Are you people serious?

Question

I will get bashed for this but I can not sit and read this without responding.

Do people really think:

A human fetus is only alive when it breathes? If that is your opinion on why abortion is ok then two days before delivering a child, using this logic, you should be allowed to abort b/c you lost your job and now can not afford formula. Are you kidding?

A human fetus has no memory, like when you are one and two so you do not know you are being aborted? Lets kill one and two year old then when they aren't wanted anymore. When a fetus is aborted by Salin injection they move AWAY from it as they are burned to death! Are you for real?

Its not killing a human being until it no longer is attached to a mother? Why because it is dependent on the mother for food, nourishment and life? So is true when you are born. If you have a child in the hospital, woods or anywhere and leave it there it will die without someone taking care of it. The mother is still the lifeline.

I know you all will come crawling out of the woodworks on this one, but oh my God, is all I can say.

What about babies being born at 5 months gestation?

Not alive? Don't have a soul? When does life begin?

I have a tough time with this one. Please explain instead of being nasty. Explain your stance!!!!!!

Religion isn't even an issue here . . . .this is alive or not alive!!

first I am commenting on real answers in here. second I understand third term abortions are illegal, the question is people really think this? third I am not ranting I was going off of a previous question I did not include . . . .

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Amf7TwrJ3byVd2eQEsB0genzy6IX?qid=20070106191927AAsmbNB

I am a woman by the way

Answer 1

In the 1980's I worked for the Department of Corrections and happened to be looking in some law books. The books hadn't been changed or updated and still read that :
Abortion is Manslaughter a Felony.
I wish it were still true. Many infants have gone back to God without even a funeral. No one to mourn for them. No little cross. No cemetary. No notice in the paper that they died. They were never allowed to live. These are God's children. No matter how the laws of the land change I still call it murder and I mourn for these little ones.

Answer 2

I disagree. This has nothing to do with "alive or not alive." A single zygote (the first cell that grows into the fetus) is technically "alive." The question is about RIGHTS, specifically the right of the fetus to live at all vs. the right of the mother to live how she wants to. So really, it's a question of "at what point does a fetus have the right to live?" We can't ask the fetus, and the fetus can't defend this right, so it really gets very tricky. In my personal opinion (which, of course, means nothing to anyone else), abortion should be legal, as long as it's done early enough that the fetus has not yet developed a nervous system. That seems to be the only humane way to do it, since it makes no sense to outlaw abortion (sometimes, it's the best decision for the pregnant woman to have an abortion, like when childbirth might kill her, or if she's still in high school, perhaps).

Answer 3

Abortion is not legal for the most part after the second trimester and more than 90% are carried out in the first, so almost your whole rant is a straw man.

And up to two thirds of fetuses spontaneously abort, the bigest abortionist by far is either mother nature or god, take your pick.

Edit:

And I can see little to get worked up about on that thread either. Where does life begin is a good question, I say when a baby is viable, as stated above most conceptions end in abortion thats just the way nature is, if you think life begins at conception then if god exists god is the one doing most of the aborting.

Answer 4

The National Geographic channel is going to be airing a show tomorrow called "multiples." I have seen previews. It allows you to witness by camera first hand the experience of the babies inside the womb. I was mortified as I'm sure many people that think abortion is o.k. will be as well. These "multiples" meaning twins, triplets, etc. in the womb are actually holding hands, kicking each other, fighting, playing, opening their eyes. I can't wait to see at how many weeks they put the camera's in there. If these babies are in the first trimester then people have a lot of praying for forgiveness because I would have never begun to imagine that the babies are already living in the womb. They are just not yet ready to come out. I guess it would be like grabbing a nest and smashing the Bird's Babies. Did you kill the babies or the eggs? In actuality you killed the babies. I don't want to go on a rampage but this show has me second guessing my beliefs on the whole thing. We shall see tomorrow.

Answer 5

Um, you're being pretty nasty yourself.

