Are you pro life or pro choice? Why?

Answer 1

I am pro-life.

First, abortion is one of the worst violations of a woman's body. It is a violation of the most significant ability that woman have that men do not have, the ability to bear children. Bearing children is a unique and precious gift and it is wrong to subject that gift to a notion of personal choice when only women can exercise that ability. A man who wants to produce children cannot have them on his own; he must find a woman who is willing to bear the child for him. I also don't understand how any woman can be comfortable with the idea of having another person rip things out of the most intimate part of her body.

Second, it's an affront on all civil rights. The right to life is the most basic civil right. If one cannot live, one cannot exercise any other rights (including the "right" to have an abortion).

Third, it doesn't solve or cure anything. The woman who has been raped and becomes pregnant cannot be unraped by aborting her child. In fact, she will have the double burden of having been raped and having killed her own child. You cannot heal the damage of violence by causing more damage. At least by having the child she can experience a love that can heal the pain of the rape. Also, nowhere else do we kill children for the crimes of their parents.

Finally, abortion is usually justified by suggesting that the unborn child is not a person and not worthy of legal recognition. The same logic was used to justify slavery and the Holocaust. More importantly, if we allow the law to recognize any human being as not being a person, that could be applied to newborn babies, to the elderly and to the mentally handicapped. Any person would be at risk, at some point in his life, of being put to death on the personal choice of another.

Notice I have not invoked religious teaching in any of this. In a nutshell, it boils down to recognizing that the unborn child is a human being worthy of the same rights and protections as a child who has been born.

Answer 2

I am completely against people using abortion as a form of birth control. I absolutely agree that people have a choice about whether they want to be pregnant or not, but they make that choice when they decide to have sex. If you have sex, you should be willing to deal with the consequences.

Nevertheless, there are some unforeseen circumstances, such as when the mother's life is in danger, where an abortion might be okay. Imagine if a woman gets pregnant, for example, and then finds out that she will die, leaving her husband and her other kids, if she carries her baby to term. Should she carry the baby and die or have an abortion and stay with her family? I think it's a decision only the couple can make, with lots of prayer, but I'd like to leave the option open.

In addition, as a pragmatist, I know that people will be having abortions anyway, whether they're legal or not. There will always be girls who want to abort their babies. However, if they use the back alley coat-hanger method or whatever, they run the risk of losing their own lives in addition to the life of the baby. So I'd like to keep it legal to protect the lives of people who would have abortions anyway.

In short, if there's a choice between completely allowing it and completely outlawing it, I'd rather be pro-choice. However, I am thoroughly against using abortion as a form of birth control. Anyone who has an unwanted pregnancy can give up the baby for adoption.

Answer 3

While I beleive that abortion is wrong, its NOT the same thing as murder. My personal beliefs are more in tune with the pro - life people but I think an out right ban on abortion is wrong too. In too many cases abortions are necessary. If going through with a pregnancy will harm the mother (and thus potentially harm the fetus itself) then an abortion should be permitted.

I believe that the mother's well being is more important than the fetuse's. Since the fetus cannot survive without its mother, we must take care of the mother first. This not only includes her physical well being, but also her emotional well being. Thus is a fetus was conceived through rape or incest, it would be terrible to tell a woman that she cannot have an abortion.

For this reason I would NEVER vote pro - life, and only vote pro - choice.

If the pro - lifers truly want to make a difference, and want to reduce the number of abortions performed in this country, they would work to encourage birth control, safe sex, adoption as well as financial support for young (single) parents so that they will not feel compelled to choose abortion. If the pro - choicers are REALLY about choice, and not just free access to abortion they would co - operate with hte pro - lifers in this area.

It seems that both sides of this debate have become so myopic that they hae both forgotten what they are debating about.

Answer 4

Pro life---
because
1. Pro life-gives everyone a choice.
2. Pro choice- only gives one person a choice.
3. Babies feel the pain when they are killed.
Everyone who is Pro-choice , their mother was not- they should be thankful.

