Woman's right to choose?

Question

I first want to make it clear that I believe in a woman's right to choose what she will do with her own body. That they are entitled to decide if they are pro-choice or pro-life. I don't know where I stand. I would like to know, how many people believe abortion is murder and what is your religions background. There is so much controversy over this topic and I would appreciate some input from many different points of view.

Thank you for all the informative answers. I appreciate it.

Answer 1

I also believe a woman has the right to choose what she will do with her own body. What she does not have the right to do is to destroy the body and the life of another human being, particularly her own little son or daughter.

Answer 2

I believe that a woman has the right to choose what she will do with her own body ONLY so long as there is not another person's body involved in her choice. Women tend to forget that it might be their bodies, but their babies are not an extension of their body, but rather a separate body all on their own. When a woman has an abortion, she is doing what she wants with her own body, but she is also taking the life of another body at the same time.

I believe that a woman DOES have the right to choose however, what she will do or not do sexually. She can choose to have sex - or not. She can choose to use protection - or not. She can choose, if she gets pregnant, to keep the baby or give it up for adoption. If she chooses abortion, then she is committing murder. My position is not favorable among many people who will answer this question, but it is how I feel, nonetheless, and I, like everyone else, am entitled to my opinion.

You asked about religious background. I am a Christian, but that has nothing to do with my belief about abortion. I would believe that way no matter if I was a Christian or not, simply because common sense and right versus wrong tells me that the ending of a life is the killing of a life. A baby is NOT a fetus. It is a human being. Technically, it is a fetus, but when described as a fetus, it takes the sting out of the idea of killing, because it is seen as somehow not complete, or just a piece of fleshy tissue (depending upon the stage of development when the abortion takes place).

For me personally, I almost had an abortion. I was pregnant with my first child and I had such a horrible case of morning sickness (hyperemesis) that I was literally throwing up EVERY 10-15 minutes, 24 hours a day, for almost 3 months straight. I could not keep water or any food or liquid down - not even a cracker. Everything came up, and when there was nothing left to come up, stomach acid and bile was all that was left. Sorry to be gross. I was starving to death. I had a central line IV which ran close to my heart, which delivered nutrition and fluids. I actually passed out, they couldn't find my pulse, and I almost died. My pro-life doctor told me if I didn't improve, she would need to abort my baby to save my life. I saw my baby on the sonogram during my first hospitalization for severe morning sickness. The heart was beating, INDEPENDENTLY of my own. It was no longer just my body, but the body of another human being living within my own. I endured the suffering and started to feel better in my 3rd month. That first sonogram with my baby's beating heart was when my son, now almost 18, was only 4-1/2 weeks along in my pregnancy. This is when many women first learn they are pregnant. I would not trade my son for the world.

Am I against abortion and consider it murder? You bet I am and you bet I do. The only exception that is logical or understandable in my opinion, is under situations of rape or incest. As for the reason that "it's not a good time to get pregnant" or "a baby will ruin my life right now" or "I never thought I'd get pregnant", to me, that is just pure selfishness. No child should have to die just because a mother could not keep her pants on. If it's not a good time, then give the child up for adoption and give the child a chance to live with someone who can love and care for it.

Answer 3

I'm Southern Baptist. I think that a women should do what she wants with her body as well. As for pro-choice and pro-life, I feel like it is all circumstantial. You don't know the reason for someones decision to be pro-choice. Maybe she was raped by her father and is now pregnant or she is a married 35 year old well established women who is just too selfish to take care of a baby. You sympathize for the first situation but look down at the second.

I feel like if I am unable to give this child everything it needs, food-shelter-love-emotionally healthy enviroment-whatever else it takes to raise a child, then I run the chance of ruining a life. Lots of children who have been given up at birth, sent to foster homes, or abandoned by neglegent parents have mental disorders and don't function well because they are unhealthy physically and/or emotionally. I would never want to put that on my child. I pray all the time to never see the day where I may be faced to make a choice.

You'll never know which way you will lean until you are force to decide. Personally, I do everything in my power to lower my risk of getting pregnant and this includes taking birth control and practicing safe sex all the way to carrying mace so if I am ever attacked I can protect myself.