If you had paid attention in history class, you'll know that infanticide was very common in eastern countries (male favoritism, anyone?) and even countries such as Ireland during periods of famine. (See Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal.") Many Americans are not in these exact dire times today, but you still utterly fail to take into account the child's quality of life. And I cannot make sense of your sentence on "saline injection." And you still refuse to address how you personally might have "thought" as a fetus - if you had never been born into your family with your family's particular religion, or never known your church or god, would you think the same way, if you could think (which of course you couldn't)? And you still refuse to address other arguments: this fetus doesn't have a voice. This fetus hasn't learned _language_. This fetus is equivalent to a vegetable hooked up to a feeding tube. This fetus would laugh at you for thinking you know the ways of the world.

For every little American fetus you're blowing a gasket about "saving," there are 10 _live, whole, comprehending_ African and Asian children starving to death, being beaten and otherwise abused, missing out on all education and opportunity, and/or prostituting themselves at age 10 to help feed their five younger siblings. Now who's the shallow one.

And in case you hadn't already noticed, late-term abortion is illegal. I'll thank the group of wonderful _men_ who wrote the law and signed the bill for knowing so much about childbirth and child-rearing and knowing what's best for us poor silly women.

P.S. Perhaps you haven't known very many abused or unwanted children in your life. I have. You should ask them if they had ever wanted to be born. It's incredibly sad to force a child to be had into its parents' world of violence and neglect. No one asks to be born.

Answer 6

I am totally against abortion, people who thenk its ok are nuts It is murder pure and simplw there just is no other way to put it! A human fetus is human, it is not a fish or a cat or a alien it comes from a human so from the time of conception it is a human, I just wonder how many people on here would think it is not ok to kill an animal, but would have an abortion.

Answer 7

Abortion is a subject that shouldn't be decided by church or government, it is a decision that only a mother should make and then face the consequences. Honestly, the only reason that I am pro choice is the fact that there are women whom if they couldn't get an abortion they would still find a way to kill their child, perhaps a clothes hanger?

Answer 8

I think a flobby pseudo-baby is worth less than a developing child. Seeing as most of what it does is instinct and it only is alive at the most basic level. Heck, a beetle will move away from something that hurts it. And a fetus is about as smart as a beetle. Yeah, and leeches also attach to you. I am not saying fetuses are a burden, I am saying it is stupid to compare them to an actual human when they have the intellectual capacity of an insect.

Plus God is alright with abortion, seeing as He does it all the time.

Answer 9

I don't dispute any of your points. I also don't think that abortion is justified as merely a form of birth control.

Still..........

I don't think that my morals are the ultimate authority for others. I don't think that I have the right to impose my own religious or personal morals on other people, especially when they impact what is going on in another's body.

Because of that, I'm pro-choice. Note that this doesn't mean I'm pro-abortion, but I am against laws prohibiting it on religious or popular grounds.

If you wish to reduce abortion rates, teach your children. Teach them to not have sex without protection or outside of marriage.

I don't want to see women forced to carry children of incest or rape. I don't want to see women forced to carry a baby when their health or life is at risk. Many anti-abortion folk would ban abortion outright.

Wise women (witches) know which herbs will act to terminate a pregnancy. They will rise up in the event that laws are passed, but this method is not as reliable, and without proper care can be dangerous (especially if the pregnancy is further along). In the end, laws against abortion will result in some deaths.

Answer 10

You are getting bashed because you are not using logical arguments. This is a straw man argument.

Here is a bigger question for you to ponder. What is the difference between an abortion and a miscarriage? Why aren't the outcomes considered the same?

Answer 11

Then let's change the way we determine age. 1 year old should be 12 months after conception and thus a lot of 20 year old should be allowed to drink and a lot of 17 year old should be allowed to drive and sign contracts.

You can't have it both ways. You're either born when concecived or born when you breath air and come out into the open.

Pick one, then let's grandfather in everyone and up their ages by 9 months.

To do otherwise is to established a double standard.

I'm very much favorable to this, as it would bring to light all the "christians" who make babies before they get married. They would have to fess up to the age requirements.