Are you pro-life or pro-choice? why? Have you aborted an unborn child? why?

Question

I am pro-life. I believe that there are other options, such as adoption. If you don't want the baby, don't kill it. It is not the babies fault. I don't think it is right to have an abortion UNLESS there are circumstances that make it almost impossible not to abort the baby (such as the baby being born with disease or getting pregnant by being raped- but even if i was raped, i wouldn't abort the baby)
I have had 2 unplanned pregnancies (both by the same man) and i never even considered abortion or adoption. I understand some peoples families would kill them or put them out if they were pregnant, but there is help available out there. If i were in a situation like that and my family disowned me, that would prove to me right there that I don't need my family. I feel like family is supposed to be suppotive of you and stand behind you. I don't think it is right to talk people into abortion. I can't understand how people can abort their own child. i could never forgive myself if i did that

i had 1 miscarriage (my first pregnancy) and i cried my eyes out for months. i was so hurt. couldn't stop thinking if my baby was a boy or girl, what his/her name would have been, how he/she would have looked/acted/talked. I felt like I lost a baby that was mine & alive. It hurt so much. How can someone abort (KILL A CHILD) and not care. why not give the baby to someone who will love it. Think of who your baby could have been. It may be small, but it's still a person.

TO PAMELA L:
I asked the question to hear EVERYONE'S answer/opinion, not just answers like mine. Obviously, I knew with a controversial question like this, I would get answers from people who do not think just like me, which is what I wanted. I like hearing everybody's side. Not just answers from my point of view. Now as far as the best answer, it probably will be someone who feels the same way as me.
I don't expect everyone to feel or think like me, everybody is different. But I am not the type of person to keep my opinions to myself. If I think or feel something, sweety, everybody is gonna know. I am not gonna bite my tongue about my beliefs, nor should you or anyone else who has strong beliefs about something. I wanna let the world know how I feel about this topic. I don't have a horse, so I am not looking down on anyone. Thats life. No matter what you do, people will look down on you. But I am not gonna sit here and tell you I feel like abortion is ok, BECAUSE I SIMPLY DO NOT!!!

PAMELA L:
You don't have to tell me why you aborted, I just hope you did it for the right reason and not just because you are selfish. I wouldn't be thrilled about being raped and having to carry the baby around. But you know what? 1/2 of that baby is part of me, so i would STILL find it in my heart to give that baby the best love I could give, no matter what. I am not a christian, but i do know that killing is a sin. I never said you were evil, but yes, actually you are a murderer. Are you not? I never said that having an abortion was easy. or did I?? Since you know it all, you tell me. I am sure it wasn't. I am not judging anybody, I am simply giving my opinion and stating the FACTS! Good luck in life.

THE ONLY PERON WHO SHOULD HAVE THE POWER TO TAKE A LIFE IS JESUS! There are people having abortions every time they have a child just because they can do it and it's ok. These are the people that should go to jail. Like I said, if something is wrong with the baby, yes, I feel like thats a reason to have an abortion. But to have an abortion out of selfishness is ridiculous & should be stopped.

Answer 1

Abortion is almost always WRONG. I have heard all the arguments.

"It's a woman's right" (haven't seen such a right in the US Constitution). "It's only a lump of cells." "It isn't alive" are the most popular of the "Pro-Choice" crowd.

Meanwhile, the "Pro-Life" crowd says it's God's will that there shouldn't be any abortions.

Quite frankly, none of those arguments do anything for me.

Is there something that all people of good will can agree upon? Perhaps it is this. An innocent human life should not be taken without just cause.

One may argue about the morality of killing during a war. Or if there should be the death penalty for people convicted of murder. And there is self-defense. I think that just about covers it.

Your neighbor plays his TV too loud at 3 AM? Not a reason to kill him. Your boss won't give you a raise? Not a reason to go postal (I used to work at the USPS during my college days). You're not ready to be a parent? I guess that's the question here.

