What are the most effective ways to FIGHT abortion?

Question

to stop, slow down or derail its growing movement and uncover the many lies behind its "safe and needed" proceedures...

There are 1.5 MILLION abortions a year in the US. Thats nearly 40 million since it was leagalized in 1976. This country only has 300 million citizens. Research shows that only a small fraction of abortions are from rape, incest victims. The majority are from convience. Which is why abortion has rightly earned its description "A blood sacrifice to the god of convience." Just a foot note for the question.

Answer 1

Most effective way is to teach little girls to respect human life and that as soon as an embryo attaches itself to the walls of the Uterus they are pregnant and that little tiny baby needs their love and protection...not their disdain and fear. It is a difficult issue because of the emotions that run wild on both sides. I have found it very effective to very quietly ask questions of people who are 'Pro Choice' about abortion. Usually somewhere in the middle of a calm rational discussion they find themselves in the circle of their misguided logic and start to fumble a bit...then they are forced to think and re-evaluate their ideas on their own.

Make sure that you are always calm and pleasant in a discussion about abortion. The Louder your voice the less weight it carries in an argument. Great Question.

Answer 2

as a pro-choice, I think you need to look at preventing pregnancy. Teach the teens what abortion is and why they should have babies when they are not emotionally and finanically ready. Encourage condom use in colleges. Teach young men that they are just as responsible for a pregnancy and hold them accountable for any baby that is born.

Abortion seems to have become more of a religious stand then about the mother. NO woman should be forced to carry a baby from rape or who has an abusive husband. No woman should be forced to risk her life for a baby that isn't going to live long past birth. No family should be forced to care for a baby that will have horrendous disablities. (Yes I know many families do, but it IS a personal choice, not one that should be forced because there are not abortion procedures.)

Having a baby should always be a wonderful thing, but its not always a wonderful event for some. And this is what I think people should adress rather then forcing your religous and moral beliefs on others.

I would rather know that a girl/woman was able to get an abortion then to have a baby in secret and leave the baby in a dumpster to die (or outright kill it) because she felt there was no other way. TO me that is more sickening and disheartening then finding out someone had an abortion. To have waited for so long and given a life every chance at living only to kill it because of hopelessness on the mother's part.

Answer 3

as pro-life, I would urge people to learn the delicate art of self-control, for you can only have unwanted pregnancies if you have sex. Also, have you ever seen a picture of an aborted fetus? It's horrible. A little baby, with no voice to say no, has been murdered. And they call it pro-choice. Ugh. It doesn't matter if the baby has feeling or not, it's a human. If you are pregnant and what you are carrying is not a human, I suggest you seek medical attention right now.

Also, I would encourage a great deal of prayer in this. Get envolved with some anti-abortion organizations and they will get you good information that will give you medical facts for the people who won't listen to the simple argument that God says it's wrong.

Good luck! We have to fight for those precious little babies!

Answer 4

I know this isn't what you want to hear, but you can't fight it or eradicate it through education, guilt trips, horribly graphic pictures, or legislature. I don't believe in abortion, either.

All you can do is try, and do whatever you can wherever you can. It's a horrible practice, but the women who do it are going to do it regardless.

And you can't preach or legislate morality or sexual abstinence and expect that to have any real effect, either. I've been around long enough to know it hasn't changed a whit since my day, and that's been quite a few moons ago.

I was raised Catholic but I believe birth control in any and all effective forms is the best alternative. Unfortunately, many pro-life folks try to get their own personal egos and dogmas in there, and nobody ever seems to want to talk about this. I think some would rather ignore the abortions themselves than ever say a word in acknowledgement of birth control.

But if you truly want to slow down or derail abortions, the best way is to curb the pregnancies before they ever occur. And birth control is the only realistic way to do that. I may be celibate all my life, but there's seven billion other folks out there and counting. And each and every last one of them are going to do whatever they want.

I know this is the very last thing you want to hear, but it was even worse before abortions were legal. Women had them underground, and with things like rusty coat-hangers. The thought of clinics makes me want to vomit, but the thought of women going back to what they had before was even worse.

