What is your opinion on Abortion?

Question

Are you Pro-choice or Anti-choice?

I'm Pro Choice

I'm for abortion because I was raped and I had got pregnant and I'm very poor. I had a miscarrigae. I believe some people don't deserve to be parents.

Answer 1

Abortion is cold-blooded murder, but a necessary one sometimes. We live in a flawed world and sometimes the best decision is a flawed one. I FAVOR ABORTION.

Ideally I would like to see the woman carry the child to term and give it up for adoption, but that takes a very strong woman to do that. The child becomes a part of them, it is not just a life in their belly, it is THEM. Giving up that child will probably be the hardest thing that they have every done, very few will be capable of it.

I hate child abuse, and I think its is one of the worst crimes that a person can commit. An unwanted child will have to suffer 16-18 years of abuse and it will warp them so much as to damage their entire life and the lives of those around them.

Now imagine what happens with an unwanted pregnancy. The woman is usually young in high school (The percentage of this among black people is alarming, and not just a rumor or product of racial prejudice). The mother will have to drop out of high school; when the pregnancy starts to show. Some schools offer a special class for pregnant women, but this is pretty rare. Regardless of what happens the woman will have to drop out when the child is born, and this will change the family’s life.

By far the most unwanted pregnancies are those where the father isn’t present, and refuses to help care for the child. Suing a person for child-support is expensive and takes a long time. If the father is in school, unemployed, in prison or otherwise poor then they can’t pay child support. So the woman and her family have to take up the burden. There are a few cases where the father and the father’s family will step forward, but 95% of the time they won’t; and raising a child is expensive. The child has to eat, and they grow out of their clothes quickly. They need a roof over their head and so much more, with all of that it will be double what it takes to support just the mother.

Since the woman doesn’t have a high school degree the only jobs she can get are those that only offer a minimum wage; they can’t even join the military. The child will have to be taken care of and that will be difficult and time consuming. Someone is going to have to meet those 4:00 a.m. feedings. Sometimes the woman’s family can help and we end up with grandparents raising their own grandchildren. Regardless of who helps it will take a lot time and money. The mother can’t go back to school until the child is old enough to take a bottle, and usually the baby has to be 12-18 months old (this is an optimistic figure). If the mother is strong she can try to go back to school, but even if she has a parent or grandparent to provide childcare it is still a difficult task, and the woman can only go to school part time. Many women don’t even try to return to school, which dooms them to a life of poverty.

They are poor, the woman’s life has been totally disrupted, and the mother can’t graduate with her class or go to her graduation ball. Teenage girls look forward to this event all throughout high school. This one night is supposed to be magical for them; instead it is filled with a baby crying. Is it any wonder that the mother soon starts to resent her baby? Parents normally can’t provide childcare, because they have their own lives and their own family to care for, so it falls to the grandparents. Some can do a good job, but a lot can’t. They won’t have high paying jobs, and probably live on a fixed income. All suffer some health problems and they will only get worse; very few grandparents will live to see their grandchild graduate high school. If they had proper health care and a better more relaxing environment then they could, but the child robs them of this. They are supposed to be retired and enjoying life, now they find themselves having to raise a baby all over again. Is it any wonder that many grandparents can develop a resentment for the child that has caused all their problems, or for their granddaughter who did such a stupid thing and saddled them with such responsibility.

A very small percentage of mothers will be able to graduate high school and even start college, but only an extremely small percentage of those mothers will graduate. Most will be doomed to a life of poverty and forced to live in it.

The child is resented and raised in an environment where they are not wanted. Even if the grandparents and the mother are there the child can’t help but wonder what happened to his daddy. They will grow up poor and miss out on many advantages of life. If they are smart or need help then they won’t get the extra training they need. Under these burdens they will grow up like a tree bent by a great weight.

Since the mother is poor and won’t be working with college graduates (she may serve some of them though). The kind of friends she will have will be just as poor. Her old friends have moved on to a different world and she will have lost them. It has been said, and rightly so, that you are who your friends are. You and your friends are a reflection of your life. She isn’t going to meet a top of the line mate and she is very lonely so she will often end up with a sub par husband. This just increases the chance that the child will be abused, and this life long abuse is very damaging—this is the childhood that almost all serial murders experience.

