opinions on abortion?

Question

this is for a paper and i would like to know your opions

Answer 1

I think it is wrong, I think by legalizing abortion we have created yet another "get out of jail free card" for people not not have to exude personal responsibility and not have to face any consequences for their actions.

Answer 2

This is an answer I gave to another person who asked this question:

I full support abortion, primarily because I don't think that the issue is about whether or not a fetus should be killed. I think the issue is much deeper than that and discusses the power of woman in society. The usage of abortion also affects the world in a much more dynamic view than many realize, and I touch upon that below.

Abortion is a huge issue as it reflects the struggle of the woman to be equal to the man in society. In a man's world, the woman is born to bare children, maintain a household, and provide him stability and pleasure. However, a woman is much more than that. A woman is person whose abilities are equal or greater to that of a man, and thus should not have to abide by the rules and regulations of a male-dominated government. A woman who was raped and molested should not have to deal with an impregnation if she is not capable of supporting a child. A woman who had sex out of wedlock and can't afford to take care of a child, then it is her civic duty to have an abortion. If a child is not properly raised and taught morally and ethically, the greater risk that that child will develop illegal habits, such as robbery and drug-abuse, and inflict upon society (Freakonomics). It is not fair to the society as a whole, as well as the woman, if a man decides that abortion should be illegal. We aren't killing babies, we are killing embryos, which have yet to enter the world as babies.

In addition, in the chance that the embryo contains the genetic information for a fatal or life-altering genetic disease, and the parents cannot or do not have the proper resources to nurture the child, if born, with this disease, the parents should have the right to abort the embryo. Again, a man can walk out on a woman and her child, thus a woman should have the same freedom if it is direly necessary.

Answer 3

Abortion is not a new thing at all! It is something that has been done for years whether it was legal, illegal, or there was no set rule for it at all. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_abortion

Personally, I feel that abortions are something that aren't needed so much as they are something that should be allowed for personal decision. With the amount of abused and neglected children, not to mention the thousands waiting to be adopted, the people that don't want children shouldn't have them.

If you don't want the child to begin with, you aren't going to be treating the child the way a child should be treated. The last thing America needs is more people that came from a bad home! Can you imagine what would go through a child's mind if mommy said "I never wanted you anyway"? http://www.childwelfare.gov/pubs/usermanuals/treatmen/treatmen.pdf

If a person isn't in the position to be taking care of themself, let alone another life, do you really think it's the best thing for her or the child to continue through with the pregnancy? That would be another person on Assistance. Would you want MORE money taken out of your paycheck every week to support someone else's kid that they didn't even want to begin with?

What will happen to the rape victims who become pregnant? Do you really feel that they want to carry thier attacker's child?

What about the addicted mothers? Do you really think it's fair to the child to be born addicted? http://www.crack-babies.org/intro1.html

What if the parent was HIV positive and the doctors knew the child would be born positive as well? Should that child have to live with that kind punishment?

With all that said, don't listen to the propaganda that people tell you about chemical burning babies or snapping babies' necks; theses things DON'T happen in places like America. They might still happen in 3rd world countries but not in progressed nations. The people that use these methods as their excuse to make abortions illegal should realize that they're in fact pushing for BETTER abortion laws not pro-life issues.

Some people shouldn't have children and some people aren't ready to. It's better to end one life before it starts than ruin mulitple lives in the process. It's difficult decision for anyone to make and to make it harder on someone else by protesting clinic with dead babies on your signs won't make the person join your cause!

Answer 4

I personally don't agree with it. Adoption is a better alternative. There are several people out there who would love to raise a baby that they can't conceive on their own. I think the laws should be more relaxed and we should make it easy for the expectant mothers to make the choice of giving the baby up for adoption. I can see how external forces can make it difficult for the expectant mother to make an informed decision on wheter or not to terminate the pregnancy. But the unborn child should be given a chance on life.

Answer 5

When I was younger and stupider and my girlfriend tried telling me she was pregnant (I'm gay, we never had intercourse, but you never know), I was prepared to pay for her to have an abortion. But now that I'm older (and a tad wiser), I think abortion is wrong under most circumstances. But I also think it's wrong for someone other than the mother to make that decision, especially people who have no stake in the matter: men (other than the father), politicians, in-your-face religious zealots, etc. For Planned Parenthood to blow off abortion as a simple surgical procedure with no consequence is something I hope they all burn in Hell for, and not for religious reasons. The bottom line is that pregnancy is forever: you either become a parent or you become the parent of a child who has died. What choice can you live with?

Answer 6

I think if you don't believe in abortion, you shouldn't have one.

