Can you be both pro-life and pro-choice?

Question

Can you defend access to safe abortion while also discouraging abortion as an option?

Answer 1

EVERYONE is pro-life and pro-choice. No one wants to see fetuses destroyed for no reason, and no one wants to completely strip women of all reproductive choices. It's just varying degrees we disagree on.

Answer 2

Yes. Since I have had to perform abortions, and know what it is really all about, I am against doing them. I won't do them in my practice, and I try to discourage women who want one. But that being said, I do think it's important that women have a choice in what they do with their own bodies. I think it should still be legal. The ramifications of having it not legal is worse then it being legal. I do think that more education is needed for women who choose to have this done. I think they should watch what the doctors see when they do one. I think they need to understand how a fetus develops so they are aware of what is really happening. I think this would help them make a better choice.

I may be against it, but that doesn't mean that woman shouldn't have the right to do what they feel is right. I know if I was in the situation of some of these women, I would feel I had no other choice also. I think the circumstances need to be look at. If the baby was conceived through rape, or incest, the woman shouldn't have to live with that horrible thing every day. But I don't think abortion is the only option. I think that more needs to be said about adoption. But the choice needs to be on the woman. I would never tell a woman that she is wrong to pick abortion over another choice, but I will tell her that she has to go elsewhere to get it done.

Answer 3

If you believe that abortion is wrong because it is killing a human life than you cannot make exceptions. A human life is a human life. I find this line of reasoning about the same as promoting sexual abstainance with teenagers and then handing them condoms. "Don't do it...but we know you will anyway so be safe!"

I don't find this issue complex at all. An unborn baby is a baby from conception on or it's not. The double talk of some "pro-lifers" today makes me sick. Why can't anyone stand for something all the way. Hot or cold..not luke warm! Get off the fence and stand for morals.

Answer 4

Absolutely. I agree that abortion hurts almost everyone involved in some way or another, but it is my right to have control of not only my own future, but my body, as well.
Believe me, most women who have abortions feel terrible about it afterwards. Sometimes, the time is not right, birth-control fails, and why bring a severely impaired child into the world? The emotional, physical, financial toll on everyone is horrible. I've worked in rehab with lots of kids that should never have been born.

Answer 5

I would say yes but I would have to put a qualifier on it and ask how far would you go to discourage abortion as an option?

If you go to the lengths of lying to women, trying to bribe them, or condemning them for making the choice you wouldn't make or don't want them to make then I would say that you aren't prochoice.

But I think that you can be both and I know many people who are both. They want the option to exist and remain safe and legal while not wanting to choose it for themselves or seeing it chosen by those they are closest to.

Answer 6

I believe that Abortion is wrong, but also believe that making abortions illegal would be a big mistake. Take a look at what is happening in South America. There are a lot of unwanted children being uncared for in the streets.

The solution to me is not to eliminate abortions, but instead to eliminate the need for abortions. Encourage women, especially young girls, that they do not need to get involved in sexual relationships, especially if they are not willing to take responsibility for birth control. Also, find ways to help those who are pregnant so that they don't have to eliminate their education or job in the process of having a baby. If you eliminate the root causes for unwanted pregnancy, you will dry up the need for most abortions.

Answer 7

There's no such thing as "pro-choice" when we are talking about life.

Sexual abstinence for teenagers?? What a joke!! They better give condoms alright! It is better than have those kids going though abortion. Despite the innocent life they take away, the girl suffers a lot and puts her life in risk. I am totally for sexual education and condoms in school. Parents should take their daughters to a gynecologist at age 12, and talk to them a lot. The best way to prevent a pregnancy is make yourself the best friend of your daughter. She has to trust you so much that she is going to tell you when she is planning her first sexual experience. I have 3 daughters, two teenagers, no one of them is pregnant, but I know a lot of her friends pregnant. This is a lack of info and support from parents. Nobody should be blind and not see that teenagers are super curious about sex... it is hormonal, there's nothing we can do. The more we prohibit, more exciting it becomes. NO TO ABORTION, YES TO SEXUAL EDUCATION!!

Answer 8

I suppose I am. I myself would not have an abortion, but I understand where my authority ends, at my own body. If another woman wants to not have a baby, I will not judge her for that choice. Not only are pregnancy and childbirth physically draining (and many times dangerous), but the outcome is a lifelong commitment. A lifelong commitment that should not be undertaken unless desired.

Answer 9

Yeah! That is how I am. While I could not fathom having an abortion myself and would not want to under any circumstance, I would vote for legal and safe abortion for people who choose it. Until I can show up at an abortion clinic with my minivan full of diapers and formula, and volunteer my time to babysit for Moms who just can't take on a child at the time - I have no place saying what someone else can do - unless I am willing to be a consistant source of HELP to that person.

Answer 10

In my present opinion, the only time an abortion is 'proper' is when the life of mother and child are being theatened; then I would not hold the 'doctor' responsible for saving (or taking the life) only the mother or child.