With the exception of rape and incest, (of course, I mourn for any women who has experienced either) sex is a choice. It is a decision a man or woman makes concerning their bodies. Especially with todays common knowledge of sex, neither could clame ignorance of the subject. Why would requiring people to take responsibility of their actions be unconstitutional? Illegalizing abortion would not mean women have to have sex.
Where in the constitution does it say "all have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness without reprocusions or responsibilities" ? Where does it say that "privacy" excludes one from responsibility?
Thank you, in advance, for all and any answers. I appreciate your time.
2006-06-10 13:42:53 · 8 answers · asked by man_id_unknown 4 in Social Science ➔ Gender Studies
I think that abortion is still killing a baby, if they didn't want a baby they shouldn't have done baby making. Note I said "Baby Making" not sex. So I think they are calling it unconstitutional because they are either trying to shirk their responsibility for what they did, or they truely believe that that abortion is not murder. Both are wrong in my opinion.
2006-06-10 13:48:33 · answer #1 · answered by Me 2 · 1⤊ 5⤋
"Some say", the classic framing of the straw man argument.
Yes, sex is a choice, but it's a choice in the same sense that eating or drinking or going to the bathroom are choices. Humans need sex for our own psychological health. Asking humans to go without sex is like asking a dog to be a vegetarian or a cow to be a carnivore. It's asking us to do something entirely against our natures, and it makes those who do it for too long depressed and unstable.
You claim to object to irresponsibility. Aren't there situations where having the child is in fact the irresponsible choice? If a mother of two making $15,000 a year discovers she's pregnant, and the choice is between having an abortion and keeping the children she has, or having the third child and being forced to surrender all three to the perils of the foster care system because she can't afford to feed them all, even with food stamps and welfare and such, which is the more responsible choice?
2006-06-10 13:55:32 · answer #2 · answered by Guelph 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Nothing is more private than a person's body. How dare anyone tell me what I can do to my body? If I do not have free choice and cannot make my own decisions do I have freedom? Does anyone tell men that they cannot have a vasectomy if they want one? The decision to have an abortion should be between a woman and her Dr., nobody else.
2006-06-10 13:47:03 · answer #3 · answered by notyou311 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The "Pursuit of Happiness" covers that also there is the freedom to live your life how you want to live it. If you want to have unprotected sex then you get pregnant you ARE responsible for the result, whether you terminate the pregnancy or opt for adoption or have the child it is your choice. No one should be able to force you to have a child, that IMO is rape of another kind.
2006-06-10 13:47:42 · answer #4 · answered by nevyn55025 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Making abortion illegal impedes on a woman's right to choosing what she does with her body. You cannot take away a person's right to choose, I don't care who you are. The government is becoming overly controlling of people's daily lives. Communism isn't a good thing, in any form.
2006-06-10 13:45:35 · answer #5 · answered by Chelle 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Abolishing abortion is a violation of a woman's constitutional right. It is her body, and she should have the right to do as she pleases with it. As long as the baby's father agrees with her decision because I think he should have a say in the matter.
2006-06-10 13:45:34 · answer #6 · answered by Pirate_Wench 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because I personally think that it would be very subtracting to women's rights. It's HER body, she should do what she likes with it.
2006-06-10 14:13:08 · answer #7 · answered by Penelope L 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
sheesh, because it's so obvious that killing an unborn child is so totally freedom of speech...in a non-verbal way of course...
just so nobody thinks i'm a baby killer...there was sarcasm in my voice here...
2006-06-10 13:44:56 · answer #8 · answered by alfjr24 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