How can it be? I don't understand how some people want equality for everyone, yet when it comes to fetuses they are "not legally a child" and people could care less, just so they can have their night of care free sex and continue on without a child...that's like picking and choosing what you want; you want the enjoyable stuff but you dont want any of the results or consequences that follow...I also believe that feminists who are pro-choice are just degrading themselves even more.THERE IS NO RESPECT IN ABORTION AND KILLING A LIFE!...Can you justify abortion? if so, say why, if not, say why! thanks!
2006-12-10 06:55:38 · 18 answers · asked by Chriss 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
in my mind, i can't justify abortion, even in cases where rape or incest has taken place. every fetus is a life; it deserves the right to live. there are thousands and thousands of men and women who would eagerly adopt these children if they were given a chance to live, be born, placed for adoption, and be adopted.
many women have the lackadaisical attitude that "it's my body, i 'll do what i want with it." Christ has directed us, "suffer the little children to come unto Me." what more proof is needed that life is precious and should not be destroyed.
2006-12-10 09:29:37 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 4⤋
First off I can see your point do not judge me for mine. A embryo does not become a fetus until it becomes viable which is at 24 weeks gestation {though fully physically formed, but vital organs are not, around 20-21 weeks but can NOT live outside the human body}. A 24 week old fetus if born during the week it is medically considered viable would most likely have profound life long problems IF it survived. How do you justify that? I think if a person is old enough to have sex they are old enough to make a choice which regardless of if you want to admit it or not is a hard one for any woman that has done this. You are not killing a life if it is done before the viable period because until it can live outside of your body you can not be "killing". I surely wouldn't want to come into this world knowing I wasn't wanted!
Furthermore for those of you saying that you are "against" abortion unless its because of rape. Wake up abortion is abortion if your against it then you can not justify your answer by saying "unless its because of rape" because you cant say one minute "its murder its killing an innocent baby" because that "baby" is just as innocent regardless of if its due to rape or not!
2006-12-10 15:02:10 · answer #2 · answered by texas_angel_wattitude 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
The decision about abortion is a very personal one, and it is going to be justified by that individual, based totally on what she happens to believe. That particular person will have her (or his) personal opinion, just as you very clearly have yours. I can't make a blanket opinion about whether abortion is justified because I would only be speaking for my own belief, and it would be impossible to explain why I think the way I do, because it would take too long to express it. If I agreed with YOU, it still would not answer the question, and if I disagreed with you, it would do nothing to change your personal view.
2006-12-10 15:04:59 · answer #3 · answered by sharmel 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Can you answer these questions for me, then?
1. What would you recommend the sentencing be for a woman convicted of getting an abortion? Would you allow for mitigating circumstances? Do women who abort during their first trimester get a more lenient sentence than those who abort in the second? Would you give a medical excuse to women who were aborting pregnancies that would have killed them had they carried them to term? Or would any of these cheapen the claim that aborting an unformed fetus is exactly the same thing as killing a human being?
2. How would you recommend prosecuting such a case? How could you reasonably prove that a woman had received an abortion? If the practice is banned, it would be much harder to track; such things wouldn't show on one's medical records. Would you recommend that women who miscarry be forced to report it to the police? Would they have to surrender the body of their miscarried child to a medical exam in order to prove that it hadn't been aborted? What if the miscarriage happened so early in the pregnancy that the fetus was nothing more than a clump of cells?
3. Why do you think it is that in every single anti-abortion law that has ever been passed, the woman is never charged with murder--it is only ever the doctor who performs the abortion?
4. If abortion were banned, do you think that the government should compensate the families of women who died trying to give birth, in spite of having life-threatening circumstances? Should the government also compensate women whose bodies are destroyed by childbirth, but who survive? To guarantee a safe birth, should the government pay for pre-natal vitamins, doctor care, medical leave from work, hospital bills, treatment for post-partum depression, and child-care? Should the government also provide every pregnant woman with a bodyguard, to prevent her from doing something that might hurt the baby (drink alcohol, smoke, eat salmon, own a cat), or to protect her from circumstances that might hurt the baby (tripping, being run into, being smoked around)? Where do you think the money for such programs will come from?
5. Since a woman can abort a pregnancy by taking a large quantity of birth-control pills, would you recommend banning the Pill along with abortion?
6. Should we ban wire coat-hangers, and other instruments that can be used to abort a child--since we're getting rid of the Pill in this scenario?
7. If a woman gives birth to a child that has a genetic disorder, should the government pay for that child's health-care for the rest of its life? Should she and her parents be charged with neglect for not giving birth to a baby that was at its healthiest? Or does quantity matter over quality?
8. What treatments would you recommend for women who take the Pill for menstrual cramps so painful that, were you to feel them, you would die of the pain?
9. In cases where the woman passes on a deadly disease to their child in utero--like AIDS--would you prosecute the mother for murder? Is she allowed to recover from the trauma of the birth first, or would you just drag her off the birthing-table, as it would then be considered a crime scene?
2006-12-10 14:58:33 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
Yes. Although a fetus is obviously a human being from conception on, that cannot give it unlimited rights as against those of the mother, who will have to ingest an additional 50,000 calories to bring it to term as well as being responsible for the child for years afterward. A compromise is necessary, and that laid down in Roe v. Wade was reasonable at the time -- and still is.
2006-12-10 15:00:32 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
What if the mother was raped and does not want to carry the baby to full term, ruin her body, and have constant pain and turmoil over not only carrying the rapists child but additional turmoil when she has to give it up for adoption?
What about incest? Should a young girl have to carry her father or brothers baby to full term and undergo extreme emotional distress? Does this not ruin HER life??
Pro-lifers- What do you do to care for the thousands of children born into extreme poverty each year? Do you feed, clothe and protect them from harm? Do you pay their medical bills? What about the kids who are born to very poor families and the child will grow up in extreme poverty with no future?
Pro-lifers only care about life up until birth...what about after birth? What about the thousands of unwanted, neglected, hungry, abused,sick children that would have been better off to have never been born into such horrible conditions? They ARE legally a child. Do you care about them?
2006-12-10 14:58:22 · answer #6 · answered by Troy 2 · 4⤊ 0⤋
What a complex question, and the problem is, every one will have a different opinion. That is why it is called a choice. I could NEVER choose to abort a child, I have 3 children and they are precious, but what about a rape victim or a drug addict? I don't know that is not MY choice.
2006-12-10 14:58:43 · answer #7 · answered by meow 2 · 6⤊ 0⤋
Well first I would like to say how easy it is for others to judge, get over yourself. It seems you are a guy so what in the hell would you know about what a woman goes through when she finds out she is pregnant! People need to stop handing out opinions on things they never went through, or in your case will never go through.
that said, I would not get a abortion but I will stand up for others to keep the rights to their bodies.
2006-12-10 15:00:09 · answer #8 · answered by Shadow Kat 6 · 5⤊ 0⤋
I agree. Women are supposed to have a "right to a choice," but what about the rights of that helpless, dependent child? Just because women don't want to take responsibility for their actions doesn't mean that the innocent baby should lose it's life. Abortion is murder.
2006-12-10 14:59:20 · answer #9 · answered by Sparkles 2 · 1⤊ 3⤋
It's apparent that there is nothing I can say that you would consider justified. And fine, if you think it's the same as a child, just fine. I'd like to see you try and feed an embryo a bottle and put a diaper on it.
2006-12-10 14:58:39 · answer #10 · answered by i luv teh fishes 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