Abortion? Your opinion?

Question

What is your stance on this contreversial issue? Are you for or against? Please explain your reasoning behind your view? Please throughly and civily.

If one does avoid abortion, what will they do with the unwanted baby? Can it still be raised to be a functioning member of society? Where and how can the baby be raised?(please keep answers civil)

Answer 1

Well, up until a few weeks ago I WAS pro choice. Now I have to say I am pro life. Why the change? A few weeks ago I found out I'm pregnant. I always had it in my head that before the 3rd month, it's not really a baby but that was before I heard my baby's heartbeat @ 6 weeks. 6 WEEKS! That is amazing and forever changed my opinion. A baby is alive from the moment of conception and I don't care what anybody says. It is of course, a women's own choice but for myself I would never get an abortion done but I do not condemn those who do.


I do however condemn those who use abortion as a form of birth control. Abortion is NOT birth control.

Answer 2

I can see where the pro life people are coming from and i believe a child can be given up for adoption and have a happy life if the biological parents are not able to give the child what it deserves but i think there are some exceptions.if a fetus has a defect and if born would suffer the rest of its life i think it should be considered.i am from ireland and there is an ongoing case at the moment where that is the situation.abortion here is illegal only with the exception if its a danger to the mothers life.in the case here the baby if born will die within a few days if born yet the courts will not allow it to be aborted.to answer your question i think it should be used only in extreme cases.there are arguements for and against but as long the people involved including the unborn child suffer as little as possible i think the option should be left open

Answer 3

I 100% feel that it is a health issue and shouldn't be considered anything but. If a woman is going to die due to her pregnancy she should have the option to abort her baby to save herself. If a woman was raped why should she have a baby that will either A) remind her every day of a terrible ordeal or B) end up in the crumbling foster care system. Also there are people who have been raped by family members and then that child would be prone to MANY medical problems. I'm not in ANY way saying that all abortions are okay, I dont believe that abortions should be used as a form of birth control (have unprotected sex and not care because you can just abort the baby later) but I do believe that abortion can NOT be completely outlawed. It's just not feasible. ALSO, there is supposed to be separation of Church and State. If the main reason for being Pro-Life is because of religion and not based on medical and scientific fact then the law that a person would be proposing is due to religion, which should not be mixed with legal matters.

*phew* sorry, I had to rant.

Answer 4

I'm completely against. Yes, I understand that having a baby at maybe 13-18 could ruin a young girls life, but she should've thought about that before having sex. If you're pro-choice and you read this following story with changing your mind, you have no heart.

pregnancy: a result of having sex; so before u take the chance of doing this, read this story and remember abortion should never be an option

I could not read the whole thing, all babies are God's children and are given LIFE for a reason. They have a purpose. This is MURDER.
MURDER.
MURDER.

Here is an actual account of a nurse who witnessed a partial birth abortion:

In September 1993, Brenda Pratt Shafer, a registered nurse with thirteen years of experience, was assigned by her nursing agency to an abortion clinic. Since Nurse Shafer considered herself "very pro-choice," she didn't think this assignment would be a problem. She was wrong. This is what Nurse Shafer saw:
"I stood at the doctor's side and watched him perform a partial-birth abortion on a woman who was six months pregnant. The baby's heartbeat was clearly visible on the ultrasound screen. The doctor delivered the baby's body and arms, everything but his little head. The baby's body was moving. His little fingers were clasping together. He was kicking his feet. The doctor took a pair of scissors and inserted them into the back of the baby's head, and the baby's arms jerked out in a flinch, a startle reaction, like a baby does when he thinks that he might fall. Then the doctor opened the scissors up. Then he stuck the high-powered suction tube into the hole and sucked the baby's brains out. Now the baby was completely limp. I never went back to the clinic. But I am still haunted by the face of that little boy. It was the most perfect, angelic face I have ever seen."

But what about if the baby had been aborted at a younger age.. say 6 weeks? When the baby is this young, doctors use the Saline Method, where they inject a salty saline solution into the mother's womb. You would think it would just poison the baby, but it actually burns it to death. Even though the baby is so young, on ultrasounds of the abortion, the fetus is seen pulling away from the poison as it is injected.. obviously wanting to stay alive.


