Abortion, Good or Bad?

Question

What is your view on abortion? Do you think it is good or bad? Why?

This is information I got on the subject which ultimately led me to believe abortion is bad:






Members of Yahoo Answers get on the subject of abortion, these are peoples thoughts;

Question: “Okay - Senator Bird is rabidly AGAINST dog fighting but abortion is okay? Baby...eh, but dog...an abomination?”

Responses: (not full responses only parts)
-”dogs actually feel pain, unlike a fetus” (received 9 thumbs up 11 thumbs down)

-”Dogs are already, like, born.” (received 8 thumbs up 9 thumbs down)

-A dog is conscious and can suffer.
A fertilized egg or blastocyst cannot.
UNDERSTAND THE DIFFERENCE????” (received 10 thumbs up 10 thumbs down)

-”Abortion: Removing a fetus. Not killing a baby.” (received 5 thumbs up 8 thumbs down)



I’m going to just stop now, to read more go to place listed in sources (#1)

(Continued in added details)

What this shows:
From seeing this data I can see lots of people are for abortion. Not only do almost half of the people agree with most quotes but there could be more. It also shows me their big argument is the baby doesn’t feel it and there not born.


FACTS AND WHAT WE KNOW:

- The unborn baby is called a fetus
-“The heartbeat begins on the 21st day after conception.” It is now LIVING.
-“Electrical brain waves have been recorded as early as forty days [after conception].”
-In the Silent Scream, during the abortion, the baby recorded was showing pain in the form of screaming when it was being killed 11 weeks after conception(preborn abortion). During the procedure the heart rate of the unborn baby rises.
-After 11 weeks after conception it can squint, make fist, suck it’s thumb, and is sensitive to touch and heat.
-The baby would have probably lived if not for the abortion
-Definiton- kill-er(ki-l&r):one that kills
-Definiton- kill(kil): to deprive of life : cause the death of

So weren't those defenses of abortion wrong? Fetus are alive, they have been proven to feel, and they would have been a live person.

Sources:

1.http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AkUkt00aoWrnyHMawIPF8CjY7BR.?qid=20070719162849AAyvQuc&show=7&cp=2&tp=2&tnu=37#all-answers
2.http://www.abortionfacts.com/abortion/q_facts.asp
3.http://www.justfacts.com/issues.abortion.asp
4.http://www.silentscream.org/

religionisstupid- Know that I met you I kinda like abortion more. I REALLY wish your mom had aborted you

Answer 1

Abortion-bad
Back alley abortions-worse

REAL education about birth control, and tolerance of women who choose not to keep a child that is the product of rape, an abusive relationship, or Abstinence Only sex-education policies/ -BEST

EDIT Bravo to coragryph. I too am anti-abortion and pro-choice. So was C. Everett Koop, by the way.

Answer 2

I believe abortion is both good and bad. If you were raped by someone, you might not want that baby. Abortion will take care of that. If you are a 13 year old girl who can't support that baby like it needs, you should abort that baby or give it up for adoption. There are already thousands of children waiting to be adopted and it's really sad! Think about it. abortion can be good and it can be bad.

Answer 3

The world is not over populated. There is so much room in the world and many people die every day so it evens out. Abortion IS murder It is an alive human being, with a beating heart, created by God. God doesn't need people to "send Him babies faster." He gave us children, and not to be killed before birth. What if the aborted baby grows up to find a cure for cancer or do other great things? Well, you blew it by murdering it. Great job. Just have the baby and put it up for adoption instead of killing it. What if you made something amazing and someone didn't want it so they destroyed it? Many women who have abortions experience stress and depression. DON'T HAVE ABORTIONS!!!!!!

Answer 4

In this day and age of excellent birth control I see no reason for abortion except in extreme circumstances, very young, 12, 13, 14, rape, defects, and to save the mother's life. It should not be used for birth control. It should not be illegal. Most young women today don't wait for marriage. Sex is a casual part of a date. I guess birth control should be free. If abortion is banned and birth control is expensive then we will be over run again with young uneducated single mothers trying to support their kids waitressing and working in other min. wage jobs. Or a lifetime of welfare. Just like the 50s, 60s and 70s. I am 62 and I remember those times.

