What do you think about abortion?

Question

My sister who is 22 and already has a 4 year old boy along with a 2 year old girl is pregnante. I belive she is about 9 weeks old. And I belive she is thinking about abortoin. Where do you stand on this?

Answer 1

She already has two kids, and is too young to have kids in the first place. If she's not ready, she defineatly should have an abortion!


First of all, Why do you think it's called a FETUS, and NOT a BABY? If it were a baby, you'd consider it 9 months old when it is born.

Can you honestly say a piece of clumped up cells and tissue with NO sex organs, is a person? NO! You can't! Every human has a penis, or a vagina.
Even when the fetus does eventually develope their sex organs, can you honestly say they are a person? NO! They are not aware of what is happening. They do not feel anything, as opposed to a child which has already been born, and is aware of things. A baby is NOT a baby untill 7 months when it is VIABLE. A viable life is a REAL life.
Can you honestly say it is murder without the mentioning of "God", or the bible? No! Even without mentioning "God", you CAN'T prove it's murder! Yeah, so it has a heart beat, so do animals, and bugs, do you care about them? NO!
If you're so pro-life, why don't you become a vegetarian?
And don't feed me with that bible bull sh*t saying "Animals don't have souls". Well can they feel pain? YES, THEY CAN!!
And once again, The bible is FICTION, nothing which the bible states has been proven, so until further notice, IT'S WRONG!
Also, How are you pro-life when most pro-lifers are conservative republicans who SUPPORT the war? How can you be against abortion yet support a war killing REAL, innocent CHILDREN, and people? That is so contradictory!
So you'd rather obsess over somebody else's body, life, and fetus, instead of thousands of innocent children? How can you say that is right? It's not! Thousands of innocent people who die in war are imporant, as opposed to an insiginicant fetus, who is NOT life, only another potential.


For the pro-life idiots:

Pregnancy should be a choice. How can somebody force a woman to carry an unwanted child? That is abuse. NOBODY can and/or should be forced to physically do something they don't approve of. Carrying a child for 9 months requires alot of PHYSICAL and EMOTIONAL energy and strength. Being pregnant is not as easy or as pleasant as some may think. Being pregnant means being EMOTIONALLY and FINANCIALLY ready to have a child. Why would somebody even think about having a child when they are on the verge of going bankrupt, living on the streets, and not being able to support themselves? How can you expect them to support a living, breathing child emotionally and physically? Why would you introduce a child to such a miserable life? They are better off dead. Poverty sticken people have the right to have sexual pleasure and sometimes, even if protection is used, mistakes happen; That does NOT mean that they should be bringing a child into this world.
Abortion is also an option for the more financially secure people. Accidents ALWAYS happen; Condoms can break, Birth control is not 100% effective, and sometimes people just forget to use protection or don't have protection at the time. That does NOT mean that they should have an unwanted child. Something else which has happened many times is RAPE. Many girls have been raped in the past and were forced to carry a child. That is the stupidest thing ever! How does that make any sense? Why should somebody be forced to carry a child which is the product of RAPE? Why would somebody even want to mother a criminal's child which is only alive because of a TRAUMATIZING experience? That's insane! Abortion is not wrong. Anybody who says "Abortion is murder" is an ignorant fool who should use their brain and THINK OUTSIDE OF THE BIBLE. Abortion is not murder. [ MURDER- Noun. The unlawful killing of one human by another, especially with premeditated malice. ] THIS IS COMMON SENSE: How can abortion be considered "murder" when the fetus was never even born? If the "baby" is not breathing and living on its own, without the the help of the mother's body, It can not be "murdered". Somebody can not be murdered untill they are born! It just does not make sense to call it "murder".
Most pregnancies are terminated before the fetus is even visible. How can it be considered murder when the fetus is almost invisible? The fetus can not feel a thing therefore nobody can say it is "wrong". Even if the fetus is already visible, "living", and breathing, it is not a REAL life. Think about it this way: If you took a 4 month old fetus out of the body of a woman, it would NOT be able to survive on its own. It is only a REAL life when the baby is viable; when it can survive on its own without the help of the mother's body...Otherwise, it is just a potential at life and NOTHING ELSE.
Even I admit that abortion during the third trimester is WRONG. For example: If you took a 7 1/2 or 8 month old baby out of a mother's body, as opposed to a four month old fetus (as I mentioned above), it is more than just a potential at life, it IS life. That 7-8 month old fetus has the chance of surviving outside of the mother's body at that early of an "age" (with medical assistance, of course) while the four month old fetus has NO chance at survival no matter how much medical assistance is provided.
Anyway, This is not about the fetus, about what it can "feel", or about what's right or wrong, It's about the Mother. A woman's body is a woman's body and NOBODY can force her to do something she doesn't want to do with her body. When a woman is pregnant, it is still HER body and ONLY her body and she can do whatever she wants with it. A woman should not be forced to go through 9 months of Physical and emotional discomfort for something that will be born into a ****** up, unwanted child. Forced pregnancies will only give the child a bad life. The child won't have sufficent love, emotional, physical, and [in some cases] financial support. This child will most likely not have a quality life and does not deserve to go through so many difficulties. The mother also does not deserve to have to deal with an unwanted child; She should not have to waste time, money, and energy to raise an unwanted child which was brought into this world by force. It is NOT fair.
Also, It is NOT about the fetus! It's about the mother! Who cares about the fetus? Since when is a tiny piece cells and tissue that can NOT feel anything more important than a grown woman? NEVER! Women are more important!

