HOW can you be AGAINST abortion??

Question

Really

Do you really feel that its better to bring a unwanted child into the world where it is almost definately going to suffer negelect and possibly be abused or sent to an ophanage or foster home.

Do you really think its cruel to kill an unborn child but not cruel to force it to live out its childhood neglected and unwanted?

Since so many people have asked

I havent asked this question because im an idiot (though thanks for sharing your point of view)

I am the only person in my group of friends who is for abortion, but none of them have been able to give me a good enough reason to be against it, so I asked to see what everyones opinion really was.

Answer 1

exactly. im pro choice

Answer 2

There are no unwanted children. Even though 2 people have sex, and put themselves in the position to become pregnant- God created that child. Only God has the right to take a child. I am pretty sure you will not like this explanation but it is truth. Every person has a chance at life. Just because a person is not ready to be a parent for whatever reason, does not mean they will abuse the child. I counsel so many women who are contemplating abortion or have had one, and the majority of them say, "I wish I had never done that". When a woman has an abortion they are acting selfishly- never thinking about that innocent child that they are carrying. If you do not want to have children, the only sure way is abstaining from sex. Even birth control is not 100% accurate. Yes it is cruel to kill an unborn child. What would you say, if someone gave birth to their child, and then decided he or see may be abused and they killed the child that was born- would that be ok? Of course, not that would be murder, so abortion is murder- It is not up to us, who lives and who dies.

Answer 3

I think the thing that annoys me MOST about the pro-lifers is how INCREDIBLY HYPOCRYTICAL THEY ARE. I would love to know how many people who answered this question by offering up adoption as an option also would deny gay couples the right to adopt children. How many of these people who are "pro-life" think it's okay to stand outside an abortion clinic and taunt women who enter and exit as though the lives of the mothers are less important than the unborn fetus (not a life, just a potential life). And let's take that subject on for a moment. Any sperm or egg carries in it the same exact potential for a child that an unborn fetus in the first trimester does. Maybe birth control should be the next to go, after women's rights.

Answer 4

I think quite a weird question. It really is up to the person and a personal opinion. I believe in termination as long as it is done very early on.. I do not think its right that you can have an abortion as far as 24 weeks when a baby is viable from 23 weeks. Unless there is some kind of medical problem.. 12 weeks gestation should be the absolute limit in my opinion. Lastly there are lots of people who can not have children and would be able to give the unwanted baby a very happy and stable upbringing so it really does depend on the circumstances..

Answer 5

This is one of those questions everyone has an opinion on. I myself would be against it for myself if I was pregnant I would keep the baby. I also state whenever people bring it up they cannot judge anyone else in the position of an unwanted pregnancy. nobody else has any idea what the person is going through. Abortion is a very emotional thing for a woman to have to go through. It really is a hard subject there is no wrong or right answer to it.

Answer 6

Pro or anti, I am still amazed by the number of people that blithely say "well, if she doesn't want the baby then just give it up for adoption" like it's the easiest alternative in the world!

To be forced to carry a baby to term and give birth to the child and then hand it over to another person to raise is a very, very difficult thing to get your head around.

It's an intensely personal choice that has to be made by the woman and her doctor/partner/family/counsellor at the time, often under duress, and she has to decide what is right for her. If she decides to go ahead with the pregnancy she needs to be supported for that (and not criticised down the track if she needs welfare or other assistance) but if she decides not to go ahead with the pregnancy then she needs the privacy to be able to come to terms with that as well, and not be burdened with guilt by people who have no interest in the situation.

I have nursed women who have had terminations for a whole variety of reasons and can I say none of them took the decision lightly or irreverently or were happy to be there but to be honest, after it is over a lot of them, whilst sad about what they have been through, just feel a sense of relief and a need to get on with their lives.

Women have been seeking to end unwanted pregnancies since the dawn of time and will always continue to do so for many reasons, and making it a safe, legal procedure doesn't "encourage" irresponsibility and more than making smoking legal makes people want to smoke. It does, however, keep women alive, and give them a measure of control over how those lives turn out.

Answer 7

I don't honestly know how anyone could be for abortion, it is taking a human life regardless of what you think. As to the other adoption gives hundreds of people lives, families. I know I have an adopted sister and several adopted cousins. I my self would love to adopt right now, because I can not have children. As to the ones in foster care at least they are alive, and after they are eighteen they can do what they want with their lives. They have a choice, because someone didn't abort them. There also would not be so many children in foster care if our government would stop agencies from charging outrageous sums of money to adopt. There are hundreds of people who would adopt, more than one if there wasn't so much red tape, and so many different people involved in the adoption, and all of them with their hands out for their part. I my self would adopt at least two, If I could do a private adoption, not through an agency.

