What are your views on abortion?

Question

I have to write a review on abortion for my nvq at work. I want to hear peoples views on it? What you think is right and wrong? Anyone who has gone through it themselfs? The law on abortion? Etc. Thanks in advance for anyone who posts an answer.

Thank you all very much for your comments i want to rate you all for best answer. lol. Thanks again

Answer 1

First off I know for a fact anyone that doesnt say they are against it will get lots of thumbs down. I am PRO CHOICE. People may say abortion is killing an innocent child but the fact is a fetus is not even considered viable til the 24th week of pregnancy and even at 24 weeks if it was born even with the best medical care it would be profoundly handicapped if it survived. I dont think women should have to carry around a baby and feel it move see it on ultrasound and hear the heart beat if they do not want the child. As for adoption what a great idea but do you have any idea how many millions of children in the US alone are still waiting to be adopted lets not mention world wide. Anyone should have the right to chose if they want to continue with their pregnacy from the 14 yr old that made a huge mistake to the 23 yr old woman who was rapped, had unprotected heat of the moment sex, to the 30 yr old woman who could lose her own life due to medical contions if she proceeded on with the pregnancy.I am in full support of woman ending their pregnancy if tests show the child will be profoundly handicapped and why do I support this because alot of people will grow to resent the child or put it in a nursing home or "care facility" where the child wont be loved and properly cared for.

I should also state before people think I am heartless my daughter who is the love of my life was born just shy of 23 weeks due to an incomplete cervix. She had the best medical care is now 13 yrs old and has the mental ability of an infant. She is my reason for breathing and my everything and because of her I have been exposed to many many children with her same problems that are "thrown away" by their famililes that live in a bed or in a hospital and have no one to love them. She is also terminally ill due to disease progression and although if I could go back and personally change something regarding my pregnancy with her I would NOT but to many of these kids grow up suffering and unloved and no one deserves that. I'd take them all into my home if I could because my daughter lives with me and always will.

So my question to you is why is everyone so against ended an unwanted pregnancy of a fetus that could not live outside the human body if terminated prior to 24 weeks gesation but yet society is FINE with allowing parents of handicapped children to put them into nursing homes, state run facilities, or schools and not having contact with them? Kinda a double standard.

Answer 2

It is entirely up to the individual what she believes and feels. It is not right or wrong but you must bear in mind that sometimes even the best of contraception taken the most responsible way can fail. Nothing is 100%, even vasectomies have been known to reverse later on and you cannot instruct two consenting audlts (especially if they are husband and wife) to stop having sex in case it results in an unwanted pregnancy. I think if a woman can say that she did everything to avoid pregnancy and still became pregnant and she still doesn't want to carry on with it then she is not wrong to opt for a termination. What is wrong is judging other people for the decisions they make. What about those that take the morning after pill? Isn't that abortion? Or from what stage of the pregnancy does terminating it count as abortion? Some women have the morning after pill quite a few times. So if an abortion pill is invented will that be then considered OK by anti-abortionists? In fact, do they think being on the pill is disgraceful too (since it stops the two cells fusing themselves into a foetus)?
I say, let people make their own decisions in life, I'm sure that in most cases it is not a decision that women make just off the cuff.

Answer 3

Its never good or right

But when you're talking about a teenage rape victim made pregnant by her rapist, or a woman who has been told that carrying the baby and giving birth could kill her, or if the baby is terribly disabled and/or may not survive, and if thats what she wants then its probably the least harmful option in the long term.

People throw the word "adoption" around so easily, but that still means the woman has to go through 9 months of pregnancy (which can be really hard - I'm pregnant myself right now) and hours or days of agonsing labour and birth. And then to hand the baby over to strangers like you're rehoming a puppy, I can't see how anyone can do it. So in the case of very young girls or rape victims, I beleive if they want an abortion they should have one.

No its not "the baby's fault" but its not the woman's fault either.

As for people who claim that women use abortion as "birth control" - I very much doubt it - its a very serious operation.

