Hi its lunch now and Im in the school library (its the only place where they have the wireless) cranking out another question on my laptop on yahoo answers while violating the rules about eating in the library (lol). Anyway we just finished an assembly where the subject was various services offered by the school, counseling, aids prevention counseling, etc. The school social worker spoke about abortions and family planning clinics and how she would help any girl who came to her with that issue. I became enraged and almost spoke out loud but held myself. I think that the ripping of a human life out of its mother is MURDER period. I personally struggle with my "hormones" constantly and have a boy friend who does the same. My parents and his mom still allow us to be friendly because hes such a greaaat guy and hes soooo drop dead good looking too but if we went too far I would NEVER abort his baby. I plan to remain a virgin and I want my boy to stay innocent.
2006-09-27 07:53:59 · 34 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Gender Studies
I dont know who to choose for best answer so im going to let this question go to voting. I am a little upset about one person thinking I cant control my feelings towards my boy friend. Its NOT true. And im not too young to like him.
2006-09-28 13:08:00 · update #1
They can never justify it. They can only rationalize it.
2006-09-27 07:55:15 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 8⤋
Actually i don't consider my self only pro abortion. I would say that I am pro choice. That ultimately means that I believe in having children, adoption, and abortion when the right circumstances call for it but only as a last resort. Being pro choice doesn't mean that we believe that woman should get a abortion just to get a, get out of jail free card. What about incest, rape, or a instance where the mother could die from the result of having the child, and that would leave her other children without a mother. I definitely do not believe woman should use abortion as a birth control method, or if they find out the child might be developmentally challenged. I also don't believe a abortion should be performed after the first trimester because they have allowed the fetus to develop to far along. However, some people do not always look at the beginning of life from the point of conception because at that point there is not a heart beat. Religious people see this issue much differently and your belief is much respected however, it is not for u to judge the decisions of others that is up to god to do, and if he could forgive them then why cant u. just because a person makes a decision u don't understand or agree with doesn't mean that u should treat them differently how would u want to be treated. I'm sure you would want your privacy not to be invaded.
2006-09-27 14:38:45 · answer #2 · answered by coopchic 5 · 3⤊ 2⤋
You are entitled to your opinion. Others are equally entitled to theirs. While you may or may not agree with the current laws of the land, some people have to deal with the reality of not having the ability to quit their jobs or to quit school in order to take care of a baby. There are extremely poor people out there who can barely afford an abortion, much less 18 years of supporting another person. They cannot afford to pay an OBGYN, a daycare, or any of the other things involved with having a baby. Admittedly, they should have kept their legs crossed, but sometimes girls are not in a convenient position the way you are and wind up doing things they really don't want to do anyway. That's the cold hard truth of the matter. Back when women did not have the ability to legally get an abortion, they got back alley abortions or did the job with a coathanger. Many died a painful death. Until life is more fair toward the people that exist in the world already, perhaps it would be wise for you to stop yelling MURDER all over the place.
If somehow you wound up getting pregnant, you suggest you would keep your baby. Good for you. And good for your parents. I'm sure it's the parents who would wind up paying, paying, and paying again in the multitude of forms that parents usually pay, except for one thing -- they wouldn't be the parents, they would be the grandparents, and you would be renieging on your responsibities as most naive young girls who say such silly things do.
Good luck formulating real-life opinions. You seem a bit behind on that.
2006-09-27 08:00:39 · answer #3 · answered by Candidus 6 · 6⤊ 2⤋
I am pro-life. I think it is (abortion) a horrible thing. There ARE exceptions. I would not force a 12yr old girl who got raped or etc. to go through a pregnancy and be tramatuized, HOWEVER when a girl, no matter how old she is WILLINGLY has sex I do expect her to own up to her actions. Their are many people, myself included who want children but for various reasons can't have them. I also agree with smashley. For those of you who debate that a being isn't alive intill it can be separted from their mother and surivive without aid, so premature babies (my sister included) aren't alive? A fetus can hear at 20 wks and feel pain at 28wks. Is abortion okay before then, no I don't think so. Taking a life, or what is soon to be a life is wrong, their is no way around it. I am aware some girls don't have a choice ex: their parents force them to, and if that's the case they shouldn't feel guilt. BUT girls/women who use abortion as birth control are just sick. Ex: OH NO I knowingly had unprotected sex, lets abort it so we don't have to deal" If your that way you should just go get fixed.
2006-09-30 05:48:05 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
First off, there is no such thing as "pro abortion." I challenge you to find one sane person who *wants* pregnant women to run out and have abortions. The term is "pro choice," which means that you support a woman's right to make the decision that's right for her, her body and her fetus.
It's very easy to try to paint this issue as a black & white, right or wrong issue, but there are all sorts of grey.
