How do you feel about abortion with teenagers?

Answer 1

no abortion. Do you realize that that's killing a person?

Answer 2

I think that teenage abortion should be between the parents and the teen. The teen should be given the choice of keeping the baby and should be able to live in a supportive environment during the pregnancy if she decides to keep it. Unfortunately we do not live in that Utopia, so I think that the teen should make the decision whether or not she wants to keep the baby. Take her time (not too much there are limitations on abortion), make the proper decision for her, and then let her parents know her decision. She can also let them know that she has thought it through and it would be best if she had some kind of game plan for her decision. Usually if a decision is well thought out a parent will respect it. Of course it is an emotional thing, so expect some flying off the wall initially. After they've had a couple of days to get used to it and think about it, then talk to them again. It is a tough thing and no one can judge another person because they don't know what they would do in the same situation. There are plenty of times when I've said i wouldn't do what another has and then i'm put in a situation where I have to do just that. I do not think abortion is wrong because there are so many unwanted babies out there, there is no need to bring more into this world. My personal decision is that it's not ok for me, but I can't say that for anyone else. As for adoption, I had a friend who gave her baby up for adoption at 15 and has spent the last 15 years doing everything she can to get the baby back. She has taken less pay at worse jobs than she could have, she hasn't been able to form a meaningful relationship with a man since and I always feel so bad for her. She cries every day and says she wishes she had an abortion so she wouldn't go through this. Sometimes it is harder to know your child is out there being raised by someone else than knowing you got an abortion because you couldn't handle the baby. Good Luck

Answer 3

Teenagers deserve to have a chance in life to make something out of their life. I understand the enbarrassment to parent to have a teenager pregnant. It puts to parents to shame. I do however believe that teenagers should hide the pregnancy, wear bigger clothing, deny that they are pregnant if asked by someone and give birth to the baby and drop it off at a hospital, police station,or firestation. Also in the end of the pregnancy confide in someone to help with the delivery. That way the teenage mother does not get put to shame, the child gets to live a wonderful life with parents who pay good money to have a child that they came not have, and the mother later in life does not feel like she did anything wrong she gave the child that best life the child could have. Abortion is alright for children who have bad genes or rape victims. I myself don't totally agree on abortion and no abortion. I however encourage teenage mother to strongly consister giving the baby up for adoption. You made the mistake take responsibly for your actions.

Answer 4

I think it should totally be up to the teenager whether to get an abortion or not. If you were 14 and raped, how would you feel if you had to raise some kid whose father is somone you would love to kill. And if you were 13 and made some bad choices, and really weren't ready for it. Abortion should be entirely up to the teen, not the government or some bible freak. And if god is supposed to forgive all sins, how can abortion be a sin? Personally, I think all you people who quote the bible i.e. "Oh, abortion is wrong cuz god says it is" need to get your own opinion about stuff.

Answer 5

I don't agree with abortion for anyone, teenager or adult. If you've made the decision to have sex then you have to live with the consequences that can come with it. If you don't want to have a baby, fine, but give it up for adoption. There are thousands of mature, stable couples that would love to have a baby to share their life with. Abortion is selfish!

Answer 6

I used to be pro-choice...until I went to google images and looked up abortion! Don't do it, you WILL regret it, even if it is 10 years later. My parents made me have an abortion at 15. I didn't think I was as hurt as I was about the situation until I just had my first baby this past August. All of a sudden I learned I do have feelings about my first pregnancy and I feel more for that baby than I ever could have imagined. Please choose life, when you hold your baby in your arms, you won't regret it.

Answer 7

I used to be pro-life until I was thrown into a horrible situation. My boyfriend and I had been together for four years before we had sex, and we used two kinds of protection, (i was on the pill and we used a condom). He lived in a different state, came up for holidays. When he went back home, we broke up shortly after, and I found out I was pregnant. I remember calling him, and I hung up, as past conversations flooded my mind.

He hated kids.

I took two weeks to think about it, and when I got to the clinic, I was still thinking about it. I almost got up and left, right after I put on the gown. My sister called me a slut. My best friend wasn't speaking to me. I closed my eyes and went through it.

I didn't have the money to afford the proper care I owuld need during the full pregnancy, and I knew that I could never give up my child for adoption (my mother couldn't have helped me out much either, she was going thorugh a divorce). I wouldn't have been a very good parent, either, and I feel, that having though about it as I did, doing research, etc, I made the right choice.

When I have a child, and I do want to, more than anything, I want to be able to provide that child with two parents, and a mother who is whole, and able to devote herself to that childs care.

I couldn't have done that.

So, in my opinion, it's ok...no, I'm not proud of myself, some days all I do is cry, and yes, I think that using abortion as birth control is sickening, but it's needed. It's so desperately needed.

Answer 8

Personally I would not want to have an abortion with a teenager present. The best place for them would be waiting in the waiting room or even yet -- at home. If you have to bring your teenager with you, then leave them a few good magazines in the waiting room for them to peruse. Don't make them go through a traumatic experience with you in the procedure room.

Answer 9

abortion is murder, no matter if it is a teenager or an adult. Taking a life is murder, period. When a "fetus" (I HATE that word) is created it is a BABY. When you abort a baby, you take away the life that child would have had. In legal definition when you take a life by whatever means it is murder.

Answer 10

I feel that you are killing a person when you do that. Adoption is an option. The only case I feel that it is ok to is if the woman was really young, got raped and pregnant I think that would be ok since in the end saving one life is better then losing two. And a lot of people will say what about the mother's right but really the baby has rights too.

Answer 11

I really do think that teenagers do not have the maturity level to raise a baby on their own that is why they need mommy to help them out.

I think abortion is fine for a young girl to have if she wants it.
Abortion is every girl/womans right