Abortion limits?

Question

I have been doing some research into abortion for my university degree and the legal limit to abort is 24 weeks. What are peoples views on this given that it is a fully formed baby.

Answer 1

disgusting,people shouldnt have unprotected sex if they arent prepared to deal with the consequences.i saw my fully formed babies on screen at 20wks.its murder.many people told me to abort my daughter when i found out that i was pregnant at 15,even at that age,i knew i couldnt kill an innocent baby.she is now 11 and the most precious thing in my life(her and her sister and 2 brothers).

Answer 2

I think that it is absolutely disgusting. In Australia abortion can occur at 30 weeks - my son was born premature and he was 31 weeks would you believe it and he is now a healthy boy of 6.

If you are going to have an abortion have it before 12 weeks. The brain has not formed. I think that we are so frightened of feminist issues we cant see what we are doing is evil. I am not a right to lifer I believe there is a place for abortion but if you have carried to 24 weeks or 30 weeks have the baby and adopt it out to some one who wants a child. If you are going to carry the foetus for that long have the baby. I am sorry but it quite upsets me what governments do when they pass these laws. And the laws in some countries mean that there is no specialist counselling and in some cases the cousellor bat these clinics is not even qualified. And can you imagine how the male partner feels - his girlfriend is going to keep it and next thing she decides to kill it - you are right its a fully formed baby with a operating brain. Absolutely diabolical. in Australia we have whats called partial birth abortion - its too grusome to explain here and this procedure is used for a variety of reason including gender - so you carry a child for 30 weeks find out its a girl and kill it and this is ok by the feminists? This procedure is condoned? As far as I am concerned if you carry to 30 weeks you have the baby and adopt it out. Shame on anyone who would do such an evil thing. Shame. Also the fundalmentalist right to lifers stand outside abortion clinics with oversized fotuses screaming abuse at poor confused frighten and hormonal women - it that behaviour productive? Does any woman thinking abortion suddenly go thanks for abusing me and spitting on me - you have convinced me not to thanks!!!! At a time when a woman is most vulnerable thre appears chaos. Also these clinics dont talk with a woman about a decision and give her a cooling off period - no its a 5 minute chat often after she has paid and in a gown and then off for the "Procedure". You get more of a cooling off period buying a car. The whole abortion process is so poorly organstrated and there are so many women who are suicidal and have diagnosed Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and not to mention family disgharmony and male partners grieviong and still the government policies reflect some of the most grusome processes and they endorse them. and the feminists stand there talking about a foetus like its a cancerous growth and not a potential human being and talk about the right to terminate. Its a womans right to an informed decision and many women having abortions are not told all the facts.

Answer 3

i can't understand why it is so late considering that a 24 week old foetus can survive. from what i remember on abortion laws if there was some reason that 2 gp's agreed then an abortion can be done later but only in exceptional circumstances.

personally i think that abortion should only be allowed if continuing the pregnancy posed a serious threat to the mothers life, otherwise if the child is really not wanted then it should be put up for adoption. i'm not religious at all but life is still life...

Answer 4

I think it's wrong to get an abortion at any stage of pregnancy. I believe that there is a baby the moment of conception. I know that they say that the baby is not fully formed until 6 months, but they have been studies shown that there are brain activies far early then that. I just say stay away from abortion all together.

Answer 5

Hmmm, this is a tough question. People chose to have an abortion for many different reasons, whilst some may be justified and some may not, people still have to be allowed to make that choise. I think the majority of women who chose to abort do so quite early on in the pregnancy. They usually know from the outset whether or not they want or are ready for a baby.
I think a lot of the late terminations are usually at the recommendation of medical staff, usually because of evidence of serious birth defects, or babies that are going to be born with little or no quality of life.
I think that is what i disagree with. If a woman has carried a child for 20 odd weeks and then a doctor suddenly advises them to abort it on health grounds. How many women are confident to go against a doctors advise? This happened to a friend of mine, she was told she was going to have a child with severe spina bifida, she ignored the doctor and went ahead with the pregnancy. When her son was born, he had a nothing more serious than hydrocephalis.
In conclusion, if a woman choses to abort, it is her right and i think she should be supported in that, but i don't think they should be encouraged by medical staff to do so.

Answer 6

i imagine so you might purely be able too abort contained in the first trimester (12 - 14 weeks on the most). There after the child is now slightly one and no longer a fetus. for sure medical motives aside yet 6 months is a procedures too previous due for an abortion. many little ones can absolutely proceed to exist outdoors the womb in some weeks time so why no longer wait and then positioned the child up for adoption?

Answer 7

i don't agree with abortions. some of my friends have had abortions, i keep my opinions to myself, everyone's situation is different, to me it is still killing a child, i can understand why people have them if the baby is disabled, but i still don't agree.
If girls have them as the pregnancy was a accident, well i do get upset as contraception is free in the UK why not use it!
there was something in the paper not long ago where a woman gave birth at 23 or 24 weeks and the child survived, so to me as soon as a child is conceived it is a baby, a human being who should have the right to live like you or i.
like i said, every woman's different and their reasons are personal ones which I'm sure wasn't easy to decide on a abortion but i could never do it.

Answer 8

hi im inclined to think its wrong but i am biased as ive got 2 kid and had 3 misscarages. at 15 wks with my second child i thoought i was having a misscarage but he was the waving on the scan i had , he was a little person then so at 24 wks its questionable.although there is no right or wrong its entireley down to the mother at the end of the day and in some situations probably the best outcome for both the mother and the unborn.

Answer 9

Yes penpallermel, the foetus may be formed at 24 weeks but needs another 16 weeks to mature in the uterus. Anything else before is premature.

If anything the limits should be extended.

Answer 10

The key to your question is "it is a fully formed baby". Scott Peterson found out that it was double murder (to kill a baby in the womb) Babies can survive in extreme cases of prematurity and have been known to survive abortions and defy the odds of birth defects predicted by doctors. God is able to do all things so why do we "play God" with life instead of trusting in Him??