Is abortion a women's rights issue or a right to live issue?

Question

this is a gender issue?

Answer 1

both....i am pro choice....that is i believe a woman has a right to do with her body as she chooses....i am also pro life....i believe abortion should be illegal

Answer 2

Women's rights

So don't s***w with your own gender's rights because they don't want to have 10 kids and be on welfare.

And that's from someone celibate. (not having s*x until marriage).  

Answer 3

Right to live issue because it is still life. People just need to control themselves and not be horny all the time

Answer 4

A women's right issue. As fetuses are not living human beings, they do not have rights.

Answer 5

Depends on which side of the issue you fall on.

Answer 6

right to live issue, however in cases of rape, incest or the mothers health the choice should be the womens.  

Answer 7

    right to life

Answer 8

Both.  A woman's right to choose, and a fetus's right to live.

Answer 9

Its viewed by republicans as a right to live issue

and by democrats as a women's rights issue

Answer 10

I'm not sure - but I believe till the foetus is 20 weeks or so - it falls under woman's rights issue. Once the foetus is capable of surviving on its own - around 20 weeks (I think) - say - an emergency operation or something similar where the foetus *can* survive - it becomes a right to live issue.

Answer 11

you can hardly talk about one without the other.  i believe abortion is murder and should be condemned.  bad things happen but killing a baby won't make it better.

Answer 12

I'd say it's a women's rights issue.  People have their right to live taken from them every day from starvation, war, genocide, dehydration, easily preventable disease, hate crimes, accidents, natural disasters, random violence... the list goes on and on.  Obviously, we haven't learned to live together yet.  If a woman decides not to bring yet another person into this sad, stupid, overcrowded, violent world that might be the best choice for the child, mother and species.  I'm willing to trust her judgment.  If I didn't there'd be nothing I could do to stop her anyway.  It wouldn't be my place to try.

Answer 13

Frankly, I don't care what politicians think.  A woman should have the right to do what she feels is right with her body.  So naturally I would say it's a women's right issue.

Answer 14

The only answer is that YOU decide for yourself, what kind of issue you think it is.  Pro choice persons (generally) accept it as womens' rights and pro life persons see the opposite.

All the answers here are going to tell you what people think. I actually am not going to do that.. because what I think/believe is not relevant to what you believe.

If you put it into LEGAL TERMS, the Supreme court has already ruled as to it being legal for a woman to make that choice for herself.  

Answer 15

A few facts..

Less than 1% of abortions are preformed because of Rape , Incest, or mother might die...

Ethnic and lower income women have babies, not abortions...

The majority of abortions are performed on white, middle to upper class women.. reason given.." baby would upset my career or lifestyle too much...."

Use birth control... if you are not prepared to have children....keep your panties on.......

Answer 16

I believe it is a women's right issue. None of us have a guaranteed right to life. It can be taken from us in many ways. A primordial fetus has the same situation. If a woman decides to terminate her pregnancy in the first trimester, that is her right, if for no other reason than, at that stage, it just so much parasitic tissue. Cancer is as alive as it is.

Life has no guarantee for any of us. The only guarantee we have for those already born, is that the state will not UNLAWFULLY take our life. That guarantee is only as good as the men that enforce it.

Answer 17

I am wondering if it is also the unborn child's right

for example

if a child were to be born into a bad home

or a home where they were not wanted

would it be the right of an unborn child not to be born into that home or to that person / s

Answer 18

It is strictly a right to live issue. Women are humans not God. An embryo is a life force. A human life force. Therefore, killing one would be no less than homicide.

Answer 19

Noone has the right to tell a woman or any human being for that matter what to do with his or her own body. The politicians know it. It is just another way that they must have something to talk about.  

Answer 20

Up to a certain point, it is a woman's rights issue.  I say this because until a certain point, the fetus is just a lumpy mass of cells that doesn't even slightly resemble a human being.  However, when the fetus reaches the point where it could survive on it's own, it becomes a right to life issue.  I believe late term abortions should be illegal, but until that point I see abortion as no worse than pulling a hair out of your head or cutting your finger nails.  After all, hair and nails are nothing more than cells.  

Answer 21

I think that the woman made her choice when she decided to have s*x.

But at the same time in cases where their is rape, incest or the woman's life is at stake then she needs to make a decision that she will live with. A human life is a human life regardless of how old it is.

But what do I know I am just a right wing neocon fascist. ;-)

Answer 22

I firmly believe it's a right to live. It is not the child's fault that his or hers parents decided to think differently. I can also speak from experience, I was raped when i was 16 and had a baby that i decided to give up for adoption because it was not fair for me to kill a living thing when it wasn't their fault that they existed...i also did not want to re-live the agony of what i went through, that's why i chose adoption because although i loved the child as soon as it arrived but i knew that it would be a constant reminder, had i not done that I don't think i would be mentally stable as i am now about the whole matter. It was HARD, don't get me wrong, but it was for the best and even though i was only a parent for a few short minutes, i knew that quickly that the child's best interest was the first priority, i was not. I think it's a selfish and inexcusable thing to do!  

Answer 23

It should be a right to life issue. Only problem is the baby (which by the way is a life person) can't do anything about it. The baby has no rights. That's sad.

God help us

Answer 24

ohh, you're going to get a lot of different answers here!

my answer is a women's right issue. we have NO idea what has happened in many of these cases or what position the woman is in. i cannot logically see having to tell a rape victim she has to keep that child and i cannot logically see telling a woman that child birth will kill her but she has no choice, she has to carry the baby and die.  

Answer 25

In my opinion, it is selfish of a person to "exercise" their reproductive organs and then terminate the purpose for which they were designed. I've always heard the "it's a woman's body" argument from pro- choicers, but during and after the pregnancy, is it not still the woman's body? So where's the argument? What did the woman lose in all of this? What did the baby lose?

Alas, it will most assuredly be pointed out that I am male and thus it is easy for me to have the opinion that I have. I can sit here and say that "If I were a woman, then I'd still have the baby!", but it will be invalidated by the fact that I still am not a woman.

As human beings, we all face challenges that push us to our limits physically, emotionally, and mentally, sometimes with nothing to show for it. Why bail out on one of the few challenges that promises a rich reward, better than any amount of money or career could provide? Nine months of being careful and eating right (if you don't already) seems like a small price to pay to bring a new life into the world who will love you unconditionally.

Answer 26

Its a parents right issue.  If u want people to be responsible for their children, then give them the chance to choose when they want children.

Answer 27

It's none of my business, there are children starving all over the world, if I want to help children I will help them, and I can do that without causing pain to anyone.  

Answer 28

I see it as a Living Issue. It isn't just a women's issue because it takes more then one person to make a baby. Don't you think the Father should have a say in this too?