Please explain in detail why PRO-LIFE laws would not, in fact, ENSLAVE WOMEN against their will?

Question

I am referring only to the woman, not the fetus.

Answer 1

I agree. The contents of my uterus are none of anyone else's business. And you're not making me keep a fetus I don't want and didn't willingly conceive.

Answer 2

Excuse me. What about the decision 'he' made? What about the responsibility 'he' has. Lets' not wander into other issues here people!!!!!

Now, another wandering moment to address. Birth control is prevention, prevention is worth a pound of cure! Now many of you will agree abstenance is a great way to prevent!

Not if you're married though! Personally, a woman has a right to protect her health. Keeping a mother in good health is also in the very best interest of her children, all her children!!!! Most women can not have more than three or four children without risking long term health issues with their bodies. It takes at least two full years for a woman to recover fully from pregnancy and birth. So, improvement in birth control is smart. Besides, we already have a lot of kids who need a good home.

Men can get fixed. Help your Lassies boys. Don't be chickens!
Open your hearts and home and adopt a few kids if you think eighteen is your number!

Now, finally, abortion. WOW! No one here has described how por-life laws would not enslave women against their will. Most of your answers are from very young niave women. They sound that way anyway.

This is a really difficult area. Generalities do not work well here. As a woman, I do have a right to protect my well being and my health. I believe, I have a right and responsibility to control my reproductive activity in the positive sense. Health comon sense, life planning and so on.

I cherish life and feel that carrying a child is a sacred trust. So I take it very seriously. I agree with some statements here but not all.

Things do happen and not all women should be mothers let alone carry a child. But that choice is also very problematic...who gets to be a parent? Who am I or anyone else to say? We cannot predict the outcome.

I saw a baby born drunk once. It was torment. I see fetal alchohol kids and what they deal with and it is heart renching. There are a host of other kinds of pregnancy and birth tragedies and franky there are not enough homes capable of dealing with these poor kids and the schools are having a really tough time with it.

A child is a huge responsibility. Whoever takes on that child must do their very best for that individual, always. Nothing is black and white here. I would have liked to hear a real answer to this question. Your question needs more explanation of 'enslaved'. You know what you mean , but it is clear the rest here do not. It is very cercumstancial. People who have never had it rough or, been pregnant or had a child really have little to go on.

This is a heart break issue no matter how you look at it. Part of the problem is where we as women we that know history and pay attention globally, fear a law like that would likely lead to other issues quickly. Women die in child birth as do children sometimes. How many of you have heard of the choosing one life or the other senario. Now, in the moment a mother may choose to die and let her child live, but it is antoher thing for someone else to make that choice for you and condem you for wanting to live. When the mother is not cognicent or able to, someone else makes the choice. There are alot of other things you are not considering here to that would have to change if you were to convince women of going down this road. A lot of it would be upon men to change their behaviors. Long disscussion

The morning after pill should be available to everyone with out fus. It is not abortion. It tricks the body and the egg cannot take hold. That with some spermacide is preferable to all this. It would prevent a lot of pregnancies that would have ended up as abortions. Case closed.

Peace and love life!

Answer 3

Lets say that a woman could use abortion as a means of birth control, abortion has effects on the mother psychologically and physically. Nearly 94% of women who have an abortion experience increased health problems. Women in China are limited to having one child per family. How many of them would give anything to conceive one of these lives that women in the US find an inconvenience. Before you say the women here are being enslaved to bear children, talk to the people who are truly ordered not to at all.
Child bearing is a womans responsibility if she conceives, if this were not so she would not be given the honor of carrying the baby inside her. Also, if we give her rights over the "fetus" should the father also have the right to make some decision as well. After all, it is half of his DNA that is supplying the "fetus" with life.

Answer 4

Getting pregnant is not enslavement. There are plenty of ways to prevent pregnancy from happening. Once you are pregnant, taking the life of that 'fetus', or child, as I choose to call it, should not be an option. I have 4 kids, one was born out of wedlock at age 18; she has a different father then the other 3. I should have 5 children, but I aborted one 6 months after giving birth to my oldest child. This was the biggest mistake I ever made in my life. I believe most women that have abortions feel this way. Once the deed is done you know you killed your own child, you can live in denial or deal with the truth and move on with your life. But you did pay to murder your own child. That's what I call enslavement and you can't ever pay to be released either.

