Are there people out there who are pro-choice but against abortion?

Question

Someone told me they were against abortion but wanted it to stay legal. If they're against it wouldn't they want it illegal?

Answer 1

Everyone I personally know who is pro-choice disapproves of abortion. But it's not an issue of whether they think abortion is good or not.

It's an issue of whether the majority has the right to force the decision as a matter of law, and take that decision away from the individual. The whole debate is about WHO gets to make the choice.

Do you know why China can mandate abortions and force sterilizations? Because reproductive choice is not a guaranteed right. Abortion is legal in the US because the Supreme Court has determined that reproductive rights are fundamental, and thus constitutionally protected.

If the Supreme Court decides that reproductive rights are not fundamental rights, and that the government gets to choose regardless of what the individual wants, then the government makes all the decisions. Try to imagine what could happen, if all reproductive rights are now subject to govt control.

New York or Florida could pass a law saying that anyone making less than $30K per year cannot have children, and must abort any pregnancy, because they obviously cannot support them financially. No constitutional challenge, because reproductive rights are no longer protected.

Or North Carolina or Texas decides that convicted felons should never have children, and starts imposing mandatory sterilization as part of criminal sentences. No constitutional challenge, because reproductive rights are no longer nationally protected.

Once the right to reproductive privacy is taken away by the court, it will be decades before it can be reestablished. Conservatives better start praying, if they get their wish, that during that time they don't become the minority under a legislation that decides to require abortions. Because, once that right to personal choice is lost, the government will always be able to decide whether you can have children or not.

Do you really want to abdicate that much of your personal freedom and choice to a group of politicians? Do people really want to live in a country where state legislatures can decide who can be pregnant, and who cannot, and who must? Do people really have that much trust and faith in government that they think the legislature will always make the right choices? Because we'll be stuck with those decisions.

The concept of reproductive freedoms is not whether you agree with the individual choices being made. It's whether you think the government should have the right to take away and mandate those choices.

Why can't people understand that freedom of choice is not a minority value, even if the majority happens to disagree with the minority's choice?

Answer 2

I'm Pro-Choice,If i were Female,and pregnant would choose
to have the child because i believe it's morally wrong.
But i believe the procedure should stay safe and legal.
I decided this a few years ago when i was listening to
a Voice of China on my shortwave radio. They were
saying in China,where abortion is illegal, children are
often found dead with half-born babies.This is where the mother
had induced abortion by herself. I could only imagine this would
be a horrific experience for a Mother or Father

Answer 3

If I were to vote on it, my vote would be to make abortion legal.

My only reason for this is because I want all of those screaching harpies to stop screaming "Keep your laws off of my body!" I keep hoping that if abortion is legal, those witches will stop screaming that. I hate the sound of those words. It's like fingernails on a chalkboard. I'll do virtually anything to never hear those words again.

But I am anti- Roe v. Wade. That decision is not a valid interpretation of the Constitution. It is a lie. It is such an egregious lie that my feeling about it outweighs how much I hate the sound of the screaching harpies who repeatedly say "Keep your laws off my body!" Roe v. Wade must be overturned. It must be.

Yes, coragryph, I'll certainly be glad to allow state legislatures the authority to regulate or even ban abortion. Under the Constitution -- the real Constitution, not the ones that the Justices made up -- the authority to address the subject of abortion lies with state legislatures. I can live with that. I can not bear the SC's lie about the Constitution.

Answer 4

I am pro-choice but think that abortion should be the absolute last solution considered. I would never have one, but would never take this right away from women. I think this country needs to step up its efforts to make viable birth control and birth control education not just available to everyone, but in a manner that is in everyone's face, like it or not. It should be mandatory in our schools, from high school through college that students attend a class strictly designed to cover birth control options and issues. I think this could go a long way toward reducing the number of abortions that are performed. We all see just how well teaching abstinence has worked out. Nothing like being unrealistic about the human sexual drive.

Answer 5

Yes I'm one. Abortions have been being performed for ions. Unfortunatly not in the best of conditions and the results were horrible. I don't approve of abortion as a means for birth control but it's not my place to tell a young girl she must give birth to her rapists child. Many ended up committing suicide. It's too personal for me to be their judge. Let God deem the proper punishment...he knows more about whats in their hearts and minds than I do.

Answer 6

"NO MORE WIRE HANGERS EVER!" I'm against abortion, but pro-choice. Life is hard. I try not to judge people. Abortion is a desperate measure to be sure. For most women it involves much innner turmoil and many years of guilt to settle between themselves and their God. Do we need to make them risk two lives in the process? No. We have safe methods to terminate pregnancy for reasons a woman decides she must. Let's leave them to their decisions and their grief.
Better education and more equality in economics are issues that would eliminate a great deal of abortion. Let make poverty illegal.

Answer 7

Many people believe that it is not something they would ever do, or even something they would condone in their own family.

They may even have strong religious reasons for feeling personally opposed to it.

But at the same time they recognize that their religious convictions are not sufficient reason to impose those convictions on everyone else.

There is no contradiction. In fact, it takes a lot of courage to say that there is something you feel strongly about, but you accept the fact that a significant number of other people may not feel that way.

It is also not a contradiction to say that you want to keep it "legal and rare".

Answer 8

Yes and I am one of them.

What this means to me is that I, being female, would nor could ever have an abortion. My reasons are because I am just not sure where God stands on this issue and when in doubt, then don't.

Now with that said, I completely agree with the US Supreme Court's decision on the issue. They basically, said that based on a person's 1st Amendment right to privacy over what happens to their body, that it is the woman's choice.

I support that decision which makes me pro-choice while being pro-life on a personal level.

Answer 9

I think almost anyone who's pro choice is against abortion.
In every country it's outlawed it still happens.It always has and it always will probably.Therefore I believe it's better to create a legal and safe setting.
I also think no effort should be spared to limit the number of abortions.Like good education, accesss to preservatives and acces to alternatives when unwanted pregnancies do occur
I think anyone who calls him or herself pro abortion is wrong by any standard of humanity

Answer 10

I think the issue you are framing has more to do with whether abortion should be illegal but decriminalized.

I tend to be in favor of treating abortion as statutorily proscribed, except in specific circumstances, and I think the doctors and mothers should be fined for violations.