What is your opinion on abortion?

Question

Do you think a woman has the right to choose? If you do, what about termination in the third trimester, when the fetus has a brain, a heart, organs and can move around? If you are pro-life, how do you feel about abortion in cases where a woman was forced to have intercourse? What is your opinion and belief?

Answer 1

Wow, talk about asking a controversial question. I have to tell you I am going to be really honest here - so it may stir the pot a bit.

I had an abortion ~ I was 17 the boy (man) who got me pg was in his mid 20's. Anyhow I didn't realize that what was growing inside of me was a human, I was immature and referred to my child as it or as if it were a thing that can be "taken care of". I freaked out. I was a senior in high school, I thoght my parents would kill me, I felt as if I had noone to talk to and tried just to make "it" go away. I went on the rides at six flags, tried to drink alcohol to make "it" go away and nothing worked.

I finally went to a well known pro-choice clinic and they told me they could get rid of "it" without showing me "it" on an ultrasound or ever referring to the child as anything other than the fetus. It was never cemented in my brain that this was a child, my child and that even though whatever caused me to become pregnant was a sin the child itself wasn't a sin. I was never told about the thousands of hopefull parents wanting to adopt my "it" or how "it" no matter how I became pregnant was a human - I was never allowed to think of "it" any other way.

So I proceeded with an abortion. They found out that I was at 20 weeks at the point when we finally started and had to have a partial birth abortion - the specfics of were never told to me - just that they would suck it out with a vacuum. No need to tell the gorey truth that I would come to klnow and have to live with.

After the procedure was finished I had this weird sort of euphoria - "it" after all was gone. However then things sank in and the totality of what was done how my child was no longer started to torture me. I cried every night for years and still when Ocotber comes around I think of "it" and how I would have a 16 year old "it" if I hadn't done what I did.

16 years later I am still in agony over this decision, it is not a pain that goes away ~ you can't get rid of "it". I understand that in cases where a woman is raped the decision is harder- however that child is not to be blamed, it can't help how it came to earth just that it is here - if it is too hard for the mother to take care of think of all the couples that would love this child never knowing of it's beginnings.
"it" could have a life- be the next president, or fireman, or movie star - things one would never know unless you give "it" a chance.

Answer 2

I believe it is a womans right to choose in every single situation. there are many arguments about having to take responsibility for your actions and if you become pregnant you have to have the baby. What I don't understand with that argument is that women have the perfectly legal option of abortion, and that IS taking responsibility for their actions.

As for the third trimester when the baby has a brain, heart, organs and can move around...the fetus actually has all of this in the 2nd trimester and is moving around at at least 13 weeks gestation. I think that abortion for birth control is wrong, but who am i to judge? Just as who are you (not directed towards the asker) to judge anyone. In the case of rape i feel the same way, it is the womans choice, period. Third trimester abortions are not performed on the whim of a sadistic medical doctor, they are performed ONLY when the situation calls for it. The mothers life is in danger or the fetus will be unable to survive outside of the womb.

Women should be seen as intelligent individuals who, when given all the correct information, can make an informed decision about their lives, all aspects of their lives. For those who make the argument, well your mom didn;t abort you so you shouldn;t abort someone else.....I am nothing but outraged that my mother was not given the choice to do so legally when she was pregnant. She should have been able to make an informed decision as to have me or have a safe, routine medical procedure done in order to NOT have me. The only options available to her were give birth or get a back alley abortion, that is not acceptable in my opinion.

Answer 3

I cannot add much to what has been said against abortion but wish to try to understand the simple-mindness of those who are pro-abortion.
It has been said that women are being responsible when they choose abortion yet this reeks of irresponsibility to prevent conception in the first place, especially with so many forms of compartively cheap contraception.
At the same time, these same people say a man's responsibility is solely to provide for the child without ANY choices after conception but ONLY if the mother chooses to carry to term.

What is always lacking in the "pro-choice" argument is the simple fact that abortion is an irresponsible reaction to an irresponsible act.

The very same arguments that are used for abortion can also be used for euthanization of the mentally ill, elderly, victims of cereberal palsy, retardation and the crippled.

Answer 4

i believe that a women has a right to choose, but should get the abortion ASAP and talk it over with counselors and doctors first. no 3rd trimester abortions unless the woman's health is at stake and she or her doctor says she really needs one. abortion should not be used in place of proper contraception when the woman had a choice to use a condom or birth control and didn't unless she is too young or a drug addict or something else that would (potentially) make the child's life miserable. another thing is that even if the gov't made abortions illegal, some desperate girls/women would still try and abort the baby somehow and could really hurt themselves. abortion should not be a careless decision but it needs to be an option to protect women and to keep children from being born into unsuitable or dangerous environments. btw i think it's really cool that you can see both sides of the argument.

Answer 5

Abortion is the Number One cause of death today.

Abortion is used for and nothing but, plane ole Birth Control.
It is the last resort where no Birth Control was being used or the Birth Control being used failed.

