Abortion- Right or Wrong?

Question

I am against abortion to the fullest degree however i want to learn and understand someone elses point. If you have a reason you are against it or for it please say so, some people think i am unfair in my decsion on this- Does anyone feel the same way?

Answer 1

I believe that abortion is wrong and that life (as God intended) begins at conception so that would mean abortion is taking the life of a human being.

Psalm 139 really speaks about how God knows us since before we are born - meaning our birth is his intent, and to abort would be a sin.

If it is a matter of the mother's life being in danger, then medical intervention may be necessary because then both child and mother would die.

And Ronin, how can you know women have been having abortions before recorded history - when in fact it is not recorded??

Answer 2

To begin with, I wouldn't put it THAT way. I'd ask: Is it right or wrong to penalise abortion? OR Is it right or wrong to legalise abortion?

Abortion is an operation. Asking if an operation is right or wrong is pointless. The question is so, what should happen to those who practise that operation.

And then, everything boils down to one thing. Our countries (in Western civilisations) are not (in theory) governed by the religions predominant in them. I mean, we should not let Christianity impose its values in our legal systems. In other words, we shouldn't allow purely religious values to impregnate the laws we all are bound to, because if we did, we'd be making people act according to religious values. And this is entirely against the freedom of religion we all are supposed to enjoy.

So, as long as there is no possible defense of the penalisation of abortion, that doesn't include purely religious values, abortion should be legalised.

Now, from an exclusively moral point of view, I think abortion is 'okay' when it's the only solution to a problem, or the least traumatic one. This is so, for example, in the case of rape, or if the mother's life is at risk (or even her integrity and health) or if the child is going to be born to die immediately.

On the other hand, I don't think abortion is right just because the rubber failed, or you didn't bother to take proper care.

So, in short, this is morally a very complex situation, and each case should be considered. In no case should abortion be compulsory. The woman should have it as a right, as a choice, but never as an obligation in any case. And those participating in an abortion should not run the risk of going to jail for it.

Answer 3

I say women have been having abortions since before recorded history. If !Kung woman in Africa has 6 kids and gets pregnant, she may either have an abortion, or have the baby in a hole in the ground and walk away. Nobody really worries about that too much. So if she does the same thing in the USA she's a criminal? Because there are more resources available? But it's the same act? No logic there.

An acorn is not an oak tree. You can call a fetus what you want, unborn child, etc... I don't care. If a woman can't handle it, she can do what she wants.

Science:
1 in 8 babies is conceived as a twin and one twin is reabsorbed. About 1 in 4 pregnancies (I think) spontaneously aborts/miscarries. There is clearly no sacredness to a fetus or there wouldn't be so many wasted ones. If a human decides to get rid of one, oh well.

Answer 4

I am against it. It's a baby no matter how one tries to candy coat their reasoning. I hear so much of how it is just a clump of cells. SO WHAT? Aren't we all in the beginning? If women don't want babies, why don't they keep their panties on, and legs shut or at least go for adoption. I do understand that their are cases of rape or medical reasons. On the case of rape, adoption is the perfect solution, at least it wouldn't be murder. On the case of medical, very rarely anymore do you hear of a woman dying in childbirth. I'm not saying that it doesn't happen, it's just rare now a days. I would rather face death than killing my own flesh and blood. I know that I would have died for my baby, one of Gods children. But, I know that women are going to continue to abort and there is nothing anyone can do about it. They will face God one day.

Answer 5

I am an atheist and fully against abortion. I think it is genocide of children. Some people like to say that it is "her body," but it isn't just hers. It is ironic how spanking your children will get you in jail, but if you stick a vacuum to their brain while you're still pregnant, that is called a right. I think anything over the 1st trimester is too horrible to keep legal. At least before the 2nd trimester it isn't developed enough to feel and could be argued to just be a lump of cells; still I disagree though based on my belief that a human is a human once the prenancy begins.

Being pro-choice is being pro-abortion. Anyone who tries to separate this is an idiot using rudimentary equivocation. And the "if you don't like abortion, don't have one" is a great of an argument as "if you don't like crime, don't commit it"

Ronin is an idiot. The argument for "history" is the worse. We have had rape for all of history, so we should allow it?

Answer 6

I don't think abortion is right, but it has to stay legal. Making abortion illigal is not going to stop it from happening. If a woman wants an abortion bad enough she'll get one illigally and this is almost always unsafe. I'm also concerned with newborns being abandoned and dying. If abortion were illigal there would be several million unwanted children with no homes. I also worry about more women living in poverty because they decided to keep their baby. This will lead to more children living in poverty. If more people are living in poverty this will lead to more crime. Then there are the women who will continue to smoke, drink or do drugs while pregnant because they don't plan to keep the baby anyway. This will cause more babies to be born with health problems. These are just a few reasons why abortion needs to stay legal.

Answer 7

I am against abortion to. I believe the onus is on them to prove this is not a human being. at what point does it become one? And if someone else says it's a different time who do you go by? I would never insist a person had to lay down their life if their own life was truly in peril but this isn't what we see in most cases. It's just a way to deal with an inconvenience in our quest to have it all.

Answer 8

After the third week of conception, there is a heartbeat in an unborn fetus. A heartbeat means a sign of life, right? After 6 weeks, brainwaves begin. Again, another sign of life. I would have a hard time aborting something that I know is showing signs of life.

Answer 9

wrong,it wrong,murder is murder,if a man and woman conceive a child it doesn't just turn into a human when the air and the light of the delivery room hits it,it a human from moment of conception, what else could it be a monkey,a bird,a cat, let use some common sense,just because everyone's doing it and its excepted doesn't make it right,people have lost their respect for human life,and once thats gone we are nothing but animals,that will eat their own young

Answer 10

Wrong. 100%
Abortion is painful to the baby. They actually proved this. It is torture.

And I believe it should be outlawed. So the woman go and do illegal abortion and die as well. A murderer dies.... er... how sad?

Yes a woman has a choice. She CHOSE to have sex. So the BABY should suffer?

Give it up for adoption. Let the baby have a life. My own opinion.