Certainly, except where the life of the mother is in serious danger from the pregnancy, none of those arguable cases applies. For example, if she is a diabetic and the pregnancy might destroy her kidneys, then I think it should be up to her.

Well then, why do I say the abortion is wrong most of the time? Simple. I was born in January. Working backwards, I guess that I was conceived about the early part of April of the previous year.

I am now an old f@rt. I claim to be human. I claim the right to be not terminated without just cause as stated above.

My DNA is the same as when I was 12 years old. Same person, different package. It's the same as when I was 3 1/2. Same person, different package. It's the same as when I was born. SPDP. It's the same as when I was just conceived. SPDP.

Unless you think that I am not a person now, I was also a person that April many years ago. I claim for that person the same right to Life, Liberty and Property that the Constitution gives to me today.

Answer 2

I had an abortion and it was the worst mistake of my life. It was a little over a year ago and still not over it and I know I never will be so I do not suggest anyone have one and if it doesn't make me sound too hypocritical I would say that I am against abortion. However I am pro-choice because you can not force some of these women into keeping their babies. If it were illegal I would have just excepted it and had the baby but other women would find another way to get rid of that baby and I don't want that to happen. I was naive, I was told how the procedure was done but the nurse failed to mention a few things to me and I didn't know any better but a few weeks after I had it I saw some pictures and articles on the Internet and I saw exactly what is done and it horrified me. I went to an abortion clinic and still lacked the education I needed and wanted because if I had seen those first there is no way I would have gone through with it. So, and this is just my opinion but I think everyone should be on the same side and try to make these clinics provide more education to these women. I think those pictures would stop some one before the fact that its illegal would.
People can judge me and talk about me as much as they'd like because they will never me like i hurt myself when I did that.

Answer 3

I am definetly pro-choice. I think that the issue is very strongly voiced in this country, but the people who actually take a side in the issue dont really look into the facts.

I have had an abortion. Thats not something that most people know about me. I dated a guy for a long time, and then he told me one day that he was moving all the way to texas (Im from Indiana). I didnt find out until he was already gone that I was pregnant. I ended up having to tell him at his dads funeral when he came back for it, and he was devastated, but yet happy at the same time. I loved this guy with all my heart, but it was the typical scene when he went back. He never called. He never wrote. He never visited. Never even wanted to know how I was doing. So two months along, I got an abortion. I didnt want a baby to grow up without both of its parents. Its just something I feel strongly about. My parents divorced when I was a year and a half old. My dad lives in Tennessee, and I barely got to see him at all. Divorce is bad enough, even with visits and holidays. But not even having your parent there when youre born, or during the pregnancy would have been so much worse in my opinion.

I also think that abortion would be an okay choice for rape victims. I mean, come on. If you were raped, you would absolutely loathe the person, woudlnt you? So if you got pregnant, would you really want to see that child every day and be reminded about what happened? I know I wouldnt.

I know Im just stating my opinion, its everyone's right to. But you asked for it, and I gave it.

I am pro-choice.

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Answer 4

i am pro life all the way, i had a child out of rape (although at the time i didn't know that a person being pressured was rape and that is what he did )but my son is one of the best thing that could have happened to me, as far as a child being born with a disease, i don't agree with that either because just because u carry a child to term and keep it doesn't mean that they may be healthy, i have 2 daughters with speech impairments, my middle child is the worst she is 10 yrs old and still working at a 1st grade level, she is not retarded or anything just behind, when u say its ok to abort a child because it has a disease or something then u are putting a condition on a love that is supposed to be unconditional. ppl say that its ok to abort a child because it puts the mother in danger, well wake up pro choice abortion is more risky than having a child, it will put the mother at an even greater risk to abort it.

