What are your thoughts on abortion?

Question

i think its wrong and just because a girl has sex when shes only a teen and cant take care of it she is still held responsible your killing a human being when you do abortion

Answer 1

I believe in choice - all choices - giving birth, adoption and abortion. Every woman is different with a different set of circumstances which has led her to that position. It is not my place to judge her since I do not walk in her shoes. Any decision she makes is her business and nobody elses.

Answer 2

I firmly believe that abortion should be illegal, unless it is the only option available to save the mother's biological life (ie ectopic pregnancy, etc.).

An unborn child is a human being, and a very helpless one. We do not kill people because they are annoying, or inconvienent, or an embarrassment to us, AFTER they are born. Why should we consider an unborn child disposable?

People prattle on about "rights" and "privacy" and "choices" and "imposition of morality", but it is just all a bunch of hype and spin. Societies have rules. "Don't steal, don't speed, don't rape, don't kill people", to name just a few. I find it interesting that the same people who rant about "not imposing morality on others" would go ballistic if you took away their sports cars without permission.

Every crime is a crime against another human being, period. In this case, the crime being committed is murder 1: the premeditated killing of another human being. There is no escaping this fact! The residence of the victim is used as a convienent excuse by pro-abortion propogandists, who claim that the child is merely an extension of the mother, and therefore her property. This position is false.

Answer 3

Abortion is murder.
Every woman who gets an abortion should be required by law to be sterilized at the same time, and if the father is involved, he should also be sterilized. Since they have shown that they are irresponsible and don't want to deal with results of their sexual behavior, this should not be a problem.
Btw, I am also a staunch supporter of animal rights. I also think it is wrong to shoot your dog, kill a whale, or destroy turtle eggs......

OH, and the notion that it needs to be legal, because people are gonna do it anyways is plain stupid. In that case, why have laws at all? People are gonna steal, let's make robbery legal, so nobody get's shot next time someone wants to rob a convenience store. How much sense does that make??

Answer 4

You're only talking about one situation regarding abortion. The women who seek them have their own situations, issues, and problems when they consider this option. You can't make a blanket assumption about their lives and why they are there.

I am not a fan of abortion, but the choice needs to be there. It needs to be available in a safe, sterile environment with qualified doctors performing the procedure. Making it illegal won't stop it, it will just make it lethal.

You may think I have no compassion for the unborn child. Not true. But I also have compassion for the girl/woman. She needs to be protected and cared for, too.

Answer 5

I think it's wrong as well. It's been proven that yer not destroying a bunch of cells but yer destroying a living baby.
Should the baby have to be put to death because the mom made a mistake?!? If I was in that situation I would carry through with the pregnacy and give it up for adoption after it was born.
If I was raped... I'm STILL not gonna kill the baby just because the "father" (if you wanna call him that) is a dumbass.

I think it is funny how everyone goes into a uproar if someone shots their dog or kills a whale(not that its okay to do it) but its 100% okay to kill their baby...

Answer 6

I agree...and just heard this morning about in Virginia they are trying to pass a law that every expectant mother must see a sonogram of the baby before she has the abortion. There are so many people that want children and would be willing to adopt the child.

Answer 7

It is a woman's choice within reason. I don't approve of abortion as a method of birth control [ie. "My boyfriend and I don't use protection but that's okay because I can always get an abortion"]. Nor do I approve of it when a woman has reached her second or third trimester. However, the bottom line is that the woman is the one who will ultimately make the decision.

Answer 8

i think it is wrong for this reason when having an abortion the baby is sucked out of your body by pieces how would you like to be torn apart by a large hose, these baby's r alive inside us, I'm sure they feel this happening till they die. If i did that to some one i would be charged with a crime only because you can physically see that person, Then once it is over you have to live with the fact of doing this to your own child. if people feel mature enough to lie down be mature enough to raise that child you make.

Answer 9

Abortion is a terrible sin, an abomination in the eyes of God, and it is the scourge of modern day humanity.

Abortion is the answer to Satan's prayer, who desires nothing less than the destruction and eternal enslavement of all mankind.

Abortion is utterly wasteful and foolish, and is the ultimate demonstration of a complete lack of faith in God.

Abortion is a cowardly, inhuman, and totally selfish act, motivated by convenience, greed, and a misguided sense of entitlement and power.

All those who cooperate in the shedding of innocent blood will most certainly be required to answer for their crimes, before the judgment seat of God.

Answer 10

The Catholic Church has always condemned abortion as a grave evil. Christian writers from the first-century author of the Didache to Pope John Paul II in his encyclical Evangelium Vitae ("The Gospel of Life") have maintained that the Bible forbids abortion, just as it forbids murder.

As the early Christian writer Tertullian pointed out, the law of Moses ordered strict penalties for causing an abortion. We read, "If men who are fighting hit a pregnant woman and she gives birth prematurely [Hebrew: "so that her child comes out"], but there is no serious injury, the offender must be fined whatever the woman’s husband demands and the court allows. But if there is serious injury, you are to take life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot" (Ex. 21:22–24).

This applies the lex talionis or "law of retribution" to abortion. The lex talionis establishes the just punishment for an injury (eye for eye, tooth for tooth, life for life, compared to the much greater retributions that had been common before, such as life for eye, life for tooth, lives of the offender’s family for one life).

The lex talionis would already have been applied to a woman who was injured in a fight. The distinguishing point in this passage is that a pregnant woman is hurt "so that her child comes out"; the child is the focus of the lex talionis in this passage. Aborted babies must have justice, too.

This is because they, like older children, have souls, even though marred by original sin. David tells us, "Surely I was sinful at birth, sinful from the time my mother conceived me" (Ps. 51:5, NIV). Since sinfulness is a spiritual rather than a physical condition, David must have had a spiritual nature from the time of conception.

The same is shown in James 2:26, which tells us that "the body without the spirit is dead": The soul is the life-principle of the human body. Since from the time of conception the child’s body is alive (as shown by the fact it is growing), the child’s body must already have its spirit.

Thus, in 1995 Pope John Paul II declared that the Church’s teaching on abortion "is unchanged and unchangeable. Therefore, by the authority which Christ conferred upon Peter and his successors . . . I declare that direct abortion, that is, abortion willed as an end or as a means, always constitutes a grave moral disorder, since it is the deliberate killing of an innocent human being. This doctrine is based upon the natural law and upon the written word of God, is transmitted by the Church’s tradition and taught by the ordinary and universal magisterium. No circumstance, no purpose, no law whatsoever can ever make licit an act which is intrinsically illicit, since it is contrary to the law of God which is written in every human heart, knowable by reason itself, and proclaimed by the Church" (Evangelium Vitae 62).

The early Church Fathers agreed. Fortunately, abortion, like all sins, is forgivable; and forgiveness is as close as the nearest confessional.

The Didache

"The second commandment of the teaching: You shall not murder. You shall not commit adultery. You shall not seduce boys. You shall not commit fornication. You shall not steal. You shall not practice magic. You shall not use potions. You shall not procure [an] abortion, nor destroy a newborn child" (Didache 2:1–2 [A.D. 70]).

Peace and every blessing!