Should abortion be considered a fundamental human right?

Question

After all, there is no more important health care service for women who have made that choice.

If you had an unwanted pregnancy, you would want an abortion as much as someone with cancer wanted treatment. Maybe more, because you could be sure that the treatment would fix your condition.

good point, coragryph. But we should work just as hard spreading the word about the morning after pill, and making sure it is affordable to women of all income levels.

Answer 1

No, life should be considered THE fundamental human right.

Answer 2

Abortion should be consider womans fundamental right to choose since there medical conditions occur to put womans life at risk during pregnancy there are rare genetic defects womans could be faced with when having a child . a woman can die during child birth no human has right use another life support againist their will or be forced donate kidney if need be so why people feel compelled to force women to birth . love how alot also assume consent sex is consent pregnancy when most time people want feel pleasure and we are society has meansto decide if and when we want have children goverment and other people should biut out if womans descion no man other person can force woman to birth and face risk beside the woman

Answer 3

Yes.

Right up until the time when the fetus can survive on its own.

Why? Because until then, denying the mother the right to choose whether she is medically involved in the process means forcing her to serve as incubator for the unborn against her will. And that's a violation of the 9th and 13th Amendments.

However, once the fetus can survive on its own, she cannot reasonable choose to terminate it. The only choice she has at that point is to transfer it out of her into an incubator.

So, if people want to resolve the entire debate, let's put funding towards medical research that allows a week-old embryo to be transplanted and grown in an artificial incubator. That preserves the choice of the mother and the life of the unborn.

In fact, if all the time and money that's been spend arguing about this issue had been put toward that medical goal, we would have had that technology years ago.

Answer 4

Not in the sense you are making. Making it a fundamental human right would force other countries to recognize it as such.

We should only be considered with how our constitution handles the issue... which has been resolved already by the Supreme Court of the USA.

Abortion is legal, based on our constitution, in the USA based on a woman's right to privacy over what happens to her body. We can't reflect our constitution on other countries...

Answer 5

You have it wrong Longhair. Abortion is a choice. Cancer
is not. Couples who have sexual relations should make their
choice at that point about making a baby. If the woman does
not wish to get pregnant, she should use her choice of birth
control. Don't wait until a baby forms with a beating heart and
then decide to scrape it's body out in pieces. This is sick.
It is not, therefore, a fundamental human right, especially to
the baby who does not get a choice and sometimes even to
the father who's opinion seems to not matter either.

Answer 6

Well I wasnt sure you were playing with a full deck before but im sure about it now.
So in your mind abortion is more important than screening for cancer or heart issues becuase to you its not as important of a health care service than abortions?
I really dont know what to say longhair. I have no idea where you got your sense of logic.

Answer 7

No, I don't agree, and I am pro-choice.

But when I look at the mind-boggling number of abortions in America annually, I find it hard to believe that abortion is not being used as birth control.

Of course, when I see how many really horrible parents are out there - abusing, raping, torturing, neglecting their kids, I don't think giving birth should be a right - it's a privilege.

Answer 8

is it the human right of the unborn to be the victim of an abortion?
Abortion should never be a fundamental human right, because it ignores the rights of a person that cannot speak up in his or her own defense

Answer 9

determination of medical decisions, privacy, autonomy over ones own body should indeed be considered human rights.

due to the fact that men over 50 produce shabby sperm and therefore birth defects in their offspring , for the good of society would you consider having your sperm screened and if degradation of viability is found you , by law, must have a vasectomy? government mandated vasectomy for all men with shabby sperm. how about it? want the government having that much power over your testicles?

Answer 10

I don't think it should be a right like breathing and food and shelter, but it should be a medical procedure that is available to all women. I don't believe insurances have to pay for it, but the procedure should be legal.

Answer 11

I'm speechless.Murdering babies a fundamental human right? Does no one care about the rights of tiny human beings who are being killed by the millions each year,for reasons of pure selfishness?
I fear for the future of the world when so many seem to favour death of innocents.