Abortion wasn't illegal when this country was founded, hence the reason it isn't in the constitution explicitly. But I've heard the right call feminists 'murderers of unborn children', and I'd like to know where that started.
"There were few laws on abortion in the United States at the time of independence. In some cases, it was governed by English common law, which found abortion to be legally and ethically acceptable if occurring before 'quickening,' when the movement of the fetus could first be felt. Laws against abortion began to appear in the 1820s. Connecticut outlawed post-quickening abortions in 1821, and New York made post-quickening abortions a felony and pre-quickening abortions a misdemeanor eight years later. Many of the early laws were motivated not by ethical concerns about abortion but by worry about the safety of the procedure. However, many early feminists, including Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, argued against abortion, favoring birth control instead
2006-07-11 09:57:02 · 7 answers · asked by hichefheidi 6 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
EthanM, you know a lot of feminists? You don't strike me as the type to keep company with a feminist. And the good thing about unwanted pregnancy and abortion is, you don't have to worry about it! President Clinton, and the rest of us who protect wormen's health, was trying to do just that. Protect the health of the woman. Several of your 'conservative' judges on the Supreme Court also believed this, sending it back to include a clause for women's health.
2006-07-12 09:35:40 · update #1
I wouldn't say all "feminists" are pro-abortion but I know many who are by their own statement. I don't personally believe in abortion, I feel that it cheapens life. I hear so much about choice but there are many things that we are forbidden by law to do with our bodies. . .we can't pump it full of cocaine, we can't sell them for sex, we can't fill it full of booze and get behind the wheel of our cars. Why then should we be able to murder a baby just because they have not been born yet. BTW I find the support that President Clinton gave to so call partial birth abortion absolutely disgusting.
2006-07-11 10:12:26 · answer #1 · answered by Ethan M 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Many true feminists are also passionately in favor of legislation to ban or severely restrict abortion in every jurisdiction of the world. However, the people who freely and openly accept the label "feminist" in twenty-first century North America have a strong tendency to be very vocal, passionate and fanatical advocates of a woman's so-called "right" to an abortion, hence the perception.
2006-07-12 06:29:38 · answer #2 · answered by professionaleccentric 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
nicely, this is technically no longer "alive" until eventually mind pastime starts, and mind pastime would not initiate at idea. My position is that if the little you in all likelihood can live on outdoors the womb, this is someone. Any time formerly that and this is in basic terms a a threat man or woman and aborting it isn't homicide. I also imagine each and every now and then this is merciless to convey babies into certain relations circumstances. for example, a woman who's raped and unable to get an abortion ought to finally end up seeing the ensuing toddler as a outcome of violence and anger and the toddler is going to experience that for the period of their lives. Or someone who's **** undesirable or lives in the ghetto or inspite of and ought to't provide a great formative years to their offspring. If this is no longer homicide (and that i in basic terms evaluate previous due time period abortions to be homicide) then a woman has each and every excellent to ascertain on even if she needs (or is in the right problem) to be a mom. And the authorities has no organisation defining morality and ******* with my own existence, with the exception of all the different arguments for and hostile to legalized abortion. EDIT: so a ways as your truth "the bible says existence starts at idea"... the bible isn't and could no longer be something that impacts politics and authorities and that i ensue to believe the bible is a e book of fairytales.
2016-10-14 09:02:57 · answer #3 · answered by Erika 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think anyone who's 'pro-choice' is actually 'pro-abortion'. No one wants to have an abortion. There's no one going out into the streets demanding required abortions.
I believe abortion should be legal, safe and rare.
The best way to cut down on abortions is sex education - something that's also opposed by most of the 'pro-lifers'.
Being a feminist doesn't mean you have to be 'pro-abortion'.
As a guy, I have to figure women know more about the ramifications of this subject than I do.
2006-07-12 14:51:42 · answer #4 · answered by buzzzard 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No abortion wasn't illegal in the Constitution hence it was 1776 and no man or women on this planet even knew the entire concepts of what the word concede means let alone they actually knew the science behind what a trimester was, and dont stereotype !
2006-07-11 10:17:54 · answer #5 · answered by ♥ Crystal C ♥ 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
probably because a couple of openly feminist women got abortions, hence "feminists are pro-abortion", only thing I can think of.
2006-07-11 10:14:56 · answer #6 · answered by STACEY S 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Conservatives like to categorize people.
2006-07-11 10:13:20 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