Should abortion be a legal or religious issue? should it not be at all? (up to the parents to be?)?

Question

(I am a bit afraid about only one thing regarding this issue, the "after morning pill being sold over the counter and having teens that are pregnant taking this pill , other than that I will not express my feelings towards this issue but I would love to learn yours)

Respectfully,
Muslimah

Answer 1

I think this is a deeply personal issue that should be left for families or women to make with their doctor according to their own personal beliefs. I have a somewhat different perspective about a fetus being the equivalent to a baby since I did the pre-med program in getting my biology degree. I really just don't see the first trimester embryo (until 10 weeks) or fetus (after 10 weeks) as a baby although I do feel the issue is not entirely morally neutral since if left to develop it would result in a baby. I think though that a nonsentient potential human should not be given equal or even greater rights than the fully developed thinking, feeling person carrying it. It should be a private issue.

As for the morning after pill, I can tell you that this is not considered an abortion pill. It acts to either block conception or in some cases prevent implantation. Medically a woman is not considered pregnant until after implantation. Until such time the fertilized egg is considered a pre-embryo. A large number of fertilized eggs fail to implant naturally anyway and besides this as I said the Plan B pill is preventing conception from occuring as well. I think the Plan B pill is actually a wonderful medical tool to prevent the necessity of abortion.

At any rate since different people and religions take different viewpoints on this issue I think the government should stay out of making the decision for people.

Answer 2

even if it was illegal, there are ways to terminate a pregnancy with drugs, teas etc. Abortion as it is is new, but abortion itself is old and hs been around for a long while. Drink a certain tea and no more baby.

As to today's abortion bit. I'm a pro-choice. Meaning I think the mother and father are the only ones who have a say in the issue and that law and religion should stay out of it, unless the parents are religious, then their religion would count in the decision obviously.

For one, everyone, I believe, has the right to do with their bodies as they please. For two. Any kind of population control at this point is good. Meaning that if a couple makes the decision not to bear a child into the world that is over populated and into a family that cannot support it then their decision should be celebrated. Because they aren't making that child's life miserable and possibly losing the child to the state, social services etc, where there's no garauntee they won't get on drugs, have teen pregnancies or even die because no one seems to give a care about those kids in the system. They're trying to do what they think is best and no one outside of family should have any say in the matter, unless they want their friend's opinions as some families are "crazy"

Answer 3

Abortion is one of those issues where there is no right way to deal with it, but countless wrong ways to deal with it. I've always thought that we should focus on reducing the number of abortions in the world by doing our best to educate people that sexuality is the biological process of human reproduction, and pregnancies tend to result from it. But at the exact same time, a woman's life is her own, and she does have the absolute right to decide the direction it will go in. Regulating abortion for safety, and keeping it legal and available is probably the only thing that we can do.

Answer 4

It should be a legal issue. Most religions are very clear on where they stand on this subject. But (in America anyway) the church and state are separate entities... which the "righteous" Right would do well to remember. This is why we have the term pro-CHOICE rather than pro-abortion. A person can religiously be opposed to abortion but politically for the freedom of making that choice, to a lesser or greater extent.

Edit:

As far as the morning-after pill being sold over the counter, I agree with you it's really a sticky situation. And I think you asked a very intelligent, thought-provoking Q.

Answer 5

in the end abortion is a religious issue but its a legal issue to because its a death of a human being. It's all confusing to me. In my view Abortion should be illegal. Because it goes against my views and religious beliefs. But in this country its not gonna be just my opinion alone which is going to decide the matter in going to be up to people up to the legislation up to executive branch where its vetoed or passed if vetoed the legislation can over ride it. But its my views one the issue its not going to change. Abortion should be illegal. So if you kill someone its murder. You have an abortion its fine it never lived or anything. Yes it did and yes it was killed by a doctor or whoever does that which in technical stand point being the meaning of murder. You take another beings life born or not born its still murder.

Answer 6

it extremely is a ethical situation. a non secular situation. It impacts a individual emotionally to have the existence they created killed. That individual will ought to hold that deep emotional harm continuously. an exceedingly own situation. in spite of in the event that they are saying it would not impression them, it extremely is going to continually be interior the back of their ideas. a individual won't be able to kill somebody without it affecting them. young women are having it executed like they could get their ears pierced now. they don't be attentive to the way it extremely is going to result them. they are actually not questioning that yet. somebody needs to think of for them so they do no longer ought to stay with it and dedicate suicide over it sometime. because of the fact of this i'm no longer adversarial to it being a criminal situation. of direction it extremely is a womans situation even if it took 2. the daddy has, or could have the comparable emotional ties to the toddler he created. Loosing that toddler could have an result on him besides. little question God is against it. Nuff pronounced.

Answer 7

I am Muslim woman, and I'm 30 years old. I absolutely believe that Abortion should be legal for all women.

Abortion should not be a religious issue. In America, our country is based on a "separation between church and state". This means that we separate Religion from the Government. There are many different religions and cultures in America, and we can only be sucessful if we respect All religions equally.

Abortion is a private matter that is choice of the woman. Each woman has the right to have "ownership" of her body. Her body belongs to her, and the government should not force her to have a baby if she does not want to.

Let's say that you dont believe in abortion based on religious reasons. Ok, then here's the thing..People who have abortions are usually people who have had sex outside of marriage. Fornication is agianst the Bible, the Koran, and the Torah. But yet if we are going to make it illegal to have an abortion, the we should also make fornication illegal--and we should arrest the men who impregnate the women. Why should the woman deal with all the consequences of fornication: being forced to have a baby, becoming a single mother, taking care of this child finacially by herself, putting her life on hold--when the men bear NO resposibilty?

Also, an abortion should be between the woman and God. We allow men to fornicate, be gay, and no one tells them that is "illegal". Abortion is a private decision and even if it IS a sin, women whould be allowed to sin and ask for forgiveness just like men are.

As for teens and abortion: Any woman who is sexually active should have acess to birth control and abortion--without the parents consent. Here's why: in many countries, teens get married when they are 15, 16 year old. They are considred adults at that point. In America, people look at a 15 year old as if she is a five year old. A 15 year old girl is biolgically a woman. She has a period, she ovulates, she has sex hormones, she has breasts and hips bigger than women twice her age sometimes. A 15 year old does not need the consent of her parents before she can have sex--so why should she need her parents consent to have an abortion? She should have ownership rights of her body.

Plus, you must remember that MANY teens live with sexually abuisve fathers, drug additcted parents, and so on. Many teen girls are being raped by their fathers, uncles, cousins. I knew a girl whose father had sex with her from the age of 10 to 14. If she became pregnant, I believe she should have access to abortion.

Salaam.

Answer 8

it's a legal issue because it has to do with the debate about ending life. it's areligious issue for the same reason. parents don't have the right to kill their born children so the idea of killing their unborn is a legal dilemma as well as a religious restriction. Obviously, nobody should use the morning after pill as a form of birth control because there are so many other alternatives and I actually believe that teenagers shouldn't be having sex in the first place--but that's just my opinion.
I like your question and I like the way you think
Respectfully,
Rob

Answer 9

This should be a question only for the mother to choose the answer to. The state has no right to dictate what a woman can do. I do not believe in abortion, but, I do not believe the state has a right to have the say. Christians are trying to make it illegal because of their religious views. They have no right to push their views on others.

Answer 10

It is both, but ,most of all it is a moral issue. If you can just end your child's life and then just say it's okay, that doesn't say much about you as a human being. I take that back. It does say a whole lot about you as a human being, just nothing good.