question about a womans right to choose?

Question

first off i beleive in a womans right to choose
choose to be on birth control
choose to use a condom
choose to not have sex
but why should a woman have the choice of life or death?
it is your body yes but, there are choices that you could make to prevent pregnancy, my must you take the life of your unborn child?

oh and for the record yes i think it is ok in cases of rape and if a womans life is in danger.

but it is not ok just because you were to lazy to use some form of bc.

Answer 1

I am very pro life....its OK to kill your baby and its legal....if you shoot your next door neighbor you go to jail....don't get me wrong, the second response was just a comparison. Its so horrible that someone on down the line has decided this is something that we have the right to choose, and to take an Innocent unborn child's life into our own hands........

Answer 2

I am intrigued as to why you could justify termination on some grounds and not others? You can't be a "little bit" in favour of termination the same way a women can't be a "little bit" pregnant. She either is or isn't.

I also find this issue intriging as there are so many people who have such strong opinions about this who have never actually been in a position where they have to choose, and live with the consequenses either way.

I think until you have been there, done that, then you can never say never.

I don't understand why there are "Pro choice" and then "pro life" arguments, which by default arrogantly suggests that pro choice people are somehow "anti-life". I am pro-choice, and also pro-life because I am pro-QUALITY of life, for both the mother and the child. If a woman (or young girl) falls pregnant for ANY reason, be it assault, incest, failed contraception, unprotected sex - whatever - then she should have access to unbiased professional counselling and advice about her options, and then access to safe, legal and medically supervised termination facilities if that's what she decides. No judgement, especially from people who have never been in her shoes.

**Amazing how people judge you as having a "bad answer" when they don't agree with your opinion, no matter how well you can argue your point.

Answer 3

I will be honest...this question is a hot topic issue... You might be surprised to see what answers you get. Keep in mind that a choice for parenting is a personal choice...it does not mean that woman are evil or plan to kill. Would you rather have a person make a one time mistake (forgetting a pill one day & gets knocked up) that person was not ready at all for parenting and ends up being a terrible parent resulting in raising a terrible kid....or sets it up for adoption which 90% end up with a lot of issues anyway.

Then you have the whores in the world that get knocked up all the time and don't learn from their past. They are the one's that give the "choice" such a bad rep.

Making a mistake should not be considered laziness...I am sure you have made one or two yourself. Woman are not horrible humans out to kill the next generation...today's woman have a lot more to worry about then just raising kids...not sure if you realized that 80% of households do not survive just on one single income therefore woman are not only being mothers and house cleaners and queens of the PTA meetings, they are in corporate America trying to make a better future for themselves and their future children (when the time is right). Bottom line there are several views about the "choice", my personal opinion is that it would need to depend on the situation at hand...because every person's situation is very different.

Answer 4

Two things:

1. You don't believe women have the right to choose, regardless of your first 4 lines, as evidenced by the remainder of your question.

2. There is no life or death choice unless something is alive. An early stage fetus (not child) cannot, and has not,sustain (ed) life on its own if removed from the woman (a death certificate should be preceded by a birth certificate). A late stage pregnancy is a different matter because there is a possibility that the fetus (not a child, even at this stage) can survive when removed from the womb. Because of this, your question's implication that there is a choice between life and death is erroneous if you are referring to all stages of the pregnancy.

Regards

Answer 5

Hey Spongbob - the only ignorance I can see around here is yours, and your obviously limited experience in dealing with this situation.

How many times have you been in a position where you have been pregnant and had to make such a monumental decision about whether to continue or not, knowing that either way, you and your life will be changed forever?

It is narrow minded in the extreme to assume that the only people who have abortions are teenagers who shouldn't be having sex. In fact, if you bothered to even read up in any real information instead of relying on your own prejudices you would know that this absolutely not the case.

Forcing any women into carrying and giving birth to a baby that she does not want and may be in no position to care for is also playing God, when it comes down to it.

And what about the men in all of this? Women don't get themselves pregnant, or have sex with each other to get pregnant. It is a sad but real life fact that many of the women who seek abortions do so because they have been abandoned by partners who wanted their jollies but bother to didn't stick around to shoulder any of the responsibility.

There is no ignorance in seeking a balanced argument here, there is only ignorance in blindly failing to educate oneself about the REAL facts concerning abortion and the real life stories behind the heartbbreak that comes with it.

Get down off your high horse and spend some of your obviously valuable time volunteering at places that counsel women facing these decisions if you want the REAL story.

Answer 6

it's really small minded of you to assume that the only reason (other than rape or endagered life) is that they were too 'lazy' to use birth control. sometimes you can take the contraceptive pill or use a condom and it won't work. NO contraception is 100% effective. If a woman gets pregnant and doesn't want the kid then what would be the point of her giving birth if it will make her miserable and cause deep rooted mental health problems throughout her lifespan? i think people shouldn't be so godamn judgemental! why cant people have the freedom to make their own desicions without feeling persecuted by society? I dont think people understand the amount of pressure society puts on women these days when regarding this issue.

Answer 7

Because some woman can't emotionally carry a child.

Wait, you said "your unborn child". That leads me to think that this has happened to you (if you're a guy). Maybe your partner had an abortion...okay, that's not okay. It should be a mutual decision unless the father is out of the picture.

There is no right or wrong answer. You're right, and I'm right. It's hard.

Answer 8

I agree with you about laziness and abortion as a form of bc. But it is just those people who are to lazy to even try to make the effort, especially knowing the risks of unprotected sex.

Answer 9

I don't think you should be able to take the baby's life unless giving birth would cause you both to die anyway. (This rarely happens). Yeah it sucks getting raped or the birth control not working, but it sucks being born handicapped or your house catching on fire, or getting struck by lightning. S*it happens in life. Doesnt mean you should be able to kill someone to make yourself feel better.


Anyways, I laugh when they say "right to choose". Everybody knows what it means nowadays, but a right to choose what? Why shorten it? What are they afriad of? Are they afriad of saying "We want to protect a women's right to choose wether or not to have her baby cut up and sucked out of her womb"?

It's not a right, it's sick.

EDIT: So their partners left them, they are poor, they are at a bad stage of their life. My answer: So what? Once again, things happen all the time in life we don't like or can't control.

Why when abortion gets brought up, do people always bring up the men. Firstly, men can't get pregnant. And if they could, I wouldn't be condoning them slaughtering their children in their womb anyway. Does it bite that in this particular situation women have to carry the baby while men don't really have to deal with it? I suppose. But if you are looking for gender equality, I wouldn't look for it by vacuming babies out of my uterus and flushing them down the drain in order to one-up on the men. If we were all exactly the same in all things, there would no longer be men and women. There would just be some kind of asexual alien humanoid race and that would suck.

Answer 10

I agree with you if the girl is just lazy, in cases of rape and things tlioke that abortion is good. Also, even with protection you can get pregnent. nbothing but abstanence with ensure you remain un pregnent. And most people just dont want to never have the expierience of sex, and if they do then there is always a chance