its a life!
2006-09-15 08:46:12 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
So are convicts on death row but pro lifers tend to support the death penalty. It's a life, too!
As a conservative, I have never ever met a person who was pro abortion. I can imagine that they are out there, but most people would never want to be faced with the CHOICE of having to abort or not. However, if my husband and I DECIDE that's what is best for my family, then I want the CHOICE to have hospital care and not be forced up the back alley to have a guy with a rusty coat hangar or knife waiting.
You people think that there were no abortions before Roe v Wade, which is so untrue. If you were wealthy enough, you could go out of the country or you could pay a doctor for a "medical procedure" in the hospital. If you didn't have money, you might hope that your family doctor cared enough about you to help you out or you were left with the back alley. There were other ways abortions were done, too. They've been going on since women have been getting pregnant and they will continue even if it is out- lawed. The only difference will be how it is done.
2006-09-15 09:03:29 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
I know this is going to sound cold hearted, but a young fetus is more like a parasite. It gets all it's nutrition from a host (the mother) until it can survive on it's own. Yes it's a life, but we kill life all the time. The question is at which point do we consider it a human being at which point it deserves all the protections of your goverment. I don't know the answer to that and I don't think anyone does. Some people believe they do and beliefs are good and important, but beliefs are not always facts. So until someone can prove to me otherwise, I will not impose my will on others. If that's being pro choice, then so be it, but please don't call it pro infantcide. Such language only divides us. The pro-choice, pro-life argument will be won somewhere on middle ground.
2006-09-15 15:53:30 · answer #2 · answered by mb3698 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I am pro-life and conservative. I believe it is life at conception, and to deny otherwise is simply of rejection of truth. The life is dependent on the woman for its life, however, so some people choose to interpret that state as not life.
However, pro-choice is not pro-infanticide. Infant-cide would be the killing of an birthed infant, by my definition. Even though there is one notable Yale professor who believes that should alos be ok, it is different.
2006-09-15 15:52:53 · answer #3 · answered by kingstubborn 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I try to look at it like this. All the unborn babies that die would grow up to be republicans or terrorists...basically the same thing...I'm sick of hearing about both of them and wish neither of them existed. So when I hear about an abortion I just look up and thank God for taking another unborn republican or terrorist I mean. That is unless they are black, then I know they are just doing everyone a favor, and aborting another soon to be homeless crack addict. So what was the question again? Why am I pro infantcide....there you have it.
It's not a life, it's a death.
K
2006-09-15 15:54:01 · answer #4 · answered by Kevin B 1 · 0⤊ 4⤋
First, not everyone agrees that it's a life. So, right there you have part of your answer. You think it's a life. But if someone else doesn't what makes your beliefs right and theirs wrong?
But the debate is more fundamental than that. The issue isn't whether it is or is not a life. Or whether abortion is good or bad.
The issue is WHO gets to make those determinations. Face it -- someone is going to choose. It's either going to be the individual, or it's going to be the majority through enacted laws. If the majority gets to choose, then they are effectively imposing their belief system -- which is almost always religiously-based -- on everyone.
I have never met a single person who is pro-abortion or pro- infanticide. Not one. In fact, almost every pro-choice advocate I know is personally opposed to abortion. But they don't believe that they (or the govt) has the right to impose their beliefs on others, or to take away the rights of others to come to different conclusions.
The concept of reproductive freedoms is not whether you agree with the individual choices being made, or whether you agree with the definitions being used. It's whether you think the government should have the right to take away those choices and mandate those definitions.
Why can't people understand that freedom of choice is not a minority value, even if the majority happens to disagree with the minority's choice?
2006-09-15 15:48:07 · answer #5 · answered by coragryph 7 · 7⤊ 4⤋
Well, it's not right for someone to own semi-automatic weapons and keep them in their home where their children can get to them either. But Republicans fought for that and now we have some kids bringing them into school and shooting their classmates. Poor gun control has killed people who were actually living a good life. Abortion has prevented lives that could potentially be miserable and in pain. Thank you Conservatives for fighting to let irresponsible people keep their guns. But, by God, we have to try and stop people from getting abortions and ending a "life" that is not technically a "life" yet. Save the unborn and screw the living!
2006-09-15 16:01:15 · answer #6 · answered by bluejacket8j 4 · 1⤊ 3⤋
To a point I agree with you. but remember, they don't actually want the woman to kill the child/fetus, they just want her to have that option available as another alternative. They would be very happy if abortion were no longer necessary (and by that I mean that no one was getting pregnant without the child being planned for or at least for the parents to be ready for him/her, not exactly the way it sounded that abortion has to exist).
You must also remember that while conservative want the child to live (and I agree with them on that point), they do nothing to help the child or the mother (and occasionally the father, though it is rare he'll stick around if she is in a situation where she is thinking of abortion). Conservatives want to force the mother to have the kid and to take care of the kid, but fight with everything they've got to prevent her from receiving any help from outside sources. They try to get rid of welfare, food stamps, they make an effort of not going after fathers to pay for these kids. What is a mother supposed to do once she finds herself in this situation?
I agree she shouldn't have done it in the first place. But once there, conservatives make it impossible for her to care for the child and even survive herself. We must start making fathers more responsible (oftentimes the woman gets pregnant believing the man loves her and will stick around, but then he leaves and she is scared and doesn't know what else to do), and we must do more to educate women about abstinence and contraception (abstinence is best but if she succumbs to pressure--and it happens sometimes--she should know about contraception options to prevent the pregnancies).
2006-09-15 15:54:59 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋
America is the only country where abortion is debated. Isn't that remarkable?
That says more about America than abortion - for or against.
In Japan, until recently, abortion was very, very common. In Eastern Europe, abortion is a fact of life (no pun intended there). In India, China, Taiwan, South Korea abortion is undertaken just to ensure a boy!
So the questioon is, why is America obsessed with these issues - abortion, gun control, the theory of evolution, etc?
2006-09-15 15:55:58 · answer #8 · answered by Kamal P 1 · 1⤊ 3⤋
i'd like to sort of add onto what bmbg2577 said, if i could. i agree with her, and since it's so controversial, then i don't think the law has any business putting its hands all over it. xtians, if you believe it's wrong, then you know that forced love is no love at all. if we make it illegal, the real sin of wanting to kill the baby is still there. that's the real sin. and for the ppl who don't believe it's a sin, i'm sorry, but i personally believe it is a sin, but if you're not convinced of that like i am, then it's wrong for me to make you do what i think is right. the only way that any good will follow a person not getting an abortion is if that person is convinced that it is wrong to do so, and they choose to keep the child because of their own decision.
2006-09-15 15:57:04 · answer #9 · answered by phtokhos 3 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Look as a liberal, I am not saying abortion is right, or wrong. I am saying that a woman has a right to choose what happens to her body. What do you say to a person who has been raped either by a stranger or through incest? Sorry, you have to keep this unwanted reminder about a terrible thing that happened to you? It's not about being right or wrong, its about having a choice.
2006-09-15 15:48:54 · answer #10 · answered by bmbg2577 3 · 3⤊ 3⤋