Why are some people against abortion when sometimes it's the best solution to take?

Answer 1

One of the worst aspects of human nature is the idea that others are wrong if their choice in a personal decision is not compatible with your own, and the belief that we are "right" entitles us to decide for them.

I once knew a woman who was an open anti-abortion activist, bumper stickers and all. She was catholic, and against divorce as well. Her husband had manipulated her and emotionally abused her for 20 years, and finally she filed for divorce. He forced himself on her at one point during their estrangement, and she became pregnant. The relationship had become very damaging, and after deep consideration she came to the decision that she could not continue to carry the child. She elected to abort, and I don't think has ever felt it was the wrong decision. Easy to decide for others; it's a bit different when it's you.

You just don't get to make decisions for other people when you aren't the one dealing with the consequences- or at least, you shouldn't.

To assume that position is to deny others their personal rights, in order for you to feel righteous. Of course, this is standard human operating procedure; a shortage of empathy and compassion and an excess of self-importance.

Answer 2

There a number of reasons such as religious reasoning or some people believe it is killing a living creature. Im not against abortion but i have heard of so many girls having 3 or 4 abortions i think that is disgusting, abortion should not be used because girls and guys are to careless with contraception and use abortion as a back up.

Answer 3

Some people are very opinionated and feel that their ideas are the best solution for everybody. Basically, most anti-abortion people feel that it's a baby at conception and it's wrong to abort it, because that abortion would be murder. Personally, I feel that it's not a baby until it can live outside the womb. Until then it's essentially a growth that lives off the mother's body, and it's OK to get an abortion. Everyone has their own opinions, and a lot of people really believe that their opinion is the only way, and everyone else is wrong. It's just an opinion, though. There are a lot of close minded people out there...

Answer 4

I am against abortion when it is used as a birth control method instead of making the responsible choice when having sex. Abortion is used for this reason most of the time. There is an abortion every 20 seconds in the US.

The statistics are staggering. 98% of abortions are used as birth control, less than 2% are for rape, incest, or danger to the mother or baby. These are published statistics, not my own.

I believe that the birth control choice needs to be done by the couple when contemplating sex, not after because they weren't responsible enough to consider the after affects of having unprotected sex. Continued abortions can cause great pain for the female and can make her incapable of having kids if and when she wants to.

Answer 5

Though I agree that in SOME cases it is the best option (rape, incest, a very young girl, a crackhead, etc) there are so many other options.

First, there are now various types of birth control that you don't need to be worrying about every day--why don't people want to use them?

Next, if you did the deed unprotected--what were you thinking--did it not even occur to you that pregnancy could occur?

The people who won't use birth control for religious reasons, but then have an abortion--well--hypocrites!

Then there are all the childless couples who would love to adopt an American baby--because it is hard to find one of those (a baby or an American child)

Someone who has an abortion simply because they are still in school or wanting to get further up in their career is being very selfish. So, they don't want the baby right now--fine--take a leave of absence, and have the baby for someone who is desperate for one.

Answer 6

I am against abortion. I think most people - even those like me who also believe that it is the mother's right to decide and no one else's - view it as a last, unpalatable, option.

The difficulty is when people try to foist their moral outrage on what I like to call the "other victims" of abortion - pregnant women/GIRL - without any inkling of the personal circumstances which prompt the woman/GIRL to make the agonizing decision to terminate her pregnancy.

So-called "pro-life" activists should bear these things in mind in the debate:

1. Would they be willing to adopt and raise the c. 1 million babies a year who would otherwise be born? They say "Oh, but there are so many couples who want to adopt". But those people who are anxious to adopt don't want to adopt just any child. Except for a handful of exceptions, they want to adopt children who look like them; they don't want to adopt crack babies or babies who are born with HIV or heroin in their blood. And not every prospective adoptive parent is fit for the purpose (some fatalists say that if you can't have a child, you weren't meant to).

2. What would they do if their 12-year-old daughter got pregnant? Force the child to quit school in the third trimester and go through the physical agony of giving birth and the emotional agony of then handing the child over to probably be raised in a series of foster homes, or worse, in State care, and never have contact again?