Something important:Men do NOT have the right to stop a woman from getting an abortion. Abortion is ONLY the woman's business because it is HER body and HER choice and any man's opinion does NOT count; he does not have the right to stop the woman from getting an abortion and/or judge and critisize a woman who has had an abortion, has considered getting an abortion, or one who will get one in the future. How dare a man even say that abortion is wrong when he is a MAN? He will NEVER IN HIS LIFE get pregnant. Men don't have the slightest clue about what it is like to be a woman. How can a man say abortion is wrong when he doesn't nor will he ever understand the phyiscal and emotional difficulty of pregnancy? IT JUST DOES NOT MAKE SENSE. If you're a man, I suggest you SHUT THE **** UP and GET A CLUE; The day your penis turns into a vagina and your body changes to accomodate a child inside your stomach, you will have the right to talk about abortion...Too bad that will never happen so shut the **** up. You never will have to carry a child and i'm 100% sure no man would ever want to, so why do you all assume that a WOMAN would want to?

Another big issue: Abortion is none of anybody's business aside from the mother. If all you brainwashed, brainless, ignorant, stupid, highschool drop-out, trailer trash, bible freak, pro-life whores are so anti abortion then don't get an abortion! It's THAT easy. Just worry about yourself and leave everybody else alone! Stay out of everybody's business. If we want to "kill" fetuses, then we can. It's our business, so go get a life and stay out of our lives.

Also, Many people say: "Why would you kill a child when you can just give it up for adoption? There are so many people who want children but can't have any."
That is the stupidest thing ever! Why should somebody have to suffer for 9 months? Why would they want to carry a child for no reason? Going through so much emotional and physical discomfort for 9 months is pointless if you will just go back to your life as if nothing happened and you will have no affiliation with the child afterwards...You will be thinking: "What did I just waste the last 9 months of my life doing? I could have accomplished so much in those 9 months. I can't believe I went through so much pain just to bring a child into this world whom I will never see again. etc etc"
It is a waste of time! You are only making YOUR life worse.

Even if you do go through 9 months of pregnancy to carry an unwanted child, You WON'T want to give it up for adoption after you see it. It's not that easy. Do you really think that you can give a child away after you've gone through so much to give it life and after you've had it come out of you, held it, heard it cry, etc? NO! Even if it was an unwanted child, It's not THAT easy! After it is born, You will want it.

BUT...Let's say that you DO give it up for adoption, Don't be so sure that somebody will adopt it. Please remember that there are SO many foster homes with children who have been living there for years and have been waiting for a family to adopt them. There are plenty of children in this world who don't have families, so whoever says "There are so many parents who can't have children but want children and there aren't enough in this world" are idiots! Look around you, this world is so overpopulated! Go to your local foster home and you'll see so many sad children without families. Why don't you adopt them all since you're so "Pro-life"?
The world does not need anymore unwanted children. There is not an 100% chance that you child will be adopted. If there were an 100% chance, then there wouldn't be SO many children out there without families.


Why abortion is LEGAL, should REMAIN LEGAL, and why abortion is RIGHT:

1. Laws against abortion kill women. To prohibit abortions does not stop them. When women feel it is absolutely necessary, they will choose to have abortions, even in secret, without medical care, in dangerous circumstances. In the two decades before abortion was legal in the U.S., it's been estimated that nearly a million women per year sought out illegal abortions. Thousands died. Tens of thousands were mutilated. All were forced to behave as if they were criminals.

