If you agree thata woman should be able to have an abortion, then you are pro-abortion. If you feel that she should not be able to, then you are pro-life.
2006-10-27 05:48:08 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Yes I am anti-abortion and I am not ashamed to admit it.
2006-10-27 05:55:22 · update #1
Hi Hichef - Actually I am anti-death penalty as well.
2006-10-27 05:56:27 · update #2
That's just their way if making it sound better.
2006-10-27 05:50:09 · answer #1 · answered by Nuke Lefties 4 · 2⤊ 5⤋
Pro-abortion uses the term pro-choice to make pro-lifers look bad like we are attempting to rid a woman of her rights. The fact is it has been proven that life begins at conception. So if someone mugs me here in the state that I live in and I fall to ground and have a miscarriage in the process the person that pushed me is tried for man slaughter. But someone can go and get an abortion and it is perfectly legal and excepted as a woman's "right to choose" Where do you draw the line.
2006-10-27 13:07:13 · answer #2 · answered by rabidchipmunk 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Here is the difference. A woman might believe in the fact that a woman has a right to choose to do with her body whatever she wants, if that means have the baby or get an abortion. Now that woman who believes in having the choice available for other women might find that an abortion is not a good moral choice for herself. But she isn't going to push her own beliefs on others, that is the difference.
2006-10-27 13:02:27 · answer #3 · answered by Sheila V 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You're getting muddled with the semantics. Pro-life means women are opposed to abortion and believe in the sanctity of human life as it begins at conception. They carry through an unwanted pregnancy regardless of the circumstances of said conception, such as rape or incest.
A pro-choice woman has sovereignity over her own body. If she doesn't want to have a child for whatever reason, she has a choice of either having an abortion or carrying the fetus to full term. In other words, she has a choice, and doesn't follow the dictates of a church, but the dictates of her heart. She doesn't want to bring an unwanted child into the world who's the result of rape or incest. Nor does she want a child when she already has six other children she's struggling to support. Or maybe she plain doesn't want a child -- period! That's her choice and it's up to her to decide what goes on with her body.
2006-10-27 13:01:23 · answer #4 · answered by gldjns 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
How is "pro-life" not "anti-choice?"
I think people should respect their elders. But I don't think it should be illegal to be disrespectful to one's elders. I think people should save money, but I don't think it should be illegal to have credit card debt. Most things that I don't think people should do are not, and should not be, illegal. That's what it means to live in a free country, people are free to make their own choices if they aren't harming others, whether you like those choices or not.
The debate over abortion comes from the lack of clarity over whether the fetus is an "other" who's being hurt by the abortion, or whether it's part of the mother and not yet a separate entity that has rights and can experience harm. But there are plenty of people who are against abortion who are pro-choice, because they realize that there is much disagreement on the issue and that we should be humble and are fallible, and should not blindly believe we have a monopoly on truth and morality to enforce upon others who see things differently.
2006-10-27 12:58:19 · answer #5 · answered by Try Thinking For Yourselves 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I am against abortion, I think it is a pizz poor means of birth control, however I do not think that the government ought to have any role in what should be a decision between her and her doctor. I think education is a better answer for anti abortion groups. Abortion is a moral issue and should be not addressed by the government as the government should never attempt to legislate morality.
2006-10-27 12:57:01 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
From the American Heritage Dictionary;
Definition of Choice - NOUN: 1. The act of choosing; selection. choicely, choiceness
In laymans terms, Pro-choice does not mean we want everyone to run out and get an abortion. I have 3 children that I CHOSE to have. Pro-choice means that we don't feel like any one has the right to infringe on someone else's right to choose.
There is a difference.
2006-10-27 12:54:41 · answer #7 · answered by jemmy 3 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Abortion is one thing. Government regulation is another thing.
You can be for or against abortion. You can be for or against government regulation of abortion.
You can be:
for abortion and for regulation of abortion
for abortion and against regulation of abortion
against abortion and for regulation of abortion
against abortion and against regulation of abortion
Two issues clash here, in fact one writer -- Lawrence Tribe -- describes it as a "clash of absolutes". Tribe comes down on the side of less regulation. But he makes a good point that reasonable people on both sides have reasonable arguments.
I frankly don't see why "pro-lifers" and "pro-choicers" can't get together and get behind some government and non-profit initiatives to make abortion less necessary.
No one likes abortion, the women who have them are often heartsick about it. What mother-to-be wouldn't be upset, very few indeed.
One day we'll all decide to make compromises and work together on this issue.
2006-10-27 12:57:40 · answer #8 · answered by DPotemkin 1 · 2⤊ 2⤋
NO you have gotten it all sideways, sweety. Pro-choice is about government interference in the personal decisions of free people. That has always been a Republican plank issue except for the abortion debate...You can be against abortion but also against the government imposing its will about what you can and cannot do with your own body.
2006-10-27 12:53:19 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
Where did you learn the language? Realizing a fundamental human right, the right of an individual to make their own decisions and determine their own destiny, is not the same as promoting a procedure.
Get your head out of other peoples pants and get on with your life.
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2006-10-27 13:05:00 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It does not imply being pro-life or pro-abortion.
As the name on the tag states - Pro-Choice enables you to have a... and now watch out for the key word... CHOICE.
2006-10-27 12:52:39 · answer #11 · answered by immygrant 3 · 4⤊ 1⤋