According to science, the fetus is a living being. If you do believe it is killing a life, do you believe that it isn't murder? Just to tell you my belief, I believe that abortion is infanticide.
2007-04-26 14:19:55 · 59 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
when you can get pregnant and carry a child and care for a child then you can have an opinion.....there are many valid reasons why women have abortions .....
2007-04-26 14:23:29 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 8⤊ 11⤋
Once upon a time, I felt very strongly against abortion. That is, until I got pregnant myself. I'd never wanted to be a mom. I remember losing most of my friends because I was pregnant. Family and strangers kept coming up to me begging me to let them adopt. That entire time was the roughest part of my life. I thought about abortion then. It could have solved all my problems. But I was hesitant. Eventually, I waited to long so abortion was no longer an option. In the end, I gave my son up for adoption, choosing a wonderful couple to be his parents. No, I do not regret my choice, but I'm glad I had the choice to make.
Based on my experiences, I can completely understand why some women would choose to have an abortion. I fully support their right to choose. One of the only times I really feel it's wrong to have an abortion is as a method of birth control. There are many women out there who choose not to practice safe sex and get pregnant, have an abotion, then go out and continue to have sex without protection. I don't know if these women are uneducated or stupid.
2007-04-27 02:32:31 · answer #2 · answered by Erin 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Unlike what is popularly believed, a fetus is NOT a "lump of cancerous cells". Life begins at conception - thats what most republicans believe. Democrats believe life begins at birth. But come on, when the heart is formed and beating and the brain is formed and thinking, how can you abort it and NOT call that murder? Murderers have had life and have thrown it away by taking the life of someone else. And God does NOT "decide the punishment" for people while they are here in the flesh. They are supposed to be sent to Him to exact punishment - the only way to sent them to Him is to remove them from the flesh, ya know? Hence the death penalty. Democrats just dont get it. This country was based on the laws of the Bible, but ince they dont believe in God or the Bible, they cannot comprehend this. Sarah Palin can shoot all the moose she likes. God gave us dominion over all animals of the earth. Is it better to lock the animals in cages for months at a time then euthanize them or just give them a quick death while they're running or happy? But the dems seem to think its okay to euthanize "unwanted" pets to control the pet population. There is no difference. And I am tired of democrat hypocrites.
2016-04-01 09:13:00 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't think it's relevant whether it is a life. Most people who oppose abortion also support capital punishment, but no one argues that it's not really a life. Your question wasn't about the death penalty so I'll keep my views on that to myself, but the oint is that, no matter how strongly people may rail against "moral relativism," the fact remains that most people think it is sometimes acceptable to kill. So making abortion illegal strictly on the grounds that the fetus is "a life" (whatever that is), or even that it feels pain, is illogical. The real question should be, Is abortion ever a medically necessary procedure? Often the answer is yes, and it usually relates to the physical health of the mother or the odds of healthy survival for the baby. Sometimes it relates to the psychological health of both the mother and child when the pregnancy is the result of rape or incest. So there are reasons why an abortion is acceptable and even necessary.
People do abuse the right to an abortion, of course. Conservative stories about how women take drugs and sleep with whoever they want because if they get pregnant they can have an abortion, as I'm sure someone is posting at this minute, are wholly untrue. But sometimes people are not responsible, even those who are being careful, and an unwanted pregnancy results. It is my personal opinion that abortion is inappropriate in this case. But my opinion does not dictate the law, nor should it. People have the right to an abortion in this case, and efforts to take away that right also take away the right from those who need one for the reasons mentioned above.
Some suggest laws banning abortion with exceptions for the life of the mother, or in cases of rape or incest. But what happens to the mother of an unwanted baby in this case? She is either forced to have the baby, have an illegal abortion--which is even more brutal and dangerous to mother and child--or to lie and make an accusation of rape in order to obtain one legally. What happens to our country then, when every woman who seeks an abortion must make up a rapist? Don't you think countless innocent lives will be wasted once all those false arrests and convictions are made?
Banning abortions will not stop them. it will only make them worse.
