Do you think abortion should be illegal?

Answer 1

Absolutely not. A woman should ALWAYS have the right to choose. It isn't the government's decision to choose whether or not a woman should carry a baby for 9 months or not. The government just wants to have ultimate power over anytyhing that they can. I am not saying that is what I would do, but I believe I should be given the option to if I don't want to have a baby growing inside my body for 9 months. Pro-choice, all the way.

Answer 2

No. people get murdered all the time, but all people want to do is scream about the wrongs of abortion. It's the womans right to choose, if someone chooses to have an abortion then that is their sin, they will get punished for it in the afterlife ( if you believe that). Now if the woman gets raped or has pregancy problems then I don't think that would be a sin, if they got an abortion. Some woman think it is wrong, but others do not. Women have been through centuries of giving birth, not at their own choice, because they had no choice, because they had to get married. If their is no abortion, then the highest death for women would be childbirth and their would be more children in foster care and some of those children might be abused and not taken care of. Some of them might grow up to be criminals and kill children of people that did want children. Also their are alot of deadbeat fathers and it takes two people to make a baby and if the woman has to be a single mother, then she should have support from the father (and alot of men don't want to deal with that and they do nothing).

Answer 3

a year ago i would have said yes, no matter what since adoption was an option. Then I got pregnant with some twins and got very very ill. I already have one son, and i was going to die *according to my doctor* if i kept these children. if i had went full term they may have lived, but would have had brain damage and i would not have survived labor, i wasn't strong enough. So, i had an abortion. A week later i started to recover *the illness was caused by basically an allergic reaction to the hormones* but i walked with a cane for months and still don't feel fully recovered..
so i suppose my answer is no, not illegal, but it must be justified, none of this birth control related abortion crap. I would love to have those twins right now, but i had to choose between them surviving and all 3 kids not having a mother, or my life and the ability to raise my son.. i think i choose right, and even though i don't believe in god i hope those baby's souls are somewhere happy right now.
*i would like to also mention that i am married and was on birthcontrol when i got pregnant, the shot to be exact and it didnt work right*

Answer 4

This is a tough question for me. Even though I'm a conservative in some things, I have mixed feelings about this. I would like to say, if a woman is healthy and the baby will be healthy, then not to allow the abortion. However, there are some circumstances that I'm not sure about, such as if the woman or girl has been raped. But if the baby can be alright, perhaps it can live in a home where someone will still love and take care of it. I believe life is too precious to be snuffed out, just because a woman had sex and got pregnant.

Also to me, the time of pregnancy is important. I don't know much about abortion, technically speaking, but if the baby can be aborted very early in the pregnancy, where it is not quit a living organism, then perhaps it can be done. But if the baby is far enough along to be living and growing inside the mother, then I can see how it might be considered murder to some.

But this is just my humble opinion, and I'm not really that knowledgeable about it.

Answer 5

Absolutely not.

In countries where it is illegal, women are more likely to die from complications of such "illegal abortions," more likely not to be able to conceive again, and more likely to suffer other health problems.

I think that a woman should have many rights, the first being control over her own body. Making abortion illegal relegates women to a role of incubators for the state.

Answer 6

I think it should be legal only when its medically necessary. Even in the case of rape and incest victims, how would they prove it? How do you prove you've been raped? I guess you could offer it as an option only to the girls who get rape kits done, that would be the fairest way. Victims of rape and incest only account for 10% of abortions, anyway. I think that is a stupid reason to make something legal. I don't think the supreme court justices wanted abortion on demand, or women having four, five even six abortions. That's not medically necessary. That's lack of birth control, and self-control. There should be a limit to the number of abortions you are allowed, and when you can have them. If a woman is nine months pregnant, she can have an abortion, but if she has a preemie and kills it moments after it leaves the birth canal, it's murder. It's faulty logic.

Answer 7

I definitely think it should be illegal to have an abortion. I feel that if a woman goes out and doesn't take every precaution not to get pregnant, then they should deal with the consequences. There are many people in this world that can't have children that miss out on child birth and adolescence of a teenager and watching them grow and have children of their own. So if a "woman" doesn't want to take on responsibilities that are hers, then why kill the child? Why not want it to have a happy and productive life?

Answer 8

I am a christian torn, i know that we are supposed to be againsed abortion alltogether, yet what about women who are raped and given the morning after pill, or young girls who are way to young to think about having kids? or a woman, a christian who i knew who was pregnant and found aout that she had a medical condition that put her and the baby at risk, she was told that the baby was severly deformed and would not survive outside the womb? the problem is that if you ban all abortion, you could be putting womens lives at risk, but if there is not some limit, i beleive it is wrong to have an abortion simply because it is the wrong sex, i actually saw that happen.

Answer 9

I really think it depends. I think that if a women is ready to have sex, protected or not, she needs to take care of her responsibilities. I know too many women who are just out to have a good time and if they get pregnant they just have an abortion, I totally disagree with that.

However the exception is rape. If a woman is raped and gets pregnant then she should have the right to choose. The rape is trauma enough, let alone giving birth to a child fathered by the rapist, that would just be a constant reminder.

Answer 10

No. Abortion within first two months to avoid birth of an unwanted child and abortion to save the life of the mother should not be disallowed. But abortion even at the risk of jeopardising the life of the mother is a double crime!

Answer 11

To anyone who would answer this question with

"Yes! It is murder!"

Let me pose to you this philosophical point:

YOU believe it is murder. With what arrogance and by what right can you enforce your beliefs on others who do not share them?

What in the world do you think wars are fought over? People forcing their beliefs on others. No, abortion isn't something people will fight wars over, but that way of THINKING, IS. Why perpetuate it?

You are foolish and narrow minded and usually, I refrain from posting such powerful judgements against people but I cannot bear to see people force their beliefs on others.

I find abortion to be abhorrent, and the thought of killing and unborn baby makes me want to lose my lunch. I will not, however, then turn around and make abortion illegal, because sometimes it is necessary - and it is not my right to make that choice for ANYONE.