Why is abortion so bad?

Question

Hear me out before you respond PLEASE!
I would like to know why people think abortions are so terrible. They prevent mothers from ruining their lives. If a couple makes a mistake and the female becomes pregnant...well she has way more eggs than she will ever need right? So she might need an abortion to prevent her and her husband/boyfriend from opening up a whole new chapter in their lives that they were not ready for. I realize cautions should be taken to prevent this in the first place, but if it happens it happens. Especially in rape cases, abortions are often used if the woman is impregnated. After her abortion, she can have a child when she is actually ready for one. No sense bringing an unwanted child into the world, when you could have one later in life when you're truly ready.
Your thoughts?

Everyone who brought up the point of adoption, excellent thinking.

Answer 1

It comes down to morality. Many people feel that it is wrong, because their personal beliefs or their religion says it is wrong. So, they seek to impose their personal morality and beliefs on everyone else, either through peer presssue or as a matter of law.

The thing about the abortion debate is that the two sides are arguing entirely unrelated issues. Pro-life people say "abortion is bad". Pro-choice advocates say "The government not should be making personal decisions that like". It's not about abortion. It's about who gets to make the decisions.

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.

The concept of reproductive freedoms is not whether you agree with the individual choices being made. It's whether you think the government should have the right to take away and mandate those choices.

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?

Answer 2

If pregnancy is a worry then don't have sex. A couple shouldn't murder an innocent child because they didn't want a child and don't want to face the consequences of their actions. Yes, I said it abortion is murder. By the time a woman finds out she is pregnant her baby already has a heartbeat and stopping that heart in my book is murder. That is why it is bad.

As for the they can have a baby later when they want it that may not be the case. It was suggested to me to abort my daughter because I was too young and it would ruin my life if I had her. I did the right thing and brought my child into this world. Thank God too, because I have been unable to conceive since I had my daughter and there would not have been any of those second chances for me. Not to mention the fact that abortion is just plain evil.

I feel for women who are raped, but it has been statistically proven that pregnancy very rarely occurs from rape due to the trauma involved. In the event that something like this happened to me I would have the baby and give it up for adoption. No sense in taking the life of an innocent baby because some guy wanted to be a bastard.

Answer 3

The serious problem with abortions is the emotional baggage the decision carries around with it. I had an abortion when I was young and stupid, and I suppose it really was the best thing at the time. But I never got pregnant again, and often wonder what my daughter (never think of it as a son) would have been like. She'd be in her mid-thirties now and I'd be a grandmother. So there are the regrets a person can experience.

The other thing, and the reason I say I "suppose it was the best thing" is that people don't always get a chance to find out what all the options are before they make the decision. Sometimes a girl will have an abortion without even telling the guy who impregnated her. She did not find out what his reaction would be, or his parents' reaction, or anything.

Sometimes, as in my case, one or two of the options are apparently closed down for economic reasons. But sometimes there are people willing to assist in that regard. For example, with private adoptions, the adopting parents can cover the natural mother's expenses while she is pregnant, and all her and the baby's expenses, so that she can afford to have the child to give to them for adoption.

A woman must make this choice for herself, but sometimes it is not really a woman, but a scared little girl who just got ahead of herself. She needs all the help she can get exploring her options and making her decision. But even so, it is her decision.

No, I don't call it murder. But I do call it a very serious decision, often the first serious decision a young woman is forced to confront.

Answer 4

Okay. This is a big topic to open up. I have to say I am against abortion UNLESS the woman is raped. A woman who has suffered a rape should be able to terminate the pregnancy but it should be done ASAP.. or she should simply take the morning after pill.

Did you know that a babies heartbeat begins between the eighteenth and twenty-fifth day? And that electrical brain waves have been recorded as early as forty days? How could you kill something inside of you that has a beating heart?

Do you know what can happen to you if you have a abortion? Over one hundred potential complications have been associated with induced abortion. "Minor" complications include: minor infections, bleeding, fevers, chronic abdominal pain, gastro-intestinal disturbances, vomiting, and Rh sensitization. The nine most common "major" complications are infection, excessive bleeding, embolism, ripping or perforation of the uterus, anesthesia complications, convulsions, hemorrhage, cervical injury, and endotoxic shock. Some women may not be able to have a normal pregnancy after an abortion. Abortions increase your risk to have ectopic pregnancies.

Dont abort.. consider adoption!If you are not ready adoption is the best choice because::

You will be free to pursue your goals and dreams that you had before you were pregnant.

You will not have to care for a baby before you are ready.

You will not have the financial burden of caring for a child.

You will not have to worry about finding a sitter, missing out on the fun with your friends and being tied down.

When you think of your baby, you will think of him or her as happy and loved by a mommy and daddy.

You will know you gave the greatest gift of all - a child, to a couple whose hope and dream was a baby to love.

