Abortion is so wrong! Why do people do it?

Question

I think abortion is wrong. Why would you take such a precious life away from such an innocent being? There are so many families out there who can't have children and would die to. Why can't you just give birth and put the baby up or adoption?!

Answer 1

WOW! You have been given some really BAD advice! For one thing DO not EVER keep your opinion to yourself!! Especially not about something this important! If you think that abortion is wrong SHOUT it from the rooftops! That is your right. Did the person that wrote that answer ever hear of freedom of speech? The fact that you are against abortion and know how wrong it is may give someone that second to stop and think and maybe change their mind.
Remember there is NO SUCH THING as a safe abortion! In the end there is always a DEAD BABY! Do not talk to me about choice, what about the babys choice? It was a choice before it was a baby. It is not a choice any more.
Then there are the people that think that if a baby is concieved by rape that innocent little baby deserves to die. Talk about punishing the baby for the sins of the father. If you do not think you could forgive a little baby for how it was concieved then give it up for adoption, there are thousands of people who would adopt it and not give a thought as to how it was concieved. While we are on the subject I would like to point out that the percentage of rapes that result in pregnancy are almost non -existant. If the rape is reported or if the woman receives any kind of care afterwards she is given medication that will prevent pregnancy. So, pregnancy resulting from rape is not a real issue. By far most abortions are done strictly for the convenience of the mother. Most abortions are done on married women with other children at home.
Why do women do it? 9 times out of 10 they do it because some man is going to "kill" them if they don't. These are the words I have heard over and over again in my counseling of pregnant women. Either it is their husband, their father or their boyfriend that is going to "kill" them if they have the baby. When it comes right down to it very few women really want kill their own baby. It is an aberration, not something that comes naturally.
Hold on to your principals, be vocal in your convictions and do what you can to stop this war on the unborn.
Blessings to you.
Lady T

Answer 2

The one time I considered it, my husband and I were having a child who might have bee severely disabled. We are older and were worried that there would be no one to care for him after we are gone. No one would have adopted him if we had chosen to do that. So, we decided we would terminate if tests came back that were bad. Luckily, we didn't have to go through with that decision as everything turned out fine. I'm not sure I could have terminated the pregnancy anyway, but it was our decision to make--not yours, and not the government's.

Abortion for all sorts of reasons have been going on long before it was legal. The difference is that before, women had to depend on back alley abortionists who used coat hangers or knives. My father was a policeman who had to transport to the hospital two victims of such horror. Now, they would have the right to doctor and hospital care, as it should be. I hope you are never confronted with such a decision.

Answer 3

The reson it is so prevelant is becaus society now looks upon abortion as birth control. Obviously, it is not. Most people would agree that prevention is better than a cure, but strangly in a case where emotions, lives and futures are involved they are comfortable in engaging in a behavior that has a probable outcome(pregnancy) that is easily prevented(birth control) on the assumption that if they should become pregnant it can be easily fixed(Abortion). But if you believe that life begins at conception then you are making an inocent life(child) pay for your carelessness. Take responsibility beforehand and don't make someone else pay for your lack of foresight.

Answer 4

I think in some instances abortion is wrong. If you just accidentally became pegnant from a one night stand or you you just weren;t ready for a baby. You knew that it could happen from having sex, but if you have been raped and become pregnant from the raping. Would you want to go through the emotional and physical pain of bringing something to birth when it came from something so horrible? What if you had to make a choice between your life and somone else? If you knew that when you were going to give birth it was either you were going to die because of it or your baby was. Even if both of you lived your baby would be mentally retarded. What would you do?

Answer 5

You know what's even more wrong? **Some pro-life people who are all for adoption and never do it themselves. It's sad when people don't want a child over the age of three because "it has issues." It's sad when even the people who cannot conceive will spend thousands of dollars on fertility treatment but won't take in "another person's" child. I feel it's selfish for people to try to make abortion illegal but then don't follow through with adoption. Sure, adoption can be expensive but no more then fertility treatments.

Science has not given us a definite definition to when life begins. We don't know 100% if it starts at birth or conception. Without knowing that I nor anyone else can come to an educated decision until the facts are proven--which I doubt they ever will.

I would never suggest abortion to anyone. I would try to convince someone not to abort. I'm pro-choice. Their body, their child, and their life. God see on their judgment day--there's no need to do it here. God also gave us free will--it's not up to us to determine how someone ultimately uses it.

**Notice I used "some" not "all."

Answer 6

There is still great debate on what constitutes life... Is life one or two cells does it take 1,000 or 5, 000 cells to constitute life... Is life actually when a fetus is viable to survive outside the womb on it's own or before that...

The debate about abortion is a very complicated debate that can not be seen in purely black and white terms...

There are as many reasons to get an abortion as women who have gotten abortions..

While I can respect your belief that abortion is wrong for you, it may not be the wrong choice for others... No one is forcing you to have an abortion and until abortion is illegal you can not force a women to go through a pregnancy she wishes/needs to abort...

Answer 7

I've known some women who've had abortions tho, and here are their reasons:

1) lived with an abusive man, had to get away, baby would have prevented that

2) chronic alcoholic, whore-like behavior, no way to raise a kid, and probably kid would have been FAS

3) several women I know have aborted kids with down syndrome. I have a friend with a child who has down syndrome and this annoys her greatly, but when you watch the struggle - it's not for you to decide other people can handle it.

4) one woman had five kids, one sick, low income. no way they could handle another kid - you think she should have given birth and given this kid away? what would that to do their little kids minds?

5) a woman who was sexually abused as a child, and basically hates men and has sex with them all the time. aborted, saying, no child would come out of her body. ever.

Why you think these women should add to their burdens growing little babies for otherwise healthy childless couples is beyond me. They are not baby factories - they barely function as adults... (and this is just an ethics-based response. healthwise - pregnancies can be very dangerous.)

Abortion - god does it all the time - most fetuses are spontaneously aborted (miscarriages.)

Most religious traditions don't even prevent abortion until 'the quickening' - until there's actually something recognizable as a person.

Do you spend much time worrying about the tens of thousands of innocent people we have murdered in Iraq? Do you spend much time worrrying about the dozens of innocent people we tortured to death in Abu Graihb? If not, why are you obsessing about little clumps of cells?

Answer 8

I don't but some people just feel they are too young to have to go through birth or many think its too hard for them emotionally to give their baby away, me personally i'm tollay against abortion and will always be against abortion but I do think its acceptable when it come to a persons health if death is a consequence do to the birth of this baby then its acceptable or if someone was raped and must go through having a strangers baby of course you wouldn't want to go through that and that is eactly what you would have to do an abortion.

Answer 9

Selfishness, ignorance, or heartlessness. People make excuses that "it's not really a baby yet" to justify it to themselves. But that is so wrong.

95% of abortions are done on women as a form of birth control. Pretty sick.

That "women should have a choice" excuse is crap, too. Having a choice does not make you more a more independent woman. You know who wants abortions? Men who don't want to take responsibility for raising a child when they get a woman pregnant.

Oh and by the way, the number of people who are and will probably vote prolife is on the rise.

Answer 10

You are right to have your own opinion. I am also against abortion, but I would NEVER want it to become illegal again. There were way to many back door abortions when it was illegal and many women died. Some people think that is the only option they have. Don't be so harsh and cruel on your judgement, your opinion is your own and everyone else has theirs.