There is a reason that most abortion laws stipulate a number of weeks into the pregnancy: up to a certain point, the fetus cannot survive outside the woman's body. In my opinion, until it CAN, it is not a baby... it is a potential baby.

For those of you who think life begins at conception, why stop there in your quest to re-write the law? Why aren't you trying to make it against the law for men to masturbate to orgasm and women to menstruate? Sperm and eggs are all potential babies too, right? All those eggs and sperm, killed needlessly by their owners. Oh, the potential humanity!

Additionally, pro-life people, you do realize that making abortion illegal will NOT stop people from having abortions, right? It will just drive the women back underground to back alley "clinics," where the women are much more likely to die from the procedure.

Clinton was right. We should be striving for abortions to be "safe, legal, and rare." That takes real-world sex education and dialog. Bush's abstinence-only sex ed program when he was governor in Texas drove up the rate of teen pregnancy in that state.

Let's face up to reality, everyone. Regardless of how you feel about my views, the facts are these:
1. People will continue to have sex, even if you don't think they should. We should be educating them about safe sex, not just saying "NO."
2. Abortion is here to stay, whether it remains legal or not.

Answer 7

it depends on the circumstances i mean really its nobdys business but ur own

imean wat if you were raped and got pregnant would you want to keep the baby?

if you got pregnant on your own think about it can you support it will the father be there can he help support the baby?

some parents will go so far as kicking the child out of the house if they were pregnant. if you r old enough to have sex the take the consequences that come wit it can you do that?

You cant say it wrong till it happens to you. if this is for a paper think about theses ?'s if not, if this is real then its your desicion and noo one elses

Answer 8

The excuse "I'm not ready to have a kid yet so I'm aborting" is crap. If your ready to have sex and unprotected then you better be ready to have a kid. Abortion is murder. Just cause it's in the stomach doesn't mean that it's not a human being in there. If someone isn't ready to be a parent then give it up for adoption. There are plenty of families that can't conceive but would give anything to have a child.

Answer 9

Its strange to me that I saw your question. Just yesterday I past a abortion clinic. I was driving with my boyfriend. He asked me do I know were am at. At first I said no until I notice a pizza place. It was in the Fairfax distinct in Los Angeles,CA.After I notice I been in that area I told him Ya been around here before. But I didn't tell him why. In that same night we drove by there again (on the way home)and I felt the same way when I walked out of there 19yrs ago. I felt dirty and shameful for what I did.Let me tell you something I had a abortion before that one. I was only 3weeks along. I was asked if I wanted to be put to sleep or be local that means to stay up. I choose to stay awake because I knew I was doing something wrong, so to punish myself I wanted to feel the pain of it.To remember. But after It was done I never thought twice about it again. But back to my original story, my second abortion. I felt really bad about it. More then my first one. Why because it was a 3rd semester abortion. That is when a women is 6 months along. It's a 3 day abortion. The first day you go there they get you ready for proceed er and they take a pitcher (I forgot what it's called) and what they do is they put sticks up you alot they call it seed weed. I think. Anyways they send you home. On the second day they take them out in put more,in what that does it breaks up the baby. And on the 3rd day they take them out put you to sleep in when you wake its all over with. After that you go home. I took the bus there and the bus back. I felt awful. After I got home I feel into a deep depression. I keep seeing Imagining my baby. I felt my baby move before the abortion. My sickness after the abortion lasted for about a year. So when my boyfriend and I drove by there I felt that guilty feeling again. And you would thing after 19yrs I wouldn't feel that way.My boyfriend now is not the same man 19yrs ago. In my boyfriend now I, still refuse to tell him. I didn't tell him why I was in that area, I just keep quilt. And he never asked why I was in that area. I can't talk about it until I read your question. After all these years no one ever asked me that question or asked me my opinion on a abortion. A abortion I believe for most women is not a topic we like to talk about. So is a abortion right or wrong.I know a 3rd term abortion is. Is a abortion before 3months wrong that very on the person life style. Is she a drug user, drinks everyday, poor in can't afford it, is it rape.And I'll be truthful I had a other 3rd term abortion yrs later from the first one another 3 day abortion. And to be truthful I don't remember where I had it I blocked it out.

Answer 10

I think it is ahrd question for men to really understand. I mean in reality it is a choice we will NEVER have to make so it is easy to say I would or I wouldn't.......

Personally I hate the thought - but I also just don't feel qualified to make a firm decision. I took a friend when she needed to get one and I felt sick the entire time!

Answer 11

I think being gay is a pretty perfect form of birth control so abortions are kinda out of the question.