Pro-Life or Pro-Choice?

Question

What is your view... Pro-Life, or Pro-Choice? (somewhat or strongly) I am STRONGLY Pro-Life, and I think that when a person is having unprotected sex, they know very well that pregnancy could come of that. I also feel that there are other options, not just killing an innocent human being.

Answer 1

I am pro-choice. It is virtually certain that I will never myself need an abortion (I'm a lesbian, so this leaves only the possibility of pregnancy resulting from rape. Since I don't date men, I've removed the major risk factor for getting raped. I'm also tough and armed). I support abortion rights because it's the right thing to do, because taking away a woman's right to control her own body undermies all of us.

Answer 2

Pro-life with stiputlation. I believe this is a moral issue. Each woman must make her own decision. The Creator will judge. This is not a legal issue. I also believe the men that are involved in these situations have the right to their children. There should be a way for everyone to agree in these situations. I would not judge another woman badly for having an abortion. The child is back with the Creator and is safe. Most woman have emotional problems over this. And of course prevention is much better than abortion.

Answer 3

I am both. I agree with you that people know what the potential outcome is of having unprotected sex. It takes two! I would rather a woman make the choice to abort a pregnancy (early stage) if she truly knew she could not at all care for that baby. This breaks my heart to say because it is - no other way to justify it - is taking a life. But there are so many children in our country that have been abandoned or are orphans or are in the care of people who could really give a sht about anyone other than themselves when it comes to drugs, etc. Think about the children who are with people who physically, one form or another, abuse them! That's why I despise famous people like Madonna or Angelina Joli, etc - that adopt kids from other countries. They are doing a great thing YES but what about all the children in OUR country who need a family, who deserve a family or a Mom or a stable life or food and water and shelter. What about our kids? I'm sorry but I don't want to hear or see any other kids suffer needlessly. They didn't ask to be born but just are born and then have to suffer the consequences. I get so upset with this issue because it is bad and heart breaking until you hear of one child that lucked out and got a home with good people. While all the others are still suffering and going through the whole pain process that they don't even realize they have yet until they know that they weren't wanted and that's why they have to live.

Answer 4

How about pregnancy due to incest? Pregnancy due to rape? Or how about the child is 13 and pregnant having been coerced by someone older? What about if the foetus has a terminal medical condition? Abortion is pretty awful but it is a necessary evil which unfortunately sometimes has to occur due the nature of the situation. I advocate for abortion under 12 weeks when an foetuses brain is not fully formed where as anything after that the foetus is a fully formed bbeing with a fully formed brain. A human being should be born into a loving and wanted home and not a life of misery because somebody objects to abortion. I look at the lives that some of the serial killers had - truly horrific lives where they were subjected to physical, sexual and emmotional abuse as small children and often think that maybe the woman should of aborted rather than inflict such pain on a innocent child's mind. Also in America on death row there are quite a few women who are there for deliberating killing their new born - they would of been better off getting an abortion. But maybe it was too expensive for them. The last two internet sites tells the story of Kenesha Berry who killed one new born and abandoned another new born in a ditch. Her story is very sad -

Answer 5

Pro-life.
It is well known and firmly established that a certain behavior often leads to pregnancy. There are many ways to prevent pregnancy (for women; men have only condoms or surgical sterilization). Yet for all the various choices for women, abortion seems to be another choice. The point is that women who do not want to be a parent can legally deny becoming one at any point from before pre-coital to post birth.
Post conception, women have three choices to prevent becoming a parent and being held to support their offspring. Men have ZERO. The only reason men are held to the standard they are is that "there is a child in need of support" if the mother allows it to be born but this same argument fails when it is the mother seeking freedom from the results of her choice. She can legally abandon a newborn or arrange for it to be adopted, usually without the father's knowledge of the pregnancy.
There was also the following case:
"In Texas in 2005, Erica Basoria decided to try to induce a miscarriage. When that didn't work, she asked her boyfriend to step on her stomach. A week later she miscarried.
This is all bad enough, but what comes next is fantastically worse: Texas also has a shiny new law criminalizing "fetal murder," and the fact that Basoria wanted a miscarriage in this case doesn't matter. Her boyfriend, Gerardo Flores of Lufkin, has been sentenced to 40 years in prison for his part in this tragic comic opera". Under state law, a woman cannot be charged for causing the deaths of her own fetuses for any reason.

