2006-10-20 17:19:45 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Government
eva you are right on about the mafia, but WTF about the second part??? You make women sound AWEFUL. Women can't control whether or not they get pregnant?? (barring rape of course) So you are saying that women need medical assistance to gain control of their bodies? Have you ever sat down and thought about what you are saying? I don't mean to put words in your mouth but it sounds like you are saying that women are too weak minded to abstain from sex. Or maybe what you REALLY mean is that "Choice" gave women the power to have sex without cosequences. Well in that case, abortion has become obsolete with the introduction of AIDS.
2006-10-20 17:32:14 · update #1
Prohibition is worse.It helped bring the Mafia to power.
Choice gave women control over her own body.
2006-10-20 17:23:24 · answer #1 · answered by eva b 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
You ask what WAS the worse experiment - obviously the answer is Prohibition. It is the only one in the past, and as many people have already said in this forum, gave rise to the Mafia. Roe vs. Wade/choice is not an experiment - it's a 30 plus year reality. I was at one time against abortion, except in cases where a woman was raped or there is a medical reason for the abortion. But a wise co-worker noted that if we allowed abortion only in certain circumstances, the courts would be required to decide. And we all know how screwy the courts are. They are slow, so how pregnant would a rape victim be before she was allowed to have the abortion? In what danger would the woman who is not healthy enough to carry a pregnancy to term be as she awaite the court's decision? How many abortions for the above reasons would be granted or denied based on whether or not the woman had a good lawyer? For these reasons, I am pro-choice. The decision should be decided by the woman and her doctor with all expedience. Most women do not abort for frivolous reasons, and most do not do late term abortions. I'm sure there are some who do. I do feel the government should ban late term abortions and should continue to ban the use of fetal tissue to grow new organs if the conception was done simply to provide such tissue.
2006-10-21 01:39:02 · answer #2 · answered by PDY 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Roe v Wade gave a woman dominion over her own body and mind. This would seem to be to have been defined already in the constitution.
Prohibition was big governments attempt to legislate behavior. It gave government a chance to regulate and tax the sale of alcohol.
Do I think that the "father" of the fetus has equal rights, oh hell no.
Pregnancy will not have the same effect, nor the same responsibility as it will to the "mother". His body will not change, his diet need not change, his Life need not nescessarily change.
Hers WILL.
I have two grown sons, and had one misscarriage, it is difficult, but not impossible for me to understand how a woman faced with this choice could, for the sake of the child, choose to end a pregnancy.
Our lives are not all the same, we can not ever think it helps anyone to try to regulate what people can and cannot do with their bodies.
I think adoption would be a better way to go, but, then I don't have to spend 9 months pregnant, and I have people I can count on, not everyone does. If I were very poor, if I couldn't assure my babies good health, if I was in an abusive situation.......who knows?
Uh , oh yeah, Norton isn't a guy.
It is PERSONAL Everybody needs to stop being Judge Judy long enough to focus on how They might become better people, and not so much on how to make people Better in their eyes.
2006-10-21 01:14:02 · answer #3 · answered by Norton N 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Apparently the lessons learned during prohibition have been forgotten in California. A proposition is on the ballot to increase taxes on tobacco products that will raise the price of a pack of cigarettes by two or three bucks each. This will encourage 'mafia' types to illegally transport cigs from neighboring states to sell at a tremendous profit and still beat the legal price.
Nearly all the legal professionals recognize Roe Vs. Wade as 'bad law.' What about the rights of the fathers? What about the rights of the babies? What about the rights of the taxpayers? Currently any pregnant woman, anytime in her pregnancy in many states, can walk into a clinic and abort her child on the taxpayers' dime. The facts are that 'fetal tissue' does feel pain and does suffer during the 'procedure.' Minors are ferried from schools by school employees without the knowledge or consent of the minors' legal guardians to have a medical operation. The 'rights' of the mother are valued over all other concerns in our society because of the this one bad legal decision.
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2006-10-21 00:36:22 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Prohibition made more people upset and caused organized crime to erupt in the few years that it was law . We are still fighting it to day . The whole country wanted to do away with prohibition .