Think about that before you say that unborn children can't feel pain.

PASS THIS ON IF YOU BELIEVE ABORTION IS WRONG.

Life is life, no matter how small.

A BABY is a gift from GOD!!

Answer 5

I think a woman should have the right to terminate an early pregnancy safely and without fear of imprisonment. I think it is wrong to do so and would be OK with some heavy restrictions or prohibitions on terminating later in a pregnancy.

Life does not begin with conception. Zygotes, blastocysts, and embryos, are not people, and are not even potential people until implanted and growing in the womb (which generally does not begin until several days after conception). Once a healthy pregnancy is established, then and only then do we have a moral dilemma as to whether terminating a pregnancy is terminating a human life. The threshold of fetal viability before the state can intervene in a private matter is reasonable to me. But abortion is wrong and should be discouraged

Answer 6

I'm against late term abortions and partial birth abortions regardless of any other considerations or circumstances. I think this is where most people already agree and where we should change the law. Simply ban partial birth and late term abortion on the federal level, nation wide. A viable baby is a human being regardless of what one's religious, social and scientific views are. Then I think we should work on addressing the reasons people have other abortions (early term, etc.) without yet banning them. Because there are serious issues involved. When all of the other choices are promoted, assisted, well known, available to all, etc. and the babies who would be born will be loved and supported, including by their birth mothers or whatever, then later we can consider banning abortion. I don't believe in rape exceptions, because this is about the babies life, not whether or not there's a father able to make legal claims. Also, just as controversial as abortion itself, in order to be morally right in abolishing abortion, we must make all children legitimate whether or not they have a father. A mother and a baby are a family too. By saying a child is illigitimate demeans both the child and their mother and this is one of the attitudes encouraging abortion. Make sure mothers can afford to raise their children. Put your money where your mouth is right-to-lifers. Make the other options of adoption, open adoption, intrafamily adoption, etc. more of a plus than a minus for mothers to be. Fix the foster care system in the case of those babies who might end up there. Make it legal and possible to get all other types of preventative birth control and close any gaps currently interfering with that. Encourgage both men and women to delay sex, practice abstinance, and to use birth control. Raise women's wages to make it possible for them to be able to afford to support their families. Assure that no women's rights will be rolled back, removed or violated and that ONLY the right of a baby to live will be reinstated. THEN and only then ban all abortions except in the rare case of a medical emergency in which a mother's life is threatened by the pregnancy.

Answer 7

I think abortion should be available to all women. It is her body. The fetus is not viable when the abortion is performed.
Some people are smart enough to know that they are not ready to be parents, maybe not smart enough to prevent the pregnancy in first place sometimes, we all make mistakes. In the matter of a teenage pregnancy, the poor kid ha her whole life ahead of her and should be allowed to be able to make as much of it as she can without being saddled with an unwanted pregnancy if she so chooses. We already have too many unwanted children in the world. If we do not allow abortion our welfare rolls would be even more stressed than they are now. I don't see all these pro-lifers running out and adopting unwanted children. Our planet already has a huge strain on its resources, if we reproduce responsibly we might be able to keep our planet alive longer.

Answer 8

I am totally against it. It's not the babies fault, why should kill it? It's not a choice, it's a life. The way they abort the babies too, is just horrible, and i had no idea it could ever be that bad. It's not only good for the baby, but can also end up hurting the woman too. They should make abortion illegal.

Answer 9

Under any, and I mean ANY circumstance, it is cold-blooded murder. Condemning and unborn child to death is despicable and should be punishable by death. Even if you don't want the baby, there are many worthy parents who can't conceive on their own, and would be happy to raise the child as their own. Once the woman is pregnant, by no means is it their choice whether or not to abort the pregnancy, at that point they are respnsible for their life and the life of her unborn child. Abortion isn't a way for freedom, it's justification for homicide.

Answer 10

I am against it. I think it is killing a baby because I saw an exhibit that showed babies through all stages and I know that it is a alive and well before the first trimester comes to an end. And I hate the defense of it "A woman's right to choose?" If either nature or god or science meant for us to be able to choose to have a baby or not, we would be able to do it on our own. not stick a straw in and suck its brains out through a medical procedure. Thats not natural whether you believe in religion or not.