what is your opinion about abortion?

Question

I think women should be allowed to have abortion for up to 7 weeks post fertilization, anything after this I am against as this is when nerves and brain begin to develop which will enable the fetus to think and feel pain. How do you feel?

I was just wondering what other peoples opinions were, please don't tell me what to do, I'll do whatever I want thank you.

To the person below who says the heart begins to beat 1 day after fertilization, that just...we'll, it's just not true. The blastocyst does not even implant until about 7 days after fertilization, so how could it's heart start beating?..WHAT HEART? It is a ball of cells, and once it is implanted it still has to go through gastration among other things, so no! The heart begins beating weeks after fertilization...I think it's actually something like 1 or 2 months.

To Colleen O: This is totally bogus since the fetus does have a functional nervous system and a functional brain at 7 weeks. I am also skepitcal of your assertion that "science" has indicated that there is no proof a fetus feels pain prior to the 17th week. I honestly say YES to freedom of choice, but NO to killing of something that has a brain and a nervous system. That is my cut off because that is when I consider the baby to be a life of its own (it can think therefore it is). I also do not think that just because you are carrying a life it means you OWN that life, it means you are carrying it. If I picked you up and carried you around for a few months, it wouldn't give me the right to kill you. It's people like you that lend credit to the religious fanatics. Would you abort a baby at 9 months also? Hey, why not just kill it when it comes out? Why not use a chainsaw?

To the guy who responded about the women being raped, I think she should have the ability to have an abortion, within the 7 week time frame...After this time frame, I say no. 7 weeks is more than enough time: you will have had to have missed the morning after pill, decided for almost 2 months not to do anything about it and so...tough titty, at that point you will have to have the child and give it up for adoption.

All these people are saying "it should be the womans choice" because the baby is inside her body...but well, does this philosophy mean anything that is inside your body is something you own and can do anything with? Sorry, I don't buy it...At a certain point the thing inside your body is kicking, sucking it's thumb, dreaming and thinking...It is not your property, it is a life of it's own. When it starts developing a brain, it is becoming an individual that happens to be inside your body, not a part of your body which is what it would be if it did not have a brain or an ability to think. So it's faulty logic. If I could hold you in my gut, does that mean you would be my property? Could I kill you if i wanted?...What if you could think and had feelings?...Sorry I'm not buying it.

To Melissa M: The time when the blastocyst implants is actually 7 days, not 14 days. As for 3 weeks to make the decision, I think it is long enough...If I have the option of: A) killing something that has a brain and nerves, and giving a woman a couple more weeks to think about her decision or B) Giving a woman almost a month (or two months if she knows she has been impregnated...this is not even mentioning the morning after pill) to make up her mind and having the fetus DEFINITELY feel no pain or any knowledge of life or thought...I have to say sorry, it sucks but 3 weeks is the cut off. 3 weeks is almost a month (504 hours)...that is plenty of time to come to a decision. I also do not believe choice should be taken away, just limited to a time period in which the fetus does not feel pain and has not developed enough to have anything to lose.

To Wendy G: ...It's not like once it is 100% formed a bell goes off and it can think and feel pain, it's a gradual process that BEGINS at the second month...That is why I am against abortion post 2nd month. Seriously, if something is alive and thinking (and non-brain damaged or threatening your life) and it is in your body and you have had: the ability to use condoms, the ability to use birth control, the ability to get the morning after pill, the ability to get an abortion for within 2 months of fertilization that is PLENTY of choice...If a woman is so irresponsible that she only decides only at the last minute that she doesn't want to carry the baby...I say tough titty, your irresponsibility put you and your baby in the crappy situation, you have to deal with it.

Answer 1

i don't belive in abortion for my self, but i don't decide for others. i belive life starts at well... exactly when the concieving begins. i never use birth control and never will. ever think about what the spermicide in condoms do to the sperm? killing the little ones like some sort of bacteria! my children deserve better then that. but thats only my opinion. as for legalization? abortion should be legal, if a girl wants an abortion, she'll do it if it's legal or not, (sad but true)if she has to do it with drugs or trying to drink antifreeze (also sad but true) and it doesn't work, well she'll have the baby and now the baby is screwed up, may even end up in a dumpster. also, i had my son 14 months ago, was scared, thought about it, sooo glad i had him. he's the most beautiful thing that has ever happened to me. didn't know happiness until i had him. keep in mind i was working at a convienient store prior, drinking heavily, at the skate park, tottally not ready... but he made me ready and i'm really glad he did.

Answer 2

At 7 weeks the brain BEGINS developing, but will not be fully formed for almost 20 more weeks. At 7 weeks, the fetus hasn't even learned to breath yet. (This doesn't occur until the 16th week.) Sucking it's thumb, kicking, and moving are "instinctive," reactionary movements and are not part of any "thinking" process. Don't believe me, look it up. With a brain that is only BEGINNING to form, there is no way it has the capacity to "think" or "feel." This will occur much later, around the end of the second trimester.
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Lungs that are BEGINNING to form can't facilitate breathing, kidneys that are beginning to form cannot serve as a filter, ears that are beginning to form can't yet hear, and a brain that's beginning to form CAN'T facilitate thought. I'm pregnant now, and I've been following my baby's progress very closely. I've read books and checked out websites that describe the baby's development week by week, and I know (because all of the research I've done tells me) that the baby can't yet think or feel (I'm four months along). In fact, I've just read a report that states that there is much debate over whether NEWBORNS feel any pain. And this isn't from a bunch of laymen on Yahoo answers, this is from the medical community. That is why pain medication is not administered to newborns. I'm sure that if DOCTORS can't determine whether or not a newborn feels pain, we have no way of deciding it once and for all, here. However, I would still argue that if it is shown that newborns DO feel pain, a fetus still cannot at 8 weeks old. This is a medical impossibility.

