Can one be both pro choice and pro life?

Question

People seem to be galvanized to one extreme or the other on this topic. What about those in the middle? is there a category for us? Take my view for example... I am against abortion. So I am pro life right? I don’t think it is right to abort a pregnancy except where there are health risks for the mother... I also believe however that I have no right to tell someone else how to feel about this topic. I don’t think the government should either, so in that regard I am pro choice... That’s a personal choice that each women or couple has to make for themselves... I wonders how many others have this view?

Answer 1

I agree with you. I think abortion is terrible, and I would never ask a girl to have one. There are plenty of people who would be glad to adopt my child. However, I believe it is a right guaranteed by the Supreme Court. If you strip this right away, where does it stop? So for that reason, I believe you can be pro-choice, yet against abortion.

Answer 2

You can't be both. To be pro-choice is to be completely in favor of the right to choose abortion or not choose abortion. And to be pro-life is to be against abortion under any circumstance. But there is a "middle", as someone else said, and has no official label. I suppose you could say that it's a huge gray area. But I understand what you're saying, and I often refer to myself as both because I don't know how else to explain what I believe in a word or two. I am against abortion after the point that the life becomes sentient [self aware and capable of physical and emotional pain/pleasure]. I believe that, from this point onward, the life growing inside of the woman has rights.

My arguement is not a religious one. I am a firm supporter of the animal rights movement, therefore I believe that all sentient life has the right to have a chance at survival. So, while I'm against abortion after which point the life becomes sentient (unless there's a huge chance that the child will be born with some type of illness or disorder that will reduce quality of life to little or none, or if the mother's life is at stake), I support abortion up until that point.

On another note, I don't believe that the choice should be left entirely to the woman unless the sex that resulted in the pregnancy was non-consensual, the female is under age, there's a huge chance that the child will be born with some type of illness or disorder that will reduce quality of life to little or none, or if the mother's life is at stake.

I'm of the opinion that the father should have equal say in the matter, with the exception of the circumstances I mentioned above. If he wants the child and the mother doesn't, he should be required to accept full custody and full financial responsibility. And the mother should be required to relinquish her parental rights. If she wants the child and the father doesn't, she should be required to accept full custody and full financial responsibility. And the father should relinquish his parental rights. If the parents are together and disagree then tough sh♥t... Work it out or split up. That's my take on it.

I believe that if someone wants the child then he/she should have the choice to keep the child. It's my opinion that a woman should not have the right to choose to have a baby that a man doesn't want and then saddle him with the responsibilities of child support and such. Child care lasts for 18 years. A pregnancy can't compare to that even if it lasted for a full year.

"It's my body. I can do what I want with it!" This simply is not fair in my opinion. A woman is pregnant for less than one year, and then a man who doesn't want the child is stuck for 18 years? But yet she can have the pregnancy terminated even if the father wants the child? It's sexist as far as I'm concerned. The fact that men don't have a choice simply because they aren't the ones who have to carry the child, to me, is unjust and nothing short of discrimination. I've heard several women express their belief that a man shouldn't have sex if he isn't willing to face the consequences of his actions. Well, the same is true for women..... If a woman has sex with a man she should either be willing to accept the consequences or support men having the same choices as women.

I'll take those "thumbs down" now.

Answer 3

I think im pro choice and pro life. As weird as that may seem. Because I would never get an abortion myself. I dont feel that other women should get abortions. However i do feel if THEY want to have the abortion they should be able to. The only way I approve of abortion is in rape cases or if carrying a baby to term will cause detrimental harm to the mother.

Answer 4

,Personally I think the argument for "health risks for the mother" are not included in your labeling of being pro life or pro choice.

Simply it seem to be one of those "If all things are equal" do you think people deserve to choice to abort a child or do you feel that a child has the right to live therefore being pro life.

Although, I do agree this is not a black and white issue, to be straightforward I feel the media and political discussions like to discuss the matter in black and white for simplicity.

I tend to be in the same boat as you. I am not for abortion but I do feel that if the mother is at risk abortion to save the mothers life should be an option.

Answer 5

There's not an official category in the middle. Unfortunately that's where MOST people are on this issue, somewhere in the middle. Those loud voices on either extreme are so cacophonous because they want to force their false dichotomy on us. Each side wants to persuade the middle through the use of emotional blackmail. Neither side wants reason and empathy to be allowed into the strident debate.
I'm sick of it. It's only a power struggle. I don't believe that the loudest protesters of either side give a d--n about how people are actually to deal with these circumstances on a personal level

Answer 6

a toddler has a heartbeat interior of 28 days after theory. that's a scientific fact. Now, you may actually argue all day long approximately whether that's a toddler or not yet in factor of fact nonetheless that it has a heart beat. i don't understand what form of biology maximum individuals took in extreme college yet i grew to become into taught that some thing that had a heartbeat grew to become right into a residing organism. If some thing lives and then the pulse is stopped by potential of an intentional act of yet another, then that is been KILLED.

Answer 7

i think you can be both.... you can be for life and for choices as well.... this is a free country and women have the right to make their own choices... it is their body and ultimately they have to live with the decision they make.... people rant and rave here about the decisions that affect other people's lives ... in my opinion people should mind their own business in regards to abortion and deal more with educating their children on how to never be in a situation that they would have to choose and if they are they should feel comfortable enough to talk to them and not be scared
it is such a pleasant suprise to see so many open minded comments

Answer 8

I am both! I am pro life. But I also believe that God gave us the right of free will and choice to choose between right and wrong. We will one day have to stand before him, and give him an account of our lives. Ultimately the choice belongs to the mother, and that is between her and God!

Answer 9

In other words - Jesus didn't land in your backyard and give you a badge with the words "The Judge" on it. I'd say that you're in a pretty decent category. We do not live in other people's shoes; we don't know their reasons for doing what they do (even if we think we wouldn't do it or believe it is right) but so many are quick to judge.....

Answer 10

I'm both- when it comes to myself I am pro-life, but i am pro-choice when it comes to another person...
Who am I to tell another person what they should think or believe in?