Would pro-abortion people rather have forced sterilization?

Question

If you don't want to have a child, you can always choose not to have unprotected sex or use birth control, so how is it a violation of choice unless the sex wasn't consensal. But with sterilizaton, you wouldn't be able to have a child even if you tried.

Pro-choice and pro-life are political terms, not real definitions.

Answer 1

Yeah, SOME people should definitely not reproduce.
What the world needs now is another.....

Answer 2

I was discussing this with someone the other day. We agreeed that if children could be sterilized at a very young age, it would solve a huge number of societal problems. Then at age 18 or 21 or 25 or whenever, take the magic pill and be able to reproduce.
This based on several things:

There are some subcultures in which 12 and 13 year old girls desperately want to have babies.

The degree of complexity is modern society requires you spend a lot of years in school to do more than flip burgers. Nothing takes you out of school faster than a baby.

People who get pregnant young are like children raising children. The human mind isn't fully on line until you are at least 25. At 16, it's bad for the baby to have you as a parent.

We are stuck with fecundity at age 12 to 14 because that's what worked for our ancestors 10,000 years ago. If you were going to die before you were 35, start cranking out those kids early so they might get a few years of your protection.
But our world cannot survive with that kind of "thinking".

Answer 3

First of all the choice issue is the woman choosing whether to terminate the pregnancy or not. Sometimes woman choose to do so because of accidental pregnancies (birth control doesn't always work) or they do so because they're careless and forget to use birth control, the boyfriend or husband leaves them, or they may be very sick and unable to safely carry out the pregnancy, etc. Some women who have abortions choose to have a child at another time, it's not always so black and white.

A big myth is that people who are pro-choice are pro-abortion and that's wrong. People who are pro-choice just don't want women's reproductive rights to be taken away.

Answer 4

Birth control is not 100% effective, some will still get pregnant while using it.

I am Pro-choice which means that I believe one has the right to choose between all options including abortion. What choice a person makes is no ones business but their own.

Answer 5

Not consensual is the big word here. Although people should never use abortion as a method of birth control there are instances where it would be best to have an abortion. Such as the mother and child will both die if the pregnancy continues and the mother has other children to consider. Such as incest and rape. Whether you know it or not the frame of mind of the woman while carrying the child affects the child greatly. The woman can actually make the child diseased by thought alone, just as people can make themselves sick by their thoughts and frame of mind.

Answer 6

Actually, I would fully support the sterilization of people who had committed certain heinous crimes, or people who would be unfit parents due to serious mental illness. I know the rant "everyone has the right to have children", and yet I think our society would greatly benefit by more selective breeding. It seems as though unintelligent people in the lower classes have the most children, and the people who are brilliant have fewer. It would be nice to somehow prevent anyone from having children before they could support the child, but again, this is hardly possible. I only wish that people would be more particular about whom they choose to reproduce with.

Answer 7

I don't know about the pro-abortion people but as a pro-choice person, I'd want the choice for all reproductive issues to be made by individuals and not the state. While I don't favor the use of abortion, women should have reproductive choice.

Answer 8

Of course not....That is ridiculous. Pro-choice people just want people to have options.

Let me ask you this.....Do you think that it is better to be born a crack baby, be abused all of your life, eventually murder an innocent victim of society, get sent to prison, and ultimately be given the death penalty, because your strung out mother could not get an abortion? This happens every day.....

Have you ever thought that it just may be God's way of allowing a way out of this Hell for some children?

But to force sterilize people....that is degrading the human dignity of others.

Answer 9

pro-abortion people, understand that a women's body is hers and she owns all the rights to her reproduction system and it is her sole choice what happens to the seed that was planted, not anyone else.

pro-abortion people also understand they they should not abuse those choices and most women also understand that.

sterilization, would be a very effective tool for all the working class and poor people, however the rich need the poor people to make their products. So sterilization wold save misery to many babies that have to grow up poor like in places that make the shoes you wear, the the rich will never let that happen.

Answer 10

It's not as simple as you make it sound. Yes people who don't want kids can use birth control, but very few people are using abortion as a sole means of birth control. Birth control can fail (even the pill isn't 100% effective), kids tend to have unprotected sex (sad and stupid but true...some are just too afraid to ask for birth control or go acquire it themselves...this is something we need to work on as a society, to make kids realize the importance of waiting till they are older and where they can get birth control if they don't want to wait) and kids shouldn't have kids they just aren't ready for it, medical complications can arise which make abortion in the best interests of the mother's health.

Forced sterilization!? Where's the choice in that? People who plan on never having children and are certain of that decision should seriously think about a vasectomy or tubal ligation...but those aren't workable options for people who just don't want kids now but plan on wanting them in the future. Those operations aren't as easily reversed as some tend to believe. Did you seriously mean to type "forced?" I wouldn't want anyone to force me to have an operation I don't want just because kids aren't in my near future plans just as I wouldn't want someone to force me to have an abortion. The moment we start hearing about plans to force women to be sterilized is the moment we know we have officially lost our freedom.

Answer 11

I agree with billthedude. Reproductive choices are a private matter and should be left up to the individual. The government should stay out of it.