how do you honestly feel about abortion?

Question

i think its wrong unless the baby is going to harm the mother's life, like my aunt, she has really, really high blood pressure. she didn't get an abortion but when she was giving birth, her blood pressure was 250!! she literally turned blue! in a way, she was lucky that she had a miscarriage the second time because she probably would have died. anyway, what do you think?

poohb2878, why did you answer it then? u don't like the question, click on something else. and yes, i do want people to answer honestly, how would you know? and why in hell would i want to get people "riled up"

same to you, lily.

Answer 1

When my mother had her five children she had high blood pressure. But we all turned out alright and so did she. She's from the old school education but even she says that in dire circumstances abortion may be neccessary. Necessary if there is no father involved and the mother cannot love the child she is carrying. Why should a child be brought up in a loveless home? My mother believes that the way a child will grow into a healthy adult when the child knows love right from the womb. If it does not hear love in the voice of the mother and father than the child might develop defects. My you this is all my mother's opinion-she isn't a doctor or a nurse-just a mother. She also believes that a child should not be born from rape or if it is severely disabled as that is a great strain on both mother and child. She does agree that abortion can be a strain on the mother, but ultimately it is the woman's decision and she should make the choice of her own free will. I agree with her as a young woman. And I also think that if "pro-life"ers want every baby to be born then they should make it their mandate to make life worth living for each and every family. Worth living in that every man, woman and child has education, jobs, security, housing and health-care.

Answer 2

People often act like I'm dumb for my opinion, but I am in between.

I am anti abortion but also pro life.

I will defend a woman's right to do as she chooses, even if I think it's the wrong decision.

I think abortions are done far too easily nowadays and that it's seen as a viable option for birth control, which it shouldn't be. I also think a man should have more say in it, if there's no health reasons for the abortion and the man wishes to keep the baby the woman should be encouraged to have the baby and give it to him, no strings attached. It's not that complicated to incubate one for 9 months.

One thing I despise is when there's abortion jokes made, you're still dealing with death, and one should have respect for the dead. Also I dislike the idea of fetuses as being something subhuman, when we were all fetuses once.

All that said, I must still respect the right of the individual to choose, I have no right to tell someone how to live their lives.


PS: Someone made me think of a worth of one life versus the other, personally I would lay down my life for a child's fetus or otherwise. Reason being I have lived longer and experienced more, they have not, they have all the potential in the world. However I would not lay down my life for an older person for the same reasons, they have lived more than I, their cup is fuller, they have lived and loved and will be remembered.

Answer 3

Abortion is something that I know is not right for me, but I would never presume that I could make that decision for someone else.

Your Aunt must really really want children really bad to take such risks with her life and I can’t really blame someone for doing that because I might have done the same thing myself if I had to in that situation. I really really wanted kids too and I was lucky enough to have them without complication.

Also, even though another pregnancy would be very irresponsible of your Aunt (considering the child she already has now and medical condition) it is still her right to do that.

Answer 4

sure I do sometimes like rape or a count number of existence and absence of life. yet on the accurate of the day the alternative is as a lot because the female yet each each now and then she is made to experience she has no different decision. in the journey that they don't have any regret for it then no i'd not. i know a woman who at 15 enable's say replaced right into slightly on the gradual area she did not understand her problem and replaced into offered into having an abortion. 5 years later that's in undemanding words hitting her now what befell and she regreats her decision because she is universal with it wasn't what she needed. it isn't straightforward to judge who to experience sorry each each now and then.

Answer 5

Personally, I think this is a very difficult area.

I don't think it should be used carelessly as a form of birth control - but I do believe that it should be available. I think that we need to have more honest, open discussion and training about birth control - especially with young people. That seems to work much better than trying to force the idea of "Abstinence Only" which has been shown to be less effective in preventing teenage birth. (I think young people are too savvy - and KNOW that there are things we aren't telling them!)

