What do you feel about abortion and why?

Question

Most people are on one side of this debate, but Im more interested in why you believe the way you do.

If you believe abortion is murder, why does the women not have the right to decided not to go into labor

If you believe abortion is not murder, why do you not think its murder?

Please read the entire question if your going to answe

Answer 1

This is an issue I have debated internally for a very long time. However, I am begining to lean to the pro-life side of the argument despite some other very liberal attitudes and beliefs I have.

Yesterday, driving home from a long road trip I saw a bumper sticker that put the issue in a light I have never before contemplated. It said plainly "As a former fetus, I'm pro-life."
What a powerful statement. For the first time in my life I really thought about the issue (as I drove along the empty highway) from the perspective that I was actually a fetus once. Suddenly I became very grateful that nobody (regardless of their position or relation to me) took away MY OWN right to life. I am grateful to be alive and have loved the life I have despite the many pains and trials I have been through. No one took away my right to grow, to struggle, to learn, to love. I am alive. I have feelings and a mind. I am glad nobody killed me when I was "just a fetus."

Furthering these feelings, stirred by the bumper sticker, I recalled how I was supposed to be a twin. Years ago my mother, while trying tio conceive was very prone to miscarriages and had suffered through many. Again devastated by another misscarriage my mother was thrilled to learn that she was still pregnant. Turns out she was pregnant with twins. One was lost. The other is writing this to you right now.

I am grateful to be alive. My brother or sister never had the opportunity. What could he/she have been or done? What joys could they have had and what love could they have felt and given?

Onto another line of thought, although there are many species of animals that participate in sex for purely pleasureable reasons, the primary function of sex is reproduction. Sex is a wonderful bond between two people, but still is our only viable means for reproduction.

Some say a fetus is just a mass of cells. Isn't that all any human, plant or animal is?

Although many argue the point of overpopulation, undue suffering and difficulty for those who live as a result of an abortion free world, etc... How can we speak for those who have not had the opportunity to live? How many of them would have still chosen to test their might and capability in an uncertain world instead of never having the opportunity? Did the Jews in Nazi Germany give up during one of the most difficult times of human history? No. Would the murdered unborn give up? No. They would sturggle and fight. Some would find joy. Some would find misery. Who are we to take that opportunity from them?

There will always be illegal abortions. There will always be unfit mothers (and fathers). Ther will always be sad cases where lives have been ruined because of an unwanted or unexpected child. Despite all of this, we are human beings and so are they. We do not have the right to determine who lives and who dies.

I am alive. I am grateful for it. I am glad no one took away my right to experience when I was "just a fetus."

Answer 2

This is a tough one. I definitely believe that abortion after 20 weeks is murder and should not be allowed. At 20 weeks most babies can survive outside the womb with significant medical intervention and are active little people. From 12 to 18 weeks I really tend to think it's murder, too. While the chances of the fetus surviving outside the womb are slim, fetuses have a better quality of life than many people in nursing homes. Before 12 weeks, I think it is a tougher call. When does a mass of cells become a person? Some pro-choice people would tell you not until the person is born, but having had two kids myself I believe they become people way before the day they are born.

At this point, I think abortion should be legal through the first 12 weeks, but I think it should be severely limited if not completely banned beyond that point. Historically, abortion was allowed until "quickening", when the mother first felt the baby move. For most women this occurs right around the 12-week mark.

Answer 3

personally i usually dont agree with abortion. not because its murder. because the potential of something wonderful was teminated.
politically i believe in abortion. the right to an abortion has to be inalieanable. no one has the authority to dictate what someone else can or cannot do with their own body. if the woman decides wether on her own or by talking with her confidants or husband etc etc that the pregnancy needs to be terminated then it needs to be terminated. no one has the right to second guess her. particularily the church who has absolutely no business interfereing with a persons non spiritual life.
most of the younger people advocating the repeal of roe v wade do not remember the back alley coat hanger abortions and the women that died that way. these are the only real muders in this subject. the mast of cells is just that a mast of cells that the body itself fights as if it were a parasite or infection for a period. birth begins life, not conception. no birth no murder.