That's an easy choice for me

Answer 5

pro-choice because pro-lifers are hypocrites . If they honestly and truly believed that life is sacred they would all be vegetarians, anti-war activists , and come out in force every time the state executed some body. In all those cases innocent lives are lost.. or to paraphrase Orwell in Animal Farm "is some life more sacred than others"
Pro-life is not about the fetus,it's about the sexual behavior that leads up to the creation of the fetus. If the pro-lifers were so against abortion you would expect them to fund sex education classes and pass out condoms in front pf high schools. They don't
Pro-lifers out there answer this question without using a lot of bs rhetoric:
You've talked a young woman out of having an abortion, what are you going to do with the child? Are YOU going to feed it , clothe it, house it ,love it, educate it,? support and pay for programs that will do those things for mother and child or are you going to be smugly satisfied that saving the child was enough?

Answer 6

I am pro-life. I really still dont see it as a choice, i see it as murdering a human life. I have an unborn child that is about 2-4 weeks along and if anyone hurt it, i would be crushed and call it murder. I know about all the different situations like how a mother can't raise a child, but adoption is better than death. I know our foster children services are very shady in the States, i am a youth minister and i have serval Foster kids and there lives they live is are just terrible at times, but still they would rather be alive than dead. And also at the same time i understadn that at times you have to choose between a mothers life and a babies, and i really cant decide that, i know that seems like a weakness in the arguement, but still if there has to be a death, who decides that? But i just believe in not murdering a child. Not trying to argue just trying to give my point of view,
Thanks for reading my response,
Matt

Answer 7

I am pro-choice, although I don't like abortion. I especially disapprove of abortion as a means of birth control (although I feel that that is a very small minority of abortions). There are valid reasons for abortion, and it's never an easy decision for a woman to make--I don't feel I have the right to make that decision any harder than it already is, or to take it away altogether.

As a male, I'm never going to have to make that choice, but I don't think I have the right to make that choice on behalf of another person whose situation I know nothing about. I think that everyone who doesn't actively oppose abortion is pro-choice, even if it's just passively.

Answer 8

In the context of your question I am pro life. I agree that women should have the right to choose what happens to her body. She does not, however, have the right to choose what happens to someone else's body.

The time to choose what will happen to her body is before she engages in sex. (Yes there are cases of incest and rape where she has no control but the vast majority of abortions occur because of convenience, not because of rape or incest) The new life in her body was invited by her to be there as a result of her actions.

If she has made a mistake then why should someone else, the baby, be made to pay for her mistake? Does that sound fair?

The law is even ambiguous about this issue. Why is it if a pregnant woman is killed in a car accident by a drunken driver the drunken driver can be charged with 2 homicides by vehicle? Is it because the mother wanted to have the baby and that's what makes it human but if she wants to abort, it mysteriously it isn't a human? The value of the baby is up to the whims and emotions of one person?

And what about the father? He has absolutely no say. If the mother decides to kill his child that is perfectly alright. But if she decides to keep the baby she can go after him for support for the child. I think he should have to support the baby but, again, it's all up to the opinion of the woman. What an awesome power to have; to be able to decide death or life based on whatever whim you have at that time. This is a power not seen since the days of the emperors of the collesiums.

Whatever argument you can come up with to be pro choice the basic argument against it is that an inoccent baby is going to be made to pay for the offenses of someone else. Instead of making the baby pay with it's life, maybe we need to find ways of welcoming and loving the child. Wow, wouldn't that be different?

Answer 9

I'm conservatively pro-choice but I believe the laws need to be altered to stop abuse of the concept. Abortion should be reserved for unusual circumstances, not because of a 'whoops' pregnancy. I think that alteration would be a painful task. What level of genetic deformity is allowed and what isn't? Should a woman be allowed to abort even if the father is found innocent of rape? If a man gets a woman pregnant and then they separate, what rights does he have to make sure his child lives? Etc.

I think everything needs to be tightened up but other things need to change too. For example, dropping abstinence only education is a waste of money, resources, and only results in increased rates of teen pregnancy. When you fail to teach teens of the realities of sex, they will make more stupid choices when (not if) they break the abstinence pledge.

Answer 10

Pro-life. The child has done nothing wrong. In my belief if you did not want the child to begin with don't go out and have sex. Now in the cases of rape. The child is did not do anything to hurt you. If you do not want the child give it up for adoption there are many people in this country who wants children but cant they would adopt the child. There are better options then killing a life.