abortion??

Question

What are your thoughts on abortion?
Do you think its wrong because its murder??
Or do you think its right because of rape victoms?

Im 13 and am writing an essay on why i think its wrong..but I
would like to know other peoples opinions.


Thanks in advance! =]

Answer 1

I am tempted to not answer but then I would be the only one as I know others will not see that you are not suppose to be taking our ideas but searching yourself to see what you truly think. So here goes,
I got pregnant when I was 19 and getting married was not really an option for many reasons. I can honestly tell you that I did not think once about having an abortion. I carried to term and gave the child up for adoption. It was the hardest thing I have ever done and yet I know it was the only thing I could do and not live to regret.
I believe that abortion is murdering a child. I, however, also believe that free will gives everyone the choice to decide what it means to them. For in the end they are the ones that have to live with the choice. I do not believe in saying if a person is raped it is different because I happen to know a women who kept the baby and out of violence came love. It was her choice and hers alone to live with.
I am a Christian and I know that my beliefs are not shared by many other Christians but it always astounds me that we would take away from a women a right that God has bestoyed upon her and that is the right to make her own choice.
I believe that all woman need councelling when they make this choice, I know many friends that have had abortions and they fight the sadness as strongly as I do. And I know some who have never looked back.
It is a matter of choice and what you are willing to live with now and in the life after.
Good luck on finding your own answers.

Answer 2

Abortion is not right or wrong. It is a fact that women do not always wish to carry a pregnancy to term. In our society, women are not supported, and maternity leave is practically naught here (3 months, unpaid, if you've worked somewhere for 5 years) whereas other countries (Canada, for instance) give over a year PAID MATERNITY LEAVE. Becoming pregnant takes 2 people. If people really care about planned pregnancies, than conservatives will support safe-sex measures rather than ignorance initiatives (kids who aren't taught about sex end up having sex anyways!) To say adoption is an easier option think again -- 10 months carrying a child, missing work, having everyone know, giving birth, and then knowing for the rest of your life you have a child that is not with you? Women miscarry every single day, an early pregnancy terminated is probably not the worst sin a person could committ. If you are totally against abortion you sure as hell be 100% pro-welfare state because otherwise how will all these unwed mothers take care of their kids? No healthcare? There are thousands of black babies stuck in the foster care system. Don't say adoption is the answer- most adoptive families only want white infants, and there are thousands of kids out there without stable family structures. Abortion is a complicated subject. In an ideal world, it would be extremely rare because unplanned pregnancies would never happen, but in today's modern world we cannot force women back into the dark ages of backalley abortions.

Answer 3

Here are a few more thoughts to ponder over on this topic.

Why many people choose to throw the "put the baby up for adoption" option out there... has anyone taken a good look to see how flawed the US foster care & adoption system is? How many people who desperately want to adopt a child can't get through the ridiculous bureacratic red tape to ACTUALLY adopt a child in the US? The "waiting lists" while children are neglected and fall through the cracks of foster "care"... being in the "care" of people who are doing it only for a paycheck. But I guess the flawed system, while detrimental to US children, pays off pretty well for the newest fashion accessory -- foreign children.

How sad is it that parents can go through INTERNATIONAL adoptions, dealing with international governments and agencies, easier than they can in their own country?

And then there's the marvel of our modern medical technology. Scans that can show you a 3-D "portrait" of an unborn child, tests that can give the "all clear" or show problems that were never even heard of 20 years ago. But yet we see stories of children born with no possible chance of a normal life -- two heads, organs on the outside of the body. Is it really kinder to force a mother to endure a full nine-month term knowing that it is just postponing the inevitable?

Unfortunately, this is one argument that will never be a simple black and white, right or wrong. See all sides before you make a snap decision.

Answer 4

This is a tough one. I myself would never choose to have an abortion but I don't think that's a good enough reason to tell other people not to have one. People will say its murder but what about this: in the eyes of the law, if an unborn baby dies due to something like a car accident caused by another driver, the system will charge the driver with the death of the baby only if the baby was far enough along to survive outside the womb. If we say abortion is illegal due to it being murder no matter how far along the pregnancy is then we need to change our law to charge people with murder if they cause the death of a fetus no matter how far along the pregnancy.

