Pro-lifers: Were a woman in excruciating pain.........?

Question

If a woman was in horrible pain due to crones or something to that effect that is not deadly but causes disabling pain and was 2 months pregnant, and the only way for her to relieve the pain was to have an operation that would kill the fetus as a side effect, do you think she should deal with the awful pain in order to save the fetus or should she go ahead with the surgery to stop the pain and save her sanity?

Answer 1

Umm, why not just give her pain medication?

Seems a little retarded to me. Pain is nothing a little morphene can't fix.

And if it was me having the baby, i'd endure it, saving someone from pain isn't worth killing a life.

I'm with Marissa on this one, your telling me that the tiny tiny tiny chance that my condom will break and birth control will fail justifies the millions of abortions performed a year?

I'm not against abortion, but when its used that much, it can't be for anything but personal convenience, and thats just sad.

Answer 2

I am all for the operation, but what if the operation that would kill the fetus as a side effect, kills her as well, as a less serious side effect?  So its better to have no sanity and in EXXXXXXCRUCIATING pain and be alive.  Lets just abort the fetus.  Women have the full legal right to abort the fetus on any whim or fancy she has and also there is no need to cite anything as a reason for abortion.

Answer 3

If she has chrones then she is in constant pain anyway so why not go ahead and have the baby and try the surgery after the baby is born?

One of my best friends has chrones and I know for a fact that surgery only lessens it for a short time if any lessening at all. Most of the time it don't help.

So why have a surgery that is not going to help and kill the baby in the process .It does not make sense.

Come up with a better scenario

*pro* chrones is not a life threatening illness. So preserving her life in the situation does not apply.

Very good point summer. No situation lasts forever.

*birth control has been known to fail. True. Very true. You have a point there. But abstinence is foolproof.

Answer 4

how on earth can you call them pro-life? The vast majority of those against a womans right to choose are for the death penalty and quagmires...if only being against a womans right to choose makes one *pro life*...then I guess life ends at birth

abort....it doesnt feel..its not a human being..its a potential human being..unless of course a zygote is also a human..LOL!!

Answer 5

The question can be rephrased as: Is having pain a valid excuse for murdering someone else?

What its the person is psychotic and have an emotional pain made by voices in his/her head that tells him/her to kill? Should the person be allowed to murder others?

To answer the question, if it where my wife that were pregnant and in pain I would probably let her made the decision in base that its not me that is having the pain.

However, I would have to bury the baby, not just throw it in the garbage, and will accept the fact that what we both did was a murder. Instead of trying to sweeten it by believing that it was a different thing.

Answer 6

Talk about Sophies Choice

If furthering the pregnancy would lead to dibilitating pain or death then yes, i would support the surgery because it looks like the lesser of two evils in this situation

But this scenerio don't justify why a woman in perfect health should be allowed to get an abortion as so many people would argue it does

Edit- by the way im "prolife" (which i feel is a bit of a misnomer) but im not an absolutist

Answer 7

Let's see! If you were that fetus...what would you want? There are so many ways to prevent pregnancies and abortion isn't one of them. So you will have to suffer 7 or maybe 6 more months of pain followed by years of joy or not suffer any more pain followed by years of guilt and regret. You can't just live for today.

Answer 8

I'm Pro-Abortion.  Get the surgery.  No one should have to experience any type of pain that affect quality of life to bring a baby in this world.  There's too many people anyway.

Answer 9

I am pro-choice. It should always be the woman's decision to make the choices that involve her body.  You are absolutely right - birth controls fail.  In fact, it happens A LOT.  I'm sick of people looking at women like they are s1uts because they chose to have abortions.  A lot of women use contraceptives only to end up pregnant anyway.  I don't think any woman should be forced to carry an unwanted embryo and give birth, even if the child ends up in foster care.  NO woman should have to carry an unwanted baby and give birth if she doesn't want to.  The world is just full of NOSEY  CONTROL FREAKS who want to force their ways on everyone else.  If you are against abortions, then don't have one.  But it's NOT the world's place to tell a woman what to do.  Like it or not, it is HER body, and if something grows in her body, it's HER choice what she's going to do about that.  People should learn to respect other people's decisions and their rights instead of questioning them and trying to control them.  You don't have to agree - just mind your own business.

....There, I've said it.

Answer 10

Oh, Snarky...I love your answer!  I've been saying that same thing for years!!  If you don't abortion, don't get one...but stay the h**l out of my business!  

In answer to the question, I believe the woman should be able to have the surgery without emotional blackmail or guilt of others.  It's her choice, her pain, her body.

Answer 11

If you were in excruciating pain and killing a two-year old child would somehow relieve the pain, would you kill that child? A moral person would accept great pain to spare the life of another person, especially an innocent child.

Answer 12

Have the surgery- preserving her life come first.

Answer 13

One of the people above me mentioned that the surgery you're talking about only lessens the pain temporarily, so it seems stupid to kill the embreyo (at 2 months it is still an embreyo, at 10 weeks it's a fetus) simply to feel better for a short period of time. But it is a personal decision so you can't really say what a person should do.

If you ask me, she should have thought of having the surgery BEFORE she got pregnant. If you don't want kids it's simple...don't get pregnant! Here's a concept for you: BIRTH CONTROL. It works.



Edit: Birth control fails when used improperly. Look, if you were on the pill and using condoms it would be pretty near impossible to get pregnant. The condom would have to break and you would have had to taken your pills at the wrong time for a few days in order to get pregnant. Now I ask you, what is the likelyhood of that happening? Pregnancy is not that hard to prevent, people are just lazy about birth control.

Answer 14

If pro lifers are willing to subject a child to the suffering of entering the world 'unwanted' and one or both parents the suffering of taking care of an unwanted child, What makes you think they would care if she suffers from crones ?