Abortion: is it really the woman's choice?

Question

Okay, we all know abortion is a very contraversial topic.
Those who are "pro-choice" say that it is the woman's choice because it is her body. Is that "fetus, zygote, embryo" inside her REALLY part of her body? I don't think so. It is a human being with the same rights as you and me, and posseses an immortal soul. It has different DNA than the mother. That is NOT part of her body.

If we started killing animal babies in their mother's womb, I think people would care, and do something about it. They'd be appalled. But when a human, who is above an animal in every way is killed, we think nothing of it, and call it the woman's choice to decied whether her baby lives or dies.

Is this twisted thinking on their part or what?

I'm not a man, BTW!
So are you saying a newborn baby is not a human because it cannot survive on it's own?

bettirage: My point is, that those are innocent HUMANS being killed. A dog is not a human.

BTW, to one of the answerers:
YES, I would keep the baby if it had some mental or physical problem. It is still a human being.

Answer 1

No one has the right to make a "choice" that kills another innocent human being. It's amazing how completely ignorant most pro-aborts seem to be when it comes to prenatal development and pain perception:

http://www.advocatesfortheinnocent.com/fetalpain.html
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
http://www.lifeissues.org/ultrasound/11weeks.htm
http://www.cbrinfo.org/Resources/pictures.html
http://www.abort73.com/HTML/I-A-4-video.html

The average age of an aborted baby in America is 10 weeks. By that point, the child is fully formed and can even suck her thumb. If her palm is pricked, she will pull her hand away and open her mouth. In an ultrasound video of an abortion at 11 weeks, the child can be seen struggling violently to escape the suction instrument, while her heartrate doubles and she opens her mouth wide. Unfeeling, unaware, and unformed? Hardly! However--even if the child was unaware and not fully developed, it would still be wrong to kill her. Shooting a premature infant in her sleep is no less murderous than strangling a full-grown adult while he is awake.

Since when does being "unwanted" make people less worthy to live than everyone else? Should we kill homeless people and elderly people who are "unwanted," too? Let's be honest, too--there is no such thing as an "unwanted" baby in the U.S. There are two million couples waiting to adopt right now, including couples who want to adopt children with health problems such as HIV, Down Syndrome, and spina bifida.

Newborn babies cannot survive without their mothers, either. Left alone, they will die. They are completely dependent. Does that mean it's okay to kill them, too?

Where is the compassion? Where is the logic? Pro-aborts are completely twisted, yes.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

There are many reasons that people are so called 'Right to Life'. Some of them are political reasons and have nothing to do with the life of the child, but they hide behind that idea. Some feel that if women can have an abortion that it is mostly white women and that the minorities will become the majority. Other want to be sure that there are enough young people for the Army. Others just want another reason to oppress women.

Pro-choice is about compassion. Compassion on the victims of rape. Compassion on the married couple who's child would be deformed and have chosen to have mercy on that child.

This is not a clear cut, black and white issue. There are many factors involved. No one says that a women has to have an abortion. But that should be something between her, her doctor and her God. It is not about the state. The state only has a right to make laws governing people who are already born and can survive outside of the mother. When still in the mother, only God has a right to be involved and different religions and people have different views. So this is not something that the state should be involved in.

Answer 4

I'm pro-choice, but that doesn't mean I am all for it. It is always a sad thing, but what other people do with their lives is none of my business.

And while it is sad, consider this. Some kids are/will be unwanted and will be born into awful, abusive families, and will be kept rather then put for adoption. And social services will never find and save every child from every bad situation. At that point, since an embryo does not give a damn, to put it bluntly, would abortion for that bad family be a better option? To make it so that no child would have to grow up in that life he or she would be born into, and then grow into very damaged adults who may continue the abusive trend?

Yes it is a sad thing, but I think in some situations it is the better option if it is to save a child from an awful existence. Some people only seem to care about such a child before it is born, but I also care about what happens to them AFTER. I think in that case it should be an available option--provided that such people are required to then have their tubes tied.

Answer 5

What do you mean "if we started"? Have you not heard of fetal pig disections?

Judging by your tone, I'm guessing you're male. Most men who are pro-choice sound like you. A woman wouldn't dare step there. Men don't know what a woman goes through during pregnancy. The physical strains, the mental and emotional strains. Our bodies change on us and we're sick, our backs hurt, our immune systems are compromised and we get sicker easier (I almost died from the flu while I was pregnant with my son and was hospitalized twice), our bodies go throug hserious trauma just to give life to our children. You men, your bodies go through nothing. No child bearing pains (and I'm refering to the uterus growing), no labor pains, no weight gain, no feeling like a beached whale because you can't get up from a sitting position because your abdomen is so stretched. You just don't know. You men can have all the sex you want with virtually no physical consequences (excluding std's). If you don't want to see the baby if the mother chooses to have it, you don't have to. And as for child support, do you know how many men get away with not paying it? It's pathetic. A woman gets pregnant, knows she can't take care of it, the guy (whether married to her or not) doesn't always want it and either leaves or beats her (some cases kills), and she knows she can't take care of it on her own, but if she has it she won't want to give it up. You guys get to be there for the fun part, but we go through the hard part, so get off of our case.

