ABORTION - Pro choice or Pro life?

Question

I would love to hear people views on this, if you are Pro choice is there a stage in a pregnancy where you would change to Pro life? for example past 20 weeks? Personally i am Pro choice although i do find it disturbing when a women discovers pregnancy and leaves it to make a decision at a much later stage. Do you think that the Law should only allow women to have terminations up to a certain amount of weeks e.g 12 not 24? many thanks xxxxx

ppp please go and have a cup of tea and hopefully it will lift your mood, im not crazy lol its a perfectly normal question that im curious to know peoples views on. i dont judge!

Answer 1

Always interesting to hear other peoples views!

I don't think there are many circumstances where I'd have an abortion. I was raped at 13, and while waiting to find out if I was pregnant from it, I thought about my options, and decided that if I was pregnant, I would keep the baby. That was what felt right for me, but I did appreciate having the option of abortion if I needed it. Yes, I suppose you could say that I should have got the morning after pill or had the coil fitted, but I was so traumatised after the rape that I didn't tell anyone, I wanted to pretend it hadn't happened. I can understand how some rape victims are just not able to go through with a pregnancy - after rape you feel so violated, to have to go through with all the changes pregnancy brings, I imagine you just feel violated all over again.

I don't think abortion is a nice thing, and I wish it didn't have to exsist, but I think that in our modern society, it does have to be available WITHIN REASON.

I do think that the time limit should be lowered. I would support a 12 or 14 week limit, as I imagine that most women are aware that they are pregnant by then. I don't know enough about the development of the baby/foetus/embryo (can never remember when it is which!) to be able to say for medical reasons it should not be allowed later - I assume that some conditions don't make themselves known until much later in the pregnancy. Under strict guidelines, I'd support abortion later if purely for this reason.

I am disabled myself, and I think I would consider an abortion if I found I was carrying a child who would suffer as I have done. It would break my heart, but I don't think that I could knowingly bring a child in to this world if they were going to suffer as I have done.

Well, thats my view, hope that makes sense to you! I suppose on the face of it, I am Pro Choice. Just Pro Choice within reason!

Answer 2

I am pro stay the fugg out of my vagina. If the government spent more time trying to figure out how to get out of Iraq and routine healthcare costs that are skyrocketing this country would be a better place....

Even if abortion was made illegal women will still do it, which was the whole premise (sp?) behind Roe v Wade. Since women are going to have abortions regardless why not make it a safe thing to do, in a doctors office. The female is the one who has to live with the decision

Answer 3

I don't think it's as simple as choosing a side - being pro choice or pro life.

For instance it's all very well saying that a life is a life but what if a 14 year old girl gets raped and ends up pregnant - is she supposed to carry the rapists child and ruin her life?

Every person is an individual and every situation is different. Some people make bad choices in life and that goes for everything - not just terminations. We have to be realistic about life as it is in the 21st century. A lot of young girls are naive, scared, on drugs, bullied, uneducated and yes a bit silly sometimes but that's real life.

Banning terminations would not stop them it would just drive them underground to back-street butchers and more women would die.

No matter what your personal opinion is - it doesn't matter, we don't have the right to judge other people's decisions.

Answer 4

I hate to say this, but do you realise just how much controversy this will cause? People have asked this so many times, and got answers the like and didnt like, understandibly. However what everyone has to realise is that everyone is entitled to a opinion, one which some people will agree and some will not. It is never an easy decision to decide which you back, but remember choices like these make us the type of person we are. No-one is at fault for having opinions or beliefs etc, same as there is no right or wrong answer to this Question. I am not going to say which one I back, but thats my choice, weither people agree with me or not. What we have to accept is that no matter which you choose, abortions are performed regularly, and some quite away into the pregnancy legally. We can't change that by having a dispute about it.




Why the thumbs down? I am not favouring one or the other, just making it known that discusions such as these, lead to anger and un-neccessary comments.