If for no other reason, I am opposed to abortion in the arbitrary way men and women are given vastly different laws in relation to reproduction. (that's not the only reason but it is sufficient).
Of course many women don't want equality to men; it would be a step backward for them. To become equal would mean giving up special treatment based solely on the sex of the individual.
As one feminist wrote concerning availabilty of abortion for women: "being pro-choice is not just about having options, it is about each individual living an unfettered life, making your own decisions that only you can make.". Apparently, this only applies to women since men are not allowed to decide whether or not to become parents once pregnancy has occurred as women are.

EDIT: It is amazing that pro-abortionists use the saying "no woman should be forced to have a baby" or some such nonsense. No woman IS forced to have a baby. Virtually all women become pregnant by making the CHOICE to engage in sex. It's really simple but I suppose too complex for those who see nothing wrong with killing the most innocent of beings.

Answer 6

As a woman, pro-choice.

How many men just dump their semen and walk away leaving the woman to cope with the results?

I am a woman who was raped by her husband and, with four children already, I am very grateful for the right to an abortion. Do not judge anyone until you have walked a mile in their shoes.

Answer 7

I am pro-life. I think that it is compleatly wrong in any case for a woman to have an abortion. I may not be the most well educated perso on this subject but I do know for a fact that once you have become pregnant you are carrying a child. A living person. I dont think we should allow abortions to continue because it is our fault that they are brought into this world. We should own up to our mistakes and accept the responsibility.

Answer 8

Pro choice. As was said by someone else, what about rape? Would say, a 14 yr old girl who was raped by a family member be expected to have that child? This carries lots of taboos. Firstly she's too young, then it's rape, plus it's incest and what are the health implications for this? This is only one example. What if you get tested for illness? Ok you could argue the child has right to life even if it is disabled but what if the parents are teenagers and can't possibly care for it? What if they already have a severly disabled child and cannot stretch themselves to care for another? I was in the situation where I had to consider abortion a few yrs ago. My partner at the time was mentally abusive and I was about to leave him when I found out I was pregnant. 6 months earlier I was told I was sterile so we didn't use protection. I already had 2 kids from an abusive mnarriage and they were of the age I could concentrate on being back at school and carve out a life for us. I didn't want to go back to night feeds alone, bringing up 3 kids on government hand outs and taking the strain alone, with an abusive father in the background giving me lots of stress about leaving him, constantly. I worried what effect having another baby on my own would have on the kids I had already brought into the world. Selfish? Yes in a way but I have a right to lead my life and give my kids a good life. Anyway I decided last minute not to abort and now I have a beautiful 5 yr old boy who I wouldn't be without. I've struggled and my girls have gone without so I can treat all 3 of them equal. But there are women out there who aren't able to make the decision to keep their babies and their decision is up to them. My sister had an abortion yrs ago and she still thinks about it when it would be its birthday etc and she feels sad but she knows the reasons she aborted were good reasons at the time and I support her totally. Plus I have Spina Bifida and hydro cephalus in the family and have seen it in it's worst form and every pregnancy I've been tested for it. I have to say that if I fell pregnant again and tested positive I would abort. I cannot care for a child that severely disabled without detriment to my 3 kids. If I had tested positive on my first baby I would probably have kept the baby as I had no other responsibilities. So as you can see, there are many reasons women consider abortion and it's a shame that some people see pro life as a broad topic and not look into people's circumstances. However abortion should not be treated as a form of contraception!

Answer 9

Pro choice with pro-life sympathy. Abortion isn't a good thing, but in many cases is more like the least bad choice of only bad choices.

That said, I'm in favor of decreasing abortions- not by law, mind you, but by encouraging safer sex so people won't have to make that decision in the first place.

Answer 10

i am strongly 200% pro choice. things happen. woman use protection and still get pregnant. woman get raped and get pregnant from that. Abortion although not a nice part of life is a fact of life. if abortion becomes ill-legal again . not only will the un-born children be getting killed but so with the expectant mothers. Woman who wanted abortions but for some reason did not get them are at a higher risk of not taking care of that baby but keeping it so that it end ups growing up un-loved, un-wanted and possibly ends up dieing as a baby because of that very fact. abortion has been going on in one form or another since the first pregnancy. its going ot keep happening. the best thing we can do is keep abortion legal so woman who get the mare at least safe.