Is abortion a "woman" or "unborn child" issue?

Question

Should abortion discussions be more about women's rights or unborn children's rights?

Answer 1

unborn children. Why is it so hard for people to understand that they are killing. And killing is wrong in the eyes of God? Seriously, the babies will be adopted if carried to full term. Abortion is NEVER a woman's right issue. The baby didnt ask to be made, nor has that baby asked to be killed! GET IT THROUGH YOUR HEADS!!!! YOU ARE KILLING, NOT EARNING RIGHTS!!!!!

Answer 2

It is a societal issue. There is a thing called morals which use to teach young people that having sex out side of marriage was wrong, and now it is no big deal to have a child at 12 or 13 years old. I feel society should hold the parents accountable for their children getting pregnant.
Abortion is not a form of birth control. Women should have thought of the consequences when they decided to lay on their backs and engage in unprotected sex. Women are going to contend that it takes two to make a baby, but like the women say who's body is it so deal with the consequences.
Then there are going to be the ones to bring up what if the woman is raped? The majority of the people that are having abortions were not raped.

Answer 3

First of all, not everyone believes in God.
Second, even those of who do do not necessarily believe the government should mandate that (or one particular version).

Unborn children do not have rights. Their is no basis for them. It also creates some absurd possibilities. Should unborn children be given an attorney if the mother is arrested? Should the child be able to sue the mother for negligence if conditions in the womb lead to problems?

The real issue is not whether you agree with abortions, it is whether the federal government should be able to impose limitations on a medical procedure based on one strain of religious orthodoxy.

I doubt we would see so much support for federally mandated Islamic or Buddhist customs....

Answer 4

Unfortunately, it's more on the women, because the unborn don't tend to have a choice, and don't get the chance to have a choice. Females who get pregnant should except the fact that there were ways to prevent it if they really wanted to. Several ways are offered legally, so, there shouldn't be any reason to have to terminate an unborn child. Still God has control of the birth of his children, so, it's more complicated than we can see.

Answer 5

Mainly the unborn child's rights. A woman has several ways to prevent pregnancy. IMO it should only be a women's rights issue when rape is involved or there is a serious risk of complications.

Answer 6

The weight of the rights involved in the issue should lie with the person whom it will effect the most. Just as the weight of a decision should lie with the person whom it will effect the most.

Unfortunately, the people that these rights and decisions should lie with often don't get the chance to develop to maturity to speak up about it. Which is why it is crucial that someone stand in the gap for them. A fetus' dependency on its biological mother for nutrients and development is no argument for pro-choice.
If this were the case, mothers should have the legal right to "cause their children to expire" from the womb to about ten years old or at least until a reasonable age to begin weaning. Now try defending THAT one in a court of law.

Answer 7

Well it depends on how you are raised. I do not believe in abortion at all. There are to many people who would love to have a new born baby. There is no need to murder that unborn baby. First of all to many forms of birth control, to have an excuse to need one. Secondly , abortion will not erase the emotional damage done by rape only increase it because of the guilt associated with it. Of course this is my opinion.

Answer 8

I believe that it is all about individual choice.

From a medical perspective, many pregnancies are spontaneously aborted without the woman even knowing she was pregnant - so I don't buy the whole argument about there being some great sin from induced abortion when it happens naturally so much more often.

Answer 9

for sure the pro-determination will say it truly is a lady's top to kill an unborn toddler. moms and different being concerned persons will allow you to understand that a toddler is a toddler even contained in the womb and no one should be in a position to take that toddler's existence away. i don't understand how some moms should be professional-determination - it doesn't make any experience to me. right here I sit down, feeling my toddler kick as I style this. She hears and feels what I do! How ought to I take that faraway from her so selfishly and in one of those cruel and inhumane way? i could not, and that i'd under no circumstances dream of doing it. Abortion is homicide. no remember the way you slice the cake, it is nevertheless cake.

Answer 10

Strictly a woman issue