how many pro choice people feel that abortion is still killing a child?

Question

if you believe this tell me why you would think it is ok for someone else to murder an unborn child. If a person chooses to kill someone who is close to you, would you say this, it is murder but it was his choice? I do not think so.

for those who feel that aborting a child is ok because they may turn into a hitler, etc- how can you play God like that? And for those who say a fetus is a living child yet- 3 weeks after conception the heart is beating- 5-6 weeks you can see it on the ultrasound and within 6 weeks the brain waves are forming- just because the baby is not fully developed it does not make it a non-child. When a baby is born, they are not fully developed then either. When the heart starts to beat, you do not even know you are pregnant yet- does something that is just a cell have a heart beat?

for just a guy-
First of all I could have been aborted and so were my 2 adopted kids. My adopted daughter's birth mom used drugs and her birth dad died of an overdose- and she was born under weight but she is fine. We are not God and cannot take the life of a child, just because- did you know that 4,000 babies are aborted every day in america? Disgusting.

Answer 1

Every baby deserves to live. No matter what the outcome of the pregnancy. Rape, a mistake or god knows what else it could of been, that child has the right to live. It wasn't the baby's choice to be created. I honestly think it is MURDER all the way.

Answer 2

I believe that it should be a choice. It is easy to say that you would never have an abortion, but could you say that if your life was at risk to have the child? What if you were raped or molested, worse by a family member? What if you are 12 years old and having a baby? Abortion became an item because women were doing unbelievable things to themselves to not have a child. I believe that all women should have the choice, but not as birth control, or because you did not think to use protection, but as a health and safety measure. To compare it to someone killing a friend or family member is a stretch, too much generalization. I hate this question because I have never been put into a situation where i needed to make this choice - but - there is not a person out there that will ever tell me what I can and cant do with my body, it is that simple.

Answer 3

I am still waiting for you to answer me:

Have you ever been in a neonatal ICU and seen a drug withdrawing, malformed baby? Have you heard of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome? Have you ever read the prognosis of such a child, both short termed and long termed?

Have you been in that neonatal ICU or had any dealings with newborns or children who have severe, debilitating, and agonizing birth defects, who often die very young after a hideous life? Sometimes the birth defects can be determined prenatal.

Have you ever seen the result of an unwanted child... what the CHILD goes through? Go look up cases of severe child abuse.

Do you care about the children born in such situations?

Do you want to force a mother who is going to give birth to such a child to carry that child full term and give birth to the child, only for the child to live in agony?

What about the mother who has eclampsia, cardiac and respiratory ailments that can put the mother and the child's life in danger?

Do you think it is right to force a woman who was raped to carry the child full-term?

I do not think it is right to use abortion as a type of birth control but I am PRO choice. Also, pro education and pro intelligence.

Answer 4

I don't believe it is OK. But I think it's a moral issue, NOT a legal one. Morality cannot be legislated. Any decisions regarding abortion are entirely personal, and should be decided by the people involved, the God they answer to, and the medical personnel on the case. It is still MY body, and MY business, and MY right to do with my body as I choose. If we let the right wing conservatives take away that right, what are they going to go after next? Too much legislation gives government too much power, and I don't want the neo-con do gooders telling me what I can or can't do. I am on my own recognizance with God.

Answer 5

If the choice of abortion will save a baby a life of sheer misery, I can understand it. I do feel the one that would be a mother needs her tubes tied. But yes, I would do this. We, my family and I, CHOSE to turn off the equipment that kept my mother alive. She was still 'her', not brain dead. We CHOSE. She would have had no life to speak of had we forced her to live. Yes, we could possibly have saved her, but she would have been hospitalized the rest of her life, in severe pain, and unable to do anything for it. If that is the option, better to release them.

go here: http://kutv.com/local/local_story_205091825.html and read what the MINIMUM issues are with this problem. They don't deserve that. No one does

Answer 6

You really don't get it do you? The already established life of the mother MUST take precedence over the potential eventual life of the child if the child can't even yet exist outside the mothers womb.

That child has the potential to become the next Hitler or the next Ghandi but the mothers life is already established and already created. Hers is more important.

Besides, there are 6.5 BILLION people in this world, 7 BILLION within the next 50 years. There's already enough people. The human race isn't in danger of dying out unless we keep having babies and using up our resources or blow ourselves up in competition over said resources.

You have NO RIGHT to tell an 8 year old thats been raped by her father that she has to give birth to the baby. NONE.

Answer 7

I'm pro-choice. Sometimes the unborn child needs to be killed. In Judaism, there is the concept of a roydef, a pursuer, who can be killed with no legal repercussions. In many cases, the baby is a roydef, and every woman should have the choice to protect herself or keep the baby. Also, before the third term I think the woman should have a choice whether or not the baby poses a threat to her, since its not a person yet.

Answer 8

No, I don't think it is killing a child. I do feel that partial birth abortion is highly questionable and must be restricted only to absolutely essential situations. Basically, I am not going to argue with someone who wants to abort a fetus with spina bifida, cerebral palsy, exposure to hard drugs, Down's syndrome, etc. For the politically correct, I studied Social Work. Many of those kids are abandoned and/or neglected. Who wants to spend life in an institution with a crippling disorder than cannot be cured, abandoned by one's parents, subject to drug addiction and abuse, which are rampant in institutions. This I know from the many lectures by my Social Work teacher, along with all the books, videotapes and films and the group homes I volunteered in and/or visited.

It is fine during the first trimester. I think there should be a limit. The government should only cover one abortion through medicare and the second only under certain established conditions-result of incest, assault, severe deformity, mental illness in the patient, life endangerment.

Answer 9

I am pro choice but feel that it is still killing a child. I couldn't do it myself, but there are many out there who in the absence of that option would try in horrible ways to do it themselves or subject the child to an upbringing that no child deserves. Do you know how many children are born to addicts, violent abusers, and homes where nobody wants them? There are more children who need to be adopted than there ever will be parents for. The world is not black and white, there are many more shades between.

Answer 10

I think that it is killing a human being, but that human being is not a "person" yet.

I am wishy washy on the subject. I cam certainly not pro-abortion by anymeans, but I don't think the practice should be illegal.

I find it horrible, barbaric... but so is eating meat, war, and living in such a manner that condems others around the world to live in poverty... and we are all guilty in some manner or another.


edit:

And my mother IS pro-choice.