Have you considered what you would do if you were raped and became pregnant with your rapist's child? Would you honestly be able to look at that child and be reminded of that brutalization and violation every day for the rest of your life?
What if you were on birth control, had gotten immunizations for traveling abroad and then found out the birth control had failed, you were pregnant and your child was probably going to have severe, crippling birth defects if you carried him/her to term? (That was an actual situation faced by a patient my friend treated at Planned Parenthood.)
And even if you would be okay with keeping the fetus under the above circumstances, what gives you the right to make that kind of life-altering decision for every other woman in America?
2006-09-27 08:15:01 · answer #5 · answered by mistryl_jade 3 · 6⤊ 2⤋
*_liitle_ girl*, you need to use that library to STUDY __*ALL*__ the stages of pregnacy instead of wasting time on here!!!!!
Once you know the MEDICAL/SCIENTIFIC __*FACTS*__ about, mammalial pregnacy, you will see that EARLY TERM abortions are doing nothing more than removing a blob of cells from the host body!!! You will see just how brainwashed you REALLY are by ignorant 'religious' zealots!
Until the fetus can survive ON ITS OWN and WITHOUT being either something the body considers foriegn (like cancer...what do you think causes morning sickness?) OR being a parasite on its host then you are NOT "killing a 'baby'"!!!
THAT said, abortion is something that is between a female and her doctor. Separation of church and state dictates that the 'law' needs to stay the #3|| OUT of personal life decisions!!!!!
I've been pregnant TWICE...one ended with my water breaking at five months. That one I had to 'abort' for health reasons on both the fetus's and my accounts. The second one was a tubal pregnancy that burst and had to be removed or I would have bled to death!!!
Still being a CHILD in school you have absolutely NO idea about the REAL world!!!! You had better get back to your studies now. YOU NEED THEM!!!!...ESPECIALLY Science and Biology!!!
2006-09-27 08:18:07 · answer #6 · answered by x_southernbelle 7 · 7⤊ 2⤋
Would you like to carry to term a baby by your father ? it does happen. How can anti-abortion people justify shaming a 13 year-old into keeping it and causing years of irreversible mental damage to mother and child. You are obviously very young and haven't thought about why it is your right to tell someone else what to do. What if I told you that you had to keep your head shaved forever. By the way are you gonna be the one to support the mother's baby once it gets here?
2006-09-29 10:28:59 · answer #7 · answered by Babydoll 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋
While checking out your other questions that you have asked on this site, I had a feeling that you were young but I didn't think you were only 13 !So I cannot justify answering this question especially when a 13 year old asks it.Good luck with your "hormone struggle, because some of the questions that you asked on Yahoo Answers ie. "rubbing yourself on the bedpost" and "massaging your special guy, wanting to rip his clothes off" here are outrageous for a 13 yr old. Sounds like you may lose the struggle.
2006-09-27 09:18:03 · answer #8 · answered by Pesty Wadoo 4 · 5⤊ 2⤋
It is nice to see that you understand something that many people so much older than you still don't. But being aware an abortion is a murder and being against it doesn't mean you cannot have sex if you don't plan to have children at that moment. You should just protect yourself in a proper way. I advise you to go to your doctor and talk about it when the time comes. But you seem to be so young that I believe your time hasn't come yet.
P.S. Soleil Noir (the first answerer here) gave the perfect answer to this question. It really hit the spot!
2006-09-27 11:34:27 · answer #9 · answered by Venus 3 · 2⤊ 3⤋
I disagree with your choice of terms "pro abortion"? I don't know any one who is Pro-abortion (advocating for all pregnant woman to have an abortion) No. I am Pro-Choice I think people have a right to make decisions about their body. I am not self-righteous enough to say that every one should live like me (I would never have an abortion and the only man I have ever slept with is one I will spend my entire life with) I realize that not every women is in the same situation -- some are abused (emotionally, physically, and sexually) they need a "Choice". Or to put it another way it would be like me saying "Anti-Woman's rights" rather than "Pro-Life. These two things are completely different.
2006-09-27 08:06:20 · answer #10 · answered by ecogeek4ever 6 · 7⤊ 2⤋
There are many ways to look at this. I wouldn't go for an abortion, because I would do everything possible to give my child everything I can, but some people are just not in a position to do that and maybe its a 13 year old girl who can't support her child and her parents won't help, of course she could have the baby and give it up for adoption, but a lot of those kids grow up hurt, they get hurt in the families they get placed in and its just a very hard decision for a mother or anyone to make. I believe that each person has the right to make that choice on their own.
2006-09-27 08:00:00 · answer #11 · answered by wantstoknow 4 · 4⤊ 4⤋