I have heard of women having abortions because they got pregnant at a time when they really couldn't face going through pregnancy and birth and didn't feel able to bring a child up and I thnk that if thats what was best then thats up to them. I don't see why any women should go through all that just to provide a child to a childless couple. No woman is a baby machine.

Answer 4

i believe that abortion is ok under the right circomstances. if the mother is young.. like 8-14 i think it is right not to have to make the youth have to go through with it. also i believe that teens who are raped should have a choice to get an abortion. people whos health could be thretend by the birth or the baby health could be thretend should also have the option. some people think that if the abortion is before 6 weeks of precnancy, (the point before the baby developes personality and thought) it is not murder, and after 6 weeks it is murder. while im not sure what i believe i think that either way it is killing a soon to be person. yet while i dont think its good, in some cases it could be the right answer. also, in another point of veiw, its tha same as people who put old people to sleep, rather than paying the nursing home to help them, or how its acceptable to some people to discontinue the machines for a person in a coma, who mught have woken up the next day. personally i think it is a matter of opinion. hope this helps!!!

Answer 5

I had an abortion about 9 years ago due to being raped by my ex. Although I made the right decision for me and for the child it is something that I found very traumatic and suffered very bad depression and guilt afterwards and a year after I finally admitted I needed help. I think people that have never been in the situation to have to make such an extremely hard decision do not understand. Don't get me wrong Iam sure there are people that abuse this and think that "oh I don't want to be pregnant I'll just get an abortion" I don't think there is a right or a wrong to this, it really depends on circumstances. I just felt I did not want to bring a child up knowing its father was not only a rapist but a paedophile and not having the life that it deserved. In saying all of this though knowing what it was like I would never have another abortion as it was so awful.

Answer 6

There are a lot of arguments for and against this one.
Undoubtedly there are situations when the mother must come first. People get understandably very emotionally involved.

Arguments I've heard include:

Is it right to let the woman choose about the life of a foetus when she is at her most vunerable. It should be a medical person?

Woman's rights should come before the life of an unborn baby.

Why should a woman be forced to have a rapists baby?

You should be able to abort handicapped babies.

.......and there are more.

People have very strong views on this both ways. It's a very difficult topic to discuss. I have close personal experience and it is very difficult.

Answer 7

I don't think there is a right or a wrong, people have them for all sorts of reasons.
I don't like hearing people preach their views on other people.
I think people should do what is right for them at the time.
As far as the law is concerned, maybe some abortions are allowed to be carried out to long into the preganacy.
Good luck with your nvq!!!!

Answer 8

I don't believe it should be an option except in cases where the mother's health is at risk... I'm on the fence where rape/incest are concerned. For me, personally, I wouldn't choose to make a bad situation worse by having an abortion in those cases, but I understand the thinking. I am absolutely against using it as a method of birth control. If you're old enough to mess around, you're old enough to deal with the consequences. (This is coming from someone who was there, so I'm not playing "holier than thou".) Adoption is always an option.

Answer 9

Whereas I do believe everyone should have the freedom to decide what they want to do with their lives and if they want a termination, then that should be up to them...none of us should judge unless we know the full facts and even then, who are we to judge just because we may not agree? The only thing I firmly, strongly believe in is that the cut of point for a termination should be lowered...I believe it is still 24 weeks in UK at the moment...well, I had a baby at 24 weeks into my first pregnancy..a little girl, Heather, she lived for exactly a month before she passed away with an infection that poisoned her blood stream...the same week she passed away, a little boy who had been born at 23 weeks gestation went home to his family....that was EIGHTEEN years ago...advancement in medical science means that more and more babies that are born as early as this have the chance of survival...

Answer 10

Regardless of how I personally feel about abortion, I am a realist. The fact is we live in a promiscuous society, banning abortions will not change that fact. What it will lead to is scores of young girls getting abortions in back room, unclean clinics leading to sterilization and death.

Abortion is a complicated issue. No, I don't think it is an appropriate form of birth control, however I also don't think I have the right to force my views on another person, despite what my church might say. I have known two women that have admitted to having abortions, both of them felt horrible guilt over it and regretted going through with the procedure. I don't think they tell you about that when you go in for the procedure.