Do you think there should be a limit to how many abortions a woman can get?

Question

I am not whole-heartedly against abortion, but unfortunately I know too many women who treat abortion as a form of birth control and it sickens me. Your thoughts?

Answer 1

That's a tough one!
I think that abortions are a good thing for people that genuinely need it. I wouldn't think it any more fair to the child to grow up in poverty or in a household where they weren't wanted OR to be subjected to the foster system and group homes. I think abortions should be available to women in their first trimester ONLY! After that, I think it's too late.
As far as a limit...I think that more permanent forms of birth control should be a mandatory part of the process for women having too many abortions. (IUD's and implants or even depo shots) There should be better counseling done in the clinics to ensure that women know of and have access to better methods pregnancy prevention.
Also, I'm going way off topic...but:
I also think it should be mandatory for families accepting public aid (welfare) to use the more permanent birth control methods. It should be part of the process, like you go get your birth control shot, then you receive your check.
I wish the world could get their crap together and just solve the problem, not try and bandage it.
Making abortions illegal only makes things more dangerous, because women will go have unsafe illegal surgeries anyway.

Answer 2

No, I don't. I totally support a woman's right to abort a pregnancy, just as I support other forms of body sovereignty (such as drug legalization). I believe barrier methods are better for women's bodies than either hormonal birth control OR abortion, but I do not have the right to make that decision for others.

I'm a little surprised that so many people believe in keeping abortion legal, but putting limits on the number of abortions a woman can get. Surely, once one has come down on one side of the ethical debate, the same argument holds true for pregnancy number eight as did for pregnancy number one. If the eighth fetus has a right to be born, surely the first one did. Conversely, if the woman had the right to decide the outcome of the first pregnancy, surely she has the same right the eighth time around. (Personally, I think the woman vs. fetus dichotomy is false, in that we have no way of knowing that the fetus wishes to be born, anyway, but I know that the anti-abortion argument rests on this point, so what I am asking, at the very least, is for it to be consistent.)

Answer 3

There should not be a limit on the number. If limits such as this are placed on abortion, then back room abortion clinics will start popping up all over, making the process dangerous, even deadly.

I am pro-choice and anti-abortion. What I mean is that while I find abortion repugnant, and will tell anyone who asks, I do not believe it is my place to tell someone else they cannot get one. I can understand it being done under certain circumstances, but I am repulsed by those who simply use it as a form of birth control.

Answer 4

Yes abortions should be legal but not as a form of birth control. There should be a limit to the number of abortions a woman can have and they should have to speak with a counselor before making their final decision an abortion can be very had on a woman emotionally and should not be an impulsive decision. Women who have had several abortions often loose there self emotionally because they can not deal with what they have done.

Answer 5

Abortions should be legal. Period.

BUT before a woman can get an abortion (barring rape and incest) she should have a mandatory 8 hour class where she sees and fully understands what she is doing, all the options, has birth control supplied FREE, and sees how desperately others really want kids, even to adopt, etc. There has to be some kind of deterrent and some kind of service to educate woman on better choices, safer practices, and clue them to the damage they are truly doing.

These classes would cost tons less than the abortions it would probably save and the lives it would save would be worth every penny all the same.

Answer 6

Yea its a shame, you would want your life taken away when you was a unborn baby just cuz the people that concived you wasnt
careful or planing for a baby or didnt use a condom. Probally there should be a limit but having an abortion can harm it, it can make you not able to have kids later on in life if you decide to have some. I saw a movie on abortion last year and it was sad, some peeps cried, all them babies in the trash and it was TONS like mad babies in this 1 garbage room and they were all from accidents or unwanted babies ;( and this happens everyday... 365 days a year, trills

Answer 7

I'm not for abortion at all i don't believe in killing baby's (or how some people say there not baby's there just living things inside you that have 10 fingers and 10 toes but there' NOT babies). I think there should be no abortions but......there should be a limit i mean USE protection if you don't want a baby or have the male get nuetered lol. Or the woman can have her tubes tied there's another way around it besides abortions.

Answer 8

I don't think women should have abortions except in certain situations. However, any women that felt she needed to have one after already having one - should likely not be allowed to have sex again. I am against abortion as a whole, but believe that women have the right to make that decision, it is their body. Free will doesn't mean that everyone will make good decisions all the time.

Answer 9

I think there should be limits to how many abortions a women gets. I am pro-choice and all, but if you have a women coming in for more than 5 abortions something needs to be done it's plain irresponsible and can not be healthy for the women.

Answer 10

If you really want to know my thoughts, go read my previous question about aboritions. In my opinion, abortions are horrible. I think the limit should be 0, (only unless the pregnecy is life threating and an abortion NEEDS to take place)