Should having the chance to be born be a right or just a privilege?

Question

If we are to be the most 'advanced' society in the world, why do we have so many abortions of convenience?

Think - rights of the unborn.

It's not just a 'clump of cells'. It's a baby.

I might add that a fetal heartbeat can be detected in the first trimester. We saw our daughter's.

Answer 1

I agree...it should be a right. Yes, rights of the unborn and they are NOT just a clump of cells.

When I went in to see my OBGYN for the first time, I was soooo excited when I heard that little heartbeat...AT 8 WEEKS. I never believed that baby was a clump of cells and anyone who does is an idiot. I've seen their little bodies destroyed by different types of abortions from the 12th week forward. Completely BURNED by saline solutions, or sucked out and their little bodies put back together by forensics. It was sooooo horrible! I HATE baby KILLERS!!

Answer 2

I know this is a sticky subject so I don't want to push to hard either way. It can be argued in a lot of ways. If a fetus has not even began to form a single organ or a brain than what makes that different than say a skin cell. Should it be against the law to scratch yourself if you itch because you are killing cells? Or why should the woman be aloud to make the choice when it is technically half of the male so should he not at least have some say? Or should abortions only be aloud in cases of confirmed rape that result in pregnancy? I think that this is something that should not be pushed by law. Government should not be able to legislate every aspect of life. We are all capable of making informed decisions (by all I mean a majority). People are too anxious to push there beliefs on others and reject those who do not agree. We all are entitled to live our lives the way we see fit and must face our own conscious to make our own decisions. Basically I think that if I am not in the situation I really have no right to have a say. I know some people who don't believe in abortions smoke. Well do you like that the government doesn't want you to do that. If you want to make your own choices in your life let others make theres.

Answer 3

Since Roe vs Wade there have been more than 25 million abortions. I wonder how many of those might have been the Doctors that would have cured cancer or the person that would have invented something that would have benefited mankind. No where in the Constitution does it guarantee the right to an abortion but it does guarantee the right to, Life. Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. What I find sad it that there are those that want to tell us what we can put in our stomachs and pass laws to that effect. But when we tell them the baby in their stomach is a live human being then it's Choice. When a woman becomes pregnant it is not her body anymore it is their body. The silent scream should be deafening. Abortion has become genocide of the most innocent. We have taken the right to life from being a Constitutional right to being a Constitutional wrong.

Answer 4

Yes we are most advanced society in the world and by being so we have the given right to take,save and make life,at will.Killing is wrong is any sense.Life is to precious.So much so that some women opt to sacrifice the chance of success or failure at raising a child in exchange for a piece of mind or a life of regret.Technology has allowed women to have this incredible freedom.They truly need all the freedoms they can get.With over 6.5 billion people on the planet there are so many scenarios of how a women's conception could have gone wrong.To have to many abortions is an abuse of what is right for the women's mind and body.To have an abortion because it is drastically needed is a god sent gift of technology,grief and relief all rolled into one...Tom Science 4

Answer 5

We are not our bodies. We are our souls. A body is just something that we have and use, to move around in this physical world. The soul is NOT something we have, it is what we are, and the soul lives forever, and inhabits many bodies. The right to inhabit a particular body, can never be denied, so if an abortion is allowed to happen, then the soul who would have inhabited that body, has allowed it to happen.
And the soul will always get another body, if the soul chooses not to use that particular one.life is not a one shot deal, and life does not begin until that particular soul decides that it has begun. But, different people have different ideas of when life should officially be said to have begun, and the one I think is best...if you need a standard...is when there is BRAIN activity, which indicates that the fetus has begun to think for itself.!!!!!

Answer 6

I beg to differ. In the early stage of pregnancy, it is a tiny fertilized egg in the process of cell division. What makes abortion controversial, aside from any religious arguments for the soul and personhood of the fetus from conception onward, is the potential for those cells to become a fully formed human being over the course of gestation.

I find your view of early abortion as murder fallible from a biological standpoint. Consider that half of all fertilized eggs fail to implant in the womb. They die. If your view is that early term abortion is the death of a child, then one could argue that nature designed our bodies to routinely kill our biological children. I don't find this concept plausible or easy to rectify with what we know about early fetal development and the gradual formation of a human being in the womb.

I'm not attempting to say that abortion is either right or wrong in some circumstances or in different periods of gestation. Nor am I commenting on the "abortions of convenience" that you claim are rampant in our country.

I'm only suggesting that early term abortion should be left in the hands of individuals and their moral judgment, instead of government coercion supported by a "ghost in the machine" philosophy that doesn't fit the facts.

Answer 7

Because the Western world is such a "me" society. We are constantly being told that we are little gods and goddesses walking the earth, so that implies that future life is a privilege we have a choice over. In the US, at least, personal rights are much more important than personal responsibility. Sad, but true.

Answer 8

I don't think anyone believes abortion is a good thing. No one gets one and says "Hey, guess what? I just had an abortion and it was great!"

It is a serious, sad situation and by all accounts is a pretty traumatic event. However, life is hard and raising kids is even harder. If you're not ready your not ready.

Adoption is a viable option, but not for everyone.

All I know is if men were the one having babies, we wouldn't even be having this discussion right now.

Answer 9

1st: The chance to be born is a chance. A chance is not a right or a privilege.

2nd: We have so many abortions because people make a lot of mistakes, and some religious fools are telling kids birth control is wrong. Teaching kids to abstain from sex is wise, but realistically you have to educate them about sex and safety and condoms.

Answer 10

I like Dorian's answer. Having a child is a privilege, and our society needs to re-define how we think of children.

I was a 1st year law student (in a bad marriage), when my son was born. The law and my son have competed his whole life for my attention.

The law is my job. My son is my life.