Why would abortion be a "right" of women?

Question

While undergoing genital mutilation, having sex selected abortions, sexual slavery, burkas, and legal murder of daughters or wives be considered a "cultural difference".
Is a right something that extends beyond borders or is it only an "American woman's right?

this question is misunderstood or not even being read.
I don't want to hear any crap spoonfed to you through Planned Parenthood and NOW.
What I am asking is
IS ABORTION A RIGHT OF WOMEN, BEING AN EXTENDED GLOBAL RIGHT OF ALL HUMANS? OR IS IT A CULTURAL RIGHT?
FROM THE ANSWERS TO THE QUESTION --ESPECIALLY THOSE WHO AGREE WITH ABORTION,
IT IS NOT A RIGHT AT ALL, AND THEY KNOW IT.
So, if it is NOT a right in america, but a privilage, than the majority rule can take it away if they wanted to in a democracy, and have every "right" to do so.

Catrett:
the medical establishment never denies that an embryo, a fetus, from the moment of conception to birth is ALIVE.
Why in the world would a scientific body believe that something suddenly springs to life starting at 27 weeks gestation...does that make any sense?
The medical establishment doesn't BELIEVE anything when it comes to the baby except that it is permitted under law to destroy it, KILL it under 27 weeks gestation. The medical establishment knows more than your common person what the fetus does and is aware of in the first and second trimesters.
YOu are confusing militant abortion advocates who like to deny the humanity and even the, let's say, worth of life of the fetus with the medical establishment.
I think it is highly unfortunate that even you , someone who is against abortion,
believes that the abortion advocate's politics of deceit are ingrained in scientific fact.

Answer 1

Genital mutilation, abortions for sex selection, sexual slavery and human trafficking, and murdering daughters or wives (along with the trend of self-immolation, where women who probably would be murdered by their families instead set themselves on fire) are NOT considered mere cultural differences. I don't know what planet you're living on. Those are gross violations of human rights.

The exception is the wearing of the burkah or hijab, if the woman's faith so dictates and if she is free to do so. That's fine--if she is free to do so. Forcing her, and jailing women who refuse or who wear nail polish, as is done in Iran, is not acceptable.

So I'm not sure what argument you're trying to make at all. None of those things are acceptable, none of them are seen merely as cultural practices. Women's rights groups and human rights groups around the world are working hard to eliminate those practices, and many are also working to bring safe methods of birth control and, yes, legal abortion to parts of the world without those resources.

Answer 2

Because to force a woman to go through something that might harm her as well as the pregnancy she is carrying is ludicrius and antiquated and used by the men rule mentality. Because if abortion is made illegal it will not stop abortions it will only send them back into the alleys and tennements where not only is the pregnancy terminated but more often than not the women's life as well. At least with legal abortions the one's doing them are qualifed to do so. If abortions are made illegal again the only qualifications the person doing the deed will most likely have is the ability to read parts of an anatomy book and to take the woman's money. Whether she bleeds to death or not as a result of a botched abortion will have no meaning to that person.

Answer 3

Rights in their most respected form are based on pieces of paper, on which the deciding people have put their names after the explanation of the right. Therefore, women don't have the right to abortion unless these pieces of paper say they do, and the deciding people in the womans country obey the piece of paper, which may also be a mere lump of 1s and 0s in an electronic environment...

If talking ACTUAL rights, of course it is a right of a woman to decide she does not want to produce a human life. As long as there's a reason good enough for her and at least 1 sane person.

Naturally, everyone else has the paper right to express their views about it with non-punishable aggression, and insane people have the twisted right to go beyond that due to immunity against law.

The point being:
Do what you want with your body and things growing in it, but the consequences may hurt you way more than having the baby.

Answer 4

While I truly have every moral fiber in body twinge in disgust to think that someone would ever have an abortion....I also must respect the fact that we are a free religion nation, and thus our laws should not be based on our religion, but logic.

If the medical society says that a child is not alive until the third trimester, then legally, it is not a human being, and it is not murder to have an abortion.

I simply hope that all the mothers to be will have some morals in common with me and choose not to ever have an abortion.

Answer 5

The US government extends to a woman the freedom to have an abortion and the freedom to not have an abortion. This freedom is a choice. When you see it this way, you can see that the killing of the unborn child is a personal choice. Personally, I believe the people that will pay dearly for killing an unborn child is the woman herself and the person that performs the act.

Answer 6

Of course abortion is a natural right. Abortion like birth is a natural process that was designed by God for protection of the human race. And god gave us a brain to know that abortion is not murder. The Gods of some religions claim that abortion is murder. In fact some sects of the Christian religion believe it is murder. But my God is an all powerful God that can take the soul of the fetus and protect it while at the same time letting the fetus be aborted. My God is powerful enough to and smart enough to know when a birth is wrong for the human race. My God allows women to go into prayer and ask when it is right to abortion.
My God is a thoughtful God, he warns that those who claim to be using his name without telling the truth will be punished. That is why the pro life movement does not like my God, Christ. Christ is a God of love and thoughfullness. Whereas the god of the pro life movement is a god of hate that condones the killing of doctors and the bombing of hospitals. The pro life god wants to take away free will and the best way he can do that is to make abortion against the law.
We all have a chance to protect the natural God given right to abortion. But the anti god following pro life movement wants to take it away. I say we should reject their god and follow our God who protects our rights.

Answer 7

It is not a "right". It is a choice. The woman has a choice, the baby does not. No matter how many debates we have here, the fact is, the woman chooses what she does with her body. Religion or the lack of it may play a role, but in the end, it is always the woman's choice.

Answer 8

What, do you think that you have more of a right to decide what happens to my body than I do? A clump of cells and tissue is not a child, and it's a woman's right to decide if she wants those things to develop into a kid. Denying abortion would be similar to saying that menstruation and masturbation are murder, because both lead to viable "future children" being killed.

My body, my rules.

Answer 9

Your question and what you added are not making sense together.

Abortion is one of those issues that will never be all black and white. There are so many other factors. Was she raped by her father? Will she die if she gives birth?

Maybe the real question is, Who are we to judge? Maybe we should spend more time accepting one another and less time bashing. Maybe, just maybe we should try walking a mile in the person's shoes before we open our mouths.

Answer 10

Abortion is no ones right. It is murder. We hear all this crap about rights, well what about the rights of the child? What about the right to be born? Every child that is aborted is murder and one day people will answer for it.