Should Abortion Be Illegal?

Question

I think it should because even if the child isnt out into the world it is still a living thing. So its like murder. If i were to go to a girl that just delivered a child and shot it so it was dead i would go to prison. But how can doctors get away with it?

Answer 1

You are entitled to your opinion. However, it is a *belief*, not anything based on facts. For instance...suppose you were to take the analogy further. By this logic, a woman who intentionally endangers her fetus would be guilty of child abuse and lose custody of the fetus. So, she would be *forced* by law to have an abortion (or at least to have induced labor, which, in early pregnancy, is the same thing).

And a woman who takes a drug that isn't safe for pregnant women before she realizes she is pregnant could also be charged with child abuse. I'm not saying it ever *would* happen, but it does follow logically from your perspective.

Moreover, your belief is associated with *certain* religions. The US has freedom of religion, so someone who belongs to a different religion would, by your world view, be forced to obey the dictates of your religion even if hers would allow or even require her to have an abortion under certain circumstances.

Women will always choose abortion, even when it is not safe. Back alley abortions--performed by people with little or no training, or even by doctors without proper tools--killed many women in the past. There is no reason to think it would be different in the future. This attitude is what led Representative Barney Frank to state that there are people who believe life begins at conception and ends at birth. You are so concerned about the baby before it is born, but after she is born and grows up, it's fine for her to be killed when she *could* have been treated safely.

The US Supreme Court has decided that a woman's right to control her body overrides the *potential* life of the fetus. You have the right to choose *not* to abort. Other women have the same right to choose what *they* will do. You want to have your rights respected without granting others the same.

Answer 2

Yes. Though it should already be considered illegal due to current laws against murder, especially pre-meditated murder.

For centuries we've known how to create life, so there is no respectable argument concerning ending a life in the womb, where it is most innocent and most vulnerable.

I've always had a strange and unusual idea that if you don't want to pay child support, or if you don't want to get pregnant; you shouldn't have sex. I don't believe in quick-fixes after the fact. I believe that life has consequences, and we should all be taught that from childhood. So we don't have to be torn with wicked decisions in terrible circumstances, we need to know the consequences of our actions first.

Our youth should not know the words "no strings attached". And when the strings come, they shouldn't think that abortion is a cure.

By the way, some will talk about "back alley abortions". They are full of ****. No doctor on earth would harm a pregnant woman. If a woman can shove a coat hanger and stab something to death, she can bear a child, or have a c-section, or offer her child for adoption, or say no to sex(if it's not rape).

Answer 3

Write your local Congressman. As far as it being illegal I don't think so. A person would go to prison because the government automatically assumes that anyone who is pregnant is going to have that child so it is considered "living" as well as wanted. So they'd be charged with two murders. As with a mother aborting her child there are no assumptions, no doubts, it's obvious she doesn't intend on keeping the child. If a mother has aborted her child and gets murdered then there's no life there to be had and so the person would be charged with one murder. Maybe it doesn't make any sense but I'm certain that is how the government comes to the decision to put a criminal in jail and do nothing to a doctor for performing a proper abortion procedure. Frankly, I believe it's a mother's decision. It was her decision, in most cases, to get pregnant so it should be her decision to either have the child or not have it.

Answer 4

Well, when you use the term "legal" then you have to look at WHY it is legal.

Since the women's movement, women have been demanding that they be given more control over their lives: whether or not to have children being one of the main issues. Previously, and still in some states, men can divorce their wives if they do not give birth to their children.

Children are a huge burden and wether we like it or not -- much of that burden is carried by the female: child birth, feeding, and so on are the most obvious ways in which women are directly shouldering the responsibility.

The court has recognized that if women decide not to have children then they should be given the right to avoid child birth. But then the court had to define when does the life of a child begin?

Before the age of viability (which means, when can a fetus survive outside of the womb), the child doesn't legally have a life BECAUSE it is totally unable to survive without the mother. It's like . . . simply another one of her organs. Something growing and changing within her that completely needs her to survive.

And women can have control over their own bodies (and all the organs laying therein). So while the fetus is organi-like, she has the legal ability to stop its growth.