Answer 5

I dont think women should be so easily able to have abortions I have heard of some women having abortion after abortion and I find that sick they use it as birth control
cuz its so easy to just go in and get one
when did human life become so not important?
women can just go out and have sex and say oh well if i get pregnant i can always kill an innocent life because of my actions no biggie.
and pro-choice ppl on here or wherever stick up for those kinda women cuz we all know there are so many out there like that and thats why I could never be pro-choice cuz u would have to support all women who CHOOSE abortion not just the ones who were raped and such.
I belive in god and I just can't belive in god and belive in killing babies cuz he is the one who sent them to this world for a life not a death sentence.
just to be tossed away like a piece of trash at 8 weeks the heart is beating Brain waves can be measured fingers can be seen how can u know all this and still go in and kill the baby just cuz u cant see him or her doesnt mean he or she doesnt exisit.
Only half the patients who go into an abortion clinic come out alive.Once you permit the killing of the unborn child...you are setting off a chain reaction that will eventually make you the victim
When we consider that woman are treated as property, it is degrading to women that we should Treat our children as property to be disposed of as we see fit
and I leave u with this poem
Death of an Innocent
This morning you were sentenced unto death
without a trial. You were conceived to die
before you had a chance to catch a breath
of life, or feel the wind, or watch the sky,
or smell a rose, or walk upon the earth.
You were so helpless and so very small,
a bit of life-to-be before your birth,
With no one here to plead your cause at all.
Last night your mother wondered, as she tossed,
if you were someone special, And she cried
for little hands, and lips forever lost;
This morning she surrendered and you died...
if you had lived, her daughter or her son,
Could you have understood what she had done?

Answer 6

I don't think there is a black and white answer. I'd say that people really should have the right to make their own decisions. If we made all abortion illegal then we would end up with some people dying of medical complications because they can't physically carry a baby to term, or men raping women just to sire children. If we don't ban all abortions even if the pregnancy is life threatening or the result of rape then it's a small step to make all abortions legal.
I'd say I'd have to side with choice because who am I to force others to do things, or to stop them from doing things with their body. If I started forcing people to live how I want them to then really I would have become like Hitler and I don't think his moustache would suit me.

Answer 7

I am completely and 100% pro life... Abortion is a legalized form of murder. A baby is a person at conception.. Once the sperm and egg come together, then the new life is forming.. Simple as that. I don't care what a doctor tells you... .. Let me tell you a TRUE story... When I was pregnant with my 4th baby.. I was told that he had trisomy 1... which is incompatible with life. I was told that if my baby was born alive, he would die after birth within minutes... Well.. as you can imagine I was a wreck that whole pregnancy. An amniocentesis "confirmed" the diagnosis. NOW, the doctor tried and tried to get me to abort my baby... saying it would be easier on me, my husband and our 3 children.. But I refused. I left this in God's hands... NOW I have a PERFECTLY healthy and happy 13 month old who has nothing wrong with him at all.. No mental deficits, no physical deficits... Now, had I listened to this "expert" I would have killed my perfectly healthy son.

BTW, I realize that I will be getting thumbs down cuz I used the name God.. so be it.

Bring me sunshine... wow.. I feel so sorry for your soul.. I pray that you do not re-produce... And your though on birthdays.. how does celebrating another year have to do with life starting at conception? That just makes no sence.. but what would I expect from someone like you?

Answer 8

i agree, leaving it to 24wks to abort is so unfair, if abortion is what you decide, then i think its fair to say that the termination time should be lowered to 12wks, as the baby is not much of a baby then as it would be fully formed at 24wks, women should have a choice afterall it's their life, abortion all depends on the circumstances, i personally would'nt go through
an abortion, but i do take pride in taking precautions, and not getting myself into that position in the first place

what about having the child and giving it up for adoption and bring happiness to childless couples who can't have their own?

Answer 9

The real issue here is why did the woman get pregnant in the first place. None of the typical excuses are acceptable. If you do not want a child, then stop having sex, period. Against popular Liberal hypocritical belief, even a single cell is a living thing. This so called sexual freedom you all love to beat your chests about like your so free and big and bad is total arrogance nothing more. Women with those attitudes need to get over themselves and have a little respect for a living being. Your convenience is not an excuse to have an abortion so you don't have to deal with the responsibility. The "rape" excuse is also total crap as less than 1/2 of 1% of pregnancies come about by forceable rape. Abortion is not a God given or constitutional right, and should be banned in all instances except where a certified medical doctor recommends the proceedure to save the live of the mother. All other reasons are invalid and wrong.

Answer 10

Pro life