I am PRO-CHOICE but AGAINST abortion. Does that make sense?

Question

Abortion is a medical procedure that should ONLY be discussed btwn the woman & her doctor. Ive no right to infringe in her privacy. I wouldnt want anyone to violate MY rights & dictate my health concerns. Ive no right taking away a persons rights, born/unborn.

Im AGAINST abortion.I DESPISE abortion & if I were a woman Id NEVER have one. BUT Im not a woman & wouldnt know how it is to so I wont JUDGE the circumstances of her abortion. I wouldn't know if she was raped, whether the pregnancy will hurt her and the child's health, psych problems etc. Its NOT my business. Its a very sensitive issue. Its a medical issue btwn her and her doctor, an M.D.

Im not pretentious to think that others cant think for theirselves. I have belief in other people & choices they make. To me NO abortion is the right CHOICE, but we have to give them choice first. Taking away freedom to choose would kill the idealogy of what America stands for. Jesus taught compassion & not to judge thats why i'm PROCHOICE.

to all those saying abortion is murder...is it murder when Bush sends our soldiers to war, have them killed for oil in the meantime have them kill and bomb iraqi babies?

Americangirl..why do u judge? Even Jesus didnt judge Mary Magadelene who was a hooker who probably had lots of abortions.
Are you above Jesus now?

nonalcoholic--why do u care if i ask this question 12 times or 100 times?
is it a sin? crime? if u dont like it, dont click on it. it's called CHOICE.
ahh what a refreshing concept huh

Answer 1

Your thoughts are pretty popular and yes it does make sense.

Answer 2

On abortion I do agree with you. However you left out a few other important issues.
Right now it's pro-choice so that means if a woman is thinking of having an abortion she might go to a friend, family member, anybody but she can talk about the issue openly. Maybe someone might give her a different prospective, maybe even change her mind.
Where as if it was illegal the women might feel there is no one she can really turn to before she goes to some back street alley doctor to have an abortion!!
There is also the issue of even now with abortion being legal and dropping a baby off at the hospital no questions asked. Babies thrown in trash bin, in dumpsters, down rivers, etc. How much worse would the situation get if abortion becomes illegal. I don't want to be throwing trash away and find a dead baby with it's umbilical cord still attached to it's belly button.

Answer 3

This is a non-issue decided by the Supreme Court long ago.

It is, however, very helpful in getting a strong, reliable turn out from a core minority of voters. This is why it is continually mentioned once elections begin to gear up.

Why is the destruction of a group of cells that have no thoughts, ideas, or personal identity, murder, but the slaughter of 500,000 innocent Iraqis and the sacrifice of more than 3000 American lives are merely regrettable, or sad?

Like you I am against abortions. I believe they cause serious emotional problems in a large majority of the women/girls that have them, beyond the social stigma attached to abortion. It may be an instinctive part of being a mother.

I think that every effort should be made to minimize the number of abortions performed, but not by restricting anyone's right to decide what grows in their body.

Beyond that, however, I place a different priority on preserving those who have a personal identity and sense of self, over those that have not developed enough to achieve self awareness.

Answer 4

I agree with you absolutely - I, too, am pro-choice but against abortion. I find that the most committed partisans of this issue tend to be on the shallow end. They passionately believe in their own side but give a disrespectfully short shrift to the seriousness of the other side. I rarely hear the pro-choice crowd discussing the gravity of disposing of human lives. My problem with the pro-life crowd is that they never seem to be able to answer how they plan to police their ideology. First of all, how do you prevent a pregnant woman from crash-dieting or massaging her belly with a ball-peen hammer? Suppose a pregnant woman falls down a flight of stairs and miscarries - are we supposed to have an evidentiary hearing to determine her intent. The legal machinery such a system would require would be staggering. Suppose it is found she did intend to miscarry. What penalty are you willing to impose on her - 5 years?, 20 years?, life without the possibility of parole?

Again, I absolutely believe the fetus is a living organism instead of just non-viable tissue mass, but enforcing a pro-life agenda would be ridiculous. I think the pro-life camp would do a better job if they focused their efforts on persuasion rather than legislation.

Answer 5

It makes a lot of sense to me.

You are man enough to admit the conflicts of your beliefs and to air them on a site like this where you can get visceral responses. I respect you for that.

If this issue was not politicized most people will feel like you do - torn. Even women who had abortions are conflicted too.

I agree that it is a personal choice and I think each woman has the right to decide whether she allows conception to proceed to the birth of a child or not.

I've had to make such a decision, I made the one that was suitable for me and I've had no regrets whatsoever. In fact this is not an issue I pay much attention to. I responded only because you detailed your mixed feelings.

Answer 6

Yes, your position makes perfect sense. Everyone must make their own decisions and be accountable for them. If you really want to lower abortions, then you have to work on eliminating the reasons for them, not the procedure itself. The number one reason for women having abortions is not being able to afford to provide for a child. We need comprehensive sex education in schools and we need to make birth control and family planning more available than it is already, which will mean less unwanted pregnancies, and in turn less abortions. I think it is an education issue as well, because if we can educate kids more effectively, they will be more successful and will be able to stave off poverty, which will also lower the abortion rate because women will be able to afford to raise the child properly.

Answer 7

Today, many of the people who defend abortion in principle, still try and distance themselves from it in practice. Cowardice at its finest.

ex. "I'm personally opposed to abortion, but people should be free to make their own choices."

If this is your attitude about abortion, and if you think you've carved out some morally-neutral middle ground, you're fooling yourself. Ask yourself that same question in regard to slavery or lynching. Would you ever dare make the statement that, while you're personally opposed to lynching, you still support the rights of other men to lynch? You've already admitted in your question that abortion is the taking of a human life and a removal of the unborn baby's right to live in favor of the right of a woman not to be pregnant for only 9 months out of her life, due to HER actions and the predictable result of those actions.

If there was no middle ground in regard to slavery, there is no middle ground in regard to abortion. The reasons that the Supreme Court reversed itself about Dred Scott are the same reasons it should reverse itself about Roe v. Wade. Until they do, we continue to live in a society in which living persons are considered property.

Answer 8

This is a wonderful question. I, like you am pro choice. That means, to me, that I have the choice, as does the woman next door to me.

I would choose not to have an abortion. However, never have been in that position that I would have to make the decision, who am I to judge. Therefore, the term "pro choice" comes to mean what it says, "pro choice"; the right to choose.

I applaud your thought provoking question. And your ability to see both sides of the issue.

Answer 9

Perfect sense. I do think this is actually more of what our country needs at this point. As an athiest/agnostic I am a firm believer in the fact that a man has the right to choose whats best for himself based on his personal convictions. But for the past 8 or so years we have had a group in power making desicions for all of us based on their personal religous convictions to the detriment of anyone who is not their religion. I do not have the right to tell you to not pray in school or how to conduct your personal life just as you have no right to do that to me yet everything ranging from gay rights to stem cell research to abortion is being decided based on the bible which although a good read is not what alot of people base their life around.

Answer 10

Same here, though with all the birth control available in this country I think the choice should be made prior to conception. I would; however support any bill that makes allowances for abortion in the case of rape, incest and endangerment (3% of all abortions currently performed in this country)

Answer 11

What about the innocent baby's right to choose~Jesus taught love and compassion not murdering innocent babies.Abortion and partial birth abortion does not represent America or freedom!