do you find abortion acceptable in any case?

Question

i dont. yes rape is a horrid thing and there maybe a baby being born because of it....but there are other options! why kill an innocent soon to be human being?? its STILL murder!

Answer 1

It's not murder!

Answer 2

I don't think abortion should be allowed. The baby in the womb is a person and if you use the same logic as you would for a born person the arguments for nearly all abortions become ludicrous and absurd. Example: This man hurt me (rape) so I will kill this other person (the baby) who was there when it happened because every time I see them (the baby) it would remind me of the rape.
I know that a pregnancy from rape or incest would be difficult, but it won't make it any better to have an abortion.
If we were not so selfish we would be more concerned about the lives that are lost to abortion, and less concerned about our temporary difficulties.
Adoption would be a much better solution for many pregnancies (rape, incest, and inconvenient pregnancies).

Answer 3

NEVER!!!

If it is rape, it is still half your child. Anyone who is capable of hating or taking the life of their own child should be monitored in a psychiatric hospital or spend time in jail.

Young...come on! You're obviously old enough to make stupid choices, so you should be old enough to face the consequences, accept the responsibilities, and learn from your actions.

Save the mother's life? I assume that this means that so far the child WAS wanted until it became too risky. Look...having and raising children is risky business. These are not games, these are lives! If you are willing to have children then you should be committed to them and love them enough to give your life for them. If you cannot love your own child that much then don't have kids!!!! I'm sorry if I'm not being sensitive enough.

Adoption is always an option. My dad was adopted, my girlfriend's mom was adopted, my best friend was adopted, my cousin was adopted....this actually does work out! I'm so glad that they we're all killed.

The ONLY ONLY ONLY way I'll ever accept abortion as being ok is when the people who are most affected by it tell me that it really is a good idea. So far none of them have survived to voice THEIR opinions. They were "silenced" by their inconvenienced mothers.

I suppose I can make one more exception. If you have been born and your mother was considering getting an abortion but didn't go through with it, I will accept your opinion, on whether a woman can get an abortion or not, as valid. HOWEVER if you feel that women should be permitted to have abortions, we will start with you (a willing participant) as the first example of a child who really did live long enough to agree with it's mother that abortions are "ok."

(you should be thanking God that pressure from society didn't make her take your life)

Answer 4

Well...
This doesn't seem as much a question, as a statement.
I suppose you just felt like you needed to share an opinion with the world... ok.
I disagree.
In fact, yes, I do find abortion acceptable in virtually any case.
I believe people should be free to make whatever decision they feel is right for them. I say people, because I feel the man should have some say as well. Assuming the man is to be a part of the childs life and not just a one night stand or some other mistake.
I know that there are people who would do anything for a child and that is would be nice if other people would give up their child if it wasn't wanted. In fact, I am adopted.
I wouldn't be here now, typing this responce, working my job, paying my mortgage, discussing what to eat for dinner with my wife... raising the most wonderful 2 year old in the world.
However, if my "mother" had made a different decision, I would not have been aware and it really wouldn't have mattered to anyone... ever.
I caught a break and a series of events was put into motion that has had some (although small) impact on the world.
Yippee.
The world simply doesn't have enough love for every child born. I don't know if you've caught the NEWS recently, but the world isn't a very nice place. Whether small minded people like it or not, you have to admire or respect someone for making the decision not to start a family if that is their decision. Raising a child is a lifelong commitment, unlike, oh say, marriage. People end marriages every day without much thought, but you can't stop being a parent... or can you? Well, yes, I guess you can... and it's THOSE kids I feel truely sorry for. The children who's parents have stopped loving their child... abuse their child... have never loved their child and will never even know how to. Those are the children I feel sorry for... not the ones that never were...
I know that "life" begins at conception... but it's not a self sustaining life. It doesn't have consciousness. It isn't aware. It does not think, therefore, it is not.
Now, once the brain has formed and the electrons have started to fire and it's medically possible to sustain it outside the mother, no, it's wrong to end that. THAT is alive and you've past the point of no return.
At that point you are commited to 18 years... which by the way, if you had a baby in 2004, by the time it is 18, you will have spent over $540,000 on the child (not counting the hospital birth bill or college, which by the year 2022 will cost $420,000 at a public university).
Having a child takes responsibility.
If the parents or parent is not responsible, what kind of life is that child going to have?
When trailer trash and ghetto-bound, living off the system continue to pop out babies for welfare and foodstamps, what kind of life is the child having? What possible contribution will they offer society? Oh sure, every now and then someone will rise above the confinds that bind them and become successul (monitarily or socially), but the LARGE percentage (99%) will end up like their pathetic excuse of a parent(s) or worse.
Notice I havn't even mentioned "rape."
Ok, I'll mention it.
How can you ask a woman that has been raped and impregnated to bear a child that resulted from possibly the most tramatic experience of her life?
That is borderline barbaric in my opinion.
I hope nothing like that ever happens to you, but I can certainly image several senarios that I seriously doubt you would choose to deliver a child if all the facts were made known to you.
I don't think you've talked with enough people, or lived long enough, or heard as many stories of real life to make such statements.
I respect that fact that you have an opinion and I am thankful I live in a country where the majority of the people disagree with you. I'll bet if you had lived 100 years ago, you'd be one of the people screaming in favor of slavery or agaisnt the right for a woman to vote in America?
Oh, you are agaisnt slavery?
You think women should vote?
You like freedom?
Then let people be free.
You don't have to have an abortion... no one will ever force you to. You are free to have as many babies as you want. Other people are JUST as free not to.
I don't believe people should use abortion as birth control (repeat abortions, once a year), but if a mature adult... someone over 18 (preferably over 21) does not have love in their heart or money in their pocket or desire to commit 18 years to a child, then they should not have one.
Being a parent changes your life. Your life will never be the same. When I was 20 I did not want to be a parent. I was partying and drinking and doing drugs and living a rock and roll lifestyle. I had money and I could have become a father, but I did not want to. If I had been put in the place of making that choice, I would have voted no. When I was 35, I was ready to make the commitment and I did. My child will experience a much better life because I waited. I appreciate him every day. He makes me feel young and I get to experience life all over through his eyes. I wouldn't trade my son for life itself and nothing in the world could ever replace the feeling I had when I held him in my arms the first time (approximately 2 minutes after he was born).
But it happened when I was ready for it. When I was mature enough for it.
It's not murder. It's a decision. It's a belief. It's an opinion... and having an opinion is, well, it's like having an ******... you know that... everybody has one.
So, while I respect your opinion, I hope you will grow a little today and learn to respect the opinion of others... I promise you will learn to appreciate life a little more when you are committed to allowing other people to live theirs...
Good Luck.

