigger problems if abortion is NOT a choice.

I would not change for the world that I CHOSE to keep my first child.  I am adopted and that alone can be an issue so that CHOICE was out for me.  I also did not want an abortion as potentially that could have made me sterile.  I was 23, healthy, working, had a supportive family, and it turned out that I married my boyfriend.  What happens to those that don't have any of those in place if they are forced into keeping an unwanted child?  Are you aware of how many children are neglected, abused emotionally, physically, verbally, and starving in the U.S.?  I think the pro-lifers should focus their energy on those children instead of parading in front of high schools with signs depicting abortion.

Answer 3

I am definitely 100% pro-choice. Pro-choice means you respect the right to chose, not pro-abortion. I think abortion is definitely necessary in many cases especially rape,incest, and dna mutilation. But even if the parents are irresponsible and didn't put on a condom, I still think they should be allowed to have an abortion. I mean, if they were that irresponsible, what makes you think they're a good parent? And I know adoption is another option but some people aren't comfortable with it. They don't want to work so hard and give birth then become attatched to the child then have to give it up. Also if the family is poor, they can't care for the child. And if you ban abortion, women will do it anyways and end up killing them self because of unsafe abortion. Abortion is legal so it is clean and can be done properly.

Answer 4

I feel that everyone has the right to control their body and that no one has the right to use someone else's body without permission. I feel that the right to bodily integrity should never be abridged because of some whacko religious beliefs.  

Answer 5

Not that strong, really.

There are many more pressing problems that cause a lot more human suffering than abortion.

Answer 6

Although I personally would not have an abortion, I respect and uphold a woman's right to choose for herself.  

Answer 7

I would never have an abortion, but I cannot speak for everyone else. I am not in the 15-year old's shoes when she is being raped by her dad:(

We can only act upon the actual knowledge we have. It's no one's right to make someone feel bad when they are already going through a horrible time.

I do NOT believe abortions should happen if you are just out floozing around. There is birth control for that.  

Answer 8

Very very very strongly opposed

depends on the life

I dont think all life is equal, but babies are about as innocent as they come and the reasoning behind the majority of abortions are just selfish and disgusting.

Answer 9

Since I am not a religious nut case, I prefer to let people decide for themselves, rather than imposing my sense of morality on others in this case.

Answer 10

Every baby deserves a chance to live ~ Babies should never pay with their life for any adults mistake for any reason !

Answer 11

I believe it should be up to the lady who is with child... it's her body and no one should tell her what to do with it.

Answer 12

I don't necessarily support abortion, but I definately support the right for a woman to chose whether to have one or not.

Answer 13

I feel very strongly that abortion should not be banned.

You see most people who think that it should be illegal have no real concept of the world. You have to have to understand that the world is overpopulated as it is.

There are 6.7 billion people in the world. At least 1 billion do not have immediate access to drinking water. At least 2 billion only have access to clean drinking water - and 15 million, most of them children, die from drinking this polluted water each year. Nearly a billion people in the world are undernourished.

Nearly 4/5 of the world's population lives below the U.S. poverty line. Americans account for 5% of the population but use 25% of the world's commercially traded resources.

At this point in time - for the first time in history - we are using MORE resources than is actually sustainable. With 6.7 billion people, there is NOT enough room or resources for everyone.

The bigger problem? The human population is expected to hit TEN billion by 2050.

Every time a woman would be forced to have a child she doesn't want, we as Americans take away resources for 5 starving children in a less privileged part of the world. Every ball of cells that could have been terminated before it could feel a thing, is a trade off for at least one five year old child that now has to starve to death, slowly, painfully, and over the course of a month or more.

They had their chance to live, is that what it is? Their own fault for not being born in America or Europe?

One of the greatest problems the world is facing now is population control. If you want to have a child, go for it. But popping out a bunch of decedent American kids who are just going to live an affluent life while nine-year old girls in other countries let themselves be raped for not enough money to feed them or their family, just for the sake of doing it is wrong.

I'd rather save this world and burn in h**l than watch it crumble just so that I can assure my place in 'paradise.'

