Whether your opinion be pro-choice or life; I would like your reasoning behind it.?

Question

This is for a research paper I am doing focusing on not just the facts of abortions but the social acceptances ( or lack there of ) including educational backing on views.

Answer 1

The pro-choice issue is only about WHO gets to make the decisions -- the individual or the government.

There is a difference between allowing people to make the choice for themselves to keep the child or not, and the govt forcing them (one way or the other).

Also, don't forget that the freedom of choice laws are the only thing stopping states from mandating abortion or forced sterlization. If the right to choose goes away, the govt can pass any laws it wants, just like China. Do you really want that?

Freedom of choice is not a minority position, just because you happen to disagree with the choice someone makes.

And no, I would never have an abortion myself, but legislating my body is something that I am uncomfortable with.

Answer 2

First off let me say, I would never ever have an abortion myself. However, that is my choice to make based on my own life experiences, situations and path in life. I cannot possibly assume that I have the right to make that choice for anyone else in this world no matter who that person is or where that person's life experiences have lead them. Until you walk in that other woman's shoes when confronted with this issue under the circumstances that woman has had to endure to get to that place, then you nor anyone else has the right to tell that woman or any woman, what they should or shouldn't do with their bodies or pregnancy. It's a very personal choice based on very personal circumstances.
You nor society will EVER end abortion. It will always be here. If you want to lower the number of abortions occuring, hand out condums, birth control and teach sex education to teens and young adults. Teach children about their bodies at a young age all the way through high school where you teach them about birth control. We need to stop being pansies about this issue and face the facts of life instead of being so damn immature about sexuality in this country. Sex is a health issue not a moral issue.

Teri is wrong about this issue. At 6 weeks, the pregnancy isn't even considered a fetus. It isn't considered a fetus until 8 weeks. It isn't a baby until it is born, outside the womb. And 90% abortions occur in the first trimester. They occur before the medical community considered the blastoma a fetus. And, there is no evidence that the abortion causes pain to the blastoma or the fetus at that early in the pregnancy.

Answer 3

I think it's wrong. Before I was blessed enough to have my own child, I was pro-choice. Now that I have a child, I see what people are killing and it makes me sick. But I know people that have had abortions, and I understand how some people feel like they are for the best. So I do think that on some level, women should have a choice. But it shouldn't be something you can just go have done. I think you should have to jump through hoops to qualify for abortion . And I think on the same note, more education to those who go to abortion clinics on adoption would be great. It's a small price to pay for someone to live.

Answer 4

I'm pro-life. The fact that abortion is legal makes it more and more acceptable to people. They feel that it is legal, we can do it. However, many women are not given facts and are sometimes forced into abortions by family members, boyfriends, and others. This is not fair to the woman or to the child. The child has no choice whether they live or die, and it is no fair that the mother can choose to take their life. American's need to take responsibility for their actions. Almost everyone at the age they begin to have sex knows that having sex makes babies and that birth control is not 100% effective. Instead of making excuses, people need to take responsibility for their actions and care for their child or give it up to adoption to families who cannot have children. How fair is it that millions of children are killed every year by those who are careless, but those who desperately want children have to wait years or go overseas to get them. I just do not understand our culture can care so little about these lives. Just because you cannot hear their pain does not mean they aren't experiencing it!

Answer 5

Pro Choice Governments should not enforce moral behavior that is not agreed to by an overwhelming majority of citizens. Pro life advocates will rarely discuss how they intend to enforce a laws prohibiting abortion because there is no way that would not have terrible consequences. It will not prevent abortions but will lead to wide spread "criminal" behavior. If it is defined as muder would we imprison millions of women for 20 year to life?

Answer 6

Pro choice - once America made birth control legal, the door opened for abortion. The bottom line is abortion is the only issue where government and state try to come into the home to tell someone what to do with their body and make it a legal issue.
Who is to draw the line between the legalities of a woman who has a scheduled abortion, a woman who has a spontaneous abortion under suspicious circumstances and a woman who (with knowledge of pregnancy or not) abuses her body with drugs, alcohol, sexuality, whatever, and has a spontaneous abortion?
I'm just curious why society thinks this is their issue - Who died and made them God?

Answer 7

I have been pro-choice for many years, and people can say whatever they want, I will not ever change my opinion. I read about a little 4 year old boy who's Mom let his step-dad beat him with a pillow till he couldn't stand up, put him in a cold shower and then hold him upside down in a toilet and flush it until he finally drowned, because he accidentally wet his pants. The one person on whom he depended for everything, his Mom, watched and even participated in the pillow-beating. Can you imagine what was going through that child's mind before he died? Why did his mommy let this happen? If people would simply give their unwanted children up for adoption, I would change my view, but they don't. They are too selfish and the children are then tortured and abused and killed. No one can ever convince me that this child, as well as many others who are murdered at young ages after short lives of abuse, would not be better off if they hadn't been born at all. I see no need to make them suffer so, only to be murdered by their parents.

Answer 8

I think that abortion in cases of ..
the mothers life in jeopardy, Incest, Rape are justified.

I am sad to see some 14 year old ( just an example) get pregnant and abort. I would rather she go the way of adoption, but I am not going to bible thump and rave about it.

I really dislike someone irresponsible having casual sex knowing that abortion is there as an out for it.

I dont think abortion should illegal but dont like how it is in many cases.

Answer 9

Personally, I'm against abortion, but I'm Pro-Choice. My reasoning is this isn't a Federal matter as outlined by the Constitution of the United States of America.

Answer 10

I am pro-life.God gives life and only God should have the decision to take it away.Anything else is murder.A baby's body is developed/organs/brain developed/heart is beating
at 6 wks pregnant.The baby can feel pain.The time they usually find out your pregnant. At 9/10 weeks you can hear the heartbeat on doppler/ultrasound/see the baby's face,
fingers,toes.Sometimes it's sucking it's thumb.It is around at this time they will do the abortion. Abortions have been done at the 4-6th (the baby can hear and see shadows)month with the baby coming out alive and crying to be thrown to the side to die and the nurse ordered to leave them.6 month gestation can live. Given this knowledge all I have to say is you tell me?