What are the arguments for and against legalized abortion?

Answer 1

For: It's the pregnant womans right to choose.

Against: God zapped a soul into it at the moment the sperm hit the egg.

Answer 2

Abortion is an act of convenience. It is neither morally wrong nor morally right. In the United States, acts of convenience dominate our lives. Abortion is a red herring thrown at women to give them the impression of control while stomping on their rights as human beings. There is no reason that it shouldn't be legal, and if those who argue against it have a legitimate point, no one will choose to have an abortion. By the same token, if those who argue against it can't present a valid argument, then abortions will continue, legality notwithstanding. The entire argument is about wasting time and energy and distracting activist types from the real issues.

Answer 3

Pro-choice:
1. It's a woman's (and, sometimes, sperm-contributor's) right to choose when they will and will not start a family.
2. It will prevent the use of coat-hangers, etc. from being used to abort pregnancies, because banning abortions will not stop them from happening.
3. And, sadly, in some cases, it could prevent instances of children growing up in awful settings, etc.
4. Prevents the birth of an individual with serious diseases, abnormalities, etc.

Anti-choice:
1. Person-hood begins with conception, therefore, some view abortion as the killing of a human being...even after only the first hour (i.e. in case of Plan B).

Answer 4

The agument for it is basicly that (up to a certain point in pregnacy) a fetus is not a human and it should be a woman's choice if she will bring it to term or not.

There is no current leagal agrument against abortion. It's a moral argument for some people.

Answer 5

I don't believe that anyone should have the right to tell other people what they can or cannot do with their own bodies.

I would never probably choose to have one myself, but I don't have any right to stop others. Everyone's beliefs are different and you can't just say "You have to do this because my religion says so." because they may not be of your religious faith.

And if a woman gets raped, why should she have to carry that baby to term and relive her horrible experience? Because other people who have never been in her shoes say so?

I have a child, but I still believe that every woman should have the right to choose. What if she was told her life was at risk because of her pregnancy? Is she supposed to die because of a pregnancy? If you believe life is sacred, how can it not also be sacred for the mother?

I do not believe that a woman should use abortion as a form of birth control over and over again, but what if she had been taking birth control and she happened to be of the 1 or 2% of people who still get pregnant?

She should still carry to term, just because others say so?

I don't think so. I don't tell others how to live, why should others have the right to tell me how to live?

Answer 6

Abortion is NOT murder.

1. A fetus is NOT a child and a fetus is NOT a human being. It is a part of the female's body until it is carried to term and can live outside the human body. Until then, it is medically, little more than a parasite and it is a possession of that woman. If a lung or kidney or even a tonsil is brought out of a human being, it is a living human organism and will die outside the human body eventually. Letting a tonsil die is not murder. Removing a fetus is not murder either.

2. A woman's body is NOT the property of the superstitious dogma of obsolete objective moralists.

3. Life is NOT sacred. Human life is NOT sacred. If it was, hand guns and the death penalty would be illegal, and your precious conservative buddies would actually look for alternatives to war instead of lying just to start one.

4. Human life does not start at conception. Human life starts, individually, as sperm and eggs - gametes which ARE alive, but are disposed of every month through menstrual cycles for females or either nocturnal emissions or masturbation for males. So any boy who has had a wet dream or any girl who has had more than one period is, by the pro-life definition, a serial killer. Trailer trash likes to pretend human life begins at conception out of convenience for their argument only.

Answer 7

I'm not for abortion. But we have to make it available for certain cases.
I know a young lady who had an abortion recently. Let me tell you this is not a piece of cake.She was at home sobbing for days thinking about the baby she terminated and her boyfriend the hero who pressured her into it , he took to the hills.

Answer 8

It is a matterfor the states to decide. The Federal Courts should never have become involved. Anyone who wants the Federal Courts involved is another socialist.

Answer 9

The arguments are for making sense into people who kill a life! Especially when that life hasn't even experienced or seen anything yet and when it is innocent and helpless. Women who get abortions are stupid and crazy. It shouldn't matter whether they are going through a hard time or they don't think that they can take care of a baby, they should have the kid and figure something out! either that or they should think about what they are doing before they go and have unwed, and unprotected sex!

Answer 10

It is a moral decision and it is up to the mother to decide. . .Thank God that I would never be faced with that choice