Answer 5

Pro life laws will enslave a woman. It will force her to deal with the responsibility of a decision she made. She will no longer be able to shirk, or slide that under the rug, and forget about it. She will become a slave to the fact that, she is pregnant, and that she is going to have to deal with that pregnancy.

She made that decision, it is not against her will. For millions of years, when a male and a female have sex, offspring is the possible result of that coupling. We all know this. When a man and woman have sex even today, the result may, in fact, be pregnancy. We all know this. This is called the consequences of making the decision to have sex. Enslave? Or call it taking responsibility. Against her will? Then keep her legs closed (crude, but very correct).

Or, how about this, there are numerous sex acts that can be performed, that do *not* end with the posibility of pregnancy, why not indulge in these? It's only one little act, amongst many possibilities.

Decisions have consequences, Responsibility means dealing with those consequences.

Answer 6

When I read what someone said about putting it to a "national vote" I wasn't really surprised, I was--appalled. The government is too much in our faces as it is. But it's much more than that. This is a PERSONAL choice, one that can only be decided by the woman and/or her doctor. There is far too much subjectivity & generalizations here in the answers. One can certainly opine what they would do, given a situation, for which they have virtually no information. I do not believe in killing anything. Not even a moth. Yet, to think of this in other ways--a 13 year old who has been raped (or the victim of incest). Perhaps she has no one who could be supportive of her. Who would to condemn that child, & her child to a future of deprivation? As far as adoption, has anyone considered the dreadful trauma of having this child & then giving it up? As to partial birth abortion, I cannot comprehend how a woman would go through 9 months of preganancy & suddenly decide, gee, I changed my mind. It would HAVE to be an urgent medical issue. [grace] What has abortion got to do with "your figure?" To those who think the fetus is more important than the woman, I'd like to ask one simple question: If two people that you loved were drowning, & you knew you could save only one, how would you choose? It would HAVE to be your choice, no one else's.
Of course I don't believe in abortion as a way of birth control.
But to those who see things only in black & white with no exceptions, to thine own self be true. Just, please, don't attempt to project what you "believe" on anyone else. One very last thing. If a woman dies giving birth to a child who then lives, & she has other children, who benefits? Who loses?

Answer 7

Because women have the choice to have safe and protected sex. They can choose to use contraceptives and birth control pills. I suppose the only reasons acceptable for a woman to abort her baby is that her fetus is a product of rape or that it will cause harm to her or that the baby will turn out retarded(the bad ones) or if the baby is unhealthy and will die shortly soon after.

Answer 8

Parents have a obligation to support their minor children. Men also engage in the act that can result in the creation of a child, but men do not have the right to kill the child. Men must work to pay child support or go to jail. Is that enslavement?

Answer 9

A high number of abortions are chosen because of overt pressure from the boyfriend. Specifically, there is fear he will leave if she has the child. There are a number of ways pro-choice laws serve male sexual irresponsibility and manipulation at the expense of women. The statistics are alarming, but I do not have them at hand. They are in a book called Before The Shooting Begins by James Davidson Hunter. It features the largest scale national study of views on abortion performed to date.

Answer 10

Calling an baby a fetus does not change its nature. It is a practise of semantics like saying collateral damage instead of dead civilians. My aunt was raped when she was 16 years old. She had the baby and her parents helped raise him. She loved that child until she died; she treasured his life, his wife, and his children. I do not think she felt enslaved, she did however feel blessed that he was a part of her life. The rapist was not a part of her life and she was free to feel as negatively toward him as she wanted. I think her choice was noble and it made me admire her. Should all women be forced to be noble. I don't know. I could not murder a child of mine, I have two close family members who have. The inner aftermath caused them both to attempt suicide. I think that women who go into this do not realize that they are entering a lifetime of something either way. One way leads to a child (keep it or give it up) the other leads to depression and regret (what if) I think rather than allow Congress or the Supreme Court to decide; we should put it to a national vote and be done with it. It would probably be the largest voter turn out in history.

Answer 11

If you mean requiring them to be responsible, I don't see how that's enslavement. It would require them to take responsibility for themselves.

If birth control didn't work, they can always give up the child.

I support abortion in terms of rape and medical necessity. (Either incest is rape, or you're willing and should have to live with consequences.)