Unless the mother commits suicide after the abortion, how can she have the nerve..?

Question

to use the worn-out defense that it's her body? Does that mean that mothers can decide to kill their children after they're born just because it was their body they came out of?

Answer 1

this is a tough subject to ask questions about on this site it seems like 99.9 percent of people on here are for abortion i myself am not after having my first child i could not stand the thought of killing a baby inside of me not even giving it a chance at that little they still have nerves they can feel that and that really bothers me if you dont want the baby why not just give it up for adoption i am not putting anyone down i am doing just as they would and standing up for what i believe

Answer 2

Whether you agree or disagree with abortion is irrelevant. It's a woman's right to choose, and every woman should be able to make this difficult decision without being judged a murderer.

Instead of harassing women at abortion clinics, why don't the Pro-Lifers go out and help the thousands of children living in the welfare system? It seems to me that they are only pro-pregnancy and once that baby is born they have no further interest or care in the life of an unwanted child. They offer no support to the mother once she bears the child. There are plenty of charities here but not one called Pro-Life.

What do you suggest the victims of rape do? Are you seriously suggesting that a girl, for example, who was pack-raped by say 5 men and got pregnant, commit suicide after deciding to have an abortion?? And what about a 12 year girl who is a victim of incest? What do you suggest that the child does in this case?

I am assuming that you are a young immature male. I suggest that you grow up, open your closed mind and learn something about the real world... it's not all black and white you know, there are shades of grey. And if you ever meet a girl who confides in you that she has had an abortion, I hope that you can treat her with the respect and dignity she deserves.

Answer 3

There seems to be a striking amount of ignorance here about prenatal development. By the time most women know they are pregnant (just 3 weeks after conception), their baby's heart is already beating. Virtually no abortions are committed before 6-7 weeks, at which point the baby has tiny fingers and recordable brain waves. The average age of an aborted baby in America is 10 weeks. At 8 weeks, the child is full-formed, with all her organs functioning. She can suck her thumb, and 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.

It is a simple biological fact that when a woman is pregnant, there is another body inside her body. Her baby has separate DNA, separate movements, separate organs. He may even be a different sex and have a different blood type. Every abortion kills a living human being. This is not opinion, but fact. Yes, babies in the womb are dependent on their mothers, just like babies outside the womb. Even a newborn will quickly die if left alone.

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

Information on All Aspects of Abortion:
http://Abort73.com

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
http://www.lifeissues.org/ultrasound/11weeks.htm

Answer 4

Imagine being told that your baby would not make it to full term no matter what the doctors did. Now imagine that you're told there is a 90% chance you would lose your life as well and your other childern would have to go through life without a Mother. God knows it is the hardest decision to make, but I had to make it and I still believe I made the right one, regardless of what morons like you think. Had I been told there was some chance for the baby, even with a risk to my own life I may have made a different decision. I don't condone using abortion as birth control, but I do believe that there are circumstances where it is acceptable.

Answer 5

Here's one for you sweets...a young woman almost 6 months pregnant...planning on gestating to term and keeping the baby, after all she has a great job and will be able to support herself and baby quite nicely. Major problem...boyfriend is extremely abusive. Young woman however has been secretly packing up some of her stuff and having a friend store it for her so that she can eventually get away from the abusive relationship...boyfriend finally puts two and two together, a big fight ensues and boyfriend throws the young woman down a flight of stairs walks into apartment and locks the door behind him leaving girlfirend at the bottom of the stairs hemoraging. Landlord calls ambulance and in the emergency room doctors give young woman the facts. Fetus will more than likely die before reaching term...IF fetus does manage to live and be born it will die during child birth or within minutes of being born. If fetus dies in utero young woman runs the risk of getting an infection that will cause her to have to under go a hysterectomy at the age of 21 and therefore ending any chance of having any more children in the future...or she can have a late term abortion, where she will be induced and deliver the pregnancy. Which one would YOU choose Sweets?
I'll tell you what I chose (yeah it was me) I had the abortion, went back to the apartment for the rest of my things and walked out just as a shotgun blast blew over my head through the door. I went to my friends place and stayed there until I was well enough to get my own place and did so. A couple of years later I met my Now ex husband, we married and I have a 21 year old daughter...the old abusive boyfriend went on to marry his third wife and is now doing life in prison for beating her to death...By the way...before he threw me down the flight of stairs...we were engaged...I was going to be wife number three...Now how about we see about getting YOU an optorectosis...that's a surgical procedure where a pane of glass is inserted in the abdomen...so that people who walk around with their heads up their butts all day can see where they are going.

