Abortion for or against???why or why not?

Question

I am conducting my very first sunday school class to a room full of Teenage girls and the topic is about abortion. Not so much that it is morally and biblicly wrong but the effects and tolls it takes on the people involved. I just want general reponses to share w/ the girls to give them some ideas about the subject from people all over.
In case your wondering I am against. There are to many people in this world that would die to have a baby and can't and I feel it to be an insult to those people who want them and can't for people to go around and kill there unwanted children instead of maybe adoption.

Answer 1

A story I found.

Survivor Stories

Testimony of abortion survivor Gianna Jessen before the Constitution Subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee on April 22, 1996.

My name is Gianna Jessen. I am 19 years of age. I am originally from California, but now reside in Franklin, Tennessee. I am adopted. I have cerebral palsy. My biological mother was 17 years old and seven and one-half months pregnant when she made the decision to have a saline abortion. I am the person she aborted. I lived instead of died.

Fortunately for me the abortionist was not in the clinic when I arrived alive, instead of dead, at 6:00 a.m. on the morning of April 6, 1977. I was early, my death was not expected to be seen until about 9 a.m., when he would probably be arriving for his office hours. I am sure I would not be here today if the abortionist would have been in the clinic as his job is to take life, not sustain it. Some have said I am a "botched abortion", a result of a job not well done.

There were many witnesses to my entry into this world. My biological mother and other young girls in the clinic, who also awaited the death of their babies, were the first to greet me. I am told this was a hysterical moment. Next was a staff nurse who apparently called emergency medical services and had me transferred to a hospital.

I remained in the hospital for almost three months. There was not much hope for me in the beginning. I weighed only two pounds. Today, babies smaller than I was have survived.

A doctor once said I had a great will to live and that I fought for my life. I eventually was able to leave the hospital and be placed in foster care. I was diagnosed with cerebral palsy as a result of the abortion.

My foster mother was told that it was doubtful that I would ever crawl or walk. I could not sit up independently. Through the prayers and dedication of my foster mother, and later many other people, I eventually learned to sit up, crawl, then stand. I walked with leg braces and a walker shortly before I turned age four. I was legally adopted by my foster mother's daughter, Diana De Paul a few months after I began to walk. The Department of Social Services would not release me any earlier for adoption.

I have continued in physical therapy for my disability, and after a total of four surgeries, I can now walk without assistance. It is not always easy. Sometimes I fall, but I have learned how to fall gracefully after falling 19 years.

I am happy to be alive. I almost died. Every day I thank God for life. I do not consider myself a by-product of conception, a clump of tissue, or any other of the titles given to a child in the womb. I do not consider any person conceived to be any of those things.

I have met other survivors of abortion. They are all thankful for life. Only a few months ago I met another saline abortion survivor. Her name is Sarah. She is two years old. Sarah also has cerebral palsy, but her diagnosis is not good. She is blind and has severe seizures. The abortionist, besides injecting the mother with saline, also injects the baby victims. Sarah was injected in the head. I saw the place on her head where this was done. When I speak, I speak not only for myself, but for the other survivors, like Sarah, and also for those who cannot yet speak ... Today, a baby is a baby when convenient. It is tissue or otherwise when the time is not right. A baby is a baby when miscarriage takes place at two, three, four months. A baby is called a tissue or clumps of cells when an abortion takes place at two, three, four months. Why is that? I see no difference. What are you seeing? Many close their eyes...

The best thing I can show you to defend life is my life. It has been a great gift. Killing is not the answer to any question or situation. Show me how it is the answer. There is a quote which is etched into the high ceilings of one of our state's capitol buildings. The quote says, "Whatever is morally wrong, is not politically correct." Abortion is morally wrong. Our country is shedding the blood of the innocent. America is killing its future.

All life is valuable. All life is a gift from our Creator. We must receive and cherish the gifts we are given. We must honor the right to life.

Answer 2

Are you going to be able to present this is a neutral way? I was raped when I was 16 so I do believe it should be the individuals choice. You say I should have the rapists child and give them up for adoption. I say that would be victimizing me further and that being forced to carry the rapists child and then give them away would be tremendously psychologically traumatizing. You say that a first trimester fetus is a baby. I acknowledge that if carried to term it would be a baby but in the first trimester it is not even aware that it exists yet. Compare to the woman who is very much psychological traumatized and whose whole life may be drastically altered for the worse by carrying an unwanted pregnancy.

I have talked to some women who are absolutely tortured by the knowledge they have a child out there who they gave up and to adopted kids who have lots of unresolved emotional issues around why their parent or parents didn't keep them. Not to say adoption isin't a good option in many cases but just to say there is another side.