EDIT: Well, Jeremy, glad to see you're totally cool with starving little children to death. Good for you, I'm sure Jesus loves that. As long as YOU got to heaven, right?

--Well, good thing I'm not a Christian. You're not going to convince me that it's wrong, but you're obviously going to ignore the fact that overpopulation is a problem regardless of anyone's beliefs.

Answer 14

well there are different situations in life like a rape victim can also become pregnant.. in that case she must be allowed to abort as she has not done anything wrong she is a victim... but where woman with their choice sleep around and get pregnant (specially young teenage girls 14-19) they must not be allowed to abort let their colleagues of same age learn a lesson....

Answer 15

I don't think anyone who doesn't want an abortion should have one. It's no one else's business what another person does. Period. I'd like to know why it is that these rabid pro-life goobs think the unborn are sacred yet religiously vote for politicians who slash children's health programs.

Answer 16

I oppose the murder of the unborn....as any decent human being ought to.

Answer 17

I support the right for women to have legal medically proper abortions because illegalizing it doesn't stop it but only make it more dangerous.  And I really don't think society would be better off with millions more people whose own mother didn't even want them but were forced to have them.  Existence in and of itself is not joyful, as some people are subjected to miserable lives, and a child isn't done any favors by being raised by incompetent parents who don't even desire to be parents.  We have enough people and don't need to have every baby we can.  We can afford to breed selectively.  As far as when life begins (at fertilization, at birth, when the heart forms, when the brain forms, when it "looks" human etc.), it's a question that only has meaningless arbitrary answers.  On this issue, I think we should be looking at the bigger sociological picture.  If you think abortion should be illegal, you should be willing to adopt unwanted children.

Answer 18

I support whatever the pregnant woman decides.

Life means a lot to me.  However, I define life at birth, not conception, nor the potential for conception.

Answer 19

I believe that people should figure out a way to take care of the thousands of babies that ALREADY exists, and have no one!!

Children are abused, raped, and murdered every day because the people that didn't want them in the first place, had them, anyway!!

That is the crime here! Not abortion!

s*x Education, birth control, and directions on the proper use  of condoms, should be available everywhere.

Take care of the children that are here, now, or shut up.

Answer 20

I oppose abortion, but very strongly support a woman's choice.  I have no right to make choices for another.

Answer 21

What I feel strongly about is the right of the individual or family involved to their privacy and a woman's right to choose what happens to her body.

I doubt that there is anyone who is happy about the idea of abortion.  I think that we'd all agree that it would be wonderful if there was never a reason that a woman would be so desperate that she would choose to have one, or that there was ever a reason that a child would need one.  But that is NOT the world that we live in.

Frankly if pro-life advocates really simply wanted the end of abortion I believe that it would simply be obsolete by now.  There would be enough education programs, enough effective counseling, and enough programs to mentor disadvantaged mothers.  And of course there would be even safer more effective forms of contraception for BOTH sexes.  Interestingly enough I rarely hear any pro-life person advocate for any of these things.

Yes I hear, "I would love to take care of them all myself".  You can't.  That is not dealing with reality.  Reality is that a lot of those children that you want to be born are right now being born into a living h**l.  The policy makers that that you support regularly cut programs designed to help these children.  How do you justify this?  

Answer 22

I am strongly pro-choice b/c I can't imagine why anyone thinks they know enough about a situation that involves a fully-developed person they've never met and don't even begin to know the circumstances involved.

PS: Every pregnancy does not end in a healthy child. There are hospitals that have to hire people to take care of the crack addicted babies until they die and IDK how many miscarriages and still-births there are. Plus, the stories about having to surgically remove limbs? 92% of abortions are w/in the first trimester-the brain and central nervous system haven't even developed yet.

Edit: Responsibility?! Are you a f*g loon?! I have a friend who had married then had to wait ten years before she and her husband felt financially comfortable enough for a child, she gets pregnant, and whammo, it's a tubal pregnancy! She HAD TO ABORT b/c both she and the FETUS would have died otherwise! She was more than responsible. WTF did this 'loving' deity do that for?