Why do you believe abortion is wrong?

Question

This is for people who think abortion is wrong only. Anyone can answer though.

I grew up hearing on the TV abortion was right and it made sense to me. It wasn't until now that I have thought it might be wrong after someone I know had a miscarriage. And also I learned someone I know had an abortion and I felt I missed out on two lives.

But other than that, other than believing there is a person who could come to be and they might be good for the society, what other reasons do anti-abortionists believe? Thank you.

(btw I put this in the pregnancy section. i dont know where else to put it.)

Answer 1

IMO life starts at the third trimester when a fetus can sustain its own life. Until then it is reliant on the mother for life. Its a basic biology question, you are only considered alive if you can support your own life (this is why viruses are not considered living creatures) Once you can hold your own i say you are alive. If anti abortion people believe its killing then by that line of thought using a condom is killing cause you are preventing egg and sperm meeting, or pulling out is killing or better yet just thinking about sex and then not doing it is killing. That's just my two cents. no one should have parenthood forced on them and to all those saying use a condom or don't have an abortion, id like to see your access to condoms if you are poor and undereducated....

Answer 2

OK for the person that stated that abortion was good because it helped decrease the crime. Crime would decrease if parents took more responsibility with there and for there children. If you are raised by good decent parents then for the most part you will be a good decent person. I know that, that is not always true but its better than just saying OK lets have an abortion and hope that the crime rate will go down. I have a personal story that deals with abortion. My sister was pregnant and some of her test results came back that she might be caring a child with down syndromes. He wanted to do an amnio which could have killed the baby just to make sure if the test were right or wrong. Then told her after doing the amnio then she can abort if she wanted to. If my sister had listened to the doctor and gotten the amnio she could have lost her child then. Then if she had listened to the doctor if the test came back and it showed that there was that chance that the tests were right and gotten an abortion then she would have killed her child then, but my sister did the smart thing she got a second opinion and had a very healthy beautiful little girl. Each and everyone of these babies are special other wise why would they be given that chance of life. Each life is special and no matter the reason no one should have the right to take that life away

Answer 3

Some of my reasoning comes from being a Christian. But even if I wasn't I would still be adamantly opposed to it.

Simply put, all the old arguments for abortion centered around the baby not really being a baby and just a fetus. They said that the baby didn't feel anything, and that it wasn't really a person.

Medical science has thrown those old arguments out the window. We now know that babies do feel pain in the womb. Ultrasounds show incredible detail at a very early stage. That leaves nothing but a woman's choice as an argument.

Which leaves me cold. Once a baby is born, no one has a right to decide it should no longer live. How dare we do the same before it is born? It's the most selfish decision a woman can make. Yes, I know that there are circumstances of rape and incest, but it still is not the child's fault.

What if your mother had aborted you?

Answer 4

My personal take on it is that it is wrong in every way. That's not to say I don't see the other sides point on a few things. If it is to save the life other mother, then I suppose it could be considered justified, but not in any other way. If a girl has been a victum of rape or such a thing, she always has the option of adoption. Yes she may not want to carry the baby to term and it has nothing to do with a choice she made, but the baby didn't have any say in it either. It's not the childs fault that some guy did that. I also look at it from the view point, what if that innocent child could have been the next great president or the one person to finally find a cure for cancer or some thing like that? By taking away their right to live, you take away something great from the world and you not only affect your life, but everyone that would have known that child. Just my take on it, take it or leave it.

Answer 5

Abortion is wrong first and foremost because every abortion kills an innocent human being. By the time most women know they are pregnant (at 3 weeks after conception), their baby's heart is beating. If her cheek is stroked, she will turn her head. At 8 weeks, she is fully formed and all her organs are functioning. She can suck her thumb. If her palm is pricked, she will open her mouth and pull her hand away. At 9 weeks, she will grasp an object placed in her palm. The average age of an aborted child in the United States is 10 weeks. For more on prenatal development, see:
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

It is an undeniable medical fact that from the point of conception, we are unique, living, growing human beings:
http://abort73.com/HTML/I-A-1-medical.html

Here are some other reasons why abortion is wrong:

1. Abortion is violent and cruel:
http://abort73.com/HTML/I-A-3-techniques.html
http://www.cbrinfo.org/Resources/pictures.html
http://www.abort73.com/HTML/I-A-4-video.html

2. The unborn child is capable of experiencing pain in the first trimester:
http://www.advocatesfortheinnocent.com/fetalpain.html

3. Abortion is very dangerous for the mother as well:
http://afterabortion.info/complic.html
http://www.abortionfacts.com/reardon/effect_of_abortion.asp

4. Many women have died from so-called "safe and legal" abortions:
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

5. There is plenty of help available for women experiencing unplanned pregnancies:
http://www.optionline.org/advantage.asp
http://www.heartbeatinternational.org/worldwide_directory.asp
http://www.nurturingnetwork.org

6. "Pro-choice" arguments are neither logical, fact-based, nor compassionate:
http://www.deathroe.com/Pro-life_Answers/
http://www.pregnantpause.org/abort/choicarg.htm

7. Even in the case of rape, the unborn child is innocent and does not deserve to die. Abortion increases the trauma and grief of a woman who has been raped by causing her to become the aggressor:
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

8. At least 480 American physicians have testified that abortion is never necessary to save a mother's life:
http://www.all.org/article.php?id=10682
http://www.advocatesfortheinnocent.com/motherslife.html

9. Former abortionists have come out and told the truth about their "profession:"
http://www.prolifeaction.org/providers/index.htm
http://www.humanlifereview.com/2000_summer/meehan_s2000.php

10. Abortion is disturbingly similar to other historical genocides:
http://www.blackgenocide.org/abortion.html

Hope this helps. Thanks for the excellent question.

