Should children who aren't raised in perfect conditions or that might have a hard childhood be aborted?

Question

I keep hearing this claim made from the pro-abortion crowd. Why should they get to claim that a life isn't worth living?

They keep implying if a child doesn't have free health care, good education, wealthy parents, etc. Then that child would be better off from an abortion. Does this make any sense?

Yes Bush, attack my question because you don't have an answer. Typical of someone with no response.

"Isn't it enough to just say 'you are killing innocent babies' and leave it at that?"

I wish it was enough, but apparently it hasn't been working.

edubya you are correct I am not responsible for someone else's misfortune, but that doesn't mean I can't help them out if I am able to. You are finally starting to sound like a conservative. Good for you!!!

IT IS UP TO THE WOMAN TO DECIDE.

Any women who would kill her own baby has proven she doesn't have the responsibility to make that decision. Isn't that what liberalism is all about? Letting the government make the decisions for you because you couldn't possibly run your own life?

Elway, the part in all caps was a quote from another answer, and then my response.

I am working to change the law, every time I vote, everytime I talk about abortion on here, and everytime I learn a little bit more about abortion from the women who regret having them.

We are going to overturn Roe vs Wade one of these days we just have to keep at it.

Answer 1

So many people with difficult childhoods have grown up to be great people.
Abraham Lincoln
John D. Rockefeller
Angelina Jolie...

Answer 2

Absolutely NOT! Life for anyone is not going to be perfect or ideal. It can be close but not totally. Many great people come from rough backgrounds. Besides you never know what the baby's future may bring or who they will turn out to be. They could be a great doctor or musician. You just never know. It will probably be harder to raise a child in less that ideal conditions, but who are we to decide what conditions are to "difficult". The baby is innocent and should not pay with its life based on a perceived hardship.

Answer 3

That isn't up to anyone but the woman who is pregnant. In your add'l details you seem to suggest that a woman who does this is letting the government tell her what to do. What? That makes no sense. She's making her own decision, and doesn't need your approval, or anyone else's to make that decision. She has the law behind her, simple fact. If you don't like it, work to change it.

Answer 4

let me guess, you are against abortion. Fine with me, as long as you don't force your opinions on me. I never understood why, if pro lifers have such a compelling argument, they need to flame a situation? Isn't it enough to just say 'you are killing innocent babies' and leave it at that? Is this excuse really worse than the 'millions of innocents slaughtered each year by uncaring blood thirsty women who have fun aborting their babies'? Sorry, just reiterating what I 'keep hearing'

Answer 5

Every child a wanted child.

Every unwanted child dead.

I don't understand why pro-aborts constantly call a pro-lifer's responsibility into question, as if to say we've no right to criticize other people's irresponsibility if we're not willing to take up their slack. It's like saying that if you're against murder, you've no right to condemn it if you're not a cop, or in the military, or willing to take the victim's place in his or her family.

You can't be against rape unless you make it your life's work to help rape victims.

Foolishness.

Answer 6

you cannot judge stupid people. it is a birth defect that affects their ability to reason. if only their parents had thought the same as they do. their abilty to make sound judgements and prioritize are also degraded. after all, who in their right mind would kill a child UNLESS, their is rape, incest or the mothers life is at risk. to not be able to ride a horse or go to prom or the mall only clarifies my point. that is why most of these folks have no GOD to pray to. they do not believe so it makes it somewhat easier to sleep at night. it is a selfish generation,disconnected to everything except their slackberries, internet porn and no moral compass. they are a product of their parents poor upbringing. i blame them. and remember it only has to make sense to them and after all, charles manson made sense of his murders too. great company huh?

Answer 7

Should people who "claim" they do not support abortion be actively and monetarily involved with helping those less fortunate so they can become better citizens?...Oh wait, your not responsible for someone else misfortune, let them help themselves, right?

Answer 8

No, many of the greatest leaders in the world have come from hard childhoods. Lincoln for example never attended school for more than a couple months at a time because his family lived on the frontier. Think of all the people that would have been lost had they been aborted because their childhood would be hard. I know my mother would have been aborted, so I would never have been born either.

Answer 9

Nobody has implied any such thing.
Stop lying.

The entire argument is ludicrous and the entire issue is quite simple:

IT IS UP TO THE WOMAN TO DECIDE.

Not you.
Not the government.

Why is that so complicated for some people?
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It's not a baby, it's a fetus. Nothing is begin "killed" the pregnancy is terminated. This whole "argument" is so damn laughable.

Answer 10

No, most of us did not have those things and plenty people turn out fine. If those were our standards we would have to kill off about 90% of the world. Lots of people learn from adversity.