Do you support abortion?

Question

Do you consider it as murder? I just want to hear constructive opinions

By constructive opinion, I mean an opinion based on intelligent reasoning, other than just "no" and "yes".

Answer 1

I support the choice to have an abortion to a certian extent.

Consider situations where a woman is raped. Should she really be forced to have a child by someone who forced themselves upon them? This could be detrimental to both the mother and the child; the mother having to look at the child every day and be reminded of what has happened and the child, (if told) knowing that he/she was formed from thart type of violence.

What about those parents who must decided to have a child who will not lead a life, or even if, in a vegitative state; because of a medical condition? Or if the pregnancy will kill the mother?

Also, what heppens when the parents truely can not provide the proper means of living for the child. Yes, there is the foster system, but for anyone who has ever been through that, they would know that dealing with the state systems is not always the best, and in many cases it becomes damaging to the child.

I'll be honest, I am a 20 year old female and I have had an abortion. It happened when I was 16, the condom snapped and I wound up getting pregnant. It was by an exboyfriend and neither of us would have been able to support the child or give it a good life. Even with help from our parents, the baby would grow up to be nothing better then us.

Then reason why I say I believe in abortion to an extent is because when I was at the clinic I was put in a waiting room with close to 15 other women. The woman sat and talked about what was about to happen, many of them pros as it appeared. One woman, who had 3 kids already was in for her fifth abortion. Another was focused on how long it would take to get it over with because she had a nail appointment at 1. It was a disgusting feeling to me, a frightened 16 year old girl, surropunded by woman who considered no moral or ethical evaluation to their decisions.

I got my abortion because I want my first child to have every advantage in the world. I want him or her to come into a world of security and oppurtunities, not to a world of constant struggle. I have only had the one abortion, and I vowed afterwards to never have one again.

Sometimes I believe that abortion is - for lack of a better word - necessary. Other times, like when your on your 5th because you don't feel like you have the time, but just can't keep your legs closed - I know it is wrong and shouldn't be made available. t is not and should not ever be used as a form of birth control.

Answer 2

As a Christian teenager, yes I do.
Not simply because I am christian, but lets take it down to the level of the law:
In one position, if you kill a women who is pregnant then you're charged with a DOUBLE homicide...
BUT
in the other position if you have an abortion it is NOT considered murder.

At even as young at 9-10 weeks that BABY already has feet with toes.
And to me that already is a BABY!
You wouldn't kill your child would you?

Now what I think is that the only time an abortion should be alright is, for example, the women had been raped...ALTHOUGH it is not likely since the body would have gone into shock which could have prevented the pregnancy.

But this is just my view (keeping out the obvious thoughts of religion).

Answer 3

I believe abortion is a medical procedure that sometimes must be used. I don't believe it is murder, any more than amputation is murder--a fetus is not viable in the first trimester, but is instead a part of the mother's body. No one casually decides it would be a good idea to amputate a finger or a foot--but if the choice were amputation or death, many if not most would prefer the former to the latter.

I do not "support" abortion any more than I "support" amputation or an appendectomy. It is a medical procedure that has its place. What I do support is the right for people to choose if they undergo a medical procedure or not. It is not my business, and definitely not the government's business, to interfere with a medical matter--that should be between the patient and her doctor.

Answer 4

Of course it's a murder, yes. Pro-choice supporters claim the baby is not a baby until it is outside of the womb, so it is not murder. Yet the legal system says that if you kill a pregnant woman, you have commited TWO murders. People claim the woman has the decision to keep the baby or not. No, the woman has the choice to have sexual relations or not. That's when her choice comes. The baby inside has done nothing wrong, so why should he die when he hasn't even experienced the outside world?

Answer 5

well, if you define eating meat as murder than yes. Those babies don't have any functioning thought processes. It is genetically programmed to grow and hold onto life, it doesn't chose to. They have about as much will to live as a cow. Cows don't fight for life, they just sustain it as nature tells them to. They don't have the capacity to question what their minds tell them to do. Either way if you really think about it, governmental ban of abortion wont cut back too much on numbers and percentages of babies aborted. Abortion is too big of a decision to pay much attention to governmental standing on the issue. Its going to happen, why not let it happen in a safe, sanitary place, where the mother leaves with her life, as opposed to a back alley where the mothers life is at risk as well due to infections and other problems that could occur. And what of those situations where the women are victims of rape or incest, though they only make up for 3% of abortions? should they be forced to have the baby that was forced upon them? I think not, you can say they could just put it up for adoption, but there would be a history of the baby and its conception, no one would want a baby that could have genetic flaws due to inbreeding or a baby that is likely to grow up to be a rapist.

Answer 6

I am pro choice. I don't support abortion, I believe it to be wrong. But I don't believe I have the right to tell another what to do with their lives. I don't believe that a person should be forced into something they don't want, a baby they cannot support, won't give up for adoption & are not mature enough to care for, some are little more than children themselves.

Answer 7

I do not believe that it is reasonable to legislate matters of debatable personal conscience, therefore I am pro-choice, not necessarily pro-abortion. I do not regard the termination of a developing embryo as murder. If a fetus is viable outside the uterus without heroic life interventions, then it is a human being. That's a personal opinion, and one that many people do not share.

Answer 8

Personally, I do not support abortion. However, I feel that it is a personal choice. Therefore, I do not think Roe v. Wade should be overturned.

I would call myslef Pro-Choice. My choice is just life.

I am also a guy, so I really don't think I have a right to tell a woman what she should do with her body.

Answer 9

Pro-Choice

Answer 10

Choice should always be an option to every girl and woman.

What exactly do you mean by "constructive opinions?"