Reasons why abortion should be legalized?

Question

Good facts about legalizing abortion. godd reasons why abortion shoould be legalized. its for a debate in class.

Answer 1

Before all you people start flaming me for my answer, know that I am a religious person and personally opposed to abortion, but I am open-minded enough to accept that not everyone shares my viewpoint. Personally, I think once you're pregnant the choice is made for you. Don't want to get pregnant? Keep your clothes on!

If you make abortion illegal for the woman who uses it as birth control, you make it illegal for the teenager who is carrying her father's baby due to incest. You make it illegal for the woman who is having an ectopic pregnancy and will die if she doesn't have that pregnancy aborted.

I also agree that it's better to offer women a clean, sterile environment so she doesn't have it done by some Dr. Nick-like quack in the back of an alley. Just b/c a woman makes a poor choice doesn't mean she deserves to die (a total possibility when abortions are done in a non-sterile environment)!

Lastly, because we have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Just b/c one woman's decision doesn't line up w/ the ideas of the religious right doesn't mean we should impose a religious standpoint on EVERYONE.

Answer 2

This answer is to Kalla:

I do not contest the awful circumstances which led to your abortion, but I would like to correct a couple of your points if I may.

It has been medically proven that the embryo can feel pain at 8 weeks. This is why a numbing agent or pain killer is administered to the embryo at some (but shockingly, not all) abortions. Aborted embryos and fetuses do feel the tearing and cutting of the procedure. Proof: http://www.abortionfacts.com/online_books/love_them_both/why_cant_we_love_them_both_14.asp

I also take exception to your statement that an unborn child is not a 'person' until birth. At what chronological point are you calling a birth viable and the fetus therefore a person? Full term? If that's the case, my son was born at 33 weeks. That's nearly two months preterm. I diapered him, breastfed him and bathed him. He was and is now, in all aspects, a human child, a PERSON. He had all the same physical attributes of any full term baby, he was just a little small. There are many babies born even earlier than my son, and they go on to be: not animals, not plants, but PEOPLE.

I agree that there are some instances that I think would be horrible enough to warrant an abortion: being pregnant with your father's or brother's child comes to mind.
I feel, however, that while you're bashing the anti-abortionists for being radicals and fanatics, you should take a look at yourself.
Nobody is ever going to win this debate by being angry and defensive....and the unborn always lose.

Answer 3

Abortion is legal.

The best thing I can give you is this: there are no facts. With no facts supporting when life begins--at birth or conception--there is no point to creating a ban. If a fact was formed that life begins at conception (the moment the sperm meets the egg) obviously abortion would be murder. If a fact was formed that life begins at birth then abortion would not be considered murder. Until we have a FACT about when life begins we cannot get the information needed to created a well-rounded law.

Right now the pro-life (anti-abortion) debate is based on beliefs, hypothesizes, morals, and theories. In a country where not everyone shares the same beliefs--we should not have a law formed solely upon a belief only half of the country has.

The question is can we base a law or ban on abortion when there are no facts to support when life begins? I really don't think so.

Answer 4

Best and most important reason - regulation of the process. When it was illegal, abortions were done without monitoring the pregnancy, with unclean instruments almost gauranteeing infection, no followup medical care, and sometimes done by people who were not even doctors, causing permanent damage to the uterus and vagina.

Today, an abortion is fully monitored - the mother is counseled before and after, an untrasound is done to pinpoint the fetus for the doctor to make the process easiest and much less invasive, follow up medical care is provided, sterile environment and the the practiotioners are isensed professionals concerned with giving proper care rather than gaining a fast buck.

Some sites to help you gather info.

Answer 5

As someone who has been there and done that, I will only say that for many, it is a debate regarding the right to bodily integrity. For others it is religion. For others, moral circumstances.

Personally, anyone who tells someone else what to do with a body that is not theirs should mind their own dang business. If I wanted to cut off my arm, are you going to stop me? Likely not. You wouldn't care. The moment that I'm pregnant? Then you wage war against me.

I don't care for what reasons others have them. Mine was a rape at 18 years of age. It was the best choice for me. I don't regret having it done.

For others? It's none of my business why.

I also think it is much better than putting another child in the adoption system.

How many of you are aware that there are more than fifty thousand children waiting for adoption in the USA? How many of you anti-abortionists out there are willing to adopt one of the non-white special needs non-infants?

Think on this - many people morally say that "murdering" an innocent child is wrong. Well, yes.. murdering (conscious, malicsious intented killing of a person) is rather illegal and quite wrong. However, an unborn foetus is not a person, and up through the first and part of the second trimester, it is not developed enough to a: feel pain, b: register awareness, c: have a consciousness d: have any knowledge it exists. ... There is no "child" involved in an abortion - only an embryo, zygote or foetus. A child has been born, and is past the age of 1. Else it is an "infant".
Please first get your terminology correct.
Anyway - these anti-abortionists harp on anyone getting an abortion... however - where are they once that fetus is born, thus creating the infant? Gone. They don't care about that fetus now. It's born. It's a life. It will go into poverty, to unwilling parents, to an orphanage, to foster care, to wherever. Does it matter to them anymore? No, so long as that fetus is born.

Abortion is a responsible and difficult decision. Those of you who think it comes easily better think again, until you come face to face with a situation where it becomes one of few options.

I could go on about this for hours; I am part of the Gaia Community, and have been in and out of the Abortion Debate for the past few years. I have seen reasons come up. I have seen proof, having nothing to do with religion, on reasons women have for getting abortions.

I have yet to get an answer to ONE question, however - "Why is it any of your business what I do with my life, and my body?"

For this reason alone, I think that the reason it should remain legal is so that the decision remains between the woman, the father in MOST cases(other than rape, inscest, cases where the father has deserted, etc.) and her doctors. They are the only ones who should be dealing with it. Not the rest of the world.

The link provided has over 3 thousand pages of discussion, debate, and information on the topic.

Answer 6

Abortion IS legal but...

Its a fetus not a child
The mother has more rights then a fetus
Its a womens body
Its a womens choice

Answer 7

Medical abortions for the sake of saving the mother are leagal. IN just about every part of the country abortions up to a certain gestational age are legal already.

I think thats more than enough legalization of abortion.

I honestly cant think of a reason why it should be legal in the first place.

Answer 8

It's legal. Just because it's legal doesn't make it right though. The tramps need to keep their legs shut or get on birth control- abortion shouldn't be a birth control method.

Answer 9

i think there are exceptions to every rule/law. I do not agree with abortion in the least but there are times when that is the best option. Such as incest, rape, when it will endanger the mother and/or the baby's life and such things aong those same lines.

Answer 10

To show that we as a society should give up on personal responsibilty. It would also provide proof that we've given up hope on most people having enough brains to know how things happen.