women should have the right to choose? Thats like saying, Im against murdering, but murderers should have the right to choose!
2007-03-29 13:21:47 · 24 answers · asked by Socrates 3 in Social Science ➔ Gender Studies
How do you define a person that is the real question.
2007-03-29 13:59:52 · update #1
Let me guess you think right and wrong is relative?
2007-03-29 14:06:31 · update #2
Its not HER body its another person..are YOU part of your mothers body or are you your own self?
2007-03-29 19:24:49 · update #3
betty-that seems like a selfish stance.
2007-03-29 19:26:09 · update #4
Socrates, don't you understand?
There is no such thing as "wrong"!
Or right, or good and bad, or man and woman, or honest and dishonest. They are all social constructs of an oppressive patriarchal society.
If these did exist, we might actually have to take "personal responsibility" for our actions.
Oh, sorry. My bad. That doesn't exist either.
2007-03-29 15:18:51 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 7⤊ 4⤋
Abortion is wrong, but it is not murder! A life is forming, but it is not formed! Women do have a choice about child bearing, and that choice should be made not about to get rid of the unborn or not, but to become impregnated or not in the first place.
But what if this choice is taken away from someone, what if it may be a young teen who has become pregnant, who is no more than a child herself?
What if there is violence in the relationship and the women knows this would be a bad life of abuse for a child?
What if it was rape?
what if........, and there are many what ifs, so who is any one to judge.
I am sure that someone who has had an abortion will carry the burden with them for ever as to was it correct or not, but to call them a murderer is to be fair not right. So how can abortion and its circumstances be compared to murder?
Yes abortion is not right, but then nor is divorce, killing of animals,polluting the world,greed,sex before marriage or lies...
but sometimes all things that are wrong to a degree are done at a time when they seem right for whatever reasons.
2007-03-29 21:20:31 · answer #2 · answered by delbolof 3 · 5⤊ 3⤋
I can see your argument, but here is the deal. It's not so much pro-choice as it is a retention of women's rights. In a lot of societies, it is up to the man whether he wants to kill the fetus. Sometimes, they even kill the baby when it is born and crawling around. See that? the man has the choice. So, we as women want it to be our rights as women. We want full and complete private control over our own bodies. We don't want the government or others to have control over it. And, Abortion is not some new fad. This contraception method has been around for a long time. But, way back in the day, women would use anything, like a wire hanger or some steel object to kill the fetus. It sounds very dangerous. But, what I don't get is why men are in on this debate. Who has the children? Women. Who gives birth? Women. Who carries it for 9 months? Women. Whose egg has the sperm flailing around to get to it? Women.
2007-03-30 12:14:03 · answer #3 · answered by nicoleblingy2003 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Many religions teach that a soul doesn't enter the body until the head comes out. Based on that teaching, which again most religions except Christianity believe, it's a choice as it's part of the body, not another being.
2007-03-30 01:12:18 · answer #4 · answered by zeebarista 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
No the issue isn't about right or wrong concerning abortion,the right to choose is...A woman should have the right as a human to do as she wishes with her own body,not an outside force,other involved people, or entity..Either choice she makes is admirable & takes courage no matter what..She must choose what is right for her & her future.
2007-03-30 00:03:35 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 2⤋
Either something is right or it's wrong. If you think something is wrong, you should support laws to prevent it. Saying "I think it's wrong, but it's only wrong for me or others who also think so" is just a pro-choicer's way of blowing smoke. What they're really saying is "I don't like it, but I don't respect or trust myself enough intellectually to make that determination. So--just in case I'm wrong--I'll say it's okay to do."
You said it best yourself, how can you say that murdering or stealing is wrong, but then say it's a personal choice? It's a logical contradiction.
Edit to Jenny: You are not pro-life, you are pro-choice, by definition
2007-03-29 23:11:38 · answer #6 · answered by anotherguy 3 · 5⤊ 1⤋
You are missing the point. For instance I dont agree with homosexuality, but that doesnt make me treat gay people in a rude manner or judge them. Its their life, and its their choice, its none of my business what they do. I do not begrudge them their choice. Nobody is forcing you and yours to have an abortion, so I do not see how this directly affects you?
2007-03-30 02:23:55 · answer #7 · answered by Bonzai Betty 6 · 5⤊ 1⤋
it's just a matter of not forcing your beliefs on others. i think abortion after the first trimester is wrong without a medical reason, and i support a woman's right to choose during that time. but once you start to limit it it starts getting hairy...
so you allow it if both lives are in danger?
what if only the mother's life is in danger?
what if it's to save the mother's fertility?
what if it's to stop an illness that prevents the mother from funcioning--and possibly caring for older children?
2007-03-29 20:27:35 · answer #8 · answered by Ember Halo 6 · 6⤊ 4⤋
I just dont undertand peopel who are for abortion, it just bafels me.
I was just feeling my pregnant wifes belly and my little boy was kicking whenever I would sing his name. I could tell that he was responding to my vioce, and I cant even fathom how anyone could just write that little guy off and kill him.
Its sad that so many people feel that this is acceptable, its just not. Its wrong on so many levels.
Here is a senario: If a man stabbs a pregnant woman and the baby dies that man goes to prison for murder.
But if the woman goes and has her baby killed she is praised as excersising her right of choice..
WFT- double standard? both are murder and both should not be allowed.
And Betty: the parallel between gay people and their private lives does not corelate with the killing of an inocent baby. That argument is just stupid.
2007-03-30 02:45:59 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 5⤋
How can you believe that it's okay to impregnate a woman and abandon her, expecting her to take full responsibility for a decision made together?
Pro choice isn't about saying, 'sure, go ahead and make it easy on yourself by killing your offspring.' It's about saying 'it's already been painful and we aren't going to add to that pain by saying you are evil.'
I'm pro-life and always hope for the best, but I'm not willing to throw stones at people that are walking a much harder road than I am.
...and likely you haven't walked that particular road either.
Live well~
2007-03-29 23:00:02 · answer #10 · answered by Jenny 5 · 1⤊ 3⤋