If you do abort it isnt only unfair to the fetus, but can be emotionally tramatizing to you. If you abort There is no baby to think of; no smile, no little fingers or toes to remember. You have only the memory that you ended your baby’s life. Instead of feeling good about how your pregnancy ended, you may feel sad and empty. But you can never go back and give that child life.

Abstaining from sex is the ONLY way to avoid pregnancy and diseases! Be safe!

Answer 5

I think it is OK to use abortion in cases of rape, incest, and child molestation only.

Boyfriend / Girlfriend, Husband / Wife no not in a million years. When you lie down with a man or woman and preform a sexual act. The consequences of that act is sometimes pregnancy. And Oh the condom broke and now I'm pregnant makes things just to easy to run out and get an abortion. Abortion is not birth control.

There are many people who use abortion like birth control. I know several people I grew up with who had 5 + abortions. This is horrible.

The solution to the problem is abstinence. We live in a throw away society and we should be ashamed of it.

Answer 6

I agree with you. The social cost of an unwanted child is too high to be acceptable (both for the child and society as a whole).

However, most people believe life begins at the moment of conception. This makes abortion equivalent to murder and, thus, morally reprehensible. Couple that with most religions opposing it (it's not your decision to make, but God's), and you have a highly controversial issue that will incite passions across many cultures.

Personally, I believe life begins at the genesis of self-awareness. Since scientifically you can't know WHEN sentience begins, I assume it starts at birth, which is why I do not consider abortion as a form of murder. I advocate accepting the mother's will to determine herself whether to follow with the pregnancy or terminating it.

But that's just my humble perspective. :)

Answer 7

It's quite simple, you have created a life, and that's why abortion is wrong. The power to create life is treated so carelessly in this society. Perhaps if people thought about the consequences of unprotected sex BEFORE they had sex, there would be less of a demand for abortion. It's all about personal responsibility.

As far as rape is concerened, the termination of these pregnancies as compared to simple "unwanted" pregnancies from two consenting parties, is comparing apples to oranges. Most abortions in the US are not from rape cases, but from people who do not wish to take responsibility for their actions.

And from a personal standpoint, there is always the adoption option for unwanted children. Having gone thru infertility and all the pain that this entails, it saddens me greatly to see people destroy what some of us cannot have. There are hundreds and thousands of couples and people who would take any unwanted child into their homes, no questons asked.

Answer 8

People have been having unplanned children since forever . Only now we have " technology" . How does having a child destroy a woman's life? If you're not ready to have children , don't have sex or use a condom. Actually if we took away condoms and birth control I think it would make people be more careful about who they choose to have sex with and when they choose to have it. Sex is not a game, its ultimate purpose is reproduction. It would force people to take responsibility.
Even if you're raped you're taking it out on the wrong person , as tragic as rape is . The rapist was the one at fault not the child. Rape impregnation is not as common as consensual unplanned pregnancy.
You assume that an unplanned child is unwanted .
NO ONE is EVER ready to have a child . Almost NO ONE can afford to have a child.Celebrities who have money still have people watch their kids.it takes a village for real. No amount of planning or prepping or babysitting will ever prepare you. Not even the plastic baby they give you in school. You have a baby and you learn to go with it . Life is not going to wait for you. You have to be able to go with the flow .

When you kill one person you kill millions. You kill off every subsequent generation that person would have created.

For the people who say that these kids aren't cared about after they are born , Why do you think child killers, rapists ,molesters, abusers, and neglecters go to prison ? Not only go to prison but have to be kept in separate cells ? The people who harm children are the ones that have a problem not the children.

Answer 9

the global isn't over populated. there's a lot room contained in the global and a good number of human beings die daily so it evens out. Abortion IS homicide it truly is an alive man or woman, with a beating heart, created by God. God would not choose human beings to "deliver Him babies swifter." He gave us babies, and in no thanks to be killed in the previous beginning. What if the aborted toddler grows as a lot as locate a treatment for most cancers or do different good things? nicely, you blew it by murdering it. large job. merely have the toddler and positioned it up for adoption instead of killing it. What in case you made something magnificent and someone did not choose it so that they destroyed it? many females those who've abortions adventure rigidity and melancholy. don't have ABORTIONS!!!!!!

Answer 10

My thoughts are simple. There are times when an abortion is nessesary or acceptable. Rape or in casses when the mothers life is in danger. Other than that, pregnancy should never be consiered a mistake. If you made the choice to have sex you made the choice to accept the responcibilities of that action. Birth control is capable of protecting a couple in nearlly all casses. Once the child is concieved, baring any complications that may result in the harm of the mother I feel that the child should be born and if it is not wanted, put up for adoption. All allowing people to have abortions is doing is teaching society that it is ok to do things and not expect to have to deal with the consequences. This applies to men and women. Men should not be let off the hook just because they don't have to carry the child. They should be expected to help in every aspect and like i said adoption if they are not ready for the pressure of rearing a child.