Abortion question part 1?

Question

I am researching this topic for my own curiosity and there are many questions that I am going to inquire about. I want to hear everyone's opinion. I do have my own biases but will not name them here.
The first question has two parts.
I am asking you to forget what you currently believe about abortion and just answer the question as honestly as possible.

1. If an unborn baby is proven to be100% alive from conception, a living being, is it still okay to have an abortion?

2. If an unborn baby is proven to be 100% not alive, a lump of tissue, is it still okay to tell women they can't have an abortion?

Why or why not?...

grrr... not what u already believe!!! is it okay to take life??!!?!

sorry about that little burst... I just want to know if you think it okay to have an abortion if the baby is alive... or if it is not okay

I am just wanting to see if pro abortion people believe if abortion is wrong if the baby is alive and the basis of their opinion is based on the baby not being "alive" and vice versa for pro life people....

I'm sorry if my question was stated in a complicated way:

The fetus is not "dead" in the second question... if left untouched it would eventually develop into a baby.

I will do my best to be clearer the next time around

Answer 1

My answer is the same for both:

The problem is that abortion is an ethical question rather than a moral one, according to the law. Because a woman's right to control what happens to her body overshadows the life of a fetus (the idea being a fetus is considered a non-person until its born -- unless it's a murder victim, interestingly enough), ethically it does not matter if the fetus is a living human being or not.

That said . . . I believe a fetus is "alive" after conception, yet I also believe women should be allowed to make the choice to keep or terminate the pregnancy (so, I guess yes on 1, no on 2).

What I would like to see is the truth of the pregnancy explained. When I took a friend to a clinic when she was eleven weeks along, we were told what was growing in her was only a lump of cells. When I was pregnant two years later, I had a book which explained what the fetus was like at eleven weeks and realized she had been lied to. It is only a lump of cells just about until the point a woman can first find out she's pregnant by an early stick pregnancy test. By the time it's medically feasible to terminate a pregnancy, the embryo has already gone from cells to a dependent fetus. Heartbeat starts at Week 5 (one week after you can first take a pregnancy test).

What I want is education and a woman's right to choose based from the full knowledge of the stage of the growing fetus at the time of termination. I'm not going to make a right-wrong judgement on this because it has to do with prevailing cultural morality.

If a woman chooses to terminate a pregnancy after knowing what is happening inside her body, then I think she should be allowed to have that abortion . . . until the point the fetus is viable. At that point, medical professionals should be allowed to attempt to save the fetus medically and let the fetus be put up for adoption.

Answer 2

1. A babies heartbeat can be detected sometimes as earlier as 4 to 5 weeks (some even earlier) this means at this point they are alive. So even if the heartbeat is not strong enough before then, does that mean it is not there? No it could still very well be there, which means one of two things, it has a heartbeat or it is developing one. A flower grows, from the moment it is germinated it is considered a living thing, it is a plant at that point. So if this is true then why not at conception when the seed is planted and the two are joined together and start to grow something is it not a living thing? It works for at plant wouldn't it work for a human being too?

I don't think that if something is growing and starting to develop it is right to kill it. An abortion is stopping grow, it is as if you don't plant that seed in soil and water it, it dies.

So for the it is not living till it has a heartbeat then maybe abortions should not be allowed after three weeks. Not that they should be allowed at all.

2. It still would not be okay because even if it was just a lump of tissue it still becomes something more than that, it still would eventually urn into life.

Answer 3

I think some people who do agree with abortion do believe the baby is alive. They simply believe the women's rights come first.

1) In some cases I would say yes abortion is still ok.

2) A lump of tissue, not alive? Then it would wrong to tell a woman not to have an abortion even if it would grow into a baby. (This is a faulty line of reasoning though-- any educated individual could not claim that the fetus is simply a lump of tissue because science has already proven it is far more)

Answer 4

Are you asking about the law hear? I am to forget what I currently believe, so you want interpretation of the law?. Okay. Roe vs. Wade. That case was about a woman who wanted to legally abort a baby because the child was threatening her health. That is all. 1. If the child is 100% alive and there is no danger to mom, it is murder. 2. If the child is dead, the body will "abort" the pregnancy on it's own almost all of the time. There are a few cases when the tissue calcified and the tissue had to be removed by the hands of a doc. I have not given my personal views on this topic. In a court of law, this is how I would judge.

Answer 5

Yes, abortion is ALWAYS wrong. It doesn't matter what the reason, even if it is done to save the mother's life. God says to do what is right, even unto death. God let you get pregnant a 4th time, and He has a purpose for every person even those not yet born. The right thing to do was to have the baby and if something happened to you, then you would still be better off because you would have done right in God's eyes. An unborn child is a life at conception and ending purposely ending it prematurely IS murder, which you'd probably agree is wrong. I couldn't find Part 2 but I hope that you changed your mind, and didn't go through with the abortion. If you did, pray for forgiveness and if you don't want anymore children, then you or your husband need to take measures to ensure that doesn't happen. But if God wants you to have another child, it'll happen anyway. He tends to get his way, you know.

Answer 6

From the moment the first cell divides there is action taking place, I guess even before that, so it would be murder to abort. Part two of your question is only relevent if there is no action taking place. If the fetus has died, in that case it would not be an abortion, but rather surgery to remove the dead fetus. If there is still action taking place in the tissue, then there is still life, and thenabortion would be murder.

This is what the Bible teaches about an unborn child...
Exodus 21:22 & 23:
22 “And in case men should struggle with each other and they really hurt a pregnant woman and her children do come out but no fatal accident occurs, he is to have damages imposed upon him without fail according to what the owner of the woman may lay upon him; and he must give it through the justices. 23 But if a fatal accident should occur, then you must give soul for soul, "

So the Bible's view on abortion would be as if for murder, and that is where I developed my view.

Answer 7

abortion is never okay. Due to the simple fact you are grown up enough to have sex, well then be a responsible adult and take accountability for your actions. An unborn baby is a live human. At 10 weeks you have a heartbeat. By 20 weeks most of its organs are functional. I would say that would be living don't you think. Oh and plus it moves around kicking, and punching, twisting, and twirling tell me if it was a lump of tissue how the hell would it do that. Think of this when someone finds a lump and it turns out to be cancer, does it have a heartbeat? Does it have organs? Does it move? No therefore it is not just a lump of tissue. Abortion is murder, and murder should not be legal.

if your mother choose abortion would you be who you are today?????

Answer 8

Question 1-Yes it is okay to have an abortion...especially since u didn't specify under what circumstances. She may have been raped, a victim of incest, a 13 year old child that otherwise might hid the pregnancy from her parents and left the newborn in a dumpster after giving birth.

Question 2-No it is not okay. It is NEVER okay to tell a woman she CAN'T have an abortion. No one has the right to tell u when to get pregnant, then no one should have the right to tell u when to end a pregnancy.

Answer 9

It all depends on your own personal beliefs. The government should not get involved in something that is so personal to a woman. There are many reasons for someone to have an abortion, but they are her own personal reasons, period. A government that tries to intervene in this is wrong. We might as well be communists at that point.

Answer 10

Even if the fetus is alive, it's still okay to have an abortion if that's what the woman wishes to do. Her right to control her own body and destiny should take precedence. Otherwise women are nothing but slaves to their wombs.