Answer 5

I am definately on both sides of the fence on this topic. I am 26 and have two beautiful girls that are now 8 & 9. When they were 1&2 i was dating a good guy (what i thought at the time) and got pregnant. After seeing that he nor I were ready for a baby together, and could not bring myself to carry it for 9 months and hand it over to someone else after having two of my own and knowing it would have been impossible. Regretfully had an abortion. I think about it every day of my life and wonder. Especially after having two misscarrages after this. And now am 26 and just had a full hysterectomy!!! So yes there are alot of things to think about when it comes to pro-choice and anti. If i could do it again im really not sure what i would do. Forgivness is a hard thing to find in this situation. i just look at it as I am very lucky to have my girls. And i will have to live with my decisons for the rest of my life.

Answer 6

I myself was adopted. There isn't a day that goes by that I don't think about the fact that my birth-parents could have aborted me. I feel like my entire life is a precious gift given to me by my God that I shouldn't waste. I know there are times when an easy solution such as abortion seems like the perfect answer to a "problem," but that easy solution does not take into account all the parties concerned, specifically the child. Because that's exactly what is at stake: a child. Not an "it." Too often pro-abortion (notice, there is rarely a distinction between "pro-choice" and "pro-abortion") advocates would have an expectant mother believe her child is not a being yet. I would support a "pro-choice" movement if it reflected its name better; that is, if it truly presented all choices to a mother and not present abortion as the only solution.

Answer 7

I'm pro-choice I think the person should have the right to choose. Just cause you have an abortion doesn't mean you don't care. I've had an abortion and it wasn't something that I necessarily wanted to do but the situations surrounding it just wasn't right and I tried to look past it but I just couldn't. I think about all the time, about if would've been a boy or girl and I calculate the age and wonder what my life would be like.

I also disagree with adoption or raising an unwanted child, those kinds of things have major effect on peoples lives. people grow up wondering what was wrong with them and why weren't they wanted as well as other questions.

Answer 8

I think you put way too much "discussion" into a question, But I'll answer..
I had labor induced at 19 weeks when I found out my baby had a fatal birth defect and could never, ever, ever live outside of my body, and that it would be difficult to find people who would accept her as an infant organ donor if I carried her to term. I don't consider this an abortion, but many people do, and I had to wait days to go into the hospital to give birth to her until there were doctors and staff on who weren't pro-life.

I myself am pro-choice for a number of reasons, and I just want to say that even if you are against abortion I urge you to vote pro-choice to at least keep women out of the alleys, and to keep women like me from being forced to carry a child that was going to die before it was born. I never though I would personally need to have the choice, but if abortion was totally illegal in our country than I would have had to just wait for months for a baby that I had desperately wanted to die inside me, and that would have caused me so much more pain than the situation already did. I don't know if I would have been able to handle it, and I'm grateful I didn't have to and could instead begin to deal with my loss and heal.

I regret that my baby's organs couldn't be used to save other babies, but I absolutely do not regret ending that pregnancy ASAP under those circumstances.

I'm now pregnant with a very healthy baby due in March!

Answer 9

Why ask the question if you only want to hear answers that match yours.. I had an abortion. I never forget it but I don't regret it I have also had a m/c recently. I commend you for keeping your babies. but alas my princess we are all not like you I wouldn't like for you to go through a rape and then have to carry around a child of hate and anger. And heaven forbid if you did abort it people looking down at you from there high horses.... I would tell you why I had an abortion but I don't think its any of your business you will think what you will. So think that I am evil and a murderer. but it was the hardest decision I ever made and if you think for a second that it was easy you are wrong. You stand in judgment but it is not your place to judge others.
and Chynna how would you feel if you had to go through that and your so called friends turned there back on you... some of my friends didn't agree but they were still there for me. you are a horrible person much worse than this girl you claim is your friend.,

Answer 10

I don't like to tell anyone what they can or cannot do.No matter what the law says some women will choose th have abortions. I prefer that they have a safe legal alternative for whatever reason they decide is the right one.I know the reason given is a common one in India yet India has stricter abortion laws than most English speaking country's yet it is still done so I do not think making abortions harder to get will make and difference.