Do you think abortion should be illegal?

Question

i think it should becuase its killing human life its not a just a mass of cells once its starts forming its human,it already a soul so if the female is having a baby from the cuase of abuse or rape dont kill the baby for the action it not the babys fault but instead give it up for adoption not abortion

Answer 1

Hell yes abortion should be illegal! It's murdering a human being, no matter how you look at it! A woman knows what causes her to become pregnant, and if she doesn't want a baby, she should stop being a s l u t and close her legs! I understand there's issues with rape and what not, but you have a point, that's still a child, and it's not that child's fault that he/she is a product of rape. Adoption would be a great idea I would think for situations like that.

It would be bad for a doctor to take a newborn baby and strangle him or her to death or bash his or her head in on the floor wouldn't it? So what's the damn difference with an abortion, just because you can't see the baby yet, it means it's not a person? Anyone who supports abortion is a total idiot, they should support murder of every kind then if they don't want to be a hypocrite!

Answer 2

I think arguably for the first few days when it *IS* just a bell of cells then it should be allowed if the person was raped.

After that I can see good reason for saying "no abortion", however this leads to three points I would like to make.

1. In China, baby girls are often "disposed of" as the parents want a boy - and there are penalties for having more than one child (multipl birth excepted). I wuld argue that is better for the killing to take place in the womb than after Birth. Both wrong - but perhaps abortion here is the lesser of two evils.

2. It WILL mean a three-level system is in place. The truly desperate will use the knitting needle, the welasthy will jet off to another country and have it done - and just middle class Mary will be left with the unwanted child.

3. The teen trying to hide it from her parents until she can abort - if it cannot get it done legally, they are perhaps most at risk from being tempted to try a back-street clinic to do the job.

Perhaps a deal where an abortion (other than for rape) could be carried out ON CONDITION that the mother was then sterilized?

I am not convinced that there IS a right answer here - other than trying STRONGLY to get the period of time that a woman can choose to abort slashed right down to a few days. If they have been raped, this gives them time to abort if they wish. If not, and they have unsafe sex, it gives them a few days too.

Once the foetus has start to become more than just a blob of cells, then unless there is a real danger to the mothers life, I think it should continue to full term - with a possible exception for the Chinese people for reasona already mentioned.

Answer 3

I wouldn't give my approval if asked by a significant female other to have our shared fetus aborted, but I don't think it's a matter that should have anything to do with the government or legislation of legality. It's totally a moral decision between the woman her God, her doctor and her conscience. It does not matter if legislation is there as it was in the past. Those who want to have an abortion get it legally or not.

If the government and society are not willing to say that every conception is valuable enough to take full responsibility for them, provide medical care for them,
provide job security for pregnant women,
compensate for any complications of the pregnancy,
provide lifetime care for handicapped children,
and take the adoptive child and place it in a caring and loving family

Then Government is not ready to make that decision.

Answer 4

whether we think it should be or not ...sadly it is legal. Somehow we have managed to take every tabo in our society and made it okay. Regretably over 70% of the women who have abortions are white 25 to 34 year olds...check the facts. We accept this because we don't want to be mean to a victim of rape or incest. however, that is not the situations in almost every abortion. Our young Women today have the Government, friends and society in general making excuses and telling them it's an option. They convince themselves to believe it is just a mass of cells and does not matter. Tragically, many young women have endured this procedure and today suffer from great amounts of damage emotionally. It darkens the spirit. Life is precious no matter how it comes about.
#1 It is 9 mo.s not 9 years.
#2 It is not your DNA... hence... it is not your body.
#3 If you do not have an abortion...the child will most likely be born ...If you remove it from it's life giving womb..even if it is a blob of cells it is taking a otherwise viable human's life.

Answer 5

I agree with you in theory but not in practice. By that I mean I believe it is murder, I believe it is wrong, and I believe the fetus has a soul. Where we differ is that I don't believe it should be illegal. The reason I don't is because it is your body to do with as you see fit, it is your soul to defend on judgment day(if there is a god), and it is none of mine or anybodies business what you do with your body and your soul. Further more, if there is a god and I am not saying there isn't, according to the Bible he gives you free will to choose between right and wrong and who are we to take away a god given right?