In your aunt's case, it would worry me. If her doctor thinks she shouldn't have more children, that the risks are too great - she needs to consider that. While it certainly is her & her husband's decision if the risk is worth it - she also needs to consider all the factors. If she were to die she will leave her first child without a mother. But, it is still their decision.


Those are my thoughts, but you'll get plenty of others I'm sure!

Answer 6

Honestly? I DON'T CARE! I don't care what other women do in their personal lives and medical care. I simply ask the same level of privacy in my own life that I extend to everyone else. Whether I would ever obtain an abortion of my own free will or not is my own business and to be determined at that time based solely on my (and my partner's) circumstances.

I really, truly, honestly don't care about abortion because the only abortions that affect me are my own and I choose not to worry about those until I have a reason - ie, an unplanned pregnancy - to do so. Every other woman on the planet's abortions don't affect me in any way so I really don't care what they do.

Even a question of if it is wrong or not doesn't affect me or any other woman who needs/wants an abortion. Telling a woman that it's wrong to have an abortion while simultaneously doing NOTHING to help her have and raise her children doesn't help that woman. The real way to decrease abortions, if you care to do so because you personally believe it's wrong, is to increase access to birth control, increase education, and properly care for poor women and their children AFTER BIRTH. Women who have good social support before they get pregnant typically do not choose an abortion even if the pregnancy is unplanned.

If you care so much about other women's private lives and medical care that you simply must be involved in their decisions, give them the resources to make the decision you want them to make. Telling them it's wrong without giving them help to choose anything else doesn't change anything or help women or their children. Basically, support life after birth as well as before it and you'll decrease abortions.

But, again, I don't care. I am going to have access to abortion, if that's what I want/need, regardless of if it is legal in this country or not because I am a woman of means. Making it illegal will not make it disappear or end. And no one belongs in my bedroom or doctor's office but my partner and doctor, respectively. If you aren't either of those people, kindly shove your head where the sun doesn't shine if you think you can tell me what to do with my own life, my own health, and my own body.

Answer 7

I honestly feel that the decision to abort is best left up to each woman. If you feel it is wrong, that is your decision and that is perfectly fine with me. President Clinton's sentiments best reflect mine that ideally abortion should be safe, legal, inexpensive, and rare. What I find incredibly ironic is that the most vocal anti-abortion groups tend to also be against what I, and most scientific studies that I have seen, consider the most effective ways to lower unplanned pregnancy rates and lower abortion rates. That is: Birth control. Good effective birth control supplied to all people want it with good education on how to use it. You know, I'm not sure how I honestly feel about abortion. I'm glad I've never had to face the decision to have one. But I know that I would never want anyone to make that decision for me.

Answer 8

God didn't invent abortion, give me liberty is psycho.

Abortion is murder.

Your killing a unborn LIVING child.

Woman's choice is to or not to have sex...
Thats it, there is no well i made the choice to have sex, now i am going to make the choice to kill the baby, and then i am going to make the choice to have sex again...and then I choose to
and it goes on and on and on

We have given our permission to become a bunch of whores.

Pro-choice is the mass murder...
Killing babies and themselves..(depression ends their lives, as well as suicide and AIDS, Breast Cancer and Ovarian Cancer)
as well as makes the mother beome infertile in some cases...

Answer 9

Christ / God invented abortion and uses it every day. An example of the usefullness of abortion is the case of your Aunt. She could die from her medical problems and having an abortion could save her life. God gave man a brain and the ability to abort when his brain said it is right.

Abortion saves lives. And pro life leads to murder. The time and energy used in the pro life movement to save a fetus could be better used to save the life of a 12 starving children . For what the pro life movements spends attempting to stop a single abortion, 12 starving children in a third world country could be saved. It is foolish to save one when a person can save 12.

Answer 10

I am Pro-choice. Simply because some people do NOT need children. And especially in cases of incest etc...
If a woman is pregnant, thats HER baby, HER body, HER choice. SHE has to deal with the consequences NOT you so why get in other peoples business? Let people make their own mistakes