SIOUX FALLS, S.D. -- Kayla Brandt had an abortion three years ago and instantly hated having done it. Now, hoping to stop other women from making the same choice, she is a public advocate for the most severe abortion ban in the nation.
"I don't want anyone to feel what I did," Brandt says.
To think passing a law will stop abortion is incredibly naive,
i am a very open minded person, i do not think that abortion should be illegal. it is a choice that should be made between the person's involved, no one else. i have seen the old footage of dead women lying on the bathroom floor after trying to do it with a coat hanger. do people really want to go back to that?
don't get me wrong, Kayla Brandt has every right to feel this way. but what right does she have to tell us what we can and cannot do? if she see's it as a major sin, that's fine. what about the rest of us who don't believe what she does?
2006-08-28 06:51:22 · 30 answers · asked by tandypants 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
i don't believe it should be used as birth control or anything, but it should still be a legal option.
2006-08-28 06:57:03 · update #1
That's easy for Kayla to feel that way now, she's already had her abortion. So, because she feels that way, after excercising her right to choice, she wants to condemn someone else in the same predicament just because of how SHE felt about something? Totally ludicrous. So by following that type of logic, I got a pedicure. This shop didn't scrub and disinfect the tub, and I never went back. I had a bad experience with pedicures. I think I'll become an advocate for stopping pedicures in our time. Makes as much sense as her one woman stand.
It's real funny, that those same people calling pro choice-pro murder, are the same ones that want John Mark Karr to fry today. They also could care less if one of these women dies while desperately trying to do her own abortion.
And they even cheer when a clinic is bombed killing innocent people. Pro life? I hardly think so.
2006-08-28 07:03:53 · answer #1 · answered by classyjazzcreations 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Even though I am a man and I feel I should have 0 say in a womens right to choose, I do think abortion is bad but not wrong. This girl Im sure has been taken under the arms of some religious group and turned into a "Born Again" or is being forced to speak like this. This state is funny, I live right next to it and you have some weird things happening there. That religious Americas Most Wanted guy that is on the run has a large community up there, this state has a low population ratio and people can be swayed easily to believe what there politicans and churches tell them. Make abortion illegal like they did with drugs and look at the horror that will come. A big reason for this movement is to stop science from proving christianity is false, why else would abortion be "somewhat legal" but the use of that aborted fetus for the good of mankind very illegal?
2006-08-28 07:14:42 · answer #2 · answered by Later Me 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Why is it that people can't respect the fact that people are different? Just because she experienced regret doesn't mean that other people will feel the same.
And everyone has a different opinion of when a fetus can be considered a real person. Some say that at conception is when a baby has a "soul" and others think that a conglomerate of cells is just an extention of the woman's body. Let those that think the former not have an abortion, but keep the option open to the those of the latter opinion.
2006-08-28 07:06:07 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I don't know whether or not a law is the best idea. I do think that people like Kayla should go out and tell their story, so that people making the choice that is so defended know that it isn't always as simple and straight forward as Planned Parenthood would have everyone believe. For many women abortion didn't turn out to be a "simple procedure" but has negatively impacted their lives.
Unfortunately, since abortion advocates have resisted attempts to give out information about some of the possible negative effects of abortion, people like Kayla feel that they were mislead and react militantly to try to change things, feeling that they didn't really get enough information to really make a choice.
2006-08-28 07:01:40 · answer #4 · answered by happygirl 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
I understand that this nation has given you the right to think for yourself but what about the little HUMAN BABY. It is funny to think that anyone could be so selfish as to think that a baby is property. When did we go back to slavery? Those pictures of women dead on the floor with coat hangers were actually rare. What the nation does not see is the aftermath of abortion. Higher chance of miscarriages, higher chance of breast cancer, increased chance of hemorrhaging after the surgery. Many people do not even look into the CDC (Center for Disease and Control) report on how many women die from these surgeries. Most of the time, these clinics move the woman who is not completely awake from the medication, then send them home with no more than pain pills. Sadly most women develop infections from parts of the baby that are missed when being ripped from the womb. IT is just as savage and deadly to remove what does need to be there than to think that would have a choice to kill their baby.
If you want more info, I will be glad to give it to you.
2006-08-28 07:09:43 · answer #5 · answered by krys_tal_light 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The problem with abortion is it is an absolute.
I don't mean life or death, but it is that too.
I mean, if someone's going to decide HOW or WHEN for eveyone else, why is that different than deciding IF?
If it's OK to do it as a means of birth control , then it's OK to do it as a means to save the mother's life. If the woman wants the abortion but the father is willing to take the child & raise it, what's in the best intrest of the child?
Most women are not emotionally capable of making these kinds of life & death decisions, rationally. Someone has to be on hand to help them decide.
Most abortionists don't consider the fetus to be a real child. Someone needs to be on hand to help them understand.
2006-08-28 07:26:35 · answer #6 · answered by azar_and_bath 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
According to the statistics I have 19.3 % of abortions occurred between 16 to 20 weeks... 10.1 % occurred later than 21 weeks.
Fifty-two percent of U.S. women obtaining abortions are younger than 25: Women aged 20–24 obtain 33% of all abortions, and teenagers obtain 19%
Two-thirds of all abortions are among never-married women.
On average, women give four reasons for choosing abortion. Three-fourths of women cite concern for or responsibility to other individuals; three-fourths say they cannot afford a child; three-fourths say that having a baby would interfere with work, school or the ability to care for dependents; and half say they do not want to be a single parent or are having problems with their husband or partner.
Results from the Guttmacher Institute
(Since abortion began this nation is passing the 40 million mark on the number of abortions performed... and the numbers keep increasing...now that they have the morning after pill it will be harder to track the number of potential fetuses that could have been produced.)
2006-08-28 07:11:09 · answer #7 · answered by jaimestar64cross 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Ms. Brandt has every right to do what she's doing -- because it involves the protection of innocent human life.
I agree with you that people should not be told what to do (or not do) in their private lives. But when killing human beings is involved, privacy ends.
By the way, people who see abortion as a horrible evil are also "open-minded" people. Pro-abortion people do not have a monopoly on open-mindedness.
We are open-minded enough to see what any ultrasound picture can show you -- that the unborn are real live human beings.
Nothing personal, but it's easy for you to think that abortion should be legal -- because you have already been born!
2006-08-28 06:59:11 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
I don't think making abortion illegal is such a bad idea but I also think the primary focus should be dealing with the issues that make abortion "necessary" because except in cases where health is a issue abortion really isn't a good solution.
2006-08-28 06:59:05 · answer #9 · answered by Kelsey 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I see legal abortion as similar to the idea of government regulating illicit drugs. Maybe they are wrong, maybe they aren't, but having some control over them makes them a lot safer. People are going to do these things no matter what laws are in place. I think it would result in harm to fewer people to continue to regulate abortion and even to begin regulating drugs.
This has nothing to do with whether it is right or not. It is simply an attempt to curb the damage. I agree with you.
2006-08-28 07:05:45 · answer #10 · answered by Phoenix, Wise Guru 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