What is your stance on abortion and why???

Question

Please describe in detail why you think abortion should be legal or illegal.

Answer 1

Was it legal when Susan Smith strapped her two young sons and drove her car off into a lake and drowned them? No! She's going to spend the rest of her life in prison (she should have gotten the needle). Then it should not be legal for someone to kill a child before she has a chance to be outside in this world.

Should we kill a child if the mother was raped? No! I would be glad to adopt that child, and I'm sure that millions of others would do the same. There are millions of couples out there who cannot, for one reason or another, have children on their own. Adoption of a great alternative to abortion.

Murder is Murder!

Answer 2

Are you asking whether people approve abortion? Or whether they think the government should be in the business of deciding who can and who cannot be pregnant.

My personal position on abortion is irrelevant. The thing about the abortion debate is that the two sides are arguing entirely unrelated issues. Pro-life people say "abortion is bad". Pro-choice advocates say "The government should be making personal decisions that like". It's not about abortion. It's about who gets to make the decisions. The question distills down to this: someone is going to choose.

It's either going to be the individual, or it's going to be the majority (through enacted laws). If the majority gets to choose, then they are effectively imposing their belief system -- which is almost always religiously-based -- on everyone.

Right now, the conservatives happen to be in the majority, so many of them seem to have no objection to imposing their religious and moral views on others. But allowing the government to choose is not making being be responsible. In fact, it is abdicating personal responsibility to the to the government. But that is not a solution to any of the real issues. It's just replacing one situation with an even worse problem.

Do you really want to abdicate that much of your personal freedom and choice to a group of politicians? Do people really want to live in a country where state legislatures can decide who can be pregnant, and who cannot, and who must? Do people really have that much trust and faith in government that they think the legislature will always make the right choices? Because we'll be stuck with those decisions.

The concept of reproductive freedoms is not whether you agree with the individual choices being made. It's whether you think the government should have the right to take away and mandate those choices.

Why can't people understand that freedom of choice is not a minority value, even if the majority happens to disagree with the minority's choice?

Answer 3

Abortion just because one didn't use protection and got pregnant from stupidity and no other reason is wrong. Abortion for valid medical reasons, such as to save a mother's life, or the baby is severly malformed, or doesn't have a chance at life should be legal. Today's society is too easy to accept the quick-and-easy methods and options put in front of it by the feminist view of a woman having complete say over what she does with her body and that life she helped start.

Answer 4

First of all, when abortions were illegal, women still got them.

Just because you make it illegal doesn't mean you've stopped it (may I remind you about Prohibition?)

As far as an operation goes, it should be as safe as any oepration can be.

If you want to reduce abortions (as you will never get rid of it) reduce the need for it, by having, in the schools, a comprehensive sex education program. Full awareness of what goes on would increase responsibility.

And there will always be jerks out there anyway who confuse love and sex. At least have a firm understanding of what goes on down there.

Reduce the societal pressures to have sex as soon as possible, since a lot of people see in TV and the movies, people screwing their brains out with little or no true consequences.

Alter one's perception of women from a brood mare for the state to an equal partner with men.

Treat rape for what it is, a crime of assault and not passion. If I conk you with a bottle, it's assault. If I conk you with my Johnson, it's sex (Pssst! No, it's not; it's still assault. I'm just using a different weapon)

Answer 5

I used to adamantly against it, but my spiritual beliefs on the subjects of life and death have recently been expanded, so I am more open minded now.

I believe that it should be legal.

I believe this, from a spiritual perspective, because God gave us the free will to make our own choices.

Free will does not begin with life in this physical incarnation. It began far before that. As souls in the spiritual dimension, we choose to live a physical incarnation on earth. Just as we choose to live, we also choose, at the soul level, our time and manner of death. That includes unborn children.

Upon the death of this physical incarnation, our souls return to the spiritual dimension where once again, we choose whether or not to physically incarnate.

The death of anyone affects all those who learn about it. So, no life is ever in vain.

This is probably a much more esoteric answer than you were looking for in this section, but it's my opinion on the subject. I don't think it's possible to separate the moral and legal implications of the abortion issue.

Answer 6

I think it is a woman's choice. Men can't say anything about it, they'll never know what it's like to give birth or anything. Now, if a woman keeps screwing around and getting pregnant only to get an abortion, then yeah, that's bad and she should use protection. But really, do you want a bunch of little 11 year olds getting raped and having kids?
Everyone might have an accident and not mean to get pregnant. No, it shouldn't be illegal.

Answer 7

This, obviously, is a very important question on a great many levels, and because it's such an important question both personally and societally, I think the choice MUST remain with the individual on such a personal matter. No institution, govermental, legal, or religious, should be able to dictate to a woman that she must or must not carry out a pregnancy to term.

I think that in some ways the arguments and often violent opposition put forth by anti-abortion forces is a red herring. The issue isn't about life or death of a fetus but about control; control of women, who have been long regarded as property by men, and who are now seen as a threat to the patriarchical hold that men have held over much of society for so long. Just as the anti-gay and anti-same sex movements are not so much about opposing homosexuality proper, but about a perceived feminization of society and consequent loss of control by men in power.

What it boils down to is the freedom of choice of women to control their sexual and bodily rights, sexual choices, legal and human rights, property rights (some of the most vocal anti-abortionists are people who also want to see women's property rights in divorces and within marriage itself severely curbed), and their own destinies as individuals. Many people want to turn back the clock to a time when women had few or no rights at all.

I think women have been given a shitty deal for far too long. They should have complete, legal equality in all aspects of life, and they should not have the beliefs of others imposed on such a personal aspect of life.

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Answer 8

I have the same stance as God. God invented abortion in the form of miscarriage and I know why. God knows that a child is more than an body. The only part of the Child that is human is the soul.
There are two types of Gods. There is the hateful god of the pro life movement and the all loving and all powerful God of the pro choice movement.
The pro life god fears man, hates abortion and leads the killing of doctors and the bombing of hospitals. The pro choice God is a loving all powerful God. This God knows that if a child does not have everything it needs to have a good life then it may suffer. This God sees abortion as a tool to make the world a better place. This God does not fear abortion because he invented abortion. This God does not kill in abortion, he takes the soul of the fetus and holds it in his protection.
The god of the pro choice anti Christ movement allows the fetus's soul to be killed. He is a hateful god. I cannot follow him, therefore I am pro choice.

Answer 9

It should only be legal for medical reasons. I have had first hand experience when abortion should be legal. I ended up not having an abortion, but being induced for medical reasons for my baby, but if I was further along than I was, I would have to have an abortion.
For an unwanted pregnancy it should be illegal. Give the baby up for adoption for mothers wanting babies but can't.

Answer 10

The birth control methods we have today make abortion unnecessary. Using your brains before using your sex organs permits you to keep from getting pregnant. Why should an innocent life be taken because of someone being irresponsible?? Abortion is murder. Once conception takes place there is a life form. The woman's right to control her own body stops when she fails to use precautions before having sex. Where rape or incest is involved or a medical problem then termination is ethical.