Are You Pro Life or Pro Choice, and why?

Question

Valid reasons and something to back you up might get you 10 points.

Answer 1

Excuse me while I get on my soap box. Thanks for the helping hand. Pro Life or Pro Choice? I am Pro Choice BECAUSE, #1. I do not think you should make a choice for another person. It is their human right to choose for themselves. And #2. For years I worked in the Emergence Departments of various hospitals. Before Roe v Wade (shows how old I am), a young girl came in the hospital just howling like a wounded animal. I had an ancillary position at the time, a secretary, and the nurses were talking how this girl was just screaming and going on like she wasn't really that bad. From the way she was crying out, I could just tell this was no ordinary pain. As it turns out, the girl went to surgery. She did loose twin babies, but who ever gave her the abortion with a butcher knife, had pierced her womb and all the peritoneal cavity liquids had infected her so bad she almost died right there.

We have to realize, whether something is 'good' for us, or not, some people are going to do it, and I would rather have a girl go to a doctor than a back alley butcher. Again, not right for us, does not matter. What does matter is that the procedure is done safely and within proper guidelines. Have I had an abortion? No. I lost a baby once, but no AB. Still better to go to the hospital if you need it, than in somebody's garage or basement. That is just my opinion.

I feel the same way about prostitution. Some people are going to pursue it. Have the hookers tested so AIDS, syphillis, etc., are not spread to innocent wives and girlfriends, or boyfriends, than have them stand on street corners. Again, I worked in a hospital, and almost ALL the hookers who came in were infected. This was in FLA. There was a man who came down from out of state, had a fling, or whatever you call it, went home and gave his wife AIDS. He was a high profile politician.
Case closed. Liberal. Protect people from themselves.

I guess I am a Liberal. To me, it is just common sense.

Answer 2

Pro Choice

Answer 3

Pro Life

Answer 4

Pro-Choice & Pro-Life go hand-in-hand! When a woman has a choice, she can HAVE a healthy life & make better decisions for her future. I believe the quality of the life of the living far outweigh the unborn child. Why would anyone want to force a woman to carry a baby to full term inside of a body that is filled with hatred towards it's very being! We have enough hatred in this world, why bring another child through a body that does NOT want it there? God creates all life & God forgives all that is created. We cannot judge, only God can do this!

Answer 5

BOTH.

I'm Pro-Choice that you have the right to choose to have Sex.
But any choice you make in life has its own consequences.
You know what they are before you engage.
Once your Choice is made, you no longer have choice on that particular situation. You've made your decision on that choice and instance.
You now have consequences of that choice.
In some ways, it is like the throwing of a large stone at a window.
Once you've made your choice and actually propelled the stone from your hand, your right to choice is virtually closed.
The outcome is now in the hands of nature and its laws.

If you chose NOT to engage in sex, on the other hand, then you still have Choice in life; but if you chose sex, you will have to face the consequences - even if that does not mean pregnancy; it still carries other losses of freedom and of FUTURE choice in your life.

Once you have made your choice to engage, you are then committed ... to whatever the outcome might be.


I am also Pro-Choice re the Baby.
The baby, too, has a right to choose life.
You cannot RIGHTLY take the choice of life away from the baby.
It would choose to live; if it didn't, it would be still born.

Neither can we choose that it should not have right to live because we think it will be born into 'disadvantage', as some claim against 'Right to Life'.
Our judgment and belief could always be incorrect ... besides, which, just as you and I, the baby would choose life above all else, including a lack of sufficient love or money in its life.
There are very many, very lonely older people who choose to have heart surgery as an act of simply living longer, regardless of their social or economic circumstances!
It seems that it is human nature and the first human right, to guard life above all else.
All other considerations seem secondary.

Without genuine reason, such as serious danger to mother [which is rarely the case now - especially in today's advanced world], or in situations of rape, etc., killing the baby becomes an act of Murder.

Answer 6

I am pro-choice.I think that no one in this world(especially if you have a penis) should be telling a woman what to do w/ her own body.Unless you have actually walked in their shoes, what the hell do you know and who gives you the right to judge them?We are all given choices, and a brain, for a reason, and I feel that one should do whatever feels right or appropriate to them. However, if I was pregnant, I couldn't go through with an abortion,and I think women who keep on getting pregnant and having abortions are very messed up.I can understand if they did it once-but twice or more? That's what they made birth control for, and if people actually researched the word ''PREVENTION", I don't think abortion would be such a big issue in the first place!

Answer 7

Pro-Life. There is a heartbeat within 8 days after conception. Only living beings have heartbeats. If women were so concerned with having the right to control what happens to their own bodies, why do they wait until after they are carrying a life inside them before they demand that control. Check with any pro-life clinic and they will give you scientific documentation of the true nature and viability of the fetus. Man and woman can only combine the chemicals, it takes God to create a child. You can go online to focusonthefamily.com, and request relevent information from them at no cost.