2. Legal abortions protect women's health. Legal abortion not only protects women's lives, it also protects their health. For tens of thousands of women with heart disease, kidney disease, severe hypertension, sickle-cell anemia and severe diabetes, and other illnesses that can be life-threatening, the availability of legal abortion has helped avert serious medical complications that could have resulted from childbirth. Before legal abortion, such women's choices were limited to dangerous illegal abortion or dangerous childbirth.

3. A woman is more than a fetus. Some people argue these days that a fetus is a "person" that is "indistinguishable from the rest of us" and that it deserves rights equal to women's. On this question there is a tremendous spectrum of religious, philosophical, scientific, and medical opinion. It's been argued for centuries. Fortunately, our society has recognized that each woman must be able to make this decision, based on her own conscience. To impose a law defining a fetus as a "person," granting it rights equal to or superior to a woman's — a thinking, feeling, conscious human being — is arrogant and absurd. It only serves to diminish women.

4. Being a mother is just one option for women. Many hard battles have been fought to win political and economic equality for women. These gains will not be worth much if reproductive choice is denied. To be able to choose a safe, legal abortion makes many other options possible. Otherwise an accident or a rape can end a woman's economic and personal freedom.

5. Outlawing abortion is discriminatory. Anti-abortion laws discriminate against low-income women, who are driven to dangerous self-induced or back-alley abortions. That is all they can afford. But the rich can travel wherever necessary to obtain a safe abortion.

6. Compulsory pregnancy laws are incompatible with a free society. If there is any matter that is personal and private, then pregnancy is it. There can be no more extreme invasion of privacy than requiring a woman to carry an unwanted pregnancy to term. If government is permitted to compel a woman to bear a child, where will government stop? The concept is morally repugnant. It violates traditional American ideas of individual rights and freedoms.

7. Outlaw abortion, and more children will bear children. Forty percent of 14-year-old girls will become pregnant before they turn 20. This could happen to your daughter or someone else close to you. Here are the critical questions: Should the penalty for lack of knowledge or even for a moment's carelessness be enforced pregnancy and childrearing? Or dangerous illegal abortion? Should we consign a teenager to a life sentence of joblessness, hopelessness, and dependency?

8. "Every child a wanted child." If women are forced to carry unwanted pregnancies to term, the result is unwanted children. Everyone knows they are among society's most tragic cases, often uncared-for, unloved, brutalized, and abandoned. When they grow up, these children are often seriously disadvantaged, and sometimes inclined toward brutal behavior to others. This is not good for children, for families, or for the country. Children need love and families who want and will care for them.

9. Choice is good for families. Even when precautions are taken, accidents can and do happen. For some families, this is not a problem. But for others, such an event can be catastrophic. An unintended pregnancy can increase tensions, disrupt stability, and push people below the line of economic survival. Family planning is the answer. All options must be open.

At the most basic level, the abortion issue is not really about abortion. It is about the value of women in society. Should women make their own decisions about family, career, and how to live their lives? Or should government do that for them? Do women have the option of deciding when or whether to have children? Or is that a government decision? The anti-abortion leaders really have a larger purpose. They oppose most ideas and programs that can help women achieve equality and freedom. They also oppose programs that protect the health and well-being of women and their children.

Anti-abortion leaders claim to act "in defense of life." If so, why have they worked to destroy programs that serve life, including prenatal care and nutrition programs for dependent pregnant women? Is this respect for life?

Anti-abortion leaders also say they are trying to save children, but they have fought against health and nutrition programs for children once they are born. The anti-abortion groups seem to believe life begins at conception, but it ends at birth. Is this respect for life?

Then there are programs that diminish the number of unwanted pregnancies before they occur: family planning counseling, sex education, and contraception for those who wish it. Anti-abortion leaders oppose those, too. And clinics providing such services have been bombed. Is this respect for life?

Such stances reveal the ultimate cynicism of the compulsory pregnancy movement. "Life" is not what they're fighting for. What they want is a return to the days when a woman had few choices in controlling her future. They think that the abortion option gives too much freedom. That even contraception is too liberating. That women cannot be trusted to make their own decisions.

Americans today don't accept that. Women can now select their own paths in society, including when and whether to have children. Family planning, contraception, and, if need be, legal abortion are critical to sustaining women's freedom. There is no going back.

