Don't you think abortion should be not only legal, but also FREE?

Question

After all that would make every child a wanted child; the cost of social services would decrease; the incidents of child abuse and child abandonment would decrease, and malnutrition would decrease.

Don't tell me God is "pro-life" - as far as I can tell, God is "pro-death", afterall, not everything lives, but by God's plan, everything dies.

I've seen a number of people saying they don't want to have to see their tax dollars go toward abortions - even if they are for abortions. My response is that your tax dollars are going into social services - and there the costs are considerably more than at the abortion stage.

Also, I agree that contraceptives should be available free. However, I have seen women get pregnant on all different kinds of contraceptives. What then?

Answer 1

Yes. If there were less mothers having babies they didn't want, there'd be better social norms instilled in our society. Kids that are wanted grow up in a good emotional environment, children who are unwanted are treated like dirt......thus they commit crimes because they have no moral compass from a parent who cares.

Answer 2

No. Abortion isn't right. It's murder. It's complete, undeluded murder. A baby is alive when it enters its mother's womb. That is when God first puts air into its lungs and blood in its heart. From then on it's a human being. Not only should it not be free, but it should also be illegal to murder an infant. No matter whether or not it comes out of the womb, abortion is infanticide.
Your points are that every child would be wanted, social services would decrease and child abuse and malnutrition would decrease as well. That's because the child will not exist. If it doesn't exist, then it can't be wanted, it can't have social service because there wouldn't be parents: same with child abuse: no baby means no parents and no parents means no abuse or food.
I don't care what you don't want me to say: God is pro-life. Why do people die? Think about it: a world without death would mean a world where Hitler, Saddam Huessein, Stalin would still be alive and more dangerous than ever. Everything lives by God's plan, but because of sin, now everything dies. It wasn't God's plan for there to be sin. But it was his plan for there to be righteousness and life. And abortion constricts that. It destroys life.
I hope that God can change your heart.

Answer 3

I think it should be legal, not free. Only because too many people would not use proper birth control. People have to take some responsibility.

I do not have much experience in this area though as I have never had an abortion. It doesn't make sense to me that people who can not afford to have an abortion still have a child. Is an abortion that expensive? I think the cost of raising a child is up to over $150,000.

Answer 4

Wow, what a brilliant question. When I saw it, I thought it was just a pro-abortion question, but you've made some really good points.

I am 95% against abortion. I think abortion is acceptable up to the 6th week, but after then, it is murder. After 6 weeks the foetus is no longer a "clump of cells". He/she is developing a skeletal structure, the heart has begun beating, the brain has formed, and thus a nervous system has formed. A nervous system equals the ability to feel, and thus the ability to feel pain.

I was pregnant with twins, and I could clearly feel them first moving at 12 weeks. A few weeks later, I miscarried one of my twins, and after that, I noticed that my other baby didn't move as much anymore. This to me is an obvious sign of awareness. My son had already formed an awareness of the other baby and a bond, and realized that that baby was no longer there. This proves that at that point, the babies weren't just "cells", they were people, with beating hearts, brains, and functioning nervous systems, therefore, when my baby was miscarried, when he/she died, he/she had to have been in pain. My other baby was also aware of that, and it must have had some sort of affect on him.

I have seen footage of babies being aborted. One documentary showed a 3D scan of a 10 week old foetus being aborted. As the abortative drug was taking effect, the 3D scan showed the foetus grimacing, screwing and tightening his/her face - a look of pain. The foetus was drawing his/her arms and legs close to his/her body, trembling. That baby was dying and could feel it. That makes it murder. Now you think about that and apply it to an abortion taking place at 24 weeks - at that time, it is no longer a foetus, it is a baby. The baby is viable - if born, there is a high chance of survival. They need to change the legal abortion time from 24 weeks to 6 weeks.

Whether it is a clump of cells, an embryo, a foetus, or a viable baby, it is still life, and to abort it is murder.
Murder is defined as the act of knowingly or purposefully ending a life.

The only reason people think abortion is ok is being they can't see that baby. They haven't formed a bond or connection with that life. But whether that baby is inside you, or right there in front of you, either way, to end that life is murder.

I find it ironic that the surgeons who carry out abortions and who end life, are also the same surgeons who work in fertility clinics everyday trying to create life.

People seem to think that life starts at the moment of birth. The fact is, life starts at the moment of conception.
Women also give the justification for abortion by saying "it's my body, so my decision". Well, no, it's no longer just her body, it is also the baby's body for the next 9 months.

