I believe that a human that has already been brought into this world and have been socialized is more important than an embryo still developing in the womb.
Would people rather the baby be born and BOTH the mother and child suffer? Why are we taking away the woman's right to decide what to do with her body and her life and give that right to the unborn baby. Or in the case of adoption: everyone says unborn babies feel pain when they get aborted, what about the physical and emotional pain the mother feels when she has to go through 9 months and childbirth and watch her baby get taken away?
Women should be allowed to have the choice to abort their babies before it reaches a certain stage. It is the lesser of two evils.
2007-03-03 03:49:46 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Gender Studies
Firstly, not all aborted babies are products of irresponsible sex and I don't think anyone advocates abortion as a form of contraception.
Two, what do people plan on doing with all these unwanted children? The state look after them? There can't be that many people looking to adopt? Or do we leave the children with their parents who may or maynot look after them properly. How fair is that? The issues associated with childhood neglect and abuse are enormous and it's hardly ideal to have a child brought up by someone who doesn't want, can't financially support it and so on.
If abortion was criminalised again we'd end up going back 60yrs where women went to dodgy abortion clinics or performed DIY abortions with knitting needles or whatever. . .
I've asked more questions than an answer should really contain, but to say it's wrong or immoral to abort seems like an ideology that isn't particularly practicle - kinda like the whole Catholic Church not advocating the use of condoms. No offence meant at all . . . Abortion seems like a lesser evil than allowing a child to be brought up on the state without parents or even worse by neglecting parents.
2007-03-03 06:51:15 · answer #1 · answered by kittenwhiskers456 3 · 1⤊ 7⤋
I agree that a woman should be able do as she pleases when it comes to her health, but there are however some obvious complications. For example,
- if the child's father does not want the fetus aborted, the woman should not be allowed to go over his head simply because its her body. I took two people to make the baby, and should take two people to remove it.
- And an exception to an exception is a conception (thats a lot of -ceptions) that takes place during a rape. The rapist should get zero input to anything that happens to the fetus.
2007-03-03 05:23:26 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
I agree with Lori S... Women do have a choice - to not have sex. If you want my opinion, read what she said, because she is perfect in her answer. Also, if you are so worried about a woman's body, you should check ALL the facts... Abortions ruin lives - and I'm not just talking about the life of the aborted baby, but I'm also takling about the woman's life. I would reccomend reading about PAS (post-abortive syndrome) and reading about the study that STAKES performed. Both are very informative, and can help you have a better understanding about the choice a woman is making when she decides to end the life of her baby...
here are links to the sites:
STAKES:
http://www.afterabortion.info/PAR/V8/n2/finland.html
and PAS:
http://www.ramahinternational.org/post-abortion-syndrome.html
2007-03-03 11:43:47 · answer #3 · answered by LIZZYYY 1 · 3⤊ 1⤋
It is the woman's choice.I have had two good friends who have had abortions and one family member.
One of them flipped out when she took that abortion pill and she aborted the baby.
I will not give advice to any woman on the subject. I will only say- it is your choice. What I have a problem is that women use it as birth contol. Prevention is worth a pound of cure.The cure for a unwanted pregancy- abortion. If my girlfriend got pregnant and wanted to kill the baby- I would take it and raise it.
2007-03-03 07:26:00 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Everyone has the right to choose. The real question is: Choose WHAT?
My mother chose not to kill me when she found out she was going to have me--this was in 1972 and she was not married (I just turned 34 last week). You know why she made that choice?
Because she knew that abortion is wrong and she wouldn't be able to forgive herself. That's why.
And she had support from her parents. She was in her 20s and attending college.
2007-03-03 10:06:04 · answer #5 · answered by ? 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
"It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.
If we accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people to not kill each other? Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love, but to use any violence to get what they want. This is why the greatest destroyer of love and peace is abortion.
- From her National Prayer Breakfast Speech Against Abortion (1994) " (Blessed Mother Teresa)
2007-03-03 06:17:15 · answer #6 · answered by Giggly Giraffe 7 · 8⤊ 1⤋
Everyone has the right to decide what to do with their own body, but we do not have the right to decide what to do with someone else's body. The child growing within your body is also a body, but it does not belong to you. The time to make the choice regarding having a child is before you have sex, not after a child is growing. No woman can claim that she doesn't know the function of the female body is to incubate life. You become the protector of life once you become pregnant. If you do not want that responsibility, then you should never engage in behavior that can burden you with it.
You are comparing the emotional suffering of the woman with the murder of an innocent child. You are saying that if someone must suffer, it should be the innocent child. That child must pay the consequences for your irresponsible sex.
The lesser of which two evils? It isn't evil to accept the consequences of your own behavior. It is evil to avoid the consequences at the expense of someone else's life. Because you allow yourself to ignore the fact that it is a child, by calling it some clinical name, you are unable to show mercy. You are thinking, "What about MY suffering". Who told you to get pregnant? Who allowed it? Who had sex? Can you honestly claim that you don't know that birth control does not always prevent pregnancy, but abstinence is 100% effective? Is your selfish desire to have sex more important than having to decide to commit murder?
2007-03-03 04:51:12 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 4⤋
Abortion is a lesser EVIL than adoption!? In that statement you conceded abortion as Evil and made the outlandish Claim that adoption is also, even more so! Whew!
2007-03-03 10:36:34 · answer #8 · answered by michael H 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
It isn't only the mothers baby. Naturally, the woman ends up with it in her.
2007-03-03 08:08:57 · answer #9 · answered by sunflowerdaisy94 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
And your question is ? Iam all for abortion though, hopefully it helps to thin out the trailer thrash population and keeps messed up good for nothing people which were the result of opsie pregnancies out of the society. I doubt very much it is married women with hubby at home who abort, so bring it on.
2007-03-03 04:30:25 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