The child will be resentful, full of hate, and angry. They will not do well in school and will probably drop out early. A few might make it through high school, but most won’t. With nowhere else to turn they join gangs and become criminals. If they were abused even a little then they to will be abusers. This only increases their chance to commit violent crimes. People like this end up in only two places, either a grave or prison. Prison just breeds more crime. If the person hasn’t suffered some sort of abuse before, they will now. Even the regulated life of a prison is hard, the cells are small, and you will never be alone. Then there are the criminals, which have the wolf personality—pick on anyone who appears weaker.

Is it worth putting someone through all of this, is if fair? What about the cost to society? What would you be willing to do to stop the creation of a murderer or a serial killer? Some people have risen beyond all these problems, but these are the extraordinary people, and even these people will have a very tough time and will be behind the curve.

For the mother it is almost just as bad. Her life has been ruined as well as her child’s and the result of this on her will be like a tree growing up under a huge weight. The Cinderella story were such a woman is picked up by a rich handsome man is very, very rare; mainly because all these Cinderellas will almost never see their Prince Charming.

I think that in a case like this abortion is the better solution. I don’t like it, and I don’t shrink from the word murder, but sometimes murder is the only option. It is a cruel world we live in.

Anti-abortionists say killing is a crime, but sometimes it is the only resort, that’s why we have the death penalty. John Wayne Gacy will never kill anyone again, but if he were ever released, or escaped, it would only be a matter of time before he became a serial murderer again. Anti-abortionists say that if you kill one child then you could lose an Einstein. For every possible Einstein though 3 –4 possible serial killers will also be born, a few dozen murders, and a few hundred other criminals. The only Einsteins that can come out of that upraising are the ones that are able to forge a decent life for themselves. They could have done so much better if they were just given a decent chance. You won’t get a truly Einstein caliber person out of an unwanted birth except once in a million years, because any possible Einstein are just those that are able to make a successful life for themselves.

Then there are the woman’s rights. Abortion is a choice; it may not be a good one, but it is still a choice. Our society is one based on giving the individual the maximum possible freedoms, and the test of a freedom is that it only goes as far as one’s nose. We are talking about the woman’s right to control her own body. The child is a parasite on the woman; it cannot live without the woman. We are not cutting words or trying to skip on definitions, the child is a part of the woman and dependent on that woman until that child is born. So we are really talking about the right of someone to control her own body. We limit the right of suicide (myself and many other people disagree with that), but we give a person a choice on how they die. If a man is dying of cancer and goes to the hospital, then he has the right to forbid any heroic measures to be taken in order to save his life. The man can decide to die or not to die. Yet antiabortionists don’t want to give that right to a woman. We are talking about two lives here, but as I said the life of the child is in the mother’s hands, it is in her body and cannot survive without her, that life is that woman the two are intertwined. Women have been held as second-class citizens for too long, if we refuse them the right to control their own bodies then what use are all the other freedoms and rights that our society grants its members.

For all those antiabortionists it is easy to say now, but what are you willing to do to fix the problem? Most of you cannot adopt or don’t want to adopt. You can donate as much money to the church as you want, but that isn’t going to help the children. The orphanage system was abandoned a long time ago. Now days we use Foster Parents, how many antiabortionists are willing to be those foster parents and take care of that child? The foster system is better than orphanages because it brings in one on one human care. Still the system is shot full of child abusers, abusers of the system who are only in it for the money, and just plain bad parents. Child Services has to work with what is available and sometimes that is pretty poor. If we suddenly make abortion illegal then the Child Care system and the Foster Care system will break under the load. So what do we do with the children then? Do we put them in Jail, or make them sleep in the pews of a church? Until you have a real solution to the problem, and not just a wishful promise to do something then I don’t want to hear you. Abortion is a problem with no easy answer, and antiabortionists are blind to the results of their decisions.

Abortion is murder, and I would like to see anything done to prevent it, EXCEPT forcing an unwanted child into the world. The penalty for doing that out weighs the crime of murder. I support abortion and all that brings from condoms to the morning after pill, even late term abortions. The consequences of not supporting them are just too great.