Answer 6

have you been pregnant?
are you a mother?
you dont know what it feels like to be pregnant or what being a mother means so you have no say.
an unborn fetus and a baby are diffrent.
no real mother would kill their child after it is born. But some do, now which is the lesser of two evils an abortion before there is even a heart beat or having the baby and leavingit to die or a mother who abuses, ignores, starves or neglects her child.
men do not have a say because there are too many that had just as much responsibilty as the women and yet who is left to clean up the mess mommy not daddy. who carries it for 9 months?mom
who delivers it with chances of dieing?mom
who does it forever depend on?mom
who cannot walk out the door never be seen or herd from again? mom
and who should have the choice? mom

Answer 7

I love how liberals use the term "Fetus" loosely when referring to abortion. I wonder how many pro-choicers have fetus showers for their cluster of cells.

If it is just a fetus/cluster of cells then why do we charge teenage mothers with murder for throwing their babies in garbage cans? I mean they are doing the same thing that an abortion clinic is doing minus the fee. (<---- that is wrong I am just using it as an example of the loop holes in that theory)

No matter what term you give it...it is murder...the child has a heartbeat by 8 weeks of conception. The God says in the bible that he knew you before he knit you in your mothers womb. Life takes place at conception. Now granted the baby may not be able to breath on their own under 24 weeks of gestation. But I know people who are on breathing machines now or feed through tubes and without these machines they would also be dead. But they are very much alive.

The child moves inside your body, it has a heartbeat, organs, a blood stream. When you have an abortion you are just cutting off it's life support. You are murdering someone. Whether you are a christian or not....it is Murder. Medical terms don't change that fact.

I wonder if any of you have ever witnessed an abortion? To see the baby torn apart and pieced back together in some lab like a human puzzle just to make sure that they have all the parts. And I must say for a cluster of cells it is very Human looking. (Because in fact it is a human.)

And for medical reasons? How selfish is that? I have an autistic son with Megaencephaly and I wouldn't trade him for the world.He is so happy and brilliant and everyone that meets him says that they can sense his wonderful spirit.Even strangers.

And have you ever had the joy of being around people with Down syndrome....they have more spirit and joy than most people I know. Who are we to decide whom should or shouldn't live.

Abortion is murder...I am pro-life and you can be pro-choice...because it is legal...I am not disputing that fact. I don't think the mother should ever consider suicide. She can be forgiven because we have alll fallen short of the glory of God and have sinned. No mans sin is greater than anothers.

I will not judge someone for making that choice.It isn't my place to. I will however state my beliefs and tell you the truth because if you can be educated instead of being blinded by the lies and misconception of the glorifying of legalized murder by our generation.

The woman who fought to make abortions legal is now a christian and against them. Research "Roe versus Wade", your eyes can be open at anytime.

We as a nation and a generation have become self absorbed, self centered and self derstuctive. It is time that we put morals back into our lives. And that we teach our daughters and sons sexual responsibilty and abstinence.

But sadly instead it is very much the oppisite that they are learning...I pray for an awakening in our Nation.

Answer 8

Because in this country, abortion is a legal procedure. To call it murder is to be completely oblivious to the definition of murder - the UNLAWFUL killing of another.

Abortion. It isn't dogma. It isn't religion. It is a medical procedure. IT REQUIRES NO DEFENSE.

It isn't something to believe in. Something that requires group consensus. Disagreeing with or in a complete stranger's medical choices is an attack and it is inappropriate from any perspective. This is not Iraq. This is not Iran. Other people's personal choices are NOT YOUR CONCERN.

It doesn't take nerve. It takes a decision and a checkbook (or credit card).

You live as you wish, do as you will - and have enough respect for yourselves and others to stay out of out of their business. When it's YOU that has the option, you are more than welcome to choose not to have one. That's how it works, see?

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The majority of abortions occur between the 6th and 14th week of pregnancy. (CDC 61% were performed at <8 weeks' gestation and 88% at <13 weeks.)

At 28 weeks more than 96 percent of babies survive; at 24 weeks the rate is 50 percent; and at 22 weeks, two percent. The majority of parents of 24 week-old babies will opt for intensive care. The baby's condition is then reassessed on a daily basis to see if it is still appropriate to proceed. Barrington says most of the babies who are not going to survive die within the first 24 to 72 hours of being born.

A fetus that is not viable outside his mother's womb is not viable. Will not live. Is not life alone or separate from its host. You cannot kill that which has not yet lived.

Life before death. That's how it works. (Maybe you'd all like to argue that cancers are alive and should not be removed, either?)
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Abortion is one of the most common medical procedures performed in the United States each year. More than 40% of all women will end a pregnancy by abortion at some time in their reproductive lives.
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Worldwide, some 20-30 million legal abortions are performed each year, with another 10-20 million abortions performed illegally .... new *estimates* are that 50 million abortions are performed each year in developing countries, with some 20 million of these performed unsafely because of conditions or lack of provider training.