Answer 8

So to maybe not have a child suffer lets commit murder.... Ever child is wanted. there are millions of peopel who will take care of any child. it is very harsh to say an unwanted child. You dont want to reproduce? dont have sex and escpecially unprotected. HOw can you look at a living child and see all that they give and the love they have inside and say yeah abortions don't hurt anyone. THE CHILDREN NEED US. they are completely dependant until a certain age. because we are adults and some of us like children do things and think they don't need to deal with the consequences murder should be okay? no its not. The child can feel as soon as it is made. it is a living creature. What do living creatures do? feel!!!! Cruel??? Murdering an unwanted child that was made? HOw can you say unwanted when the action was made to create the child. ovbiosly wanted.....peopel can over come what they are raised in. Go to the grocery store and say who wants this unwanted child. I bet someone will take that wonderful child and knock your *** out. and that child will live life. LIFE THAT IS THE KEY WORK HERE. WHO ARE YOU, I OR WE TO THINK THAT WE HAVE THE CHOICE TO TAKE LIFE??? WE ALL KNO WFROM A VERY EARLY AGE WHAT MAKES BABIES. I think its more unfair to have someone like you feel this way and try to preach these murdurous ways. IF YOU DONT WANT TO REPRODUCE DON'T HAVE SEX. MAYBE YOU GREW UP NEGLECTED AND UNWANTED. its sad that peopel like you feel its okay to kill babies. I know a man who wanted his baby more than anything and sh ewent out and killed it., He was hurt more than ever. but if he didnt want it and she had it anyways he would have to pay child support. AN ABORTION DOESNT MAKE YOU UNPREGNANT IT MAKES YOU THE MOTHER OF A DEAD CHILD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 9

I love all these "but there's adoption!" answers.

How many people would want anything to do with pregnancy if they didn't want a baby? Yeesh. The 'trying to conceive' crowd can get extremely rude with the abortion questions, as though going through pregnancy, labour, and delivery just to hand the baby over to a rude, rather nasty woman might be the most natural thing in the world. "But *I* want a baby!" is not a rationale for turning another woman into a vessel and no more.

Re. "but if your mother had aborted YOU, then..." Then, no "you," and you certainly wouldn't care about it.

Interesting:

"Abortion is a highly personal decision that many women are sure they'll never have to think about until they're suddenly faced with an unexpected pregnancy. But this can happen to anyone, including women who are strongly anti-choice. So what does an anti-choice woman do when she experiences an unwanted pregnancy herself? Often, she will grin and bear it, so to speak, but frequently, she opts for the solution she would deny to other women -- abortion."

http://mypage.direct.ca/w/writer/anti-tales.html

"In the early 1990s, just as the first cohort of children born after Roe v. Wade was hitting its late teen years-the years during which young men enter their criminal prime-the rate of crime began to fall. What this cohort was missing, of course, were the children who stood the greatest chance of becoming criminals. And the crime rate continued to fall as an entire generation came of age minus the children whose mothers had not wanted to bring a child into the world. Legalized abortion led to less unwantedness; unwantedness leads to high crime; legalized abortion, therefore, led to less crime."

http://www.freakonomics.com/ch4.php

Answer 10

sorry, but it is wrong. there is an exception however. if the woman was raped and that led to a pregnancy, then i think it would be ok. but if people are going around and having unprotected sex carelessly, then yes it is wrong!! that baby did nothing wrong to deserve that. if you feel you may be abuseive to that child then put it up for adoption. at least let it have a chance in life. why should the child pay for the irresposibility of the parents? too many people use it as a form of birthcontrol. its not that hard to use protection!!

Answer 11

I think it's better for a child be be born than killed before it even gets a chance to live. If you don't want your kid you shouldn't of been out having sex. You knew you could end up pregnant. So yeah it's better to have the child and give it up for adoption rather than kill it before he/she is born. Why would you kill a poor innocent child that hasnt' even had the chance to do anything wrong just because you were out having sex. It's not the childs fault its your own. If you weren't having sex then you wouldn't of gotten pregnant in the first place. So think about it do you really think that you should kill a child just because you don't want it if you don't want your child then the smart thing to do would be put the kid up for adoption as soon as its born instead of neglecting it duhhh.