3. What would the female pro-lifers do if they were married to an abusive spouse they wanted to escape from, and knew that having the child would mean connections with that man forever?

4. What if the mother lived in poverty and could barely afford to take care of her living (already born) children, and another mouth to feed would exacerbate the hardship not just on her, but her living children?

As for the pro-choice brigade:

1. Women need to make smarter choices - in their relationships, in their birth control methods - to avoid unwanted pregnancy.

2. Not all women who have abortions are disadvantaged or very young. Many women with the financial resources, education and family support systems necessary to sustain and nurture a child view their pregnancies as "inconveniences" that they can legally "dispose of". They should have thought about the possibility of pregnancy before they had unprotected sex. The "burst condom" and "faulty IUD" arguments just don't wash.

You see, there are too many variables in this debate to come down firmly either way.

I feel the "best solution" is a radical one, which only a handful would seriously entertain. That is to make unwanted pregnancy the father's "burden". Any man who refuses to take full responsibility for the financial upkeep, nurturing, rearing, schooling, etc., of the child should be jailed or even castrated. Teen fathers - the responsibility should fall on their parents.

Of course, women/girls have a responsibility, too - and that is to avoid pregnancy unless they want to have the baby.

Answer 7

Killing an innocent human being is NEVER "the best solution." Please take a look at:

Photos and Video of Abortions, Including 1st Trimester Abortions:
http://www.cbrinfo.org/Resources/pictures.html
http://www.abort73.com/HTML/I-A-4-video.html

Photos and Facts About Prenatal Development:
http://www.justthefacts.org/clar.asp
http://www.abort73.com/HTML/I-A-2-prenatal.html
http://www.studentsforlife.uct.ac.za/foetal%20dev%20photos.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/3847319.stm
http://www.lifeissues.org/ultrasound/11weeks.htm

Pain Perception in the Unborn:
http://www.advocatesfortheinnocent.com/fetalpain.html

Abortion Stories:
http://abortiontv.com/Words/truestoriesfrom-mothers.htm
http://www.abort73.com/HTML/I-G-2-testimony.html
http://www.teenbreaks.com/abortion/girlswhoaborted.cfm

Abortion Risks:
http://afterabortion.info/complic.html
http://www.abortionfacts.com/reardon/effect_of_abortion.asp
http://www.teenbreaks.com/abortion/complicationsgirls.cfm

Abortion Deaths:
http://www.lifedynamics.com/Pro-life_Group/Pro-choice_Women
http://www.afterabortion.info/news/abortiondeaths.html
http://www.lifeissues.org/ru486/deaths.htm
http://www.nrlc.org/Factsheets/FS15_pilldanger.pdf

Free, Confidential Pregnancy Help:
http://www.optionline.org/advantage.asp
http://www.heartbeatinternational.org/worldwide_directory.asp

The Testimony of Former Abortionists:
http://www.prolifeaction.org/providers/index.htm
http://www.humanlifereview.com/2000_summer/meehan_s2000.php

Rape and Abortion:
http://www.deathroe.com/Pro-life_Answers/Answers.cfm?ID=31
http://www.afterabortion.info/Victims/index.htm
http://www.focusonthefamily.com/focusmagazine/sohl/A000000103.cfm
http://www.dakotavoice.com/200611/Guest/20061101_GR.html
http://www.afterabortion.info/PAR/V2/n1/RAPESUM.htm

Is Abortion Ever Necessary to Save the Life of the Mother?
http://www.advocatesfortheinnocent.com/motherslife.html
http://www.all.org/article.php?id=10682

Answer 8

Sometimes an abortion is the ONLY solution, but for a woman to use abortion as a form of birth control is unacceptable.

Thank you.

Answer 9

Because it kills a human being. It is murder. The only exception is if the mother was raped, the baby is not going to have the quality of life it deserves or it puts the mother in danger. The rape one is debateable because it is not fair to the baby because they didn't do it but it may take a pyschological toll on the mother.

Answer 10

"The best solution to take" is very subjective.