abortion? are you for or against?

Answer 1

Against
Unless the life of the mother is in danger

93% of abortions are because the baby isn't wanted.

47% are on women who have already had an abortion. Strange birth control method if you ask me.

15% of abortions are done on viable babies. The D&E procedure is done on babies that would survive outside the womb. The baby is cut up into pieces and taken out limb by limb.

Answer 2

I'm generally against it, but I could probably be persuaded to accept a rational set of laws allowing abortion. I don't actually foresee this, but I'll describe what is irrational about it now.

The pro-abortion crowd focuses on the mother. We all know the mother has rights, but the question is what rights does a fetus have and when do they get them? Don't tell me "conception" or "birth" because those are individual conclusions that do not agree with the current laws.

On the other hand, pro-life people simply assume that the fetus is a person, and that's yet to be decided.

That's the problem right there. The pro-life people assume the answer to a question the pro-abortion people never recognize.

The fact is that Roe vs. Wade muddied the water, because deciding the definition of "person" is not a matter for the courts at all. Legislatures are the ones that decide what is and what is not "homicide", and what is a legal justification. They were wrong when they decided they had jurisdiction in the first place. It's a matter for state legislatures, and the whole abortion question will never be resolved until they are allowed to resolve it and decide when it is and when it is not justifiable.

When they do decide when the fetus becomes a "person", the legislatures can screw up, too. One of the most ignorant parts of Roe was in dealing with "trimesters", and later cases with questions of "viability". I can assure you that with $500, I could find a doctor who would swear that Arnold Schwarznegger is in his second trimester, and I don't believe that a six month old baby is "viable" if left alone for a few days.

Unlike courts, legislatures have experience writing laws, and know that they need to be certain and definitive. Unfortunately, we only have two dates in a pregnancy that we can say absolutely occurred, even if we don't necessarily know when, and they are conception and birth.

That doesn't limit us to those two dates, of course. If we wanted to, we could make abortion legal for a few years even post-birth. After all, if a woman has a right to choose, why should that choice end at birth? Why not at age five? Or sixteen? Or when they move out of the house and get a job?

All I know for sure is that we're talking about a human being, or at the very least, a potential human being. It's not livestock, and it's not a tumor. I trust the legislatures of the individual states to figure out the best solution, because they are accustomed to working together looking for the best solution to difficult matters with multiple unforeseen consequences, while the Supreme Court is more accustomed to arguing in the vacuum of a single case.

But by and large, I'm against it, but we'll never get any kind of consensus until the question is put back where it belongs.

Answer 3

i am totally against abortion because you are taking the life of an innocent child. in other words this is the definition of murder. taking the life of an innocent person. and it is an easy way out for people who lack responsibility for their actions. i hope that Roe v. Wade gets reversed in the near future.

Answer 4

I"m a male of the older generation and im not for or against abortion.I feel it should be left up to the people involved to make that decision.I dont try to tell other people how to run their lives and believe no one else should try to stick their noses in where it dont belong

Answer 5

I am proudly pro choice, for a whole bunch of reasons that you've probably heard already and aren't worth repeating here.

Answer 6

against

Answer 7

Against.

It is a rationalized way to remove a problem caused by lack of responsibility.

And it's also killing a person.

Answer 8

pro choice

Answer 9

lovely. how many of these questions gets asked here?

Im for the right to have a choice.

Answer 10

I will never have one!