Legally, the argument makes sense.

Answer 5

Think of it this way:


Even if it's illegal, women will go to great lengths to do it anyway, possibly killing themselves (Back alley abortions, doing it illegally with doctors with very little practice, tumbling down stairs, rusty coat hangers, etc, etc, etc). This will kill not only the baby, but themselves as well (This has been proven that more women will die this way).

If it's illegal, women who carry unwanted babies to term, will barely put any effort into raising them (resulting in deliquints and/or drug addicts, and/or drop outs), or put them into adoption (Now think if ten hundred thousand women put their children into adoption. There will be ten hundred thousand more children to be adopted. There is already a surplus of children waiting to be adopted, and many won't be, or will reach legal age before they are. These children will grow up parentless).

If Abortion is illegal, this will prevent abortion, even if it meant saving the mother's life. This will infact increase the death rate of women. Many women who have delibilitating diseases, lupus, diabeties, hypoglycemia, so on and so forth can sometimes have difficulties carrying babies (Not all, some), and it can often threaten the very life of the child. So if they cannot abort the child, they in turn will die, killing both them, and the child (Therefore, in this case, making abortion illegal didn't help anything. It took two lives).

There will be a rapid increase in the death of teenagers. They will result to reason one (Back alley abortions, "Stair falls", unpracticed, unlicensed doctors, etc). This will kill two babies.


I feel that Abortion, when not used as birth control, will help save the lives of many women.

Answer 6

What if you were raped? Every time you looked at that poor baby would you see your attacker? I'm not saying that it's ok for a 16 yr old girl to get an abortion just because she was too stupid to use protection or wait until marriage and she's too lazy to raise a child, but a woman's body is her own. People have to be able to do the right thing on their own, or else what hope is there for mankind?

Answer 7

Sadly, even if it were illegal, it would still be done. It happens where it's illegal in other countries all the time.

I've seen some here say that the Bible doesn't say anything about abortion. They have never read:

Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me; weep for yourselves and for your children. For the time will come when you will say, 'Blessed are the barren women, the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed!' Then they will say to the mountains, "Fall on us!" and to the hills, "Cover us!" For if men do these things when the tree is green, what will happen when it is dry?"

In other words, a woman and her child are tossed when they are producing. (Abortion and rape and murder of teenage girls). What will come of them when they can no longer have children?

Answer 8

You are absolutely right, all murder should be illegal. For proof that abortion IS murder, see:

Photos of Abortions:
http://www.cbrinfo.org/Resources/pictures.html

A Four-Minute, Must-See Video on Abortion:
http://www.abort73.com/HTML/I-A-4-video.html

Information on All Aspects of Abortion:
http://Abort73.com

Photos and Facts About Prenatal Development:
http://www.justthefacts.org/clar.asp
http://www.abort73.com/HTML/I-A-2-prenatal.html
http://www.studentsforlife.uct.ac.za/foetal%20dev%20photos.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/3847319.stm

Pain Perception in the Unborn:
http://www.advocatesfortheinnocent.com/fetalpain.html

You also might want to check out:

Pro-Life Answers to Pro-Choice Arguments:
http://www.deathroe.com/Pro-life_Answers/
http://www.pregnantpause.org/abort/choicarg.htm

Answer 9

Keeping it legal is the lesser of two evils.

There are already millions of children on the planet without parents, and many more without good parents.

It is very bad for society to have millions more uncared for, unloved humans coming into adulthood.
These unloved people tend to be hostile and destructive.

Abortion is not a great thing, but existence isn't about having perfection. Life is about making the best choice under the circumstances.

Forcing people that do not want children to bring them into the world, in the current state of already having millions of un-parented, and under-parented children, is the worse of the two options.

Until we prevent all unwanted pregnancies, abortion will be the lesser of two evils.

Answer 10

what if some one was raped and got pregnant? that's why think that ppl should mind their own business let other people make the choice that best fits their situation you don't know the circumstances may bring or why some one should get an abortion why do you want to decide for the masses what is right or wrong i don't think ppl should be allowed to have multiple abortions unless there are extreme circumstances stoop being so judgmental and try to look at it from other ppls point of view .