How many married couples go and have an abortion?

The abortion rate for medical reasons is right at 5% or lower.

The child in the womb is a God given life. It is not the mothers choice, to decide weather it lives or dies.

It has it's own beating heart as all living humans do.

No women has the right to take the perfectly beating heart and God given life in her womb and let it be destroyed. Makes no difference how your shoes fit.

If someone were to shoot her with a gun in her womb and kill the life in there. That someone would be arrested and do time.

But yet a doctor is basically doing the same, but instead, he stabs the little infant in the back of their little head causing them to wiggle in pain while sucking out their brains.

I cannot, for the life of me, see how the pro-lifers think and feel that, that is just perfectly O.K. That's about as barbaric as it comes.

Something is just very, very, wrong with that picture.

Answer 6

I for one and pro life...there are many familys out there who can not have their own childern and would gladly accept the little bundle of joy that you don't want for what ever reason (age, lack of responsibility, ect)

but while i am pro life, i have two stories for you

A lady in my church was over come, and gang raped when she was young. She got pregnate and still carried the baby to term, now she is an unmarried mother...the kicker is, my town is not supportive. She has a form of dwarfism, so she has to cope with things being not quite her size as well as now having a child that holds the memory of a painful experience...

just recently (last year) a friend of mine, married and trying to have babies, got pregnate with twins. we were all so excited for her and then when she was in her 2nd trimester, she was told som very bad news. One baby had dided when its brain grew outside of its body and the other baby had spinal bifida...

Wha do you do when this happens? to give birth would have put her life in danger, and the baby would only lve for a few hours, at most upon birth. These two are VERY religious people and still they decided it was best for all to terminate the pregnancy...

In both of these cases i feel it in everyones best intrest to terminate...i choose the word terminate because "abort" has such a negative connotation. Its hard for me to say this because i feel that a "fetus" is a human being with a soul, but how is that mother to explain to her child where his father is? and how is it fair that because someone felt they needed dominance that she would have to carry this burden her whole life? Also, how is it fair to my friend to carry these twins to term knowing they are going to be born, be in extream pain and then die?

its just hard to put a finger down on a yes or no because their are so many circumstances

btw, if anyone here is still in pain from an abortion in the past, check out a local church, they often have groups to help you seal that part of your life

and also, my friend is pregnate again, pray for her!

Answer 7

I believe that all women have the right to choose what goes on with their bodies. However i dont believe that it should be legal to do Abortions after 8weeks. Unless its in the womens best medical interests. However if you find out that your baby will be mentally retarded i think you should be allowed to abort if you feel you would not be able to look after it. It is unfair to bring children of that calibre into the world anyway.
In Nature , animals abandon babies that are born deformed .In cases where women were raped , No they should not be forced to have that child. How can a woman love a child from a union like that?
In third trimester if a woman does not want her baby , she should simply give it up for adoption. There are so many childless couples who would willingly care for unwanted children.That would be in the childs best interest.

Answer 8

It's only between a woman and her doctor. Personally, I believe in the right to choose, but would prefer that it only be done within the first trimester.

It saddens me when I think that some women use abortion as birth control and figure that an abortion every once and a while is the cost of having unprotected or casual sex.

Answer 9

It is the killing of a human being at any time after conception. I don't think a woman has the right to choose the killing of the baby any more than she has the right to kill any of her other children.
If a woman was forced to have intercourse, then it is a terrible crime and should not go unpunished. However, the child should not have to pay with his life.
I hate to sound dogmatic or uncaring, but life is precious and a children are a gift from God. Any time God chooses to bring another life into the world it should be treated as a gift.

Answer 10

Please take this as a comment made from reason, in spite of the heart, the way that Sun Tzu's generals are able to send troops into battle, and talk about percents expected to remain alive- not that one has no compassion for the soldiers as individuals, but that if life is to go on in freedon, etc., we must think on a grand scale and defy our own feelings.
There are too many people in this world. There is no more legal infanticide, for when moms have to throw their children off of a cliff. Animals do this all of the time- but we're not allowed to be animals.
And we all suffer. There are so many people surviving an extra 30 years with 17 medications. There are children with defects that would have been consumed by the mother if puppies or mice.
If a motehr is inclined to not keep her child, I can't imagine how the environment that the child would find itself in would be prepared to raise a child that will not tax society with learning delays (even if born "typical" and "capable"), mentally and emotionally distraught, rebellious, shamed, and otherwise likely to commit crime, and healthy enough to not end up taxing our medical care system.
And for that person to then end up another Medicare number until the age of ninety?
No, thanks.
If you can't raise the kid, then the ONLY moral thing to do is to get rid of it.
And honestly, now, isn't it fashionable to adopt out of the country?
But seriously, it may prove too hard to part with the child upon birth. The laws at this time may or not adequately force the birth mother to comply with her previous agreements. In which case, go back to the earlier arguments against keeping a baby when not at all prepared...