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i placed this in philosophy on purpose to try not to get too many religious answers.

2006-08-15 20:22:45 · 21 answers · asked by SivGiger78 2 in Arts & Humanities Philosophy

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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.

2006-08-16 08:20:10 · answer #1 · answered by Stella 4 · 1 2

well abortion is wrong in the sense of stopping a life that never asked to exist from coming into the world. even if it's not fully developed the unborn baby has a heart that beats regularly from a very early age. But the it's also wrong to let a child come to this world unwanted and if the parents don't have the means to support the child. It's also not fair for the child if he's born under these conditions since the parents if very young or if the child is unwanted will perceive the child as an impediment to their future dreams and the child will definitely suffer because of this. so it's actually a matter of how you perceive the situation and when balancing the ups and downs which alternative do you prefer. The terms wright and wrong are relative to the person stating them.

2006-08-15 22:04:57 · answer #2 · answered by Scooby 6 · 0 1

The question of whether it is right or wrong ultimately depends on the pregnant mother. There are several people who view abortion as the taking away of a life and therefore it being unethical and immoral; others believe that they have the right to make that decision because they have control and responsibility over their lives and actions. However, there are other factors to be considered, namely one's financial status. What's the point in having a child when you're in no position to support it financially, medically, emotionally?
So it also depends on the situation of the person and not just whether abortion is a matter of right or wrong. On one hand, abortion may be considered a very inhumane thing to do but on the other hand, maybe the person in question may be preventing the unborn baby from living an unfulfilling life?

2006-08-15 21:43:30 · answer #3 · answered by sunset_n_moonrise 2 · 0 0

I think what you're actually wondering is whether it's acceptable or unacceptable.

It's acceptable, just undesirable.

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When someone eats a diet rich in sweets, doesn't brush their teeth, and gets a toothache as a result, we do not deny that person access to a dentist willing to extract the painful tooth.

When someone else eats a diet rich in fat, doesn't exercise, and suffers a heart attack as a result, we do not deny that person the angioplasty, by-pass operation, or heart transplant that will save his or her life.

When a third person spends 30 years smoking two packs of cigarettes a day and ends up getting lung cancer, we do not deny that person the surgery necessary to remove his or her cancerous lung.

When a fourth person drinks to excess, gets behind the wheel of a car, and proceeds to steer right into a tree, we do not deny that person a trip to the emergency and the life-saving treatment he or she needs.

How then can we deny a woman access to an abortion clinic merely because she engaged in a few moments of sex? Why are some people so severely and self-righteously punitive in her case and not in any of these others?

Forcing a woman to become a mother merely because she engaged in a sex act which resulted in a fetus which might potentially be conscious someday when there are so many poor and neglected children in this world already seems to me to be just about as immoral.

Better to take care of the children already here and let women decide for themselves if they want to become mothers (at least during the first trimester of pregnancy).

Better to demand that those in need of a transplant have the right to your organs upon your death if you're going to call yourself a "Right-to-Lifer" than to demand that an adult human being sacrifice her best interests to those of an unconscious collection of cells which cannot know the harm that's allegedly being done to them.

2006-08-15 20:34:10 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Abortion is totally, utterly and completely wrong; it is reprehensible and just another name for cold blooded, state-sanctioned murder of the most innocent and vulnerable members of any society.

The only way I'd permit an abortion to be carried out is by means of the radical removal of the reproductive organs. One "mistake" is all that would be allowed, anything after that is taking the p**s. And prevention is always much better than cure. This will also serve to remove the undesirable infanticidal gene from decent society.

This has nothing to do with religion, either.

Rant over.

2006-08-15 22:53:39 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Regardless of whether abortion is "ethically right", it is absolutely important for it to remain legal. Why? It should be our choice and our decision. listen to the "Lost woman song" by ani difranco...

I opened a bank account
When I was nine years old
I closed it when I was eighteen
I gave them every penny that I'd saved
And they gave my blood and my urine
A number
Now I'm sitting in this waiting room
Playing with the toys
And I am here to exercise
My freedom of choice
I passed their handheld signs
Went through their picket lines
They gathered when they saw me coming
They shouted when they saw me cross
I said why don't you go home
Just leave me alone
I'm just another woman lost
You are like fish in the water
Who don't know that they are wet
As far as I can tell
The world isn't perfect yet
His bored eyes were obscene
On his denim thighs a magazine
I wish he'd never come here with me
In fact I wish he'd never come near me
I wish his shoulder wasn't touching mine
I am growing older
Waiting in this line
Some of life's best lessons are learned at the worst times
Under the fierce flourescent
She offered her hand for me to hold
She offered stability and calm
And I was crushing her palm
Through the pinch pull wincing
My smile unconvincing
On that sterile battlefield that sees
Only casualties
Never heroes
My heart hit absolute zero
Lucille, your voice still sounds in me
Mine was a relatively easy tragedy
Now the profile of our country looks a little less hard nosed
But that picket line persisted
And that clinic's since been closed
They keep pounding their fists on reality
Hoping it will break
You know I don't think there's one of them
That leads a life free of mistakes.

How is it your right to decide something for another?

2006-08-16 07:31:26 · answer #6 · answered by Mila J 1 · 0 0

There is absolutely nothing wrong with abortion. Women should be able to choose whether or not they're ready to give birth. And the argument "If they're not ready to give birth they shouldn't have sex," is pure bull ****, plain and simple. We should be able to engage in enjoyable activities and sex is an enjoyable activity. The only reason people think sex is something they need to take too seriously is because "god" told them to. There is absolutely no reason two consenting adults should not have sex. There are certain risks involved just like with any enjoyable activity. Some of them can be avoided before hand and some can be dealt with after they crop up and some of them can't. There's no reason we shouldn't deal with the risks we have the power to deal with. That would be like going skydiving and if the parachute doesn't open refusing to open the safety chute because you think it would be wrong.

2006-08-15 22:26:47 · answer #7 · answered by ricothe3rd 2 · 0 0

All the religious views aside, killing of a living being is wrong. Some youngsters act recklessly but with abortion they know they can get away with anything. If abortion is banned outside a marriage(only married women can get aborted), raped women can get abortion , then ppl will be careful & indulge in safe sex.

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2016-12-11 09:39:40 · answer #9 · answered by ? 4 · 0 0

This question is too loaded for most.

To ignore any religious responses is to ask many to ignore the foundations of their faith. Faith is too important to ignore.

Biology is also too important to ignore.

Look up choriocarcinoma, hydatid mole.

Investigate how maternal cardiac health can affect pregancy and delivery.

These conditions can affect and/or kill the mother and/or the fetus. Regardless of her faith, level of faith. But, either condition is a darn good reason to end a pregnancy if the health of the mother is at a risk.

2006-08-15 20:52:26 · answer #10 · answered by buggeredmom 4 · 0 0

this depend so the situation ,i will state some examples for u :
-if u had sex with a guy without marrying him and u became pregnant then that guy should marry u at once and avoid abortion and if that guy refused to marry u then u are te one who is blamed because u had a illegal relationship with a guy without marrying him and i think abortion is the solution because when this child grows what are you going to say to him who is his father??? you see
-if u are married and have kids and u think they are enough for u and by mistake u got pregnant you can abort the child ,,,However , have you ever thought of killing a child a soul like u ??put yourself instead of this child but you can also abort this chil ...it deends on your feelings and sense ....
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2006-08-15 22:30:14 · answer #11 · answered by Hussein A 2 · 0 0

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