Urgent what is your opinion on abortion

Question

i have to talk about and im not sure what side is it killing a human? or is it the womans right?

Answer 1

if you were a faetus would you like to be killed

its one of gods 10 commandments

thy shall not kill

cathlics think strongly against abortion because you are killing someting living

i dont now how its legal

its no differant  than murder.

thats my opinion

Answer 2

Someone suggested to let the fetus be born and ask him/her at age 18 if he/she accepted to be aborted, if agreed, then kill him/her

Answer 3

I believe it's the Womans right. If she wants to have an abortion it's up to her. It's her body, her baby, her choice.

-xox

Answer 4

completely against it and i see it as murder.  

Answer 5

Abortion is unjust. It is not fair to kill anyone who if made and God-given. We as a human have no rights to kill any living species especially human.

Answer 6

every women should have tthe right to decide what happens inside her body.

Answer 7

Well, the bible says thou shall not murder, but look at the crusades! and the sacrifices in the bible! Sounds pretty hypocritical. Personally, I think we should leave the bible out of such decision-making.

Besides, if the parents have the power to give life, shouldn't they have the power to take it away? What's the difference, really, in the fetus dying and not being created in the first place? ESPECIALLY if it's only a few cells big... it wouldn't even have a brain at that point. Sperm die all the time - do we call THAT murder?

Then again, I've never been pregnant, so I probably don't have the proper emotional scope for a proper answer for this.

Just thoughts, don't take me seriously.

:)

Answer 8

An abortion is the killing of unborn child.

Answer 9

I agree with anon. There are only certain cases where it might be acceptable, example a girl who is 12 raped, and gets pregnant.

But it is like killing someone, taking someone's life away when they have not yet had the chance to live it.

It is unfair and a terrible thing to do. It is killing a human being, no matter how you look at it.

<3Alice

Answer 10

Every person alive today was once a "fetus".  Obviously we are separate individuals; not our mothers' bodies. A woman is killing a separate individual; it is not her body that she is killing. We need to tell the truth and admit what our law really says - it's okay to murder your child before it is born. That's what society says is okay to allow. Let's keep it real - we are allowing adults to kill babies as long as it takes place before they're born. Then the moment a baby is born,  there is a big difference in killing a baby - why? -because we can SEE it now? Any of us could have been intentionally killed a few months before we were born. And since we weren't killed, we're alive today to protect ...WHAT? -"rights" of pregnant mothers so they can kill their unborn babies. HOW IRONIC! How about protecting the babies so they can have a life too? We were given that much. Abortion being LEGAL completely blows my mind and says something really selfish and warped about our society.

Answer 11

Anyone who can stand to kill a human is inhuman. Monstrosity. Unforgivable. Malicious. Just because the baby is coming out of the WOMAN'S body that doesn't nessasarily make her the poor child's mother. A mother should be more than a person that gives you birth. A mother is a special title that a woman should use when they've taken mature and loving responsibilty and care towards a young child. Some people are sterile. You must also think about that.

Let's put it another way.

The Nintendo Wiis were out of stock in the US because of the popularity in Europe, but what if everyone with a Wii in Europe decided to damage them to some extent where they could be fixed. The US probably still wouldn't have any on the shelves. There still wouldnt be oppurtunity.

MORAL: Don't be greedy. ABortion is selfless.

Answer 12

in most circumstances i don't agree with it but in the case of rape..or serious health problems for the mother then i think that it is then the mothers decision...i don't think it should be used as a fall back for contraception for people who a child is just an inconvenience for.....i also think that abortion should only be legal up to 12 weeks..my cousin had a baby at 25 weeks and the baby lived so abortion at that stage is murder in my eyes

Answer 13

Depending on society, situation, mentality, belief etc. you can be a killer as well as a woman rightist. You know what you are what's your situation, how much affection you have for your child or if you have the courage to challenge the society that is also woman's right being a single mother.

It's really a tough question. Morality is a factor here. If you think you are just not ready and this, that ....lot of things that goes against you to take care of your child then take any decision. You have that right too. Sometimes morality and rights conflicts but reality wins. This is an example.

Answer 14

I have thought about this quite a bit over the years. The wide spread of opinions is incredible, matched only by the passion of the activists on all sides. This is an issue that few people are even able to have a civilized discussion about. Complicating it further is that there are few that hold a black-and-white view of the issue. The majority of people in the US see abortion as a giant grey area with varying degrees of abortion considered acceptable. Very few people hold the position of unlimited abortion access or no abortion under any circumstances. Below is the process I went through to come up with my position on the matter.

First, I asked myself the question at what point does a human being obtain "personhood" and as such gain all the legal and moral protections that status entitles them to? There are some who say that the point of personhood is 28 days AFTER birth, at which point you still should be allowed to abort. In fact, there is a professor of ethics at Princeton University that actively advocates this position. This is the position that spurred “Born Alive” legislation that says if a woman has an abortion and the baby survives, that doctors cannot withhold care and let the baby die on the operating table. Others say up to the point of birth. These folks, such as Barak Obama, would hold that this type of infanticide as well as partial birth abortion is a reasonable procedure. Or perhaps just before while the mother is in labor. Or 6 months of gestation or 3 months or three weeks. I wrestled with this for a long time.

