Please take a moment to actually read and respond to this question with an open mind. I'm not casting any aspersions, I would seriously like to understand one phrase I have often heard from pro-choice people: "I am against abortion, but I am for choice".
Please correct me if I'm mistaken, but the only reason I can think of for a person to be against abortion is that he/she feels it causes the death of a person.
If this is indeed the case, should there really be a choice extended to the mother? I mean, we prohibit many choices where society's interest is considered more important than a person's choice. For example, one cannot legally choose to rob a bank, kidnap a celebrity, or kill one's mother-in-law.
I'm seriously not trying to pick a fight, I just don't understand how one person can validly hold both opinions at the same time.
2007-01-29 08:19:06 · 18 answers · asked by Rick N 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Stephanie: I'm not naive enough to think banning abortion would make abortions cease, but we don't legalize bank robbery because some people continue to rob banks, do we?
2007-01-29 08:28:06 · update #1
Some of you are getting away from the actual question. Is there any reason to be against abortion if you don't believe it kills a human being? If this is so, why should there be a choice in the first place? I'm not saying you're right or wrong, simply questioning how if "A" is true, how "B" can be legitimate.
2007-01-29 08:34:36 · update #2
Doc8: That's another debate for another day. You didn't answer THIS question.
2007-01-29 08:40:16 · update #3
Super Ruper: Why are you against abortion up to 5 minutes before birth, if the target of that abortion is not a person? Why are you in favor of it at all if it is? That's the crux of my question.
2007-01-29 08:44:54 · update #4
auntie s: If you're so opposed to debate, why did you waste everyone's time with yor rant?
2007-01-29 15:28:54 · update #5
Here's the answer...a person would be against abortion for themsleves, because they want the baby. That same person may be pro choice, because they realize not everyone wants (or needs) to have a baby. Simple
Pro choice has to do with the laws...making it available and safe. And for many of us, keeping women safe IS the reason why people are pro choice. Not sure if you agree, but hopefully you can understand
2007-01-29 08:29:48 · answer #1 · answered by hichefheidi 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Pro Choice
2016-03-29 08:28:16 · answer #2 · answered by Leigh 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH i am sick of this debate when you ask your question it shows you all the related questions so why don't you just read the past questions you'll get no answer just opinion pro life siding with you pro choice against i personally feel that you should have no choice in this your a man and can never have a baby so why should you as a man have the right or give the government the right to tell me what to do with my body maybe we should have men who are so opposed to this issue get government mandatory vasectomy's so you can not impregnate us ..i am pro choice all the way i had a tubal so i don't have to worry but if for some reason i did get pregnant again than my husband and i would definitely get an abortion but i am at least smart and opened minded enough to understand people who would not do it but support the issue of it still being legal....
2007-01-29 08:50:14 · answer #3 · answered by auntie s 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I dont consider myself pro choice, however I cant see making abortion illegal.
I cannot see why anyone would be against aborting a child if the mother's life was endangered by trying to give birth. Or if the mother was the victim of incest. among other reasons.
I do thing that abortion is often a fix for an irresponsible person.
I knew a girl who had 3 abortions by the time she was 18.
I think that a requirement that the woman be informed of all her options in an unbiased manner ( Planned Parenthood is certainly not unbiased ) before she goes about it.
All that being said I am against partial birth abortion completely.
2007-01-29 08:50:09 · answer #4 · answered by sociald 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
TO me it's very simple. Would I go for an abortion? Most probably not. I am fairly healthy and I am emotionally and monetarily strong. Would I FORCE another woman to have the baby regardless of her mental and physical health? Regardless of the possibility of her harming the baby once born? No.
People are different and for some a baby is a burden, for some it's a blessing. By forcing a woman to have the baby, I would be turning the blessing into a burden.
So, while I am *personally* against abortion - in my case - I am for choice for those who want the choice of abortion. No force either way. If that woman wants to have the baby, that's her choice too.
2007-01-29 08:35:07 · answer #5 · answered by strongblackcoffee 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I am pro-choice because I believe that a person should still have the right to do with their bodies what they choose. (Yes, that includes a living will and assisted suicide.) Having said that, I do not believe in partial birth abortions, or abortions performed - by choice - beyond the second month.
A person can be pro-choice, but anti-abortion for themselves. It is respect for others' rights to choose, even if it would not be their own choice.
2007-01-29 08:41:08 · answer #6 · answered by Super Ruper 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Have you seen many young girls and women come into an ER bleeding to death or dying of septicemia from using a coat hanger herself or having a back alley abortion. This was a daily occurrence before it was legalized. Can you seriously tell me a clump of cells has more value than an adult with her life before her? The Catholics think so. Do you?
2007-01-29 08:36:56 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Someone who is against abortion, but is pro-choice is saying they would not have an abortion or they would not want there wife/girlfriend/one-night-stand, to abort there baby. They are not against other people having abortion because they think it is there right to choose.
2007-01-29 08:30:28 · answer #8 · answered by bumpocooper 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
im pro-choice.....in certain situations. I believe its ok to have an abortion in the first trimester for any reason the parent wants. but not after that. during the first phase of pregnancy the object is nothing but a mass of growing flesh, not much different than a tumor or growth, during this time i see nothing wrong with it, but once brain activity starts i thinki it should be illegal, and im lib dem
2007-01-29 08:41:57 · answer #9 · answered by raztis 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
In response to hichefheidi, how can you say there were more abortions before Roe v. Wade? There have been what, about 45 million abortions since then? Do you really believe that there were more before they were legalized?
It just seems odd to me that your argument for legalized abortion is so that it can be regulated (and, reading between the lines, lessened). It just hasn't happened that way.
2007-01-29 08:40:21 · answer #10 · answered by Sheik Yerbouti 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