Abortion on the other hand should never have been illegal in the first place , It's a moral choice and between a women and her God . It's should be left to him to punish if he sees fit . We should not legislate morality .My self I believe that there should be no
abortion done after 3 months . unless mother's health is in danger
2006-10-21 01:00:08 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I don't agree with ava. Women have the choice not to get pregnant in the first place. To use abortion for convienence for being irresponsible is ridiculous. I think abortion should be used for certain situations but not for being ignorant of contraception or too lazy to use it. I think the question is stupid too how can you compare a few ganland killings to the killing of over 25 million babies. Just does not make sense to me.
2006-10-21 00:27:58 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
Sounds to me like you have some people answering who have no idea about abortion's history. It is a history as long as man itself. Prohibition.....you can see it was an error by looking to the amendment (21 I believe) to overturn the 19th amendment.......(correct my numbers if they are wrong). I doubt it was a worse experiment in most peoples eyes but it was a disaster! Addictive drugs will never truly be legislated against. If they could be and that would stop them...then we would not need prisons full of crack heads and drug pushers. Addiction is a nasty thing no matter if it is addiction to cocaine or to cigarettes or to alcohol. It is a thing that is hard to break and harder to stay off of. So yeah it was a failed policy but the idea was a good one (btw. the biggest advocate against drinking and the group that supported prohibition the most was WOMEN!)
Roe V Wade may not be perfect but the purpose was much more than to leagalize abortion it was to create a situation where a previously unregulated (you did not have to be a doctor to do abortions even!) medical procedure was able to be regulated and made far more safe than it had been. In that fact Roe v. Wade was not a disaster. I have often asked people the question of how happy they would be paying welfare to another 25million mothers of unwanted children? ARe these people who are anti-abortion willing to adopt every child at the cost of 15,000 to 30,000 bucks per child (I know, I adopted a child.....final cost: around 22,500 bucks!) Where would those 25 million (by estimates) aborted babies be today? Would they be in prison because their parents did not care about them? Would their child parent have killed them out of frustration? would their grandparents be raising them? etc.
Just questions I have.....BTW unlike previous posters..I am PRO-CHOICE not PRO-ABORTION......first, adoption allowed me to have my daughter as medically we could not have our own...second, my sister and I talked about abortion or keeping her first child. I told her I would be upset with her because my neice or nephew would not be around but that it was ultimately her choice and i would forgive her choice. She now has a very smart 16 year old daughter and thanks me sometimes for the talk we had (BTW she is 9 years older than I am).
Third, I would not push an abortion I believe young people (and not so young) need to have all their options completely explained to them by a professional and that the parents should be involved EVERY STEP OF THE WAY! This is difficult because so many kids are affraid to talk to their parents because they know their parents will flip out and fly off the handle. I firmly believe you can stop abortion without changing Roe V Wade by simply making it clear to all parents that they need to be PARENTS but they also need to make sure their kids are not afraid to talk to them and parents must be willing to listen and stop being judgemental because their children NEED them to understand and listen and then to HELP them..not punish them....
Ultimately it is funny to see a Pro-Life family whose 13 or 14 year old gets pregnant...they usually are the first ones on the doorstep of Planned PArenthood because only abortion will maintain their appearence in public of a good, upstanding, morally right, religious family. If the child throws a fit and wants to keep the kid this causes a problem because everyone will know they are not perfect anymore (how can i say this....it is how my uncle who is very pro-life reacted when my cousin came home and told him she was pregnant at the age of 16..........they even thought about not going to church because she would not have an abortion......she told the pastor and he spoke to her parents and the church turned out to be their best support but their immediate idea was to run for an abortion to keep their public image intact).
2006-10-21 01:17:47 · answer #7 · answered by ThinkingMan2006 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Obviously choice (although I don"t refer to it as "Choice", but pro-abortion). How many innocent lives have been ended because of it, not to mention the mothers, who after they grow up and mature, realize what they have done and regret it. I know someone like this, it irrevocably changed her life for the worse and there is nothing she can do to fix it.
2006-10-21 00:27:23 · answer #8 · answered by Cinner 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Prohibition.
EDIT: Roe v. Wade was not an experiment. Your argument is immature and weak. As usual, you pro-lifers are ridiculous.
2006-10-21 00:26:35 · answer #9 · answered by Active Denial System™ 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
they are equally disastrous
2006-10-21 00:50:27 · answer #10 · answered by dogpatch USA 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