What do you think of early-term abortion?

Question

I'm talking about first couple of months in development. For any reason. Legal in government. What do you think?

I will refrain from giving my opinion until you guys answer.

Answer 1

Abortion is unfortunate. Of course, in countries where religious fanatics do not outlaw birth control and stigmatize sex, abortions are fewer in number than in a country like the US where piety is preached and sexual activity is both sought feverishly and denounced hypocritically, reducing the use of effective birth control as people play at seducing and being seduced and avoid birth control because it gives evidence of premediation in what many prefer to see as a "spiritual falling." If we want to reduce abortion we really have to reduce the influence of religion on our culture.

I see three issues with a first trimester abortion:

The first issue is what simply must be the absolute right of a human being to control their own body and anything growing in it whether cancer or fetus. Government has no compelling interest by which it may justify declaring a woman an incubator. We aren't short of population yet.

My second issue is the morality of abortion per se. Morality is not a matter of adhering to some fanatic's notions of what some mythical mountain god wants of them. That is religious dogma, not morality. Morality comes into play when suffering is at issue and it is not at issue in the first trimester. The fact that nerves may exist and involuntary reactions of limbs may occur fairly early is not of moral concern since without the connection to the cortex the subjective experience of pain and suffering is not possible.

The third issue is one I pay little attention to since there is no evidence that anything imagined to be a soul actually exists, whether in a blastocyst or an adult human. I see the whole debate about ensoulment as one that takes place within the community of the religious deluded. I note the debate, but it is irrelevant to the real world as are all such discussions which have no foundation in testable evidence.

I see no rational grounds to object to first trimester abortions and the irrational grounds offered, like all mere assertions about gods and devils and souls and such, are simply not persuasive.

Answer 2

I think it is a good option to have, if you are asking as far as keeping it legal, then you can't deny women the right. People say it shouldn't be used for birth control, and I agree, if you have to have and abortion every few months then you should get on the pill. But, at this point in my life if I were to get pregnant I would take the option, I am not financially ready to have a child, nor am I ready to give up my freedom, hell I may never have kids. but, back to the subject at hand, I think the best argument for keeping the right is rape. What if you have a child because of some horrible person having there way with you. What if that person was your father?? I wouldn't want that child, and you can't make law stating only in certain circumstances is it legal, then every woman would simply say they were raped. It has to be all our nothing, and I think there are enough very important reasons to have it legal to keep it legal. And I know that if I ever did have a child, and she was a young girl and got pregnant I would rather her go to a safe legal clinic then Mexico, or a back alley for a rusty hanger job.

Answer 3

The change is that at approximately 6 months you'll be able to honestly deliver beginning to it early and it is going to be ready to devour, sleep, cry, suppose soreness, something an entire time period youngster can do. At just a few weeks (first trimester) this can be a bunch of cells and not using a fearful sytem, no mind or method of residing with out chemical compounds produced via the mum that it could possibly most effective recieve within the womb. Even even though it's alive, it's only regarded alive on the grounds that it could possibly develop. In the final trimester, it's honestly related to homicide on the grounds that it is going to suppose the equal factor a youngster born complete time period might suppose having the equal process performed. I am professional option. I feel it will have to honestly be less difficult to get an abortion early within the being pregnant. It's now not as useful as going right into a sanatorium and "killing a youngster" as professional existence individuals like to place it. They require signatures from individuals who deserted the pregnant lady within the first position. If it used to be handy to speak to her dad and mom, boyfriend, youngster's father, and so on, she won't also be getting an abortion within the first position. In plenty of instances, the girl has shamed her household via getting pregnant and so they feel signing something pronouncing they are able to abort it is going to lead them to seem dangerous. If she did not ought to spend 6 months chasing down the youngster's father earlier than getting an abortion it would not be overdue time period within the first position.

Answer 4

Although I personally don't like abortion, I do think there are a couple of good reasons women should be allowed to choose.