Fighting abortion is like fighting greed or fighting violence. It makes us feel better to try, but we really have no effect on changing the way other people are, how they always were, and how they always will be. All we can do is not let it destroy us when it's something out of our control.

God, grant me the courage to change what I can change, the serenity to accept what I cannot change, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Answer 5

there will always be abortion, its not murder , its not a baby its a fetus, most abortions are done within 2 months, it has no brain therefore no feeling.
some women need abortion, did you know a D&C is considered abortion? what happens if the women has a tubal pregnancy and the only way is an abortion?
Abortions are safe , safe as anything else. what doesnt have its risks?
there is one out of ever 2,000 that has an abortion may die or be put in the hospital , and that one girl that dies is usually because shes 1. underweight. 2. ate before having the abortion. 3. alergic 4.drug problem
its the womens choice

Answer 6

Making abortion illegal or hard to gain access to would be wrong, however decreasing the numbers of abortions performed is a good cause. The only way to do that is to decrease the amount of unwanted pregnancies, and that means more sex education. Teaching people about ways to prevent pregnancy includes not only abstinence talks, but teaching people about contraceptives (condoms, the pill, morning after pill, etc.). That way people can make their own choices.

Even if people don't agree with contraceptives due to religion, it's better than a person having a kid and throwing it in a trashcan right?

Answer 7

If you want to reduce abortion, than you should find away to make birth control affordable and easier to obtain...you wont stop the world from having sex I can tell you that much! I have had an abortion and I know that if there wouldve been a way for me to obtain birth control without having insurance than I wouldve been on it! And dont say go to a clinic, because in these days of being under George W. the clinics are short on funding and DO not do tings cheap or for free anymore.

Answer 8

Showing and telling people the truth about abortion is the most effective way to stop it. I have personally seen babies saved outside abortion facilities when someone cared enough to be there to offer help and information. It's important that the general public be well-informed, too. I recommend these sites for more information:

http://www.AbortionNO.org
http://Abort73.com

Also, see:

Photos of Abortions:
http://www.cbrinfo.org/Resources/pictures.html

A Four-Minute Video on Abortion:
http://www.abort73.com/HTML/I-A-4-video.html

Photos and Facts About Prenatal Development:
http://www.justthefacts.org/clar.asp
http://www.abort73.com/HTML/I-A-2-prenatal.html
http://www.studentsforlife.uct.ac.za/foetal%20dev%20photos.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/3847319.stm

Pain Perception in the Unborn:
http://www.advocatesfortheinnocent.com/fetalpain.html

Abortion Risks:
http://afterabortion.info/complic.html
http://www.abortionfacts.com/reardon/effect_of_abortion.asp
http://www.standupgirl.com/site/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=218&Itemid=40

Abortion Deaths:
http://www.lifedynamics.com/Pro-life_Group/Pro-choice_Women
http://www.afterabortion.info/news/abortiondeaths.html
http://www.lifeissues.org/ru486/deaths.htm

Pro-Life Answers to Pro-Choice Arguments:
http://www.deathroe.com/Pro-life_Answers/
http://www.pregnantpause.org/abort/choicarg.htm

Answer 9

If those same people who who are pro-life would stop teaching only abstinence and start teaching forms of birth control and make them available that would be a start. If parents would rationally talk to their kids from an earlier age then 15 about sex and let them know if they are going to have sex that they should use two forms of birth control, to protect from disease and from an unwanted pregnancy. If they would make sure their kids could come to them for birth control and they would be willing to help them obtain it, that would help a bit too. Instead they teach only abstinence and parents threaten their kids, that doesn't help.

Answer 10

Make birth control affordable and easily available to ALL women, whether or not they have health insurance. Teach the importance of birth control in health classes in school, right next to abstinence. Stop allowing pharmacists the right to refuse to sell birth control and the morning after pill if they are morally against it - basically, tell them to do their jobs. Make insurance companies stop charging so much extra to cover labor and well-baby and well-mother programs. Make all boys/men equally share in the raising and financial costs of raising a child.