Is anyone here pro-choice?

Question

(For abortion.) I just want to know religious views. It would help if you'd tell me your religion, too. Thanks.
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Answer 1

Pro-choice is not Pro-abortion. It is pro-choice. I was raised Baptist, but decided they were cooks and crooks.

Answer 2

yes, i'm pro choice, but i'm also pro-restrictions.

Prevention is much better than cure.

Too many people abort where the child could have lived a happy and successful life without badly affecting the mum.

Where I would agree with abortion is in cases where the mother's life is due to be put in heightened risk, or if a family will be crippled financially so much that the baby's life would be unduly difficult. Adoption already has these checks abortion needs to adopt some of them but I know this will not happen.

In the future I think abortion and other birth control methods will be encouraged a lot more, even to the extent where people with more than two children will be looked on negatively because overpopulation will be the next big issue, depending on what global warming does to us first.

I don't believe in religious institutions but I am religious.

Answer 3

i have no religion but i believe in a higher power and i am pro choice. It is not for people to tell other people what to do with their bodies. these same people that complain about people having all these kids they can't take care of are the same ones complaining that, that is where all of their tax dollars are going.
The only reason that it's even a political debate is because people forgot about the seperation of church and state. It is a religious argumant and nothing more.
To the people that want the whole world to stop making abortions legal why not rally for the dr.'s to tie womens tubes. I had a child i knew after him i didn't want another one. I am 28 years old and can not get my tubes tied and i can't take any of the birth control. If i had that option then if I get pregnant i won't have to go to an abortion clinic i can get my tubes tied and not get pregnant at all.
I have a hard time carrying i only weigh 98 pounds and i had an 8 pound 4 ounce baby do you seriously think i want to go through that again? heck no but I'm not going to stop having sex and i'm pretty sure alot of other women aren't either. Give us another option don't just say don't abort. give us an option to not have kids at all.
Oh and furthermore i am adopted and i wouldn't wish that on anyone. ANYONE!! It's easy to sit back and say give them up for adoption. but when you're that adopted kid, life is not happy just because you got a family. some people feel like we should be greatful that we got picked but it is an extreme mental and emotional roller coaster ride and it doesn't mater if you have good parents or not.

Answer 4

I am personally pro-life and politically pro-choice, but I am above all, pro-prevention. If you don't want to give birth, don't get pregnant. Religious views should apply to the individual and their belief system. Most religions teach abstainance until marriage, so if you accept that religious view, it should reflect in your behavior. If you want to have sex without conception, that is possible too. Even if you have sex without contraception, you can use the morning-after pill to avoid conception. If everyone used the sense they have, abortion would be the rarity it should be, and used only in medically necessary situations.

I was adamantly and fundamentally Christian at one point in my life, but my brain kicked in and I became more open-minded. However, I still believe life is sacred and am a mother because of it. (Contraception comments are a "if I knew then what I know now" type of statement).

Incidentally, the only religious per se view of this subject I have is that I believe the embryo is not "alive" until quickened by the Spirit, which occurs just after the first trimester.

Answer 5

I am Jewish, but, this doesn't make my choice. I, personally, do not believe in abortion. But I do not believe that the state has the right to impose religious beliefs on women. There are those who do not feel it is wrong. And, the state has no right to decide this for a woman, and therefore I am pro-choice.

From all of these answers! We hear in the newspapers all the screaming of pro-life people. Why don't the pro-choice stand up and shout, too?

Answer 6

I never understood how or why anyone would want a say over a strangers medical situation ?

If you don't believe in the right of abortion, then live your life accordingly.Do not force anyone else to follow your religion.

It's strange how so many people answered that abortion is ok but not as a birth control method . What else to you believe it to be?
I am most defiantly Pro-Choice.

Answer 7

I am pro-choice and I am an atheist. I believe that while any embryo has the potential to become fully human, an embryo that cannot live outside the mother is not a human being and does not possess civil rights beyond those of the mother.

I think abortions should be rare, but I also think they need to be safe and legal. I believe that questions of life and death are deeply personal issues, thus I am pro-abortion, pro-euthanasia, but anti-death penalty. I believe the government does not have the right to take the lives of its citizens, but neither does it have the right to prevent its citizens from taking their own lives. Sovereignty over ones body is the greatest form of freedom.

Answer 8

I'm Hindu and pro-life. The only time I really support abortion is when the child is a threat to the life of the mother. If the mother will die without having an abortion, then an abortion is acceptable then.

Answer 9

I am pro-choice. BUT not as a birth control method.
I voted (1960s) to legalize abortion because of the number of Girls dieing from coat-hanger abortions, poisons and bleeding.
I thought the regulation was, that the zygote is not a Human Being and today I still believe that But that is not what we have today.
Partial Birth abortion is murder. That child could live as a viable productive human even with minimum post natal care.
I was catholic now naturist. :) but still a boy scout.

Answer 10

i've very torn on the issue. I'm LDS, so my belief structure taught me that abortion is wrong unless the mother's life is in danger, or if it's a case of rape or incent... and even in these cases the mother is still encouraged to put the baby up for adoption rather than end the pregnancy.

Personaly... It's a tough one. At what point does the fetus become a baby? when does it become murder? I hate abortion, it sickens me... but do I have the right to stop someone from doing it? i'm just not sure.

Answer 11

Pro-choice doesn't mean "for abortion." It means I am in favor of a woman being able to decide if she wants one. I think abortions should be legal but rare; education on birth control would go a long way to making that happen.

I was raised Episcopalian.