While, you're right, it doesn't have her exact DNA, it is attached to her body through the placenta, making it part of her. If we have any type of parasite attached to our insides, do we not do everything we can to get rid of it? Is it not a life as well? Does it not need to eat and live and grow too?

I am a mother of two who is pregnant with her third child, and I myself wouldn't have an abortion unless there were extreme complications (such as certain birth defects that make it so the baby can't live outside the womb). But I do believe that while not right for me, it might be for another woman. I do not believe in repeated abortions as a birth control method, however. But there was a time when a woman couldn't go to a safe place that was sterile and her chances of surviving were good after an abortion. if we make them illegal, those dirty, filthy deathtraps will pop up again and more and more women will die from botched abortions. Then there will be even more lives lost. It's a never ending argument and you know it. Why even ask? You pro-lifers assume that pro-chioce is "pro-abortion", but that isn't the case. It just means we agree it's none of our business what the woman beside us decides.

You can argue that she shouldn't have had sex. But what about the man? He once again has no actual obligation when it comes down to it. I assume you're Christian because most prolifers are. Christianity is a male-based and biased religion. Men have all the freedom while women have all the guilt. Some great religion....

Answer 6

Fetus in the Greek means baby. Just a tid bit for the next time you hear the word. Should the woman have a choice about her body? YES, But not the body inside hers.

Answer 7

This is something that people will always have some thing to say . The thing I would like to know is what do we do with all of the un wanted childer in this world and the one that are so handycap and just laying in there bed looking at the ceiling all day and they just wish that this didn't happen to them and they can't even take there own life. What would you do if a doctor told you that your baby is going to have downs simdrom what would you do keep it I do not think so. Women choice to do what she needs to. If this is the case then why are there so many babys in the hospital that a without any mothers that do not have any hands or feet

Answer 8

wait, doesn't it share the same DNA as the mother?
anyway
i'm pro-choice
and that's because i do believe it's the woman's choice
because
there are all the typical excuses like "OH RAPE AND INCEST!" and all that jazz
but then also
say a girl gets pregnant while she was in high school, and she had bigs plans ahead of her, and big goals
and having this baby would mess up her life
and she'd just have a screwed up time for the rest of her being
and she has the baby, and she doesn't treat it right
...abuse in any form.
or perhaps she can't afford to take care of it
and they're in poverty, or using wellfare
but then again, i don't believe it's alive till it's out of the womb.
and also, i don't think that if we were killing nimal babies in their mother's womb that the public would care and do something about it, because humans are a heartless bunch when it comes to animals
and then i find it selfish for you to say that a human is above an animal.
so i think you kind of have things screwed up in your head
but it's alright, because that's your opinion.

Answer 9

Ok, if it is a human with the same rights as you and me.. take a drive in the HOV lane with your newly fertilized embryo and when the cop stops you tell him - "yes officer, I'm preggers. And since my embryo is a person, it deserves the same rights as you or me."

As he's writing you a ticket for driving alone in the HOV lane, keep screaming that you don't deserve a ticket because there are TWO people in the car.

If it is not part of a woman's body -- where did it come from? The embryo was created by the woman's body and is implanted into the side of the uterus when fertilized, if I remember my sex ed class correctly. It doesn't somehow seperate itself and end up in a room completely seperate from the woman.

And that fertilized egg.. if you took it out at that moment, would you be able to bounce it on your knee and play with it? Nope. In fact, you'd probably lose it as you were trying to pick it up.

And should we be mad at god, who causes more miscarriages than actual abortions? After all, if god can abort a child, why is it wrong for us to?

This doesn't even touch on the fact that it's a woman's body, it's their choice.

And your ignorance is rather apparent to say that we humans are better than any other species on this planet. There are plenty of animals that could be on the same level as us. Dolphins, apes, chimps, elephants just to name a few.

Answer 10

It works like this, conservatives get life force from others through their passing of judgment.......making others feel guilt......abortions started because womens families and culture was so judgmental and hyper-critical of women that had premarital sex, these women were willing to coat-hanger themselves rather than face the wrath of the culture. Now women are using it as birth-control because they do not protect themsleves....... Now abortion is a necessity because it is so hard to get any help raising children in this self-centered society......all the grandparents have moved to florida rather than connecting with the younger generation.... i still get the feeling that the wrath of conservativism is a big part in abortions, it is tough to face a judgmental parent, rather than the parent believing that God put that child on this world at the right time and place.........