If you were running for President, would you be for or against abortion and why?

Question

If you were running for President, would you be for or against abortion and why?

Answer 1

I would probably make some rhetoric about how that decision  should be left to the individual states, since that would keep pro-choicers and pro-lifers off my back.

It also depends on which party I am running with, since it's potentially political suicide to go one way or the other.

Answer 2

I agree that it's political suicide to say too much!  

But for the sake of argument, I believe that some kind of compromise is in order.

For adults: Unrestricted abortion up to the point of fetal viability (defined according to the best data from neonatalogy experts, but for the sake of argument, we'll call it 6 months).  Improved access to birth control, including the morning after pill.  Increased s*x ed in the schools, including both promoting abstainance as well as birth control ed.  (These two things need not be mutually exclusive in my book!)  I would also include adoption education as this option is quite often overlooked when a teen crisis pregnancy happens.

Abortions past the point of viability would be restricted to instances involving the life/health of the mother.  And I mean physical health, not that too-broad definition that came down from Roe v Wade.  Continue the partial birth abortion ban. Healthcare to abortion survivors would not be an issue because late term abortions would not be done except in rare and dire circumstances.

No minor may get an abortion without parental consent.  Abortion is still a surgical procedure that has the same risks as any other surgical procedure.  Part of the safety aspect is that people close to the girl (namely her parents) need to be aware to look for danger signs to be able to summon help quickly, in case something goes wrong, post-op.  

In the event that there is a very compelling reason why parental consent should not be obtained, or if the child is a ward of the state, judicial consent must be obtained.  This happens all the time for other medical issues involving children whose parents are unwilling or unable to give consent.  It need not be a long, drawn out thing, but some adult assuming responsibility does need to approve the procedure.

This doesn't satisfy either extreme 100% and that's fine.  Personally, I don't like abortion.  I don't think it's morally right, I don't think it is the risk free happy ending that it's marketed as.  But I also acknowledge that there are compelling reasons to have an abortion, however, I feel that late term abortions for birth control should absolutely be illegal.

Just my thoughts and I'll prepare for attacks all around!

Answer 3

I personal do not agree with it but my beliefs are not yours or your neighbors or anybody else.

With that said it is just what you are asking POLITICS  what is the socially correct answer to tell the people what  they want to hear to get you into office.

Does democracy not allow you to make your own choice.

There is truly only one person that can make that decision and that would have to be the person that is faced with the decision. After all we will have to answer to one person and one person only when we die and it will not be the president....

Answer 4

Abortion is a state issue, not a federal one. That said, late term abortions are flat out murder and great incentive would be involved encouraging that position.

Answer 5

I personally don't agree with abortion except in rape/incest cases, or when the life of the mother is in grave danger.  That being said, even if I were President, I don't think I would have the right to make that decision for another person.

Answer 6

If I was running for president I would personally be against abortion.  But, I would not want the freedom to choose that position taken away from me.

Answer 7

If you are going solely with that as your platform, it would be best to go with no abortion except in cases of rape, incest, and mother's health.

The strongest majority believe that on the abortion issue.  

But there are other issues usually, and those issues also influence what people go with on who they vote.  If it was based solely on abortion, I'd go with what I wrote above.

But personally, I am against abortion nearly completely.  I am even against it in cases of both rape and abortion.  I am only for it being allowed if the mother's health is in serious danger.

I won't go into the reasons why, its not really your question.  But that is how I feel about it personally; which is rather strange because I am very liberal on nearly everything else.

Answer 8

Indifferent.  It was decided by the SCOTUS, it's over in my book.  Thus being said, I would fight to pass a amendment to the Constitution that says since women controll their body and the decision to abort or not, men no longer have to pay child support unless they were married and the child is theirs born during the marriage. Now that would be fair.

Answer 9

Abortion shouldn't be a legislative issue -- it should be a decision left between a woman and her doctor.  Personally, I'm anti-abortion, but I think the government needs to stay out of it.

Answer 10

Against.

For the same reasons I'm against it though I'm NOT running for president.

A child is a living human being from conception, thus abortion is the same as murder.

Answer 11

If I were running for President, abortion would not be an issue.  In my mind however it is a marginal issue.  I am personally opposed to abortion for spiritual reasons, however, I am even more opposed to removing the freedom of choice from an individual.  The guiding principle here is we are free to make choices with regards to our bodies and this is including and not limited to the issue of abortion.

However, if my choice is removed by a governmental program which introduced Universal Health Care to every individual in the United States, and abortion was a procedure which would be covered under that practice, I would be opposed to it.  Like I said before, I am opposed to abortion for spiritual reasons, but more opposed to the removal of choice.  If my tax dollars are going to fund someone elses procedure, which I personally disagree with, I do not want my money to be funding it...