Answer 6

I hate to disagree with you, but I doubt 6 microscopic cells has a soul. Your position is based entirely on religious dogma, as opposed to actual fact, and I don't think public policy should ever be crafted based on religious dogma.

Incidentally, I was adopted, and had a great life, so this is certainly a fine option. But women should be able to control their own bodies. There is nothing moral about forcing an impoverished 13 year old to have a baby....

Answer 7

It's great to defend human life. Everyone wants to save babies.
Aside from obviously being of utmost importance even among the already sacred human life, babies are cute and adorable, and thousands of generations of baby-hating human beings have been killed off by nature because they and their progeny were less fit to survive. This has pretty much ensured that everyone FEELS that babies are cute: even those people who THINK that they are ugly feel that they are cute, because we are wired to love them.

The problem is that not everyone can see a fetus as it develops, and not everyone can agree at which point it becomes a baby. Well, normally this wouldn't be such a problem: when in doubt, rule in favor of the maybe-baby! We have to treat all human beings like legal persons, or we set precedence for human un-personhood!

The problem that makes THAT a problem is that the fetus is not only a part of the mother's body, but it was actually assembled inside of the mother's body FROM parts of the mother's body! So in order to prevent a woman from having an abortion, you have to punish her for something she decides to do inside what is probably the most personal and intimate part of her own body.

And THAT is where the problem of banning abortion comes in. In this kind of doubt, it seems like the rights of whose personhood we are entirely certain can't be justly infringed based on the possible rights of whose personhood we are not entirely certain. It's further exacerbated by the recent state of women in human society, and control over their reproductive organs seems like a precedent for legal un-personhood for women.......and they just GOT that!

Pro-life groups worry that abortion of unborn feti will de-sensitize people to seeing already-born babies die, but few pro-choice people favor late-term abortion like during-labor abortion, which seems especially blatantly sick to me!

If you read this, you might think I'm pro-abortion. I don't like abortion at all and would discourage any woman from doing it, but I don't think it's government's place to get involved in something which is so sticky and controversial and where regulation would cause more shadiness and black markets.

Answer 8

Geez, you really wanted to stir up a hornets nest, didn't you? I take a kind of compromise position. I believe abortions should be allowed only during the first tri-mester. The only exception to this would be if the mothers life were in danger. Personally, I don't believe in abortion at all except if the woman's life is in danger, but life is full of compromises and I see this as one of those ones where you swallow hard and accept it. Late term abortions should be called what they really are... murder. Abortion should not be used as another for of contraception. Look for Roe v Wade to be at least partially overturned in the near future.

Answer 9

well, not everyone holds the concept that a zygote is a "baby" and tho it's mostly Christians citing the Bible as a source for their beliefs the fact is that according to the Bible the Bible god does not consider abortion to be murder. the Bible god, in fact, encourages the use of of abortion as a way of determining whether an accused adulteress is guilty or not and as a punishment for having been guilty.

Num 5:27 And when he hath made her to drink the water, then it shall come to pass, [that], if she be defiled, and have done trespass against her husband, that the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her, [and become] bitter, and her belly shall swell, and her thigh shall rot: and the woman shall be a curse among her people.

you are. of course, entitled to you opinions but you are not entitled to force you opinion on others nor are you entitled to force women into reproductive slavery simply because in your moral context that is what she is "suppose" to do.

it's not your life or your womb so mind your own business.

if you truly want to help eradicate the need for abortion i suggest you start a man's movement wherein men are encouraged to be as responsible for birth control as are women.

Answer 10

Yes, We have a Creator, we don't just exist. God has a plan and a purpose for our lives. The sooner you get to know your Creator through Jesus Christ the sooner you will understand that life is precious and begins even before conception because God knows you even before you are formed in you mother's womb.