Pro choice give me the srongest case you can in why you believe in abortion. Pro life give me the strongest case you can as to why you believe abortion is wrong.
2007-02-09 08:12:25 · 16 answers · asked by Candice 3 in Social Science ➔ Gender Studies
Pro life.
We've lost more children to abortion than all the dead soldiers in all the wars in all of history combined. You could throw in the holocaust too and its still not even close.
Over 4 billion children dead because women believe its "their body their choice."
2007-02-09 13:16:00 · answer #1 · answered by Mike D 2 · 3⤊ 2⤋
I could never have an abortion myself, I just couldn't live with the what-ifs. I still do what-ifs over my stillborn daughter (9 years ago) and miscarriage (6 years ago).
But I believe that women should have the choice. I don't agree with people aborting perfectly healthy babies because they're the wrong sex, but there are situations where babies should never have been born. I've read of cases of mentally disabled women being interfered with in the assisted-homes they live in, not knowing what was going on, and getting pregnant. Should that woman be made to bring a baby into the world when she's not even able to care for herself? Should she be made to go through the agony of labour etc, terrified because she doesn't understand, only to bring a possibly handicapped baby into the world, when she has no hope of being it's mother?
And in cases of rape, should a young woman, who'se initiation into the world of sex is a violent violation of her privacy and sense of self, be made to bring the child of her attacker into the world? Should she have to be reminded of the evidence of her shame and pain everytime she looks down for 9 months, and then suffer the pain and suffering of the birth, only to give the child up for adoption, to possibly have no parents, because she's not old enough or mentally able to care for the child?
Should a mother have to carry a baby for nine months, grow attached to it, feel it move, grow to love it, when she knows it has an incurable disease and will live for no more than 5 minutes after it's birth? My daughters stillbirth was not expected, just an accident of birth, but if I had've known 7 or 8 months previously that she would be born dead, I might have saved myself a lot of pain by terminating a pregnancy that had no hope, and only the potential for the worst emotional pain I've ever experienced.
I know of people who have chosen, purposely, to continue with a pregnancy when they were advised that the baby would die within days of birth, and have counted it as a very moving experience, but the choice should belong to the mother, the woman who's body is nurturing the new life, not people who just dis-believe in the concept of abortion altogether.
I believe there are instances where abortion is justified, and that ultimately a woman has the right to choose.
2007-02-09 14:49:36 · answer #2 · answered by CheeseFest 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Pro-life 100%.
Because abortion is a murder. It can't be justified, it can only be rationalized.
To those who are saying it is about a woman's choice, woman's life and woman's body, you should answer the following question: what about a child's choice, child's life and child's body?
I cannot accept that one has the right to kill someone only because that other one doesn't fit well in his or her concept of life.
First of all, there are contraceptive means, which are extremely effective if used properly. So, it is a person's own responsibility to take care of herself or himself (men that make babies sometimes ask for their abortion later).
If, for any reason, a woman accidentally gets pregnant and if she doesn’t want or is not ready or not able to keep her baby and neither is the father, then there is adoption. An altruistic alternative to abortion.
To those who are saying they are not for abortion and they would never do it themselves, but they still believe it is a personal choice, it would be like saying: I am not for molestation of children and I would never do it myself, but I believe it is people's personal choice.
It cannot be your personal choice as long as there is some other life involved.
P.S. I would make an exception only if a mother's life is in danger because of a pregnancy or giving a birth. Then it is one life or another.
2007-02-09 11:59:10 · answer #3 · answered by Venus 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Pro-life. Just because the child is not yet born does not mean it is not a human being. Killing people is wrong by most people's standards so why is it OK to kill a person who is not born? Yeah, the mother should make choices about her children's lives, but not about whether her children live or not. Even in rape cases, a human being is a human being. We don't kill mentally retarted or crack babies because of their life circumstances. You can pretend an unborn human is not really human, but that does not make it, in fact, true. Furthermore, it is not reasonable to compare a woman's choice about whether or not to have sex to her choice about whether or not to kill a child. Should a woman be allowed to drink excessively, do drugs, etc. when pregnant because it is "her right?" I'm definitely pro-civil rights, but EVERYONE has a right to equality, not just the woman. Someone responded that an unborn baby has less rights than a woman. I don't agree. Everyone is equally entitled to a life regardless of what the parents think about it. You are not allowed to kill your kids because you are the parents. It doesn't work that way and it shouldn't. I am not a conservative, right-winger. I think it is actually liberals who tend to fight for civil rights/equality. I think even children (unborn included) deserve rights.
2007-02-09 09:56:06 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2016-09-28 21:31:50 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pro-choice 100%
The most common misconception that people have is that being pro-choice means your pro-abortion. I am not in favor of anyone having an abortion, in a perfect world people would only have sex with people they intend to marry and spend the rest of their lives with. But a realist knows we do not live in a perfect world.
