What is your outlook on abortion? Would you vote pro-choice or pro-life? Why?

Question

If possible, please give more reason than "woman's choice", etc. What do you really "believe",... not what you've simply "thought"?

Answer 1

Pro-choice..

It's very simple really....

there are times, when this freedom is a necessity.

I'll put a scenario out for some ppl..

let's say (and believe me, I know that most of you are in fact children... you're not fooling anyone btw...) that your 10 year old menstruating daughter got raped...got pregnant as a result of that rape...and you have financial difficulties and can not support doctor's bills or a baby... ( ?) should your daughter, or you as the decision making parent have the right to terminate that pregnancy if you choose too... and lastly, just to add to the situation, (all hypothetical of course) what if you're daughter's health or life was at stake.. add that one to the boiling pot...

what would you do??

Answer 2

I believe that abortion is murder, to be honest and plain and simple. That isn't to say that when the mother's life is in danger or when it isn't the mother's fault (cases such as rape) that she shouldn't be able to abort the baby. I went to body worlds a few weeks ago and it showed the "fetus" at the last legal week to abort, and it was fully developed, toes and everything. The idea that that baby is killed sometimes just because the mother doesn't want to deal with it breaks my heart and quite honestly angers me. I suppose then that I would have to vote pro-choice, but trust that women would use their better judgement and only kill the baby when it is a danger to their lives or when the baby was not made by a conscious choice of the mother and hope that the better ethical decision would be made. At least if a poor mother had a child it would have more of a chance of a decent life than if the mother ended the babies life before it had that choice.

Answer 3

I believe its a choice. I really have a hard time with pro-lifers. They are there marching outside of these drs. offices but they never seem to have an alternative to abortion. Adoption? Sure but you still have to carry that baby and you still have to pay for healthcare and recover. I know, seems nothing compared to an abortion but these are huge decisions to make. If I accidentally get pregnant and I chose not to have the baby - its my business - not someone elses. I do not view the baby as a living breathing being at 6 weeks gestation. It's not viable. I can understand someone who doesn't want to bring a child into this world if they've made a mistake and they cannot properly care for a child and give them what they deserve. I also think that those people who are huge pro-lifers should be adopting all those babies that are unwanted. All those special needs kids.

Answer 4

I would vote pro-choice because when a woman doesn't have the option of terminating a pregnancy in a qualified facility, that can make her turn to other options such as trying to do it on her own. And if abortions are outlawed there will still be doctors who will practice it illegally, sometimes resulting in botched surgeries and death or even no real abortion where the dr. pretends that he did the surgery. A woman who has been impregnated during a rape shouldn't have to stare in the face of her attacker's child either and she should have a choice as to if she wants to have that child or not. I don't agree with the number of women who abuse this right and have numerous abortions as a form of birth control, but I do know that in life, accidents happen. Any woman should be allowed to be in control over what happens with her body and her life.

Answer 5

Pro-choice. Then each person can make up their own mind about what is best for them. Just because there are places to get a safe abortion, doesn't mean you have to get one. If a person thinks abortion is wrong, then they can live by those values and raise their children to have those values without having to force their beliefs on others. As long as their are unwanted pregnancies in desperate situations, there will be woman trying terminate them... whether legal or not. At least in a pro-choice society there is someone to help them do it safely so that there isn't more suffering.

Answer 6

I am pro-life, and I am suprised anyone can be against "for-life." If anyone has a choice in a right to live, I think it should be a babies choice to live their own life. And the method that abortion uses is heartless, and disgusting. Seriously, anyone just yahoo image search the word abortion. You will see a fully developed baby with the body ripped into pieces and dumped into a trash can. I thought that was only done in horror movies, but it is not. It is done to babies every day. It really does make my heart hurt for those babies. I really am totally clueless into how there is a debate in America to whether it should be ok to kill a baby or not. It seems so obviously wrong to me.

Answer 7

Pro choice, but you shouldn't be terminating pregnancies at 3 and 4 months! I am not a doctor, and do not know at what point the fetus is more like a baby, but I think the earlier, the more sense it makes. I also agree that it should not be used in place of reliable birth control methods.
It's a touchy subject. Hopefully, abortion is thought through very carefully, and is the final option, after all other considerations have been made.

Answer 8

I believe that people, morally, should not have abortions. Imagine if Einstein's mom had an abortion, that's one more great mind we'd have missed out on. And if not for that reason, that is killing something that will one day be a person, and that's murder in the first. BUT, I am also pro choice, so I go both ways on the issue. You know the saying, "I don't agree with what you have to say, but I will defend with my life your right to say it." That's me.

Answer 9

I think a person should be able to do whatever they want I dont think it is right thats why I am sitting here with my second child due in August and though I am upset that I wont be having any fun this summer I have to deal with the consequences because I chose not to use condoms when I had sex I just want to say to anyone who is pregnant yes children are blessing but if dont think that you are ready abortion is the only option Like what if someone gets raped and gets pregnant who waould want to keep a baby that was conceived from such a tragedy and if abortion is banned then who will taje care of the kids that are brought into this world and not wanted there will be more cases of child abuse and welfare more dead beat dads and even mothers more grandmothers taking care of babies after they have already raised children more babies being killed and abandoned by women suffering form post partum depression.

Answer 10

Women do have the right to choose what happens with their bodies. Abortion is murder, as soon as an egg is fertilized it is a human being!
I do not look down on women that have abortions. SOME women may need one if by chance they became pregnant in their fallopian tubes, which would harm the mother. Other than medical purposes, I do not feel that it is right to murder an innocent child.
It is a shame that women choose this route as a means of birth control while condoms are free at the health department!
But again, I am not judging people for their decision to murder an innocent baby! :( If you believe in God or not...just imagine that baby being infront of you and you murder it, that is the exact same thing that the abortion clinic does.


If you are not mature enough to raise a child then you are not mature enough to be having sex to begin with! KEEP YOUR KNEES TOGETHER!

Answer 11

A sister-in-law of mine (her sis married my bro) grew up in a tiny town in the south of IL about 30 years ago, she received a religious education and all that that entails both good and bad, unfortunately for her she found out the hard way that ignorance doesn't protect anyone. At 12, a neighborhood boy of 10, got her pregnant without either of them understanding what had happened. when the baby began to show, he thought she was getting fat and so he held her feet while she did sit -ups!
As silly as that last bit sounded, this next part is nasty. Because she was so young, thin and little, her body stopped pumping blood to her extremeties, and it clotted in her arms and legs so bad she was bed ridden for months and had several small strokes. one of which nearly killed her.
But she pulled through & after the birth, her parents adopted the child. She took care of the baby each day after school, but it didn't spare her from a very tough life. The so called moral standards of her town turned out to be double-standards. While the boy was getting pats on the back, she was getting called every name in the book. And this treatment was from the kind of folks you'd expect would be happy that she didn't have a D&C and kept her baby.
Eventually she couldn't take it anymore, had a breakdown and tried to slit her wrists in the tub. While in recovery, she begged the hospital staff to let her stay, and then to place her in a halfway house, because she couldn't bear to go back to that nightmare of a town. When she was made to go back home she and another friend hatched a plan to run away, and I guess it worked since that was pretty much the last I ever heard of her. Now I do whatever I can to support reproductive rights, and sex education.