If you find Abortion to be morally wrong, can you still support it being legal?

Question

I think it should be legal, I was just wondering if anyone who was morally opposed to it would still support it as a choice for those who want to have one

Answer 1

absolutely. you dont have to agree with an act to support it. it may not be morally or ethically plausible to you but that doesnt mean its not something someone else may find necessary under whatever circumstance.

Answer 2

YES - It's called being Pro-Choice. That is exactly what the Pro-Choice movement is about. I think that abortion is morally wrong is some cases, with exception. But I absolutely believe that it should be an individual choice.
No person of moral value would have an abortion just because. Sometimes in life, you have to make a difficult choice, and suffer the consequences. If a women is raped, she then has to make a horrible choice, to abort, or to birth a child of rape, and be reminded daily of her pain, never mind the damage it would do to a child to know that they were a product of rape. This is just an example, but it's a real life example. Even if the women chooses to abort, she will have to live with that choice the rest of her life. Abortion needs to be legal, whether I think it is morally right are not. This is America, no one should be able to tell someone what they can do with their own body. That would be even more morally and ethically wrong.

Answer 3

Definitely. However, I think to most it is more than just the fact it is morally wrong. I don't think when life begins is a moral issue, nor do I think at what point a state or government decides to protect life is a moral issue, or at least it shouldn't be, i.e. it shouldn't be based on something like religion (although there are obviously moral roots to many laws). Also, I think many who feel abortion is typically immoral, have moral reasons for thinking there are times it should be legal, e.g. rape, incest, the health of the mother. I guess I would just say there is more to it that whether or not abortion is morally wrong.

Answer 4

I think you can. I feel the same way. Ethically I don't think I would ever choose to have an abortion but I also feel that I made that decision for myself and that other women should have that same right. I feel as if we all decide what is right and wrong for ourselves in situations like this. I don't like it when other people impose their ethics and morals on me so why should do the same to someone else. What is right or wrong for one person or a small group of people may not necessarily be right or wrong for another and I don't think that one group should be able to decide my morals and ethics for me. There are legal matters and then there are moral matters and I believe the 2 can co-exist without there being a law on every moral issue. I don't feel as if a group should decide what someone can do to/with thier body.

Answer 5

I think that the woman has the right to keep her legs shut or to take preventive measures to not fertilize her ova. Now with that said, what are are laws based on if not morality? hmm. What about the right of the unborn girl to make the choice of whether or not she wants to get knocked up...yes this is a very difficult question.
Dr.s only should be able to make the decision that the birth or carrying of a baby to full term to be given to a family that is looking for, but cannot produce one their own.

If we can get rid of our children because it's not convenient at this time to bear their responsibility, how soon until we treat our parents and grandparents the same way. How dare we relegate our unborn to a blender because we feel that a life of less than perfect means is of no value. And now what about the mothers of these murdered babies...The "clinics" (also referred to as abortion mills)sell the fetal tissue and make $$$ of the convenient decision of the poor women that can't bear to bring the babies to full term. How despicable. If that industries agenda was ever brought into the light on a program like 60 minutes or one that would give it a very thorough investigation, people would be able to see why so many don't want this "industry" of baby killing to go back where it was.

Answer 6

Yes, at least in America. I do not have any right to use sectarian laws to impose my moral values upon anyone else any more than you have a right to do so to impose your morals upon me. This is particularly true when we are talking about morals based upon beliefs of a particular religion, like the issue of abortion.

Answer 7

Yes! The government has no right to legislate authority over a person's body. Abortion's morally reprehensible, but, the government needs to keep their laws off of a lady's body.

Answer 8

I don't think so, this subject matter can purely be personal.
So if you don't believe in abortion you won't practice it (coz its morally wrong to you) but you don't mind it being legal so others that believe in it can practice it (it can be legalized for those who do not think its morally wrong).
I hope I made sense

Answer 9

Yes. Just because you choose not to do it doesn't mean someone else can't. Take for example alcohol; if you choose not to drink does that mean you think it should be illegal? I know that abortion is a little more extreme but it is the same principal.

Answer 10

Of course. Support the right for women to choose. If a woman is raped, do you think it's fair for her to want an abortion?