for people against abortion: if the baby isnt even developed, then why do you think its wrong?

Answer 1

Look at a child matter of fact, look at yourself in a mirror,you were once in that state. So, ask yourself if you would have wanted someone aborting you. When I look at my children I cannot imagine someone being able to abort an unborn child. When you see that first sonogram it is the most wonderful experience you will ever have to know this child is growing inside of you. Pregnancy to me is the ultimate rush of emotions to know that you can create a child right inside of your stomach......Although, I would never look down on someone who chose abortion.....I just know that I never could.....

Answer 2

Look at this website, and then you'll know why it's wrong.

http://www.priestsforlife.org/resources/...

I think adoption is usually the best option for an unwanted pregnancy, otherwise, everyone should just take responsibility for their mistakes. So many girls abort because of pressure from the guy, parents, fear, etc. It makes me sad. I do however agree with abortion in cases like rape (where the mother is distraught and cannot handle a pregnancy), medical illnesses that the mother may have, etc. I chose not to have an abortion when I found myself pregnant at 18. I knew it would be hard considering I would be alone due to being in an abusive relationship. I have been a single parent for 6 years (my son is 6 also), and it has been difficult, but well worth it. I cannot explain how sad my life would be without him. He lights up my life. If I had've aborted just because it was a "mistake", I would have regretted it all my life. Even from the zygote stage, the embryo already has a beating heart, and bones. It already has a soul. We should not kill our children because of our own irresponsibility.
My sister had an abortion, and she's never been the same since. She feels like she failed.
My boyfriend's ex decided against his will to have an abortion, and it still makes him cry when we talk about it to this day. We have promised each other if we do get pregnant, we will keep it. It's only fair. I never want to feel that way, nor do I wish that pain for anyone else. Hope this helps.

Answer 3

It is a life! From conception, with a beating heart in a very short amount of time. Im a firm believer if your going to play you better keep in mind, you may have to to pay. With this in mind, many people would think before having sex. Sex would be kept special between two people that love each other and know full well, a life maybe produced. There are conseqences for our actions. If more people new and understood this, they would not have to go through the trama of having an abortion, and std's would be close to nonel. And if you think it doesn't hit home now, wait a few years till your holding your precious baby in your arms, remembering the one you gave away. Or you may find it hard to get pregnant, when you want too. People have cried to me about this. All though I will never judge them. I still believe it is our right to choose. Abortion is just not right for me. By the way, the baby I could of gave away(risked my life having). Is a beautiful, briliant baby, today. I know if I never make it to med., school she will. End of story..

Answer 4

A human life is a life. If you stop a beating heart, what are you doing..killing it. We spray weeds and say we killed them, yet people don't want to admit that when they had an abortion they killed something?SOMETHING being their child, a living person. Makes no sense to me. Also, if you go by development standards..how can you put a worth on how developed someone is. That would be like saying my 13 yr olds life is more valuable than my 5 year olds because he is more developed? That doesn't make sense either.
It also has to do with the emotional effects it has on a woman. Let's face it, most women have some sort of pain from this somewhere down the road. I don't like to see anyone hurting. I think there are other options that don't cause the pain.

Answer 5

First thing: I am pro-choice to an extent, so I guess I'm not really qualified to answer this question. But it's just some of the answers from some people that I don't understand. Granted that late term abortions (which I am pretty sure are now illegal in most countried) are gruesome and I don't feel that terminating a pregnancy is a moral thing to do, quite a few of these people are saying how cruel abortion is, and explaining details, or posting links of how fetuses are cut up and brutally murdered, it's their form of shock treatment. A lot of people that choose abortion choose to do so very early in pregnancy.. They want you to think that if you terminate a pregnancy at ANY stage, it involves mutilating a perfectly formed child, which it doesn't. And you also need to remember that most of these people are against abortion for any reason at all. The type of people that would rather see a woman impregnated by rape carry a pregnancy to full term because their god says that it's wrong to terminate a pregnancy for any reason. In all fairness, what woman in their right mind would want to be violated so horribly, and have to not only to live with the painstaking ordeal their whole life (which I feel is bad enough), but then be FORCED to bring into this world a living, breathing symbol of such a hideous crime, just so that the religious right won't call them a murderer! And come to think of it, there is one flaw with this whole "killing a fetus at any stage" kick. If memory serves, god has a plan for everything, ya? So... technically, every time a woman miscarries for normal reasons (i.e. there were serious problems with the fetus in early life, illness, problems with the mother's uterus, accident, abrupted placenta, or "spontaneous miscarraige, when they're not exactly sure what cause it) then god is aborting a fetus... thus, by definition, comitting murder, because he "planned" for this to happen. Think of how many millions, even billions of miscarriages there are, compared to the number of women who "elect", shall we say, to have an abortion over the course of human history. Just a little thing to chew on. And before anyone who answers this question sees this and tries to send me any nasty feedback or whatnot, I personally am 5 months pregnant.. And although I wouldn't choose to have an abortion myself, I don't feel that it's a good enough reason to bar any other woman from having one. And I also believe in "a god". I believe there is a higher power, I just don't believe that a particular brand is dominant over the other. I believe that there is one, and the human mind, needing conflict and to be able to dominate others, created different factions, some seemingly more inferior than others. And yes, I've been told before that I am going to probably rot in hell and whatnot.. one question though, before I get any messages from some really angry people.. Isn't telling people that they are going to hell/ a horrible person for condoning abortion and whatnot.. isn't that judging people? Isn't god the only one that is allowed to judge? Isn't judging people a sin? I admitt that I haven't read up on any biblical scriptures recently, but I believe I am correct.
Anways, sorry to get off topic there, just a little disclaimer I suppose. Oh and if you want some more info in this question, just a little bit wackier, with some rebuttle from the other side of the question I suggest reading this little article and the comments on it.
http://pandagon.net/2006/09/24/the-womb-control-patrol-escalates-its-battle/
It's a good read if nothing else.

