Abortion Issue; The Facts, The Debate, The Controversy?

Question

The issue of Abortion is a fairly complex issue. I've been having trouble following it, since often the line between the scientific facts and the religious/ethical implications are blurred.

Therefore, I am asking a fairly simple question; how do you, in particular, explain the debate surrounding Abortion? In what ways do Pro-Life and Pro-Choice people differ, and are there "compromises" between the two? Also, include any other relevant details or issues that might help understand the conflict more.

Thanks.

Answer 1

Abortion stops a heart from beating.
I am opposed to it at any time.

If someone is raped they should go to a center and get treated.

The treatment should include the morning after medication if they want it. That way no egg will attach to the womb and it will pass from the body as it would have in the first place.

To me preventing pregnancy is not abortion. But once that infant is developing in the womb it should not be interfered with.

Answer 2

I really don't think there's any argument for pro-choice, it's just a bunch of people looking for an easy way out. Even without the religious and moral issues that go with being pro-life, it's still the only argument that makes any sense at all because the right to live comes before the right to choose. It's the law, so how are we getting away with legal abortion? I don't understand. Also, educating people on abortion and what actually goes on isn't happening at all, and I think that's a crime. In any other surgical or medical procedure, a doctor will give you information about it, pros and cons, etc. Abortion isn't that way...they just do it. I know I sound like I'm just spouting out unsupported opinions, but check out abort73.com and see what the pro-life argument is all about. It's a great website!

Answer 3

If people are honest, there are very few pure "pro life" or "pro choice" people out there.

Here are the difficulties:

On the pro life side, if you believe that the fetus really is a human being, then you cannot support abortion in cases of rape or incest. Even if you support abortion in rape and incest cases, you cannot come up with a legal mechanism that will PROVE those accusations in any time frame that would allow for abortion.

On the other side, very few abortion advocates would propose that abortion be unregulated. For instance, I haven't heard anyone propose that 9th month abortions be legal (although those are legal in Canada). I don't find any support for cases of abortion to chose gender of the baby. I know of cases where the woman was forced by her husband / lover to get an abortion, and certainly those are not supported by pro-choicers. At least one out of three abortions is performed on women who've had a previous abortion, blowing holes in the sentimental story of a "good girl who just got caught." And, I know that most women who have abortions have significant psychological scars after the event.

Most Americans are grudgingly pro-choice I think. They want abortion to be legal, but then they believe that abortion is a very poor substitute for birth control, and believe that abortion for that purpose is very wrong. They keep abortion legal for women who are raped and chose to abort a fetus from that rape, and so doctors don't have to get permission from a government agency before one is performed to save the life of the mother.

Even worse, I know for a fact that abortions are performed long after the first 12 weeks (first trimester). It is a poorly-kept secret in most towns which doctors will perform abortions past that point, perhaps even to the 21st week when a baby might be viable if born.

Finally, the issue boils down to this question -- is that mass of fertilized egg cells a human being? If you believe that the fetus is a human being, then you've become pro-life (unless you are a psychopath murderer). If you believe that those fertilized cells are simply like any other cells in the body until some point in time (viability? birth? Age 30?) then you are pro-choice.

Answer 4

I always prayed I would never have to be put in that position, While the thought of someone getting an abortion does not make me happy, it makes me sad actually, but what also makes me sad are unwanted, undesired, unwelcome babies born to mothers who should not be mothers, It is a very very tough position and I for one don’t think I have that right to make that decision for someone else, if this makes sense. Am I pro Abortion, NO, am I Pro Life, YES, ....Should I FORCE my will on woman being a man myself, NO!!! There for I can not choose for them, they have to choose, that’s where Pro Choice comes in.

The whole Roe Vs Wade court ruling was about whether the Government could interfere with what a woman wanted to do with her body, Thats it, whether the Federal Government could step in and tell the woman whats good for her instead of letting the woman make her own CHOICE.

Either way again, a tough CHOICE

Answer 5

This is a difficult topic becaue it falls in line with people and their religion.

I am for pro-life myself, because there's ways to protect yourself BEFORE to avoid this in any way.

Condoms are cheaper than abortions!

BUT I always have problems with people saying it is wrong because of religion and pointing fingers, because if they think it is wrong over religion, then they better be living that lifestyle.

For example, don't tell someone an abortion is wrong if the person saying it's wrong over religious reasons is not living a religious lifestyle.

I think people should make the choice of using protection BEFORE hand, because they wouldn't be faced with this situation. What happened to adoption?

Personally for me, I can't imagine going through this. But I guess some people are different than others.

TRIVIA:
Hitler's mom considered having an abortion when she was pregnant with him.

Answer 6

The only reason it has become widely publicized & political is that taxpayer money has paid for them. There are christian churches that don't completely poo-poo abortion. These churches ask abtn. canidates to get medical as well as spiritual counseling first. Alot of pro-lifers are up-tight christians!!! But if ypu look at undeveloped countrys there are children literaly starving to death and abortion was not even available to them nor birth control. Africa has aids babies starving to death.---Something to think about.

Answer 7

i'm for women individuals with the flexibility to chosen in spite of if or to no longer have an abortion (no person is definitely for abortions) at any element from getting to understand that they have been pregnant to the 2d while the fetus is totally expelled from her womb. you notice, i do no longer think that an embryo or fetus obtains personhood until it extremely is born. I even have self belief that, in spite of if embryos/fetuses have been given personhood, women individuals could nevertheless have the criminal precise to abort them and that they must. In no different condition does everyone choose for to stress somebody to offer up their own wellbeing and nicely-being to guard the existence of yet another. in case you have been loss of existence and you mandatory my kidney to stay, no person on the face of this earth could blame me if I chosen to maintain my kidney. Heck, we could take something that some human beings evaluate comparable; the non everlasting inconvenience and discomfort of blood donation. Blood donation oftentimes ties somebody up for a million/2 an hour or so and motives only non everlasting discomfort extremely than any long term harm or positioned on and tear on the physique at the same time as being pregnant and exertions/transport is far extra inconvenient, painful, and unsafe yet no person bats a watch while somebody says they do no longer donate blood. Why is it ok for me to hold my blood and organs for my own use while yet another totally found out individual desires them even if it extremely is no longer o.k. to maintain them for my own use while it extremely is the case of an embryo or fetus?

Answer 8

bah humbug, they will never compromise