Can everyone come to an agreement with abortion?

Question

there are two things people have to know:

Abortion will never stop, it's been going on for centuries and as long as humanity exists it won't end.

Abortion will always be considered taboo and horrible.


How can we as people, of many diffrent backgrounds and religion or non-religious come to an agreement on how to deal with abortions rather then make it illegal. WE can't make it illegal because of how many abortions would happen underground and in dangerous situations.

IMO we should educate children in middle and highschool in the U.S and all around the world about safe sex to dramatically reduce the use of abortions.

You personally may not like abortions, but this is not about you. this is about freedom of choice, the mother and HER fetus.

-oh btw, yes i know that partial abortions are rarely if ever done anymore, so please don't use that as a fact-

Answer 1

or just get rid of abortions and give more money to foster schools

Answer 2

it is true that abortion is like killing a baby, seizing a life that never got a chance... but really, i'm sure that if the mother wanted to abort, it wasn't just a one second decision. a lot of times, there just isn't any funds for the child. so wouldn't the child go through much MUCH more suffering living on the streets, picking up food in the trash can? than to just kind of disappear, never knowing it existed? and plus abortion is early during pregnancy so yeah..

i agree that it's the mother's choice and not the government's choice on whether or not to keep the baby. since we're in America "land of the free" shouldn't this also be a freedom? a freedom to make the right decisions? for the betterment of society, world, etc.?

Answer 3

Things that are wrong and evil have been going on for centuries. That's no excuse to keep propagating them or to keep doing them. People will keep killing people for as long as there are people, unfortunately. That doesn't mean we should accept it as something that's morally OK.

Abortion is not a "right". It's not about "a woman's right to her body". As soon as someone is conceived, there is another life that is involved. A life that is as fully human as any other life. Studies of the mother's womb with modern ultrasound techniques have shown that unborn babies even at mid-term have feelings of hot, cold, pain, and can hear - they have actually been observed smiling or frowning.

There are so many alternatives today to abortion - there are waiting lists of people who want to adopt children, even children who have been determined to be deformed or abnormal. Abortion is a barbaric practice that is a holdover from ancient days when we were supposedly less civilized.

Who lives and who dies should be determined by God, not by man. This also includes capital punishment, euthanasia, and unjustified (not for self-defense) warfare.

The lives of a woman and her baby belong to their creator God, not to themselves - as Scripture says "We are not our own - we were bought with a price"

Answer 4

Unless two people are standing in the same place, they cannot have the same point of view. I can't foresee any essential compromise that can be made, really, between opposite views on right and wrong. In practice, I am not sure what compromise would or could produce.

Look at it this way. Could I not (equally) legitimately recast your last paragraph to read:

"You personally may not like to sustain unwanted children, but this is not about you. This is about a conceived child's right to continue to exist and the innate obligations of procreators."

We can't even agree on the main arena: is it legal? is it moral?

We can and must be respectful of different points of view, and that may need to suffice. I am not sure that we can do much better than that, and, as it is, we are NOWHERE near achieving even that.

ADDED: Oh, beast, you are painting with far too broad a brush!

Answer 5

I do not agree with abortion but like you said it is going to continue happening and therefore I agree that we need to educate young people.
We also need to provide safe places to perform them, since otherwise it will happen in terrible conditions which may harm the mother.
I also think that any woman who is going for an abortion, have some sessions with a therapist, who is unbiased. This person would give all the available choices for the parents and help them to understand the consequences of any choice that is made. They can be told about the emotional aspect of these choices as well.

Answer 6

i'm happy the guy has no say. He does not ought to hold the baby for 9 months, and fathers are a lot extra in all probability to desert a toddler than mothers. in many circumstances of abortion, the "father" isn't in touch in any respect - and each so often it quite is unknown who the daddy even is.

Answer 7

The school I went to did educate us on the different aspects of sex. It didn't have any effect on the amount of girls in the school that were pregnant or having abortions. I realize that education is our most powerful defense against this atrocity, but I don't think the school education is the type of education we need. I think it needs to start younger, and it needs to start in the home. As parents, we need to set the examples for our children. They won't listen to the words we say if our actions speak of something different. Parents need to be educated and they need to pass that education on to their children from very early in life. A child will learn all of their personal values by the time they are 5. Think about that for a moment. By the time the child goes to school, he's already learned all that he is going to for his life about his values and self worth.

I don't think I have the right to tell a woman what to do, but one thing I do know is that the children come through us, we don't own them.

Answer 8

You might as well try to stop the ocean tide. People are never going to agree on abortion. There will always be those who believe life begins at conception and it's murder to have an abortion, and then there's the other side.

Answer 9

Don't you mean...the mother and her baby? Please let's start by calling it what it is. It is a baby and I think that if we were to educate people about the TRUTH of abortion that the numbers would DRAMATICALLY go down. It has been shown that when a pregnant woman is shown an ultrasound of that little life that most often she chooses NOT to abort. Most women have NO IDEA about the potential health hazards to themselves by having an abortion and if given an alternative would not choose that route. Oh yeah and how about imposing the death penalty for those who do? I bet that would put a damper on those abortion on demand clinics. Murder is murder and to call it a 'fetus' instead of a 'baby' and to call it a 'choice' instead of a 'responsibility' goes to prove that our society today is SICK!!!! God help us all!

Answer 10

I have an idea that would solve the problem. We are at war right now, and the hardest part is losing our loved ones. So instead of getting an abortion, they put all of the unwanted children in the military and train them to go to war. No one wanted them anyway, so it's no big loss. Then 18 years later, the mother gets a phone call, "Remember that abortion you wanted - done!"

Answer 11

"IMO we should educate children in middle and highschool in the U.S and all around the world about safe sex to dramatically reduce the use of abortions. "

You've hit the nail on the head. The more someone is educated (not indoctrinated), the more informed one's choices are. This applies to everything, not just sex. Alcoholism and drug would also decline if we actually taught our children about these things, not just indoctrinate them with a "drugs are bad, mm'kay" mentallity.