What do you think is the best solution to prevent people from wanting to get an abortion?

Question

I think the US government should have some sort of charity that helps the couple or woman know her choices, and open up adoption, health care, and support and homes just in case they are raped and turned out of their family. I believe if there was more of these support groups rather than things like Planned Parenthood (I think they help you get an abortion, am I right?) I think there would be less lives lost. If we can't make it illegal with peace, we can at least peacefully talk people out of it, because not everyone believes it is wrong, but they do want peace and comfort. So what would be the best way to help young mothers who are abused or just don't want the child and still save the unborn baby?

I don't know about the birth control solution... I don't like it, and it's already known pretty well anyway. Let's think community...

I def don't think we should make contraception too out of reach, because that is an invasion of privacy but it's not a solution that can work all the time... not a good one.

To that one person... yes I am younger than you, but wisdom IS NOT ALWAYS associated with age, and what you talk about is very pessimistic, we can't just shove an unborn baby out like they are nothing.

Answer 1

The best way is to make birth control readily available and teach everyone how to use it. It's too late once they're already pregnant.

Edit: You may think that everyone knows about birth control, but they don't. More than half of all abortions are performed on women who were actively using birth control during the month of conception, but clearly using it incorrectly. How about the other half? They didn't have access to it. If everyone had access to birth control and knew how to use it, there wouldn't be abortions, at least not at the rates we have now.

Answer 2

You sound very young so I will try to be gentle in my responce. I work in the medical field and I am alot older than you. I remember when abortion was illegal. 12 yr old babies going to back street abortionists and bleeding to death. Woman never able to have children because of massive infections. The woman today who think that abortion should be outlawed again need to look at the history of this subject. They seem to think that some women think of abortion as birth control. They are so-o- wrong!! A woman does NOT have an abortion lightly. It is a very difficult decision. Maybe if this country wasn't so uptight about things involving sex it would be easier.
The morning after pill is one solution. A fertilized egg is not yet a person. The Catholic Church always taught that the fetus became a person when the first breath was taken. And that was at birth, not conception. This is a difficult subject but women always had ways to abort an unwanted pregnancy mostly involving herbs

Answer 3

Here are some alternatives.

1. Make abortion illegal.
- This doesn't work, people get aborted illegallly.

2. Make abortion cost a lot.
- Still doesn't work, they get abortion from backally.

3. Birth control.
- Proven doesn't work all the time.

4. Tubes tied.
- Ethical problems, and no law to force it to happen.

5. Adoption
- This might be the best way, if the mother doesn't want the kid, but could see some profit in it. Then she might have the kid and put it up for adoption. Making babies for pay, is it more wrong than abortion? There could be a law that if the mother puts the child up for adoption, that she also has to get tubes tied, another ethical delima.

Answer 4

I think if the conservatives stayed out of peoples bedrooms, now the religious right is going after birth control saying it causes an abortion which is BS, maybe there would be fewer.

Pregnant women are not baby factories for the wealthy, and you hear people here complain daily about poor people, when it is their backs they got their money from, do you really think a woman wants to live in poverty?

The right wants to control the access to birth control, and want to have the final say of a child having a child, but then complain when a pregnancy is terminated!

I think the Religious right should only be allowed to have sex only if they are trying to conceive!!

Answer 5

It's a individual choice! So whether or not you agree....

If a woman wants a abortion ....she's going to get one!!

If a woman wants to give it up for adoption ....then she's going to give it up for adoption!!

Why would a woman who can't afford a child, provide a home for a child or who is raped. & pregnant from that rape...have the baby much less have it & give it up for adoption??? Why??

So it can be harder on her to deal with emotionally?????
No, I'm sorry but that isnt going to happen!!

It's not a choice that some group can make, and by the way ........there are options provided to women who seek abortions and they are given other ways, or means of going about the pregnancy ...i.e.. adoption..they are given time to explore & think about what they really want to do...and even after that, they are asked again if it's something they have thought about & really want to do

Take it from someone who knows.............

Answer 6

**I would agree that Planned Parenthood doesn't counsel women or young teenagers enough of their althernatives when they are already pregnant unless times have changed from when i was a teen. As for BC's they just handed you a pack of pills and said follow the cycle and handed out a pamphlet. so alot of young teenagers and women have no clue on how to use it and have it work effectivley resulting in unwanted and unplanned pregnancies.. However on the subject of abortions,if you think most women just have an abortion just for the heck of it.. you are wrong! For most women it's the hardest decision in their life to make, especially for the woman was raped, or impregnated by incese etc.. should they suffer the consequences..No! Abortion affects women physically, emotionally, and spiritually. As for young teenage girls, they probably don't have the support of their parents, making it a hard and emotional decision on what to do, they don't know where to seek for help, resulting in abortions..However support groups and counseling could make a huge difference in the numbers of abortions each year?! .

Answer 7

Do you have any idea what percentage of pregnancies are caused by rape? I don't either but my guess is practically nil.
Yes it would be good to have more alternatives available to abortion and for those of us who are pro life we would be willing to pay additional taxes for facilities to offer alternatives to young unmarried women. But responsibility needs to come in somewhere. fr_chuck is right. What is really needed is for a renewal or revamping of moral values. Just go back to the questions in this forum and read some of the questions posted by 12, 13, 14 yr old girls. What is wrong with this picture? The number one support group should be the home and the church.
But it's up to parents to insure that children have both. This is a long term problem and requires a long term solution. It takes young people recognizing it before they become parents themselves and committing themselves to raising children with character and moral values, in the church. Just my opinion. Of course a few athiests will follow behind me and take a few shots but that's ok.

Answer 8

Well, I think that plan B should be available over the counter. This should pose no ethical dilemma since it's only hormones and it prevents IMPLANTATION, therefore it prevents abortion and is not in of itself an abortion since pregnancy begins at implantation. Fertilized eggs are lost all the time naturally.
Anyway, I know that if a woman has an abortion, she has an almost 50% chance of having to get another one, and sometimes even another and another and another and another. --Alan Guttmacher Institute(research arm of Planned parenthood).
So the best way of preventing abortion, in my humble opinion, is by not getting a first one.

Answer 9

Actually, Planned Parenthood does do this. They offer counselling to women in difficult situations and help them to be aware of all their options. They offer abortion as an option and perform them, but they also make women aware that it isn't their only choice. There are also various organizations that discourage women from getting abortions.

Answer 10

It is the lack of morality and responsiblity, americans want to blame someone else, have an instant fix and take no overall responsiblity for thier own actions.

We have to start teaching morality and responsiblity, but that is unconstitntuional since in America people are now suppose to be immoral and allow the government take care of them.
( thought that was socialism /?)