EDIT: For those who claim that a child is not "alive" until she can survive on her own, have you thought about the fact that even a born infant is utterly incapable of surviving on her own? Left alone, she will die. That doesn't mean we have the right to kill her. Is a child in an incubator somehow less than human because she needs extra support? Our dependence on others in no way should determine our right to live. Where is the compassion?

Answer 6

I don't think I want women to have abortions any more than anyone else does; I hope we can all agree on that.

I just don't think it should be used as a form of birth control; there are far easier (and more effective and cheaper and available) methods. There are pills, or shots, or condoms; all of which should be taught (by the PARENTS) from an early age, say 10-12. That would help in reducing the number of unwanted pregnancies that result in abortions to begin with.

That said, there are more than enough precautions to take so that abortions would not be necessary. But I'm enough of a realist to concede that people in general are either uneducated, lazy, careless, or irresponsible, and I'm of the opinion that abortions are too often used as a quick fix, while doing nothing to alleviate the problem of why the pregnancy occurred in the first place. If you're mature enough to have unprotected sex, you're mature enough to face your responsibilities and make a mature decision for yourself, and that might be to have an abortion.

Making abortions illegal won't do anything to stop them from happening. The result will be that a woman will resort to any unsafe methods that she has access to in order to terminate the pregnancy. And if this prevents her from having the procedure, won't this result in an unwanted child? How is that in anyone's interest? I agree with Pres. Clinton on this one; abortions should be safe, legal, and rare.

I would never advise a woman or say that "you should have an abortion". But I don't believe it should be illegal or unsafe for her to have that option.

Answer 7

I was pro-choice when I was young, but took a philosophy class in college and found it really difficult to logically argue the *morality* of it. (Not the legality---which is what pro-choicers ALWAYS resort to when faced with this argument.... "It's my body, the government doesn't have the right, women will do it illegally and unsafely anyways"---yada, yada)

Then when I had my first child it because unfathomable to me that abortion could be anything but wrong. I look at my children and how completely unique and different they are. All raised in the same house by the same parents, and yet they such their own special people---with their own quirks, their own gifts, their own unique personalities and temperments. They were born that way for the most part. It made me cherish human life even that much more----what a miracle it really is. My 3 year old was WHO HE WAS in my womb. I just hadn't met him yet. The idea that for some reason I could have the right to decide that he "should not be" ---for ANY reason, just seems unbelievably wrong. Who am I to decide that? Who is anyone to decide that? Life is hard. No one is saying that teenagers who get pregnant are going to have an easy road if they decide to have their babies and give them up for adoption instead. Yes---that will be hard. But just because something is hard doesn't justify ending a life that is growing. A little personality that already exists that no one will ever know. I know that the rape argument is brought up often---and I understand it---however, the amount of abortions done because of rape are a miniscule amout compared to the majority. In many of the cases the morning after pill could stop it early on.... before implantation has even taken place.

I'd love to hear some pro-choicers actually debate the morality of their position without bringing "legality" into it. So pro-choicers---let's hear it: Why do you believe abortion is moral/right?

To G G who wrote:
"i dont see why deciding not to bring a child into a situation that the child will not be happy or healthy is so wrong. if you know that you would not be able to emotionally give up your child when it is born, but you aren't able to care for the child either, and both would have to struggle their whole lives, why is it so wrong to not have to put either one of you through it?"

Why are you discounting the very wonderful solution that is: ADOPTION? Do you have any idea how many couples want desperately to adopt and end up going to other countries because there are not enough infants to adopt in the US? Or, is adoption just too inconvenient for the mother to be? After all, she is inconvenienced for 9 whole months right? Much easier to just erase a little person from the planet.

Answer 8

I simply believe that taking a human life is not something that another human being should do, unless they are doing it in defense of their own life or the lives of other people.

Fetuses have all the potential of becoming living breathing walking talking members of society. Just because they are currently 100% dependent on another human being for their life and sustenance doesn't make them any less human or any less deserving of life.

No birth control is 100% effective. The only effective birth control is self control. The time to choose is before getting into bed with another person. If a person is not ready and willing to have a child, then they should abstain from sex. Period.

It's a baby, not a choice.

(Edited in an hour later)

For the record, I became pro-life after viewing the video entitled "Silent Scream". It's an ultrasound film of an 11 week fetus being aborted. It's very graphic and very horrifying. You can SEE the baby trying to get away from the instruments that are killing it. I think that every pro-choice person should see this video.

Answer 9

I think abortion is wrong because at 6 weeks a fetus has a heartbeat. I do not think women have the right to stop a beating heart only GOD should have that power. I do not understand why when a pregnant woman is killed the killer is charged with two murders, but when the pregnant woman has an abortion and kills her own child its legal. The legal system is screwed up and these women should be locked up. If you can spread your legs and not use protection, get pregnant then decide you do not want the child whos fault it that yours or the babys? Pro-choice women think because its their body its their right. Fetus's are bodys where are their rights? Just my point of view.

Answer 10

Anti-abortionists general hold the following;

1) A human being has a right to life
2) A foetus should be considered a human being
3) Therefore a foetus has a right to life

When is a foetus considered to be a person or to be alive? Scientists and philosophers differ on this but the general consensus is that this is when brain activity begins.

You can find all the categories here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/ethics/abortion/child/alive_2.shtml