2007-04-26 14:37:05 · answer #4 · answered by Dan X 4 · 4⤊ 5⤋
I believe women were given this responsibility and hence the right to make the decision.
Your question lacks wisdom in that it obstructs a fuller picture.
Yes the fetus is alive, but at what point is it aware. Not self aware but simply aware and able to feel.
It has to have a brain and that brain has to be in a very particular stage of developement.
I am a strong believer in the morning after pill because it makes this argument completly obsolete except in situations that involve the health of mother and or fetus.
I believe that resistance to the morning after pill is about power over women and choice!!!!!!!!!
Current abortion practices are brutal things but not nearly as brutal as the back ally abortions that would burgeon in number if abortion were not legal.
Whether or not to have an abortion is in the hands of the one given the responsibility of carrying the child and the responsibility to create a caring and healthy environment around those individuals and all women and children belongs to all of us.
You ask if abortion is murder, I ask if interfeering with an individuals choices and a resulting death of the mother, is that manslaughter?
If that descission is made in the case of it being either the child or the mother and it is determined by doctors or anyone other than the mother, and if that woman should die, is that not murder?
If the mother chooses to give up her life for her fetus under pressure from others, is that not suicide?
It takes two to create conception, why can't men have more self disciplin? Don't just blame the woman all the time!!!Are not both men and women responsible for birth control and healthy choices?
Why should women who do not want to give birth at a particular time in their lives, for whatever reason, have that " I can't have a baby so you HAVE TO HAVE THAT ONE!" placed over their heads?!!!
There are thousands of needy children that need homes 'right now' and there are not enough people willing to adopt them all right now!
Imagine how many more children there would be if there was no birth control, no abortion? ( Abortion is not birth control, but I want you to understand that barring individual cases the potential for misery is dier.)
I do not like abortion, but it is not right to continue this outragious power struggle when a simple answer is available right now!!!! The morning after pill will take us out of this dark cruel place where only hurt, pain and anger reside.
I find the point made right after mine very valid and tragic!
Very well put! It is important not to isolate this issues from it's context! Context can be... EVERYTHING!
Even though I have never chosen abortion for my own intimate reasons and beliefs, I pitty the person who intervenes in my personal choice.
Peace and healing for all.
2007-04-26 14:36:09 · answer #5 · answered by Jamie 4 · 3⤊ 5⤋
and infanticide is basically murder....I do believe. Yes, unless the fetus is being aborted as a medical emergency....I think it is murder.
2007-04-28 12:49:50 · answer #6 · answered by Sam h 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You're absolutely 1,000% right. Why killing a human being if you can have it and give it to adoption? They are thousands of families that need a baby to have a family. It will suffer more the mother than the baby itself. I'll kill the woman who thinks that abortion is a good way.
2007-04-28 11:18:22 · answer #7 · answered by . 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is killing, regardless of label, taking a Life, regardless of reason, the intent is to kill.
It is beyond the term murder, for murder is the taking of a Life with purpose. Abortion is taking of an innocent's Life for selfishness.
Abortion can only be condoned in the rare case of danger to the mother's Life, this could include her sanity in the case of a rape victim and then only if no other course of action is available. Even in such cases Karma will be earned.
Peace from a Buddhist...
2007-04-27 00:15:01 · answer #8 · answered by Gaz 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
I have to totally agree with you. It is a living being. I don't believe in abortion. There are many people who would love to have a baby and can't. The fetus eats and it's heart is beating. It is a living being.
2007-04-26 22:53:17 · answer #9 · answered by wolflady 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
no Idont veiw abortion as murder because as long as its involvees something using my body as life support and being risk to my health my life takes up most importance over that of embryo or fetus . And I have no obligation to birth a child risk to my health. oh and know what in real life if someone breaks in your hosue poses threat to your life you can kill them save your life self preservation is basic primal urge.
2007-04-29 11:56:44 · answer #10 · answered by pixiedraco2003666 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Abortion IS killing a life.
2007-04-28 14:23:02 · answer #11 · answered by kayboff 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