Answer 4

I don't believe abortion should be just an issue of woman's rights i find that deplorable. I can sympathize with an issue of rape or the woman's life being at risk but just for convenience is outrageous but sadly the sign of how low our culture has gone. Abortion is willingly taking life be it unborn therefore denying its potential obviously without the unborn consent in other circumstances it would be murder ? wouldn't it ? i always believed a doctor swore the Hippocratic oath to preserve life and do no harm so were does abortion come into that?

Answer 5

I think abortion should remain legal. It's not that I believe that it is not murder. However, I think that if a woman decides she can't have a baby, then it is her decision. Sometimes, it might be the best thing to do, what if the mother is poor? Making the child grow up in poverty and further hindering the mother's financial state is worse than if it was killed before it was born. Or what if the mother is a teenager who needs to finish school first? The baby could also have a disease, perhaps it was not expected to survive the first few weeks anyway?
If abortion was to become outlawed, women who need them might be forced to get one illegaly, which would be very unsafe compared to getting one from a licensed and experienced doctor.

Answer 6

I am not for abortion although I feel it is not my choice to make for someone else. Only they pay the consequences of their actions. Of course the baby dies and that is in my opinion murder because it is a life whether fully formed or not it is only Gods to take. But according to the Bible when Christ returns all those children will return and have a chance to grow and live their lives and during the Millennium chose to follow God or not. What Is really sad is all these firstborns who are to be offered to God are actually being killed. Instead of anti-abortion marches and people standing in front of clinics trying to save babies by belittling the poor mothers who are largely children themselves, Christians should be saving those babies by lovingly telling them how God loves them and their baby and there are other ways of handling the situation, like adoption. There are many waiting to adopt for years who would pay their expenses and give their baby a good home and love.

Answer 7

I do not think abortion is murder

The reason I feel this way is mainly because I feel that the fetus is part of the woman’s body all the way until birth and I feel that people should have the right to do what ever they want with there own body.

In the most basic sense the fetus is also effectively a parasite that is doing nothing more than draining the host of essential nutrients and causing physical and mental stress at the same time.

Answer 8

Abortions happen mainly because two people were being irresponsible and don't want to face up to their actions. I think the bottom line is if you are having a sexual relationship with someone you MUST think about the possibility of having a baby. I do not promote sex outside of marriage, especially with teenagers, but if you must have sex or if you feel having sex outside of marriage is ok than you must be willing to mother or father a baby. Sex and babies go together. Yes you can yes birth control but no birth control is 100% effective.

I do sympathize with women and girls that get abortions that were raped. I can not truely say that God is going to punish them. Is having an abortion when you were raped a sin? I can not truely say. My heart goes out to all women who has been victums of rape or mollestation. I do however think there is an alternative to abortion.

Answer 9

Procreation is an ongoing process which can be interrupted at any point, right from not having sex in the first place, through contraception, and drugs which prevent implantation, to abortion anywhere up to the moment of birth.

Somewhere along that process, most people would have a point where they consider it's OK to interfere to prevent the birth of a baby up to that point, but not afterwards - e.g. abstinence is OK, but contraception isn't.... or contraception is OK, but abortion isn't... or abortion is OK but only up to week 20... or whatever. It's simply a matter of conscience where you personally decide to draw the line, and on what basis.

For myself, I cannot accept that an undifferentiated bunch of cells has more rights than the fully grown adults who are responsible for its existence. I also cannot accept that it's right to kill a foetus when it's fully developed and due to be born. Logically then, there has to be a point somewhere in between that I decide, on the basis of conscience, is the point at which abortion becomes unacceptable. I don't know enough about it to have a definite view where that point lies, but it must lie somewhere in the 9 months of pregnancy.

It's in the nature of life that there are no easy answers to this kind of question, as it's a matter of subjective opinion rather than objective fact - and my opinion is that abortion cannot be wrong, per se.

Oh, and it's pointless to argue about whether the embryo is 'human life' or not - Of course it is. That is not the issue. The issue is whether a human life at a stage of being a tiny featureless blob of cells should be protected at the expense of the wishes of the parents - and particularly the woman who would have to give birth to it. I don't think it should.

Answer 10

Of course its normal because you are feeling grievance towards the lost "child". I had a miscarriage when I was young, not knowing I was pregnant in the first place and I was too young to have a child but I found myself feeling the same way you do now. It wasn't that I wanted the baby it was because I was still experiencing a loss, it would be the same for you. Don't worry it will pass, it's only been a week. Just be strong.