I feel very strongly that abortion should be allowed in cases of incest and rape - What if my daughter was 13 and raped and became pregnant. Would I want to risk her health by going through with the pregnancy? Would I want her to go through childbirth at that age? Maybe the abortion would be more traumatizing than the pregnancy and birth? What if the person who got her pregnant was a family member? I guess I don't know unless I or my daughter was in that situation. I would however like the choice to be mine and/or my daughters not the government.

Answer 5

I believe that everybody is entitled to have their own opinions about it... If you don't like it - don't do it. If your pro-choice then your options are open.
No matter if you morally think something is wrong - it doesn't give you or me or anybody the right to make the choice for anybody else. That's the beauty of living in the USA. We're free to do what we want.
You can disagree with the act of an abortion till you're blue in the face - but wouldn't you also argue that being an American citizen gives you the right to do whatever you see fit. The moment it become about religion is the moment it turns into a completely different debate. Same goes for calling it "murder". The real issue is about choices and the rights to keep your choices open. Good luck on your essay. :)

Answer 6

I generally think it's okay, but not always.

If it's for health issues, or the parents don't want a baby, then i think it's okay.

If the reasons for aborting are cultural, or religious, then I would say no.

Even if on the issue of health, if the baby is going to have a painful and terminal disease, then an abortion may be more humane. But if the child can live a normal life with his predicament such as dwarfism, or being deaf then I don't think aborting on the basis of health is reasonable.

Any abortion law has to allow for change, because as technology and medicine changes, more seemingly untreatable illnesses will be a thing of the past. At the same time it also has to be specific in the current allowed circumstances for abortion, to avoid people using loopholes to have an abortion.

Just my opinion. Good luck.

Answer 7

Abortion is a homicide. Abortion is legalized murder. I believe it is completely wrong, the first human right is the right to life and exist, abortion reduces this right to a privilege to life, when it is wholly a right to exist and live.
Abortion is always wrong, including rape and incest. A child is getting a death sentence and at worst the rapist is getting up to 30 years in prison, they are out of society for awhile but they are still alive and may leave the prison one day a free man, but death is forever, the child is paying for the sins of the father.
Life and personhood begins at conception.

Answer 8

I'm 32 years old and pro-choice.

I don't think it's murder because I think that biologically, until a fetus is more than just a mass of cells, it's not a living thing. (i.e. if there's no heartbeat, it's not technically living.) Besides, if it's murder, does that mean that a miscarriage is the fetus committing suicide? Probably not. Some people are just not meant to be parents, and accidents do happen. (Statistically, all forms of birth control outside of abstinence can fail, it's rare, but it happens.)

That said, it should NEVER be used as a form of birth control. If circumstances are not conducive to having a baby (such as rape, or the mother's health, or other circumstances like that) then it should be an available option.

Answer 9

There is nor answer to whether it is right or wrong having an abortion. It is up to every woman to decide. If life starts with a cell or when the cell has developed...we will never know for certain.
Some say that it is a woman´s right to decide over her own body.
Personally I think that a child is NOT a part of her own body, but I do understand that sometimes the situation i such that you just can not have a child at that moment.
So I hope that your essay does not try to tell what is right or wrong, all you can do it to debate the issue and let every woman decide herself what she think is right or wrong.

Answer 10

Well,I'm against abortion because its not that babies falt that it was made no matter what the situation.I thank that aborition is murder.I thank its killing a life that hasnt got to have a life.Its killing someone who hasnt had a chance to even begin.I thank abortion is a horrible,horrible and very,very cruel thing of life.Theres other options that can be thought about and done.Like adoption!Theres alot of people who cant have children and want children so bad that it kills them.So I thank instead of pregnant mothers no matter what thier age,color,race,or situation should adopt the child or children to people who want babies and cant have them instead of killing them and not letting them have a life.Abortion is murder if you really thank about it.Thank of it this way if your mother didnt want you what would you have wanted her to do kill you by abortion or adopt you and let you have a life and grow and learn?Because killing an unborn child is wrong.Its a life that cant help the fact it is there and how it was put there.It a life not getting to grow,learn,smile,etc.Plus if they dont want them they should give them to someone who does.