Answer 8

Pro Life is better defined as Anti-Abortion, because they oppose abortion, but frequently support the death penalty and frequently fight birth control education in the schools and rarely make any effort to stop the abuse and neglect of more than 1/4 of kids born to parents that shouldn't be raising them, nor does this contingent make much of an effort to lessen the NEED for abortion. If they were pro-life, they would be anti-death penalty and working as hard to fight abuse of children, as they do to prevent abortion.

Me, I am militantly pro-choice. No I do not deny that a living being is created at conception and that life has the potential to grow into a human being. I do accept the scientific fact that a zygot, embryo or fetus (at least not until the final trimester) is a parasitic being, not much different than tape worms or a bacterial infection in that it cannot survive outside the human body (and please understand the end of that sentence and that I am talking scientifically, not as a value judgement).

That scientific information does not change the fact that terminating a pregnancy is ending that potential, which while unknown, could have possibly resulted in an amazing person.

However I recognize the necessity to our society of continuing to allow women the choice to give birth or not. 1 out of 4 kids in this country is being raised in poverty; 1 out of 5 (and this is just the known percentage..reality may well be much higher) is abused physically or sexually. All attempts made by our society to cure these problems has failed and the situation is getting worse.

There is NO support in our system that will help parents on the fringe learn to be better parents, manage their stress, or cure the tendency to abuse. The parent that asks for help is either turned away or threatened with a loss of custody or jail, neither of which encourages anyone to ask for help.

The result is a growing percentage of the population that is ill-equipped to be productive, functional adults and many will resort to crime and abuse as they see no other way.

This is a HUGE and rapidly growing problem for our society that may well be a significant factor in our decline.

I am a parent of 3 and believe very strongly that we owe our children far more than breath. We owe them love, education, stability and a nuturing and intellectually stimulating environment. We need to have the time to teach values and guide them into adulthood. With so many families forced to have dual incomes, and single parent families kids and their needs are increasingly being neglected so our problems are growing and not just in the poor economic groups.

Teens are becoming sexually active way too soon and 40 years after the birth of the pill, we have an amazing array of techniques to prevent conception that are NOT being used nearly enough. It has become socially acceptable in many circles to have babies out of wedlock despite being economically and maturationally unprepared. The kids being raised by such parents are more likely to be a burden on society than an attribute.

So...until we can get a handle on such major societal problems, the ability to obtain a safe, legal and in some cases FREE abortion MUST be protected and maintained. Cure the reasons for abortion and its use will decrease.

Only an idiot who is uninformed can claim women use abortion as birth control. I've had 2, one as a teen, and one as a struggling mom of 2 fighting to stay off welfare. I had been responsible, but contraception is not 100%. It tore at my very soul to make that decision and I very nearly broke over the first. 26 years later I can confirm it was the right decision.

I am also pro-adoption and truly do not understand why so many opposed to abortion also discourage adoption. There are many, many couples who can provide loving, stable homes who are dying to have a child.

Adoption is a very loving thing to do; it is not abandonment. It is an acknowledgement that the child's needs MUST come before the parent's and that if mom can't do right by her baby, then giving her child to parents that can is an enormous gift for the child.

I would have done it with the second pregnancy I ended had it been possible, unfortunately just the pregnancy would have put the security of the two children I already had at risk, so I didn't have this option open to me.

So...I'd sure like to see the need for abortion ended. If that were to occur, our society would be in a much better place on so many levels.

But until the need is gone, the service needs to exist.

As horrific as it is to many, we ALL have a duty to protect our society, if for no other reason, then to provide a good life for our children.

Answer 9

I am Pro Choice

According to the American Anthropological Association, more than 200 women kill their children in the United States each year.

14.3 million children in America are living in abject poverty. Most of them do not have a future, and they know they do not have a future... keep in mind these are 1996 figures. Numbers are much higher now.

increase in foster child deaths outpaces the increase in children in the system. There were about 26,133 children in Texas foster care in 2003 and about 32,474 in 2005, an increase of 24 percent.

In Texas alone, comptroller's findings so far include data showing that in the 2004 budget year (which ended Aug. 31, 2004), 63 foster children received medical treatment for rape that occurred while in the foster care system, 142 children and teens gave birth while in the system, and about 100 received treatment for poisoning caused by medications they were given while in care.

Annually approx. 14,000 women have abortions following rape or incest

Answer 10

I am Pro-life. I really believe life begins at conception. After having children, I cannot imagine have an abortion. Not everyone can handle a baby and there is adoption. My fear is that pro-choice can be abused and young people see abortion almost as a birth-control method.

Answer 11

I am Pro Life I guess, only because I think that it's a pretty horrible thing to do, just because I figure every embryo should get a shot at life. However, I do understand why some women go through with it in some situations, (rape, health concerns...) but, being a dad, I look at my two kids and I am sure glad to have them.