2007-02-20 11:23:41 · 43 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
neither, I am pro-choice
2007-02-20 11:26:39 · answer #1 · answered by ? 6 · 7⤊ 5⤋
Absolutely and completely totally against abortion!!! Unlike what these pro-choice people are saying, if you are pro-choice you support a woman's "Right" to abortion. What about a human's right to life??????? A person if a person. What do you think is inside that woman before she gives birth, a dog? Seriously. All children are gifts from God. If you don't want to get pregnant, don't have sex during the time of the month that you are fertile!!! And it's really only a few days a month. That is the old, tried and true method, and what people did before "birth control" was invented. (PS. It's also called Natural Family Planning or NFP if you want to look it up)
2007-02-20 12:55:56 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Against, because every abortion kills an innocent human being, and killing innocent human beings is wrong. For more information, see:
Photos and Video of Abortions, Including 1st Trimester Abortions:
http://www.abort73.com/HTML/I-A-4-video.html
http://www.cbrinfo.org/Resources/pictures.html
Abortion Techniques:
http://abort73.com/HTML/I-A-3-techniques.html
http://www.teenbreaks.com/abortion/whatisabortion.cfm
Medically Speaking, When Does Life Begin?
http://abort73.com/HTML/I-A-1-medical.html
Photos and Facts About Prenatal Development:
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
Abortion Risks:
http://afterabortion.info/complic.html
http://www.abortionfacts.com/reardon/effect_of_abortion.asp
http://www.teenbreaks.com/abortion/complicationsgirls.cfm
Abortion Deaths:
http://www.lifedynamics.com/Pro-life_Group/Pro-choice_Women
http://www.afterabortion.info/news/abortiondeaths.html
http://www.nrlc.org/Factsheets/FS15_pilldanger.pdf
Free, Confidential Pregnancy Help:
http://www.optionline.org/advantage.asp
http://www.heartbeatinternational.org/worldwide_directory.asp
Pro-Life Answers to “Pro-Choice” Arguments:
http://www.deathroe.com/Pro-life_Answers/
http://www.pregnantpause.org/abort/choicarg.htm
Why Killing Children Conceived in Rape Is Wrong:
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
According to 480 American Physicians, Abortion Is Never Necessary to Save a Woman’s Life:
http://www.all.org/article.php?id=10682
2007-02-22 05:21:46 · answer #3 · answered by Just the Facts 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Abortion is not a good thing, but neither is keeping contraceptives out of the hands of teens. You cannot logically campaign AGAINST abortion and want to withhold various kinds of contraception at the same time.
I realize that the age range of women seeking abortions is not limited to just teens, but they are a significant part of the problem - careless, unwanted pregnancies.
We cannot make a significant change in the abortion problem without attaching some sort of responsibility (or penalty?) for NOT using contraception.
2007-02-20 13:30:22 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Against.
2007-02-20 11:34:06 · answer #5 · answered by Levi G 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I believe that it is a females right to choose. We should have the right to have a medical procedure performed if that's what we choose. Its a hard choice to have an abortion and extremely personal. Its not in any way kind for people to stand and taunt them on their way into the clinic or outta the clinic. I personally would not have an abortion but I do strongly believe in personal choice! My body My right!
2007-02-20 11:49:57 · answer #6 · answered by munkeybusines 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I am a Pro Life advocate so I am totally against abortion except when the mother is at risk. Here are some reasons why abortions are evil:
The Catholic Church has always condemned abortion as a grave evil. Christian writers from the first-century author of the Didache to Pope John Paul II in his encyclical Evangelium Vitae ("The Gospel of Life") have maintained that the Bible forbids abortion, just as it forbids murder.
As the early Christian writer Tertullian pointed out, the law of Moses ordered strict penalties for causing an abortion. We read, "If men who are fighting hit a pregnant woman and she gives birth prematurely [Hebrew: "so that her child comes out"], but there is no serious injury, the offender must be fined whatever the woman’s husband demands and the court allows. But if there is serious injury, you are to take life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot" (Ex. 21:22–24).
This applies the lex talionis or "law of retribution" to abortion. The lex talionis establishes the just punishment for an injury (eye for eye, tooth for tooth, life for life, compared to the much greater retributions that had been common before, such as life for eye, life for tooth, lives of the offender’s family for one life).
The lex talionis would already have been applied to a woman who was injured in a fight. The distinguishing point in this passage is that a pregnant woman is hurt "so that her child comes out"; the child is the focus of the lex talionis in this passage. Aborted babies must have justice, too.
This is because they, like older children, have souls, even though marred by original sin. David tells us, "Surely I was sinful at birth, sinful from the time my mother conceived me" (Ps. 51:5, NIV). Since sinfulness is a spiritual rather than a physical condition, David must have had a spiritual nature from the time of conception.
The same is shown in James 2:26, which tells us that "the body without the spirit is dead": The soul is the life-principle of the human body. Since from the time of conception the child’s body is alive (as shown by the fact it is growing), the child’s body must already have its spirit.
Thus, in 1995 Pope John Paul II declared that the Church’s teaching on abortion "is unchanged and unchangeable. Therefore, by the authority which Christ conferred upon Peter and his successors . . . I declare that direct abortion, that is, abortion willed as an end or as a means, always constitutes a grave moral disorder, since it is the deliberate killing of an innocent human being. This doctrine is based upon the natural law and upon the written word of God, is transmitted by the Church’s tradition and taught by the ordinary and universal magisterium. No circumstance, no purpose, no law whatsoever can ever make licit an act which is intrinsically illicit, since it is contrary to the law of God which is written in every human heart, knowable by reason itself, and proclaimed by the Church" (Evangelium Vitae 62).
The early Church Fathers agreed. Fortunately, abortion, like all sins, is forgivable; and forgiveness is as close as the nearest confessional.
The Didache
"The second commandment of the teaching: You shall not murder. You shall not commit adultery. You shall not seduce boys. You shall not commit fornication. You shall not steal. You shall not practice magic. You shall not use potions. You shall not procure [an] abortion, nor destroy a newborn child" (Didache 2:1–2 [A.D. 70]).
Peace and every blessing!
2007-02-20 11:48:02 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
against. i did a debate on the matter. it was a lie changing experience. it doesn't only hurt the BABY it hurts the mother. i mean come on. when you get a saline injection the baby kicks and cries. that damages the mothers insides. also when you get an abortion you ahve to go through labor so why not just put it up for adoption.
anyone from wv there is a right to life rally in charleston, wv tomorrow 2/21/07. so please come.
2007-02-20 11:37:52 · answer #8 · answered by maez 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I'm against abortion.
2007-02-20 11:27:08 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 1⤋
I wouldn't make abortion illegal, but I think too many people see it as an alternative to contraceptives.
If a woman is raped, or if having the baby is likely to kill the mother (or a variety of reasons), it should be up to her to not have the baby.
And don't say she can give the baby up for adoption. There are already many unwanted children who no-one has adopted. We don't need any more.
Imogen Sue: you guarantee? how about the nurses that actually perform abortions?
Loving Momma: Do you think a rapist will let a girl say "actually, do you mind leaving the sex out, because I don't want to get pregnant"?
2007-02-20 11:31:44 · answer #10 · answered by Tom :: Athier than Thou 6 · 2⤊ 3⤋
Against, unless the mother's life in in danger prior to 22 weeks. After that they do a c-section.
2007-02-20 11:56:30 · answer #11 · answered by Melissa 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