Then I looked at the issue a different way. Does human life have an imputed value or an intrinsic one? If we say that it is imputed, meaning the value is derived from something else, some outside criteria, then any one of the above positions would be equally valid. We as a society would decide what criteria to select. My problem with this is what criteria do you use? On what basis is a baby at 6 weeks more valuable than a baby at 5 weeks? Is a baby that has not yet developed a heart still a baby? This hit really hard on my wife and I when we lost one of our children. Lynne had a miscarriage a few years ago. When people with strong pro-choice sentiments gave us their condolences, they referred to the fetus as a child, even though she (we named her Grace, even though we do not know for sure if she was a she or a he. It made it easier to explain to the other children what happened and easier for Lynne and I to grieve our loss) was at the same gestational point, 9 weeks, that they believed abortion was merely removing some unwanted tissue of the mother. So, the criteria used is whether or not a child is wanted? If that is so, then why? The characteristics of an object of any sort are not contingent on another persons belief for perception.

By similar logic, if the value of human life is imputed, it can also be taken away, depending on what some person or group of persons believe that life is worth. So if you happen to be mentally retarded or black or Jewish, it would be perfectly reasonable for you to be killed off for the good of the community if they believe it. I have a friend who is paralyzed from the neck down and constantly in pain. There are some in the world who would look at her and say that she has no quality of life or that the money and effort to support her would be better used on others. They would have her die due to her handicap. But knowing her the way I do I find the notion that she is without a quality of life to be ridiculous on its face. She is a writer, a painter, a social worker, and heads up an international charity. I’d call that a pretty good quality of life. So would her husband who married her years after her accident put her in the wheelchair. Thus, the imputed value logic is shown to me to be completely arbitrary. Following any of the “prior to this point it is not human but at this one on it is” positions is likewise arbitrary and is not able to answer the question of personhood.

But consider the proposition that human life has an intrinsic value. That it is valuable simply because it is human life and no other reason. No measure or quantification of the value of it, it is and that is enough. It is sort of like gold. Gold is valuable because it is gold, not because we as a society stood up one day and said, “we are going to make gold valuable”. Gold has an intrinsic value as opposed to an imputed value, such as paper currency. Paper currency is worthless in and of itself. It has value only because we say it has a certain value.

This position then would support a clear line between human life and not human life. With this position, you are a human at the point that you have a unique genetic code. In other words, at conception. Prior to that, there was no “you”. The male and female reproductive components in and of themselves are not a unique genetic code, but merely parts of the donors. It is only when they combine to create new life do “you” begin to be a person.

The notion of intrinsic value also carries forward throughout life. My mother-in-law was on dialysis for several months before diabetes finally took her life. There are many who would have said that she should just die and not burden the rest of us. If those persons held the position that human life has imputed value, I can understand. I however, believe that human life is intrinsically valuable and worth preserving and protecting for as long as possible. Thus, we should protect life at the beginning and at the end and at all points in between. That is why we continued to get her to dialysis until the day she finally passed away.

So, we come full circle back to the question of abortion. Should it be outlawed? My answer, since I believe in the intrinsic value of human life, is that for the most part it should. Why only “for the most part”? Because there are times when you have to weigh the life of two humans and pick one to live and one to die. My sister-in-law faced such a problem once. She got pregnant from her husband and it turned out to be a tubal pregnancy. Had the child been allowed to grow inside of her, it would have killed her before the baby would have been able to survive on its own. Thus, in weighing these two lives, one would have to conclude that the baby would have to die in order to save the mother’s life. What about cases of rape or incest? I have 5 daughters (yes, that was no typo) and the thought of one of them being raped is always lurking in the back of my mind. Statistically speaking, at least one of them will be before they graduate from college. If one of them should get pregnant as a result, the hard decision would be to let that child live. Pregnancy is not the extremely dangerous event of the past. Rarely do people die from giving birth. Many more die as a result of complications after an abortion. But the bottom line is that the child is innocent of any crime, so why punish it? It is a human being of intrinsic value. I’m not saying it is an easy choice and I can certainly sympathize with those who have had to make it. Perhaps they even made the wrong choice. But, God is a loving and forgiving God, who can even forgive the taking of a human life. Which is what abortion is.

Answer 15

How about a foetus is a foetus whereas a child is a child? My body is MY temple and I will do whatever I like with it.

I have a big problem with unprotected s*x which leads to unwanted pregnancies and as a consequence abortion after abortion. People have to start taking responsibility for their actions, nevertheless abortion is every woman's right and it is illustrative of female autonomy over their own bodies.

Answer 16

Let's get it right on the commandment, The literal translation is "You will do no Murder."

With that out of the way, Killing an unborn child, (you may desensitize it and call it a 'fetus', 'viable tissue' or 'that thing')  is the very definition of murder.

I am continually amazed at the number of 'enlightened' people who clammier for the release or 'commutation of sentence' of an convicted murderer, then recommend 'abortion on demand', the right to kill a child that has not only NOT been convicted of any crime, but has not even had an opportunity to even commit a crime.

Am I missing something? It's Wrong to execute a menace to society, but it's O.K. to murder a child who could be the Dr. that cures Cancer?

As far as 'a woman's right', it stops being a woman's right when there are two lives that are effected by the decision.

It was a woman's right to decide prior to penetration.

EDIT: "If a parent has the power to give life should they have the power to take it way?".....Until the Child reaches what Age? That statement sounds like a bad Bill Cosby Joke, or a Religious Lunatics dream.