Answer 5

Abortion should be illegal.

The people who are willing to shove rusty coat hangers inside themselves in an alley to eliminate their child deserve to get deadly infections.

I wish that the mother and child were more closely connected. If the kid died, so would the mom. That way abortion wouldn't be an option since it would also be suicide. (Ok I don't really want that to happen, since it would happen when someone miscarries too, but people should take this seriously)


PROPOSITION: Since the mother is allowed to have an abortion during pregnancy and also when the child is partially born, I propose that we don't stop there. Have you ever heard a mother tell her child "I brought you into this world, I can take you out of it" ? Well I think that is exactly how it should be. Lets extend abortion from conception-half born to conception-death. Under this new law, abortion wouldnt stop when the child is hanging halfway out...you can abort your child once he/she is fully born! Thats right! Un-Born, Half-Born, New-Born, Infant, Toddler, Young Child, Adolescent, Teenager, Young Adult, Adult, Middle Aged, and if the mother is still alive, she can even abort her child when he/she is a senior citizen!!!!! Imagine the freedoms that would come with the Right To Chose anytime you want!!! Kid gettin an attitude? Abort him! 30 year old son refuse to move out of basement? Abort him!! Oh and don't worry...since you're the mother and he/she is the child, its not considered taking a human life anyway!

Taking an innocent life at any age is WRONG.



!!!!!!! ptm8 !!!!!!!



...I need to extend my proposition thanks to some really good points you have brought up. If a parent decides that the world is too much of an ugly place or it is too hard to make it in today's world then the parent can abort the child. Also, this next rule has more flexibility...this one applies to parents, grandparents, courts and judges, and child services. If any of the aforementioned persons decide that the child in question is experiencing excessive physical, verbal, or sexual abuse then that person can wait until the child is sound asleep (since it wont really be conscious at the time) and inject it with a series of 3 shots. First makes sure it stays asleep, second shot numbs the pain, third shot ends the life.

Sorry for referring to the child as "it" but thats what some people consider it...a nothing. (helps them sleep at night)

Answer 6

If it was murder then i don't think there would even be any abortion clinics in the world.

How do you feel about the morning after pill? Isn't that the same thing? Preventing a possible pregnancy....

If i were to be raped and got pregnant then yes i would abort.

If something was bad wrong with the baby then yes i would abort.

If i was going to die (putting my life/health at risk) then i would abort.

Every woman has the right to choose even the ones that are so dead set against it

Answer 7

If the woman's life is in danger. In the case of rape or incest, the woman should have a choice. I have seen cases where the woman chose to carry the baby and the whole society shunned her (even the ones who advocated against abortion treated her like trash). I do not agree in the case of two people having consensual, unprotected sex and the woman becoming pregnant. Then again, I am not the one who has to live with that.

Answer 8

Every person should have a right to decide their future and geneaology. If forced sex such as rape or child abuse the person should take action to immediately eliminate pregnancy if not wanted before the process of creation starts or gets to an developing stage. Early conception are chromosomal cells which die all the time during ejaculation and ovulation. If there is no other alternative such as age limitation and time of pregnancy then I think it is murder or lack of humanity.

Answer 9

soon - to - be human being? I don`t get that part. what is it before it`s human then? anyway,abortion is NEVER acceptable in any case. If you don`t want the baby, give it up for adoption! I agree 100% with conservative guy. abortion should only be acceptable if ALL involved agree to it. since no baby is going to say "yeah go ahead and murder me " then it should not happen.

Answer 10

I don't believe in abortion because my religion says so and because i believe my faith i believe so too!
There are 2 situations where we find abortion acceptable.
If there is severe health issues for either mother or baby.
And some rapes cases! They don't encourage it, they ask you to cousel with the leadership in our church and prayerfully come to a decision! Our church also has an amazing Adoption Service! They are more for adoption.
But that is my view!
Any other case is, as you have said, murder!

Answer 11

Legalized abortion is far better than the back-alley alternative. In colonial days it was considered okay to abort up until when the fetus first moved. Abortions have always been around and always will be, making them illegal is just a way to hurt a lot of people.