For or against abortion and why?

Answer 1

I am pro-choice. No one has the right to take a way a woman's right to make her own choice. Murder or not, it is still a choice she can make. In the scientific community, a fetus is tissue,and it is considered a parasite,that feeds off the host's body. Unless the person judging the pregnant mother can raise the unwanted baby, (most say they won't or can't do so,) then they should keep their opinions to themselves. I also think that a person should be fixed after one baby, that includes men.

Answer 2

Against. Here's why:

Photos of Abortions, Including 1st Trimester Abortions:
http://www.cbrinfo.org/Resources/pictures.html

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

Information on All Aspects of Abortion:
http://Abort73.com

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
http://www.lifeissues.org/ultrasound/11weeks.htm

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

Answer 3

Against abortion! Abortion is murder of an innocent baby! Not only does it kill the baby but it makes a murderer out of the woman who has an abortion!
God has given every human being the breath of life! At conception, God breathed life into the cells that will form a baby! As the cells grow the baby forms and finally around nine months this baby can survive outside of a womans womb!

Answer 4

against: because most people abuse the ability to "get out of" being pregnant. Instead of being more responsible and using contorceptives...or heaven forbid, NOT having sex until you're ready to have a kid, they abort the child. I believe it's killing a living thing that cannot defend itself, simply because you don't want it to exist, and that's what I find morally distressing.

Since the moment of conception, the 'being' being formed in the womb is "human life."
The baby's heart starts beating 21 days after conception.

I know there are sometimes hard situations, like a pregnacy as the result of rape/incest, or a pregnacy that may kill the mother... I don't know how I feel about abortion in these cases. It doesn't change the fact that it's killing human life...but i understand that it's not the mothers fault...so I'm torn...

mainly I'm pro-life though.

Answer 5

This is really a sticky subject that can get people all bent out of shape. That said...here we go.

I don't think life is sacred. If you do...move on and don't read anymore of what i have to say.

Why don't I think it is sacred? Proof! It is obvious that we humans are no more thought of than mosquitoes, from a higher power. Babies die. Young people die. People die of the most horrible deaths. Even missionaries. I could go on...but you get the point.

Because of this, I can't see how some supreme being would allow the prior paragraph, yet suddenly send one to eternal damnation if one terminates a pregnancy.

If terminating a pregnancy (life...or life in the making) is so bad, and should warrant some form of punishment...then what about the guy who 'wastes' sperm on masturbating, rather than not putting HIS part of the life formula into females to create life?

I think many reasonable people think that very early abortion is okay, and it is especially okay if the special circumstances warrant it. But it becomes more sticky with people when you start talking third trimester abortion and sucking the brains out of an otherwords viable fetus that is actually a fully developed baby not yet born.

It is hard to understand what would possess the woman to carry a fetus to that term rather than aborting it sooner. But, rather than ask more questions...if that is the decision... I guess we need to answer it rather than sidestep it. Now, if we say there is no third trimester abortion, then you are opening up something here that becomes hard to define. Like... at what minurte, hour and day does it go from legal to illegal? And isn't it odd to even contemplate this from a moral standpoint, when you start splitting hairs like this?

Isn't the answer simple if you simply consider "life" to be that outside the womb? Doesn't that make everything simple? Yes. Because then you don't have a problem with splitting the hairs of time as to when it is right and when it isn't right. But, people would argue and say how barbaric it is to abort a viable fetus. True. Very true. That is why this subject is so sticky.

It's odd how we can sentence people to death,... even watch the death take place,... while we take our place as judge, even though the Bible says judge ye not...that the lord only is to judge. And consider how Jesus, who surely would have the honors more than anyone, as being ajudge, was leniant and kept the prostitute from being stoned and even told the criminal next to him on the cross that basically all is forgiven and he will be with him in paradise. Yet we accept and put adults to death...yet have this real problem with killing a fetus that is not yet breathing on their own and who yet know nothing. This amazes me in a way.

Yes...abortion can be barbaric. But what IS the answer? Can we allow some of it, but not all of it? What about the timeline issue I spoke of? Or, do we pass a law that says no third tem abortion by looking at it like this as a comparison: Law enforcement can't really be totally fair, either, in catching every lawbreaker. But, they do what they can to at least HELP control a problem. Maybe we have to look at this the same way. That there never will be a 'fair' with this issue, but we just have to do something that perhaps compromises.

So, my answer would have to be...to allow abortion up until the 3rd trimester and then you can't do it anymore. Then, the woman who is angered by not being able to abort after a certain date would only have herself to blame in allowing the pregnancy to carry on for as long as it did.

Answer 6

i am against
cause when u abort a baby u could be killing a future genius that come up with a cure to a fatal disease
or a future president
if u dont want the baby dont have an abortion have the baby and give it up for adoption

Answer 7

I would like to see the need for abortion reduced, but that day is not any time soon, so keep the options open. For.

Answer 8

I am totally against it. There are so many people that would love to have a baby, give it to a family that wants one that can't have one. God gave that person a baby for a reason, who are they to just kill it. That's just my opinion.

Answer 9

Pro-choice. Fetuses are technically parasites. A woman should have the option of removing it.

Answer 10

Against - it's the murder of an innocent child