Here's the problem with abortion as I see it. Even some pro-life folks have a "line" e.g. rape, incest, life of the mother,and/or child. For me the problem of abortion law is that when the government legislates something as law, there has to be a punishment for breaking that law as well a a clear and agreed upon notion of absolute right, since you are cutting a very strict and wide swath, if you meet most pro-life positions.I don't think many people in this country will accept someone who obtains abortion illegally to be tried gor a crime such as manslaughter, reckless endagerment, etc.
I am Christian who is catholic. I believe that with freedom comes responsibility, and like most Americans feel that abortion cannot be a "birth control" method. But, the area gets very gray when you ask me about rape, incest and life of the mother/child.So for me, abortion is a moral decision that government should not be involved with in any way. Individuals are best equipped to make that decision without the government involvement.
Remember, most western religion teaches that God judges each man according to his deeds, and for me, that is the higher standard. Women shouldn't have to answer to a bunch of politicians whose code of conduct and ethics are quite frequently frightenly low.
I think it is commendable that this "troubles you". It should. You have encourage me by the fact that you are considering the ethics. I thought that was just a dusty book we left on the floor somewhere around 1975.
2007-06-01 11:43:29
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answered by neuromansuperhero 2
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First, there is no such thing as pro-abortion. The term is pro-choice. I know many pro-choice people, but have never met one person who actually wants women to have abortions.
To say someone is pro-abortion is insulting - and I think you know that, but you use the term anyway to show your true colors. You are pro-life, anti-abortion, then fine. Just don't be insulting by assuming anyone not pro-life WANTS women to have abortions. That is just plain wrong.
Most of the problem as I see it is that people just don't vote. It is fine to be pro-life or pro-choice, but if you don't vote in the elections, then you need to shut-up about the results. If more people performed their CIVIC DUTY and voted, then we would have a better understanding how this issue affects the outcome.
Abortion is here to stay. That bothers me. The reason it bothers me is because abortion is used as a form of birth control - many times by women who don't use any other form of birth control.
The problem is that if abortion becomes illegal, it won't stop. It will go underground and then we will have bigger problems with this issue than we do now.
This is not an issue that there is any easy answer for. One thing is for sure tho - pro-life people who use terms like pro-abortion are just hurting their own cause.
2007-06-01 11:37:05
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answered by yarn whore 5
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No. The reason Abortion is here to stay is because anti-abortion presidents keep nominating people to the supreme court that understand the constitution. If they would just nominate dumber people we could get rid of those stupid constitutional ideas like a right to privacy or freedom of speech.
2007-06-01 13:01:09
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answered by old-bald-one 5
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Even if Roe vs Wade is reversed, the decision will go to the state level and each state can make laws for or against abortion as it was before the federal government got involved. It will never completely go away.
2007-06-01 11:28:35
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answered by Eric R 3
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Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell, lionized because of the fact the 1st US woman to alter right into a physician (in 1849), wrote in her diary: The gross perversion and destruction of motherhood by utilising the abortionist crammed me with indignation, and wakened energetic antagonism. That the honorable term "female established practitioner" would desire to be completely utilized to those females who carried in this stunning commerce looked as though it may me a horror. It replaced into an utter degradation of what ought to and could exchange right into a noble place for females. ------------ yet another professional existence feminist replaced into Victoria Woodhull, appropriate regular for being the 1st female candidate.for US President (some time past in 1870). Radical even by utilising early feminist standards, she and her sister, Tennnessee Claflin, declared that young infants had rights which began at concept. Their essay "The slaughter of the Innocents" first discusses the abominable death value of infants under 5, then turns its attractions on abortion: "we are conscious that many females attempt to excuse themselves for buying abortions, upon the floor that it is not homicide. however the actuality of hotel to so vulnerable a controversy basically exhibits the greater palpably that they completely comprehend the enormity of the crime. Is it no longer the two destroying the could-be destiny oak, to weigh down the sprout before it pushes its head above the sod, as that's to shrink down the sapling, or shrink down the tree? Is it no longer the two to break existence, to weigh down it in its very germ, and to take it whilst the germ has developed to any given element in its line of progression? enable people who can see any distinction with reference to the time whilst existence, as quickly as started, is taken, console themselves that they do no longer look to be murderers having been abortionists."
2016-10-09 06:54:17
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answered by ? 4
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There's no such thing as "pro-abortion". No one wants women to have them, there's just some that think it's none of their business and that it should be legal, safe, and rare.
2007-06-01 11:31:14
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answered by shelly 4
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It's a states issue. Keep the federal govt. out of it.
2007-06-01 11:27:05
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answered by jeb black 5
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Yes.
2007-06-01 11:24:11
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answered by infobrokernate 6
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