1. If a woman becomes pregnant as a result of a rape she may not want to have the child.

2. If it is a health risk to the mother.

Just because I don't think it is right doesn't mean there might not be valid reasons for someone to do it. What I have a problem with are the women who use abortion as a form of birth control. Women like that should be sterilized.

Answer 5

Ultimately the real question here is who does the fetus belong to? If you believe like I do that there is a creator that is soverein, then you believe that the fetus belongs to God. If that is the case then I offer this analogy.
If I were building a car in my garage and an enviromental activist broke into my garage and destroyed what I had built is their any point in the construction of said vehicle that makes it legal to break into my private property (my garage) and destroy my private property (the car I am building)? Now let's say the environmental activist argues to the judge that the car I am building will some how harm the environment. Does that justify breaking the law?
In my personal opinion even a small life is worth saving.
Consider this. When Hitler was in charge of Germany the German supreme court ruled that Jews were not human and therefore not protected by law. When soldiers were brought up on war crimes they tried to argue that killing Jews was not against the law, but the international court stated that certain things are internationally right or wrong and that murder is internationally recongnized as wrong. Here in America the supreme court has determined that babies are not human until they leave the womb. So millions of babies are murdered every year. Over 45 million babies have been murdered since Roe vs. Wade. Liberal war protestors hold up signs calling soldiers baby killers. You tell me. Who are the real baby killers? In the 80's a couple actually delivered a baby in a hospital in Illinois that had downs syndrome. They called it baby Doe because the parents never named it. The hospital facilitated the death of baby Doe on behalf of this couple and the papers applauded it as an exercise of a woman's choice. They allowed Baby Doe to starve to death in the hospital because the parents decided that they didn't want him. They ignored offers from loving couples that offered to adopt him. Will there ever be justice for the innocent and the small in America? Pray for the children.

Answer 6

Don't listen to the nutcases who tell you "It's murder no matter when you do it." Sometimes, abortion is a blessing. Especially if it's done as early as possible in the pregnancy.

If a person uses birth control to prevent pregnancy because they do NOT want to be pregnant or have a child, how can it be logical to force them to stay pregnant if the birth control fails?

If you are personally against abortion, then don't have one. Nobody will try to force you to have an abortion. But by the same token, don't you try to force someone to stay pregnant if they don't want to. Unless you are willing to have that fetus implanted in your own body, go through the pregnancy and have it out after nine months - mind your own business.

Answer 7

Well, in my opinion it is murder no matter what term you do it. Anyone who had the nerve to bump uglies like an adult needs to take the consquences like an adult instead of trying to escape it by butchering an unborn child.
For most people, it usually comes down to the old debate of when life really begins. Some say not until there is a heart beat, others say at moment of conception, while others say not until actual birth, and all points in between. I myself can not see why it matters what moment life becomes true life, but everyone thinks differently I suppose.
I guess I can see where some reasons would be reasonable to have one though. Life threatening to the mother, and MAYBE impregnated by rape (and I really mean a big maybe). It is not birth control, so if you get pregnant, try adoption. There are so many people in the world who want children and can't, give them the chance to raise your child and give the child a chance to grow up and live life.

Answer 8

I think it is solely the woman's decision to make in the first trimester, early term. At that point the fetus is NOT viable to live outside of the womb. The government was charged by the Founding Fathers to protect the shores, not make moral decisions for women.

Answer 9

I believe everybody has the right to make their own choices...with that said I think early-term abortion should stay legal. Also, I feel that we have way to many unwanted children in the world...which often grow up in bad situations abuse, neglect ect. and those are often the people that grow up to be a burden on society. I don't agree with those that believe it is murder.

Answer 10

I can only speak for myself: To me, from the moment I knew I was pregnant, those cells were my child. My thoughts circled around that child. I awaited that child. I would never have considered an abortion, because I would have been killing my child. I realize that other people have their views. This, though, was my reality.