Where on earth do you suggest keeping 50 - 70 million new people a year and their subsequent offspring anyway?

THINK!

Race: Most women seeking abortion are white (59.1%); 2% were black, and 5.7% were of other races.

Answer 9

I'm almost at a loss at what to say. I'm now married and hoping to have a child with my husband, when we can figure out when the time is right. I am also adopted, and appreciate that my birth mother made a very difficult choice in having me. That being said...when I was young, I was brutally raped. As a result, I became pregnant and had an abortion. I'm not proud of this, but I honestly would have killed myself if I had to have that baby. It was a medical abortion at 4 weeks. I'm guessing you should think I should have killed myself.

When my husband and I get to the point of having a family...my family will fully appreciate that I am alive and happy to take care of them.

My bottom line is...try not to judge others. You don't know their lives. And it is my body...and no one can tell me what I should do with it.

Answer 10

I must say I was totally against abortion from a very young age. As my father tried to pressure my Mum into aborting me.
But one day my Mum told me that she had in fact suppourted two friends in getting abortions. This horrified me and I went ballistic. She calmy explained the situations and how for those two women it was the right choice.
Now I dont judge and accept that people that do decide to abort have their reasons and its no-one elses place to judge.
I think there are many answers here that do make sense, but people do forget that not everyone is the same.
Yes some woman do keep their child of rape and have no problems with raising and loving that child. But some dont have the mental/physical/emotional stability to do that, sometimes those that do keep such children take out all their anger and pain on the child and that is not right.
So is it best for them to abort their chid and try to heal themselves or forever be reminded of that terrible time and then go on to abuse their child as they never were able to heal with this reminder of their rapist staring up at them wanting to be loved.
Everyone needs to remember that abortion is a dreadful thing and I dont believe it is done lightly. Even those that do take it lightly beforehand are forever scarred by that and suffer mental anguish and pain.
Until as a woman you have been in every situation and in every other womans state of mind/health and all other factors you have no right to judge or condemn these women.
Calling on them to kill themselves or relating it to killing a child after it is born is just ludicrus and irresponsible.
What the world needs is compassion,love,caring and empathy.

There is such a huge gammit of reasons and causes for abortion and you have no right to judge, condemn or belittle anyone unless you have been there. Everyone is different and not everyone can cope with the same situation.
In response to Amber A:
I never thought I would abort a child for medical reasons. But know I wont know until I amfaced with that horrible situation.
Because one day I watched a documentry on women who's babies were found to have medical conditions and those that chose to abort and those that chose not to. It was absolutely horrible for all women no matter what their choice. Those that aborted grieved for the loss of the child that they loved and had plan's for. Those that chose to give birth were grieving for the loss of the child they carried for 9 months and then watched die either minutes, hours or days after being born. It was to much trauma for them. Not all medical conditions can be lived with or fixed or improved or handled with medication/surgery. If your child was found to be missing organs or a spine or a brain inutero what would you choose to do? It is a tough decsion.
These ladies were asked if able to do things differently what would they do. The women that gave birth all said they would abort, as the pain and anguish was to much to live with. Those that aborted were split, some couldnt handle knowing they had killed their child without first giving the oppurtunity to live and the others although never able to come to terms with the grief and pain would do things the same as they knew they wouldnt be able to handle giving birth to a stillborn or watching thier child die moments after giving birth.

Answer 11

my aunt had an abortion and has been unhappy eversince she listened to the idiots who were pro abortion... and she was 2 months pregnant and ever since she did that she has hated her life so much she tried to end her life and of her 3 children that are 7, 8. 15 by parking infront of a train that was hauling butt on the tracks and if it werent FOR MY 15 YR OLD COUSIN THEY WOULD HAVE DIED.... so i do think that women should reconsider this process cause it haunts them the rest of thier life and they become lost angry hurt people...and they just endulge in any thing that will make them forget what they did....my aunt is this way so i think that most women experience this the rest of thier lives....

it is idiotic that this option is out there for women to do this i think .... that if they dont want a baby well take care of buisness like tubal ligation or even getting condoms and wearing female condoms to prevent this stuff

PEOPLE DONT JUDGE MEN FOR HOW THEY THINK...THEY DESERVE THE RIGHT TO OPINION ON THIS BECAUSE WHAT DO THEY DO? THEY SUPPLY THE NESSESARY STUFF TO MAKE BABYS... SO DONT BE MAD AT THIS GUY FOR COMMENTING HE HAS A RIGHT....