Answer 2

Abortion, short of medical reasons to save the life of the mother, is a failure of our culture to enable women to control their fertility such that they can choose when to have a child. Hopefully, this means pregnancy will come when there are sufficient family resources to support the child and to raise them properly. It is also a symbol of some sections of our society that somehow equate pregnancy with becoming a women and causing unwanted and uncared for children to be born.

As such, the decision to be pregnant or not be pregnant should ultimately be the women's choice. It is her health and the potential risk to any future children that should be considered. It is to be hoped that the women's partner will have a say in the decision but, unfortunately, there are too many cases where the men spread their seed and then do little to nurture the areas upon which it has fallen.

Answer 3

I am pro-choice as well. I believe that the anti-abortion and anti-death penalty stance are both find and grand, morally speaking, but not actually relevant, considering the truth. What a wonderful world it would be, where every child is wanted and murderers don't exist, and thus aren't a threat, and yet we do not live in such a world, and such idealistic beliefs are irresponsible. As long as rape happens, and thirteen year olds get pregnant, and deformed fetuses develop, abortion will be necessary, moral or not. For all those who scream "abortion kills babies", what are you doing about all the babies dying in Africa? It is hypocrisy to protest abortion, but not care about the horrors elsewhere.

Answer 4

I am "anti-choice" if the "choice" in question is killing another innocent human being. I am very sorry that you were raped, but I hope you realize that your child was completely innocent in the situation, and that poverty is also never an excuse for killing one's child.

If you really believe abortion is ever justified, you need to take a look at:

Photos of Abortions, Including 1st Trimester Abortions:
http://www.cbrinfo.org/Resources/pictures.html

A Four-Minute Video on Abortion:
http://www.abort73.com/HTML/I-A-4-video.html

Photos and Facts About Prenatal Development:
http://www.justthefacts.org/clar.asp
http://www.abort73.com/HTML/I-A-2-prenatal.html
http://www.studentsforlife.uct.ac.za/foetal%20dev%20photos.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/3847319.stm

Pain Perception in the Unborn:
http://www.advocatesfortheinnocent.com/fetalpain.html

Rape and Abortion:
http://www.deathroe.com/Pro-life_Answers/Answers.cfm?ID=31
http://www.afterabortion.info/Victims/index.htm
http://www.family.org/fofmag/sl/a0039249.cfm
http://www.dakotavoice.com/200611/Guest/20061101_GR.html
http://www.afterabortion.info/PAR/V2/n1/RAPESUM.htm

Is Abortion Ever Necessary to Save the Life of the Mother?
http://www.all.org/article.php?id=10682
http://www.advocatesfortheinnocent.com/motherslife.html

A Comparison of Abortion and Other Historical Genocides:
http://www.blackgenocide.org/abortion.html

Answer 5

Always, FOR. if they did a mistake or it was an accident or by force, atleast the girl has a choice! afterall it is the question of a Life and for a Lifetime. Tongues can wag what they want, ultimately its the woman who has to give birth, raise and bring up a live baby with all the affection, love, confidence, security, time and maturity that has to be given to every baby in this world. so better to think before than repent later.

Answer 6

Politically, I'm what you would call pro choice.
Personally, I would never get an abortion even if I were raped. It's easier to say that now, but I understand I could change my mind if it actually happened.
Overall, I feel you can't impose what's "right" or what I believe is right on anyone.

Answer 7

I only believe that abortion is right if the person was raped or if it was a medical issue. I was raped, and if I had gotten pregnant no one could force me to have that baby. But if a women is using that as birth control or other ridiculous reasons then its definitely wrong.

Answer 8

PRO-choice

Answer 9

I neither condone nor condemn abortion, but I do believe that it is necessary. There are situations where a woman cannot bear a child due to financial hardship, health reasons, or because the pregnancy was caused by rape. However I have no respect for girls who believe that abortion is a form of birth control.

Answer 10

I believe in a woman's right to choose, however, it's not a choice that I would personally make unless under the most tragic circumstances

Answer 11

Pro choice....I don't think abortion is right but i do not think anyone has the right to take that option away from another person.

Even in his word God has given us the freedom of choice..."free will' to make our own path derived from our personal choices.