There really is no excuse for abortion. We have family planning available, so you can't use the excuse of health problems - you should have had a health check first to make sure. There are countless forms of contraception too.
The only excuse I can find acceptable is if the pregnancy is a product of rape - but even then, how is it the baby's fault? The man did that to you, not the baby.

When I look into my son's eyes, I couldn't imagine him not being here. I couldn't imagine for one second, looking back on my pregnancy, and even considering for a split second an abortion. Luckily I love him with all my heart, and adore him, but there are parents who don't love their children and don't deserve them, and that's one of your arguments for abortion, but I just don't know. I'm not even going to bring God into it - it has nothing to do with that.
Abortion is definately the most difficult subject on the planet to argue for and against. I just don't know ...

Answer 5

No, not at all. If you check out your stats, you'll find that since the abortion became legal...child abuse has increased, child neglect has increased. Human life has been devalued for all of us.

"If that is the case, we should see a reduction in reported cases after Roe v. Wade legalized abortion. In 1960, before the Supreme Court decision, five thousand child abuse cases were reported in New York City. Fifteen years following Roe v. Wade, twenty-five thousand cases were reported in New York City--a 500 percent increase!

National statistics reveal that child abuse is sky-rocketing across the United States as well. Over 167 thousand cases were reported in 1973, 711 thousand in 1979, and 929 thousand in 1982, and in 1989 nearly two and a half million!

To be fair, there are many possible explanations for the incredible statistical increase: more people willing to report abuse, more accurate reporting of abuse, stress of economic conditions, increase in drug use in adults, the pressures of single parenting, etc.

But one possible cause could be that abortion creates the mentality of "disposable children." If children are viewed as having no value in the womb, it follows they may be viewed with little value outside the womb.

However complex the causes of child abuse, pro-abortionists cannot argue that abortion on demand has reduced child abuse when there has been a 1,400 percent statistical increase since 1973!"

99% of all abortions are for convenience...99 out of every 100 abortions, kills a child because they are unwanted. That's quite a high number, yet...child abuse and neglect still plauge our society. More abortions cannot be the answer. After 30 years we are in worse shape then we were before.

And, yes, God is pro-life!! He doesn't kill...sin does. Our life here ends but we eternal souls that will live forever.

Answer 6

Regardless of your stance on abortion, it would be nice to have it for free. After all, wouldn't it be better to have safe, affordable abortions than ones that are done under unsafe conditions? In a perfect world, abortion would seem monsterous, but in a world where women get raped and young girls make big mistakes, it is practicle. However, I wish there was a way to separate these unfortunate victims from those women who CHOOSE to have sex and know the risks yet still want to kill their baby that they could have prevented from having in the first place.

Answer 7

Nope, abortion is too often used as a form of birth control. There are very rare cases where abortion should even be considered, and that's only in the very early weeks, where it's heart is not even beating yet. As for every child being a wanted child, that will NEVER happen. There will always be bad parents. There are so many people who would die to have a baby.

Answer 8

Yeah, think about all the girls who can't afford it and are forced to go before their parents and tell them what's going on. It's horrible to think about and no one should ever have to go through such a thing. Abortions are a womans right. The only reason the govt doesn't fund them is that so many idiots would oppose their tax money going to this cause. Of course, if they were in the position of the person wanting the abortion, I'm sure they'd be considering one too.

Answer 9

I cannot believe your way of thinking. God put us on this earth to live and to die - it's called the cycle of life. And when we die, if we are faithful to him, we will live forever with him in Heaven.

Let me ask these questions, Is murder okay? Is euthanasia moral? If your answers to these are "no" then how can you think killing an innocent baby is ethical??? All life is sacred from the moment of conception. A human being cannot decide when to take someone's life. That is up to God. How can you say every child is wanted if you are killing them??? How naiive do you have to be to not understand that God has a plan for these babies. What if your parents decided to abort you? You wouldn't be here right now!! No human has the right to take a life. You should be ashamed.

Answer 10

Free? I wouldn't go that far.

I DO think abortions should be legal though. I bet any mother with a daughter would agree that if their daughter were to have an abortion, it would be better to have a legal, sanitary abortion instead of an illegal, dirty abortion that could possibly lead to death by infection.

Free abortions wouldn't stop anything though. Keeping them legal will at least give women the right they so deserve.

Answer 11

Agree 100%

It's a clump of parasitic cells that the host can do whatever she wants with. Get over it already.

Are you people disabled? Who in their right mind would abuse abortion? It's a painful experience, and even if you don't pay for it, it's still not free. Man, do people even REASON anymore?

I think the government should fit at least half the bill since they advocate ignorants having children and making the tax-payers pay for the brats.