As far as my religion goes, it is murder - plain and simple. Depending on the stage is where I think it goes from aborting to murdering a baby. I personally do not believe that it is murder. If my God is the forgiving and understanding god he says he is in the Bible and through what I've been taught in Church then He should forgive me for the way I think and for my actions if He really does love me unconditionally.

That's basically how I feel about it. I hope this helps you!

Answer 4

I am a Christian. However, I knew abortion was murder before I ever knew Jesus.
They're right it is the woman's body. But, it's not her body she's killing. It's the body inside of her's that she's killing.
A women does have the right to choose. If she doesn't want to have a baby, she can choose to make sure that she doesn't get pregnant. If she does get pregnant and she does not want to raise a baby, she can choose to put it up for adoption. There are many people who would love to have a baby and can not.
What's the difference in killing a baby before you've seen it or after you've seen it? It's still a human being.

Answer 5

I believe abortion is murder, and I believe it should remain legal. I have no particular religion to speak of. I am simply comfortable living with the fact that while I wish to live in a world in which no one felt compelled to get an abortion, the fact is that as long as people are born, some of them are going to be unwanted. Making abortion illegal does not stop it from happening, so if we want to reduce the frequency of occurrence, we must understand the factors which lead to the activity, and address them in a progressive way.

Answer 6

It is not part of the woman's body that is being aborted. 1. the baby's heart is already beating before the woman even knows that she is pregnant.2. The DNA of the baby does not match the mother's which also shows that the baby is not part of the mother. The baby has arms, legs, fingers, and other body parts before the woman knows she is pregnant. The baby is a complete separate human being, taking the baby's life is murder.

Answer 7

Abortion is most definitely MURDER at any stage of the pregnancy. Yes a woman has the right to choose what to do with her body, and her body alone. She has no right at all to decide for the baby what to do. That baby has just as much right to live as the Mother does if not more.

I am a blood bought, born again Christian.

Answer 8

Whatever you do with your own body your always responsible, like you drink liquor, take cigarettes or eat much. You are responsible for what it takes. Like choosing whether you will go for abortion, of course you do a wrong choice because you are trying kill a life. A life of your coming baby. You have done this so far so what ever reason of why your pregnant its injustice to kill the fetus.
I am a catholic, but i believe either any religion of a person it has. They do have same opinion of what i have. Pro-life.....

Answer 9

I'm a Christian, and I believe it's murder. My own mom had three abortions before she had me, and I don't harp on people who do it, but I personally feel a huge amount of sorrow when I hear it mentioned. Jeremiah 1:5 says, "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart." Psalms says, "You knit me together in my mother's womb..." I don't know how anyone, at least anyone who claims to be Christian, could do that to their own flesh and blood. That baby is rendered utterly defenseless and doesn't even have a chance to speak on its own behalf, so Christians are condemned for speaking for them. Do you know that the amount of abortions that take place every year almost match the amount of loving parents who want to adopt? These wonderful couples are DYING for a little child to call their own... it's so selfish to have an abortion. I don't understand why people can't just have the baby and put it up for adoption if they don't want it. That's like someone desperately needing an organ donor and the person with that organ DESTROYING the organ, knowing how vital it is to that person. Why do people stand up for animal rights and not their own children? I find it utterly heartbreaking... and every time a girl has an abortion, it destroys her insides. :(

Answer 10

As a conservative Christian I am against abortion but in the case of incest and rape I might be OK with it if all other options have been exhausted. I've found that even women who have been raped still suffer from post abortion depression...so I would want to at the very least shows these women that there are other options such as adoption if they are willing to carry to term. In the case of partial birth abortions, in no case should that be allowed...ever!

If you kill the baby inside the womb it's called abortion, if you kill the baby outside the womb it's called murder. See a problem here?

Jenn W hit it right on!

Answer 11

im pretty much the same thing, except im pro-life (if that means anti-abortion) because why dont they just give birth and put it up for adoption even if they got raped? because the child is an innocent living organism that came out as a result from a bad "father" i mean its not the kids fault he was made by force. but im not gonna go around telling women hey! dont do that! its just a matter of whether she wants to or not. but then again im a little pro-choice because the government cant tell you what to do with your body. its like if they are all your fathers/mother and tell you that "you should know better" when they dont even know you.

so in other words, i can understan where both arguments are coming from.

ohh and by the way im Roman Catholic