Answer 2

People think that when they have an abortion they are getting rid of a blob of tissue inside them.. have your sister look up Gianna Jessen on the internet. She is a girl that was aborted.. and she didn't die during the abortion. Since she was so premature she has health problems.. but she is a live and well. Also, what makes this new baby any less important than the first two? What happens when her other two children some day find out she aborted their little baby brother or sister? What gives us the right to kill a baby anyway? My friend was raped when she was a teenager.. her little son is the most important person in her life, and she's glad she kept him.

Answer 3

If death is the absence of brain waves and the absence of heartbeat and breathing then the opposite would be life. At 9 weeks the majority of structures are already formed in the fetus, but they continue to grow and become functional. I believe I would search the web for pictures of 9 week fetus' and show her what her baby looks like now. Maybe getting her tubes tied after this baby would be a good idea. There is always adoption. There are lots of families out there that cannot conceive. She may be their lifeline.

Answer 4

I think it is the most horrible thing you could do. Their are so many people that would love to have a beautiful baby and can't. The only way I really think you should be able to have an abortion is if you have been raped. and even than I don't really much care for the idea. Their are so many ways you can get help if you can't take care of the baby. In my state you can bring the baby to a hospital, fire station or police station no questions asked. I just really wish people would learn if they are going to have sex, you CAN get pregant. I hope your sister does the right thing, even if she can't take care of another baby, someone can. I don't think theirs any shame in having to give your baby up. It will be hard on her, but atleast she made a couple who can't have their own babies very happy.

Answer 5

I won't put it as harshly as above... but it is murder of an innocent child... there are thousands of people out there that would love this baby and would take it in a second... why not give it a chance to do what God intended for it to do... this could be the next Monet, or another Albert Einstein... this person could find the cure for cancer or sing like Celine Dion..... or maybe be the parent to the person that changes the world..... THERE ARE NO ACCIDENTS....you don't get pregnant every time you have sex, you get pregnant when that child is supposed to arrive here to do something...

Answer 6

Abortion is murder!!! The farther along the women is when she gets an abortion the worse for the baby!!!!!! It is so sad to murder a baby that should have a chance at life just like anyone else in this world!!! If we cannot murder other people then we should not be able to murder our unborn child!!!!!!!!!!!! If she felt she could not handle another child she should have taken care of herself better.... not by taking it out on an innocent baby!

Answer 7

Please encourage your sister not to kill her unborn baby. At nine weeks, the baby already has a beating heart, recordable brain waves, and tiny fingers and toes. The baby can suck her thumb, grasp an object placed in her palm, and feel pain. Here are some photos showing what the baby looks like at around 9 weeks:

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

And here are some photos and a video showing aborted babies at around 9 weeks:

http://www.cbrinfo.org/Resources/pictures.html
http://www.abort73.com/HTML/I-A-4-video.html

Please show these to your sister. Also, here's an article telling how babies in the womb feel pain during abortion:

http://www.advocatesfortheinnocent.com/fetalpain.html

Abortion is also very dangerous for your sister. Some women have died from so-called "safe and legal" abortions:

http://afterabortion.info/complic.html
http://www.abortionfacts.com/reardon/effect_of_abortion.asp
http://www.lifedynamics.com/Pro-life_Group/Pro-choice_Women
http://www.afterabortion.info/news/abortiondeaths.html
http://www.lifeissues.org/ru486/deaths.htm

Your sister can get free help at a crisis pregnancy center. They can give her referrals for financial, medical, legal, and housing assistance, free maternity and baby supplies, and counseling and emotional support. She can find one near her here:

http://www.optionline.org/advantage.asp

or by calling 1-800-395-HELP. Please do whatever you can to help save your little niece or nephew.

Answer 8

Depending on the cirucumstances of course I belive that abortion is to each their own, but in your sisters' case I think that she could easily adopt out her child. My sister adopted out her son and she says that it's the best thing that she could have ever done because he would never have gotten as far as what he has if she would have stayed with her.

Answer 9

What we think doesn't matter. This situation is between your sister and God. We're not the one's who can pass judgement. However, it does state in the Bible that murder is a sin.

Answer 10

I personally couldn't get an abortion, but I believe they need to remain legal. I also think your sister needs to start investing in birth control.

Answer 11

Pro-Choice. No one should be able to force you into one or the other. If a woman feels that is best for herself so be it.