Women are raped, women have serious health issues, women make bad choices. Again, I am not saying that means they SHOULD have an abortion but who am I to make that decision for every woman in the country. And Pro-life means that NO women could have an abortion no matter what the case.
I am not in FAVOR of abortions but this country was founded on the idea of freedom to choice. If Pro-Life people want fewer abortions they should help people make better choices in life.
2007-02-09 08:29:07 · answer #6 · answered by The Teacher 6 · 4⤊ 3⤋
Pro-Life 100%
Abortion is wrong 100% of the time. If it endangers the mother's life I see that as nature. It envokes survival of the fittest. Besides, that instance is far more rare than the general population knows. There are so many medications now to help with diseases to carry a baby full term. It is a miconception that a mother iss in grave danger in alot of these pregnancies. Oftentimes she simply does not want to put herself through medical treatment that is inconvenient to produce the life inside of her.
If a child were going to born with health problems, then once again I see that as nature.
2007-02-09 08:19:28 · answer #7 · answered by Honesty given here! 4 · 3⤊ 3⤋
Pro-choice. Because otherwise women are reduced to second-class citizenship, forced to be nothing more than incubators on legs.
Pregnancy is hard, on multiple levels. It's physically hard, and it's also physically dangerous. It leaves permanent, debilitating changes in a woman's body. The embryo/fetus is essentially a parasite that sucks the nutrients out of her body to build its own. The woman is left with physical illnesses and problems, and I'm not simply referring to morning sickness. There is the issue of gestational diabetes, preeclampsia, eclampsia, gestational hypertension, iron-deficiency anemia, placenta previa, placental abruption, hyperemesis, and plenty more. Women still die regularly due to complications of childbirth and often have physical problems for the rest of their lives.
There are financial implications of being forced to carry a pregnancy to term. It's not unusual for a woman to be put on bed rest or hospitalized for several weeks or even months, which can have dire financial implications, including bankruptcy if she doesn't have insurance. If she has kids, she has no way of taking care of them. It's possible she could lose her job because of it. Imagine going through all that hell for something you never wanted in the first place.
Then there's the emotional and psychological impact of having to endure all that against her will. I can't think of anything any less humane than forcing a woman to carry an unwanted child to term against her will. It's just evil. It's like the difference between sex and rape - they are both the same physical act, but one is an expression of physical intimacy and love, while the other is a physical, spiritual and emotional violation. Being forced to carry an unwanted fetus would be like being raped every single moment of every single day, unable to escape. Even worse, being told that you should be happy about it and being congratulated. The language used is even similar to rape - when a woman is raped people say she shouldn't have worn a short skirt or gone to a bar by herself. If a woman gets pregnant and doesn't want to be, they say she shouldn't have had sex (even if she's married or involved in a committed relationship and using birth control).
Also, look at the reality of what life was like when abortion was illegal. A few years ago I read a book about Jane, which was a feminist underground abortion group in Chicago. There was a woman, she was a housewife. She was diagnosed with lung cancer and told that she had a chance of surviving if they started treatment immediately, but she was pregnant and the treatment would kill the fetus. She already had three or four children and didn't want more, and she and her husband agreed that keeping her alive was more important. But that didn't matter - abortion was illegal. She had to convince the hospital board to allow her to have an abortion. Despite the fact that delaying treatment by nine months meant her chances of survival dropped from 90% to something like 20%, the board refused. They said that the fetus was more important than her life, and she still had a chance to survive after she had the baby. She had to convince two psychiatrists that she would kill herself before she was granted permission for an abortion - and she meant it. After that she joined Jane, to help other women like her. Do we really want to go back to that? I sure don't.
In short, forcing women to give birth against their will is both grotesque and inhumane. That's why I'm pro-choice.
2007-02-09 08:51:45 · answer #8 · answered by Rose D 7 · 1⤊ 3⤋
pro-choice 100%
Whether or not you believe abortion is wrong, it is the woman's CHOICE, not yours. It makes me ill inside to think of the government or anybody else forcing a woman to carry a baby to term against her will.
And that's why illegal abortions happen all the time in countries where it is illegal. You can't MAKE a woman do that to herself. She'll find a way out, even risking death herself.
2007-02-09 08:38:00 · answer #9 · answered by scruffy 4 · 2⤊ 2⤋
The irony is medical technology: infants born prematurely now can survive quite well, with help, whereas when Roe v. Wade was decided 36 years ago a child born more than a month early pretty much died every time. The Supreme Court delivered its ruling partly based on that narrow view. Technology itself has proven that view is wrong.
2007-02-09 08:30:11 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