I think that the best solution is to prevent unwanted pregnancy in the first place. An unwanted pregnancy is going to take an emotional and psychological toll no matter what choice a woman makes. Many women who have abortions feel they made the best choice in that situation and that it allowed them to go on to build a better situation and be a better mother to their future children. I am so glad we have EC now. I hope every young woman who may find herself in the situation to need it will have access to it. There are so many children available for adoption from around the world that don't have homes. There are many older children in foster care looking for homes here in the US.

Answer 3

"There are to many people in this world that would die to have a baby and can't and I feel it to be an insult to those people who want them and can't for people to go around and kill there unwanted children instead of maybe adoption."

Funny...there's so many kids up for adoption that never end up with parents as it is. Consider what happened in Romania when they outlawed contraceptives and abortions. That was just horrible...

I am pro-choice for a number of reasons. Population control is one reason. A woman's right to control her own body is another.
And of course there is safety. Sometimes being pregnant is a health risk to the woman.

At 29, I have never had an abortion and don't believe I ever would. But I believe that I should have that choice.

Having said that, I believe strongly that sex education should be emphasized and that contraceptives be readily available. Both are far better solutions than abortion and lacking those two are what causes many abortions.

Answer 4

I agree that in some cases it just needs to happen, but I think that if you look at the statistics its mostly young girls who didn't use protection. I mean having an abortion should be the last possible option. We need to stop the abortion before it happens. I mean if the girl and guy used condoms or birth control then no pregnancy would occur..therefore no abortion

Answer 5

Neither. Not anyone's business except the parents.

I do believe that people should use good judgement and only abort if absolutely necessary. Extreme conditions warrant an abortion. Too many people get caught up in the emotion of it, but if you are really honest with yourself, we justify slaughtering adult animals by the millions but not aborting a child that would have no chance of a normal life (assuming the extreme conditions that I outlined above) ?

Answer 6

I think there should be tighter controls on abortion, but it should still be allowed. For instance, a rape victim should be allowed to have an abortion, as should someone who, in giving birth to the baby, would be reasonably likely to die.

More importantly, people should be better educated about how not to get pregnant in the first place. This isn't "don't have sex before marriage because it's wrong". That's not going to solve anything. They need to know about contraception, about STDs...

Answer 7

Well im against abortion but because I think that Abortions can be prevented. How? we need to stop pregnancy, If people weren't getting pregnant all the time then abortion wouldn't even be an issue. I think we need to start teaching safe sex in schools instead of teaching abstinence because I am tired of seeing 14 year old girls who get pregnant who didn't even know what birth control was. It sounds crazy but its true. I think that if people were safer then they wouldn't need abortions. yes women have a right to choose but they should have made a choice to protect themselves in the first place and half of that responsibility falls on the man as well. I think overall education will help alot, We need to show people that raising a child when you don't have the means is not in the best intrest for that child. I mean sometimes Abortion is nessicary, like if the Child is going to be born as a crack baby to a mother who is a prostitute, that is no life for a child, or if the woman was raped by a family member. The statistics are low on thoes but I think in thoes cases its ok.

Answer 8

I am aganist, but let me tell you some things I have thought of. I use to think the only reason one should have an abortion was when they got raped but then I got saved and my view on that changed. Now I am 35 years old and have tried for many years to have kids with my husband but was not God's will I guess. I have tried to get on birth control but they mess with my body and dont work right. Being this old and set in my ways I dont want kids now. I have thought what if I got pregnant now what would I do. I have thought two things. One was give the child up but then I thought after carrying the child and then seeing him/her would I want the child and yet not want the child cause I am use to doing my own thing. Then I have thought would I abort the child. I dont think I would but I could see it being a option.

Answer 9

I am Against abortion but only because I don't think that its needed. I mean yes Accidents happen and there are some cases where you just can't have the baby but I think that people need to start being more responsible and if we stopped pregnancy then we wouldn't need abortions.

Answer 10

I don't care what ppl say about it's my body so I get a choice. That is B.S., because u r not doing anything to your body, you are killing someone elses. The baby inside of you is not a nail ir hair you can cut, it's a freakin human being. If you ar eold enough hto have sex then you ar eold enough to stick to the consecuences, sex is a privilege, so stick to the responsibilities, and if u mess up, u r no one to take somene elses life.

On the other hand, for all those hypocrits that say "not my business" I sure hope they keep their damn mouths shut about wars around the world like Irak, its not their business either then. leave Irak for the Marines and Irakies and leave the abortionists to their abortions then...

Answer 11

I think that education is Key, I mean yes woman should have the right to choose but is going through the process of an Abortion really nessicary? I mean it can be prevented and I think educating people instead of telling them not to do it is the best way to go.