Answer 6

Because the baby has started to develop. It has a heartbeat. It takes in nurishment. That does make it a living thing.

I pose this question to you if it is not living (according to most prochoice groups) then why must it be taken out of it's mother's womb and cut into pieces to KILL it. If it is not living then it should not need to be killed right, it should not have to die. Because only living things can die.

Abortion is a cruel torturous event that most people (even millions of prochoicers) do not know exactly what happens. Many believe the baby is just taken out and that is it. But that is not true it is killed after taken out. A cruel and unusual death. If another person was to come to you and cut of you arms and legs and many other body parts till you finally died, then it would be murder. Why is it so different for the unborn baby?

Below I have given you weblinks for pictures of abortions. I will warn you they are graphic. If you can look at these pictures and still see the need for abortions God help you.

They are bloody and mangled babies, caused be abortion. It is not fair that they can not live because they were not wanted, when they are so many families willing to take them.

Answer 7

To be able to get pregnant is a blessing from GOD. I dont believe in the whole women's right to abortion. If a woman is old enough to have sex, she should be old enough to deal with the consequences. It doesnt matter if shes 5 weeks or 5 months pregnant - its still an abortion and its still killing a child.

I cant wait until the day when abortions will no longer be performed. My husband and I have both signed the petition to defund Planned Parenthood and im praying partial birth abortions are outlawed too.

Answer 8

Because to most people who believe it- they believe that the baby is 'created' at conception... even though its not yet able to live outside of the womb. They have a heartbeat. I think people who have abortions are being selfish and only thinking of themselves- probably a good reason why they got pregnant too. Think about how your actions are effecting other people and also a lot of girls now think of abortion as a form of birth control.
Instead of complaining about how much it sucks and going and having an abortion they should realize how lucky they are to be blessed with the ability to have a child. If they can't handle raising a child then please give it up for adoption there are millions of couples who would give anything in the world to be able to concieve and have a child.

And to the person against the idea it's murder- it is. Murder is the killing of another human being under conditions specifically covered in law. In the U.S., special statutory definitions include murder committed with malice aforethought, characterized by deliberation or premeditation or occurring during the commission of another serious crime, as robbery or arson (first-degree murder), and murder by intent but without deliberation or premeditation second-degree murder). So by defitnition abortion is murder. Just because it's ok by law to use capital punishment doesnt mean its right nor does it mean everyone is for it. That was an ignorant choice to make that conclusion. Same thing with war- just because the government sees it as "ok" doesn't mean it is. THe point here is the baby has no choice in anything.. they didnt choose the parents they didnt choose anything.. so why does it give you the right to decide that they should no longer live? That is murder. - when another person terminates someone elses life.

Answer 9

Here's the root question:

At what point after conception does the fetus become a life?

If human life doesn't begin at conception, then when DOES it begin? Or to phrase it in the form of the question you've asked, how 'developed' does the baby need to be before it's a human life?

The primary objection that pro-life has against abortion is that it qualifies as the planned, intentional taking of a human life - which in legal terms is felony murder.

If I understand the primary pro-choice argument correctly, they place the emphasis of the argument upon the pregnant mother's right to make decisions that affect her own body over and above the legislature's (or society's, or someone else's moral code) right to impose their will upon her life.

What I have NOT seen in the pro-choice argument is a cogent, logical and scientific response to the position that human life begins at conception.

So what I am left with is the feeling that pro-choice, at the end of the day, is willing to concede that abortion is indeed the planned, intentional taking of a human life....but that the pregnant mother's rights over her own body supercede and are more important to preserve than the accepted legal definition of murder.

Mind you, I'm not trying to be inflammatory, and would like to hear pro-choice advocates address this primary definition which, IMHO, frames the entire abortion discussion. To restate for the sake of summary:

How does pro-choice respond to the assertion that human life begins at conception?

Answer 10

People who have abortions are selfish and only thinking of themselves. No one in this world has the right to end a life even if it's inside your body because it's not your life. Adoption is the alternative for rape victims and people who can not financially take care of a kid. Life is beautiful!