Answer 3

i agree. i think that women should be allowed to abort a child within 7 weeks of conception even if the only reason is that she doesnt want it on most occasions. however there should be a few exceptions.

one word

anencephaly

imagine having getting pregnant carrying the baby for a few \months only to learn that it has anencephaly, that is when the brain of a fetus doesnt develop. if your lucky it will abort itself and youll have a miscarriage. The only thing these babies are good for are organ donors. once its born (and that if it isnt still born) it will be blind, deaf, unconscious, and cannot feel pain. It will only last for a few hours to a few days if it manages. The only part of the brain they will have is the brain stem, and even that will cease to work after a few hours. image telling a women that is 3 months pregnant that her baby, even if it is born, will not survive for more than a week or 2 at best. Even more, that she can't have it aborted and is forced to carry this child that she knows doesnt have an ice cubes chance in hell. Either way the longer she goes the more attached to it she will become. I dont know about you but that is worse than cheating on a women.

On the other hand if it is some stupid *** 19 year old girl whose bf said hed "pull out" and shes a few months pregnant, make her carry it and put it up for adoption.

Answer 4

Let me just make this clear----I am pro choice, however 7 weeks is not long enough for a woman to consider this option fully. Let me explain. When a woman becomes pregnant, her gestational cycle actually begins on the first day of her last period, thus even though she my have gotten pregnant only two weeks ago, she is actually 4 weeks along. This would only give her an additional 3 weeks to make a decision with life long consequences. Also, at 7 weeks the fetus is so small that attempting an abortion my not complete the desired outcome, making the mother face a life with a child that would quite possibly have severe problems from the attempt. I had an abortion at 6 weeks, and had to go back later for an ultrasound to "make sure they got it all" (their words, not mine). What women need to consider is how they will feel years down the road when they have other children in their lives with the knowledge that they had an abortion also. Personally, I grieve for my child daily. It is the consequence to my actions. Roe v. Wade made abortion legal in this country. I do not believe that choice should be taken away.

Let me just say one more thing. Everyone refers to a woman losing a child before birth as a "miscarriage". Medically though it too is referred to as an abortion.

Answer 5

I would never have one... I had a friend in high school who aborted her baby at 16 weeks. A couple other friends aborted earlier than that... but honestly, i could never do it no matter how far along I was. I've been raped- and yes, I still would have had the baby if I got preggo from it. Also - I got preggo while on the Birth control pills -had been on it for 5 yrs... anyways, I had my baby who I absolutely adore :) 14 months old now :)

P.S.- along with the rape issue, I have a 14 month old baby- it's up to me whether or not I want to continue life, and live it to it's fullest- I do this because I love my son, and don't want anything to get in the way of his happiness- so I just have to get over the fact I was raped- yes when that time of year comes around- the actual day, I get a little depressed and might cry for a minute, but when I see my son, he just melts my heart he's so amazing. If my son now was my child from the rape, I'd love him with all my heart, that poor child didn't deserve a bad father, but he sure does deserve a good mother who will love him and cherish him. Everyone is different, I'd have my baby- he/she is part of my blood and hopefully I could give him/her a good life even without the awful father.

"Live, Love, Laugh"

Answer 6

Yes I agree with the 7 week thing.If a child has a heart and brain it has a soul because the senses are there.If it dies it feels pain.However for the most part I think obortion is an evil thing to do.Taking the life of a fetus just because the family have some problems.Its very wrong.Well if it was a 10 year old being pregnant then it is probably right to abort because at least 1 life will be saved.If abortion is not done then both die.

Answer 7

Inless a woman is raped, I cant see any other reason for a human to kill another human. If we have the privilege to bring a life into this world, we are blessed (I DONT MEAN BY GOD EITHER) but that doesn`t give any right over that life, these days there is so much information and access to family planning that no girl/woman should get pregnant in less they wanted to. And if you make a mistake then make a decision quick, no way should you leave it later than 4 weeks.

Answer 8

I totally agre with you. However, you have to think that thewomen got raped or somehting and doesn't want to have labor, so the baby might be born with a messed up life, and difficult. But still, I totally agree with you..

However, when looking at the other side, religious clearly states that'thou shalt not murder' and abortion is a synonim of muder, so then no exception, of the bab not being able to feel anything...

Answer 9

i know i'm going to get a lot of backlash from pro-abortionists or pro-choice people, but i think abortion is almost selfish. people see it as like a fix for your problems, instead of owning up to them. even if you are raped, which is a horrible horrible thing to have to go through, it's a child. no matter if you wanted it or not, fate or god or whoever has chosen this to happen. even if it hasn't developed brain cells and nerves yet, the plan was still for this mass of cells to become a child.

for the women who say that they can do whatever they want with their own bodies, that's crap to me. it's not your body. you are the shell that's holding this baby. you are a temporary home. the fetus and the mother are separate beings.

Answer 10

I am pro-choice

I may not agree with eqach womans reasoning to get an abortion but I defend her right to make her choice...

I do not however agree with late gestation abortions... for me 3 months gestation is the cut off... Can't really give any reasoning besides 3 months is 1/3 of the way through a pregnancy and 3 months is enough time to know you are pregnant and do something about it if you so choose...