Answer 5

Abortion isnt going to make a woman forget she has been raped, abortion will be another trauma. If you believe that the unborn child is a life then how can you justify intentionally killing it in any circumstance?
What about people who are alive today because of rape? Are their lives less worthy than others?
I also think governments (in Uk anyway) promote abortion as it saves them having to give benefits, housing etc to single parents. There are about 180,000 abortions per year in England and Wales. If even half of those would have been single parents if theyd had their children then the government would probably spend millions over the years in benefits. People see abortion as left wing but i think its very suited to capitalism.

Answer 6

I think that the women that abort have their own reasons. Yes, i agree abortion is bad, but neither you or me know what those women feel. What if a 15 year old girl gets pregnant without wanting to (you know how)? She is just a child! She can't raise a child, when she is a child herself. In this case she is obligated to abort.
In the other hand, there are women which want to abort without any supreme reasons and i think that they do a very bad thing.
In most of the cases i'm against abortion, but sometimes there is no other way!

Answer 7

Just because one believes that abortion is "wrong," neither this stance nor its resulting actions will eliminate abortion. Abortion has occurred throughout much of human history (1). Banning it will not lead to less abortions, but more back-alley, dangerous operations which put women at risk.
To give an analogy, if garbage is "bad" because it harms our environment, we can not simply remove garbage cans. This will just cause more littering. We have to prevent the garbage formation.
Likewise, the best way to tackle abortion is with proper education on protective sex. While a few religious folks may dream of a world where they can prevent abortions and premarital sex, reality is different and their utopia will never exist.

Also, to simply say abortion is "good or bad" is narrow-sighted. The answers depend on your moral and cultural upbringing, which vary from one person to another. A pregnant mother of five starving kids in a war-torn and AIDS-ravaged region of Africa may have every right for an abortion, to spare her unborn's likely miserable life. A prostitute who gets pregnant from unprotected sex should probably be less entitled to the same option. Ultimately, lawmakers can not look at situations case by case, so the option for abortion should be made available.

Answer 8

Read the book "Freakonomics". It covers this question. I agree with the author's conclusion: Abortion led to the sharp drop in crime rate in the early and mid nineties. Why? Because people were no longer having 'at-risk' kids (poor, indifferent parents etc.) and there weren't people yet institutionalized on welfare because of the children they shouldn't have had. If people want to force someone to have a child that they cannot support, for whatever reason, they need to help out until they are 18!

Disclaimer: this is not to say that abortion should be the 'other' birth control.

Answer 9

There is only one correct answer to your question.

God gives life and God takes life . There is a time to be "born" and and time to "die" so how can a person die before being born? Abortion is MURDER! And a baby is a baby, not a fetus that feels no pain and they suffer the pains of being aborted right from the beginning, egg and all because it is attached to the mothers insides. There is pain because it is a living soul.
Let me tell you years ago, a friend who was a nurse told me when the doctor did the abortions she wanted to take the container with the body of the dimantled baby in it to the mother and say, "Here, this is your baby." So anyone who breaths have life and will feel pain, dogs and all.

Answer 10

You don't have to give me any facts, they've all been said, your jumping into the middle. Anyone who's cared has had their peace to say, you young people are just catching up.

Abortion doesn't have to be compared with dog fighting or anything else with me. I am against anything that takes the life of a baby and, in my conviction, a baby is described as a fetus that can been seen as life, within weeks old.

I've tried to understand some States and there theories of a rape victim: a girl raped and given a chance for an abortion, this is something of another caliber, something that's beside the point and it's not a hypocritical question for those that want an argument. It's for those that are impregnated within a few hours and given a pill to terminate any pregnancy, there no fetus only an egg that hasn't taken hold.
In this case the girl is the victim and shouldn't have to suffer and have a baby to remind her of the horror she went through, a baby that is now unwanted. Better to get rid of the egg fast.

Other then this, for an abortion for a stupid girl and bot, that haven't taken measures to stop this, the answer is "no" there are people that can have the unwanted baby.

Answer 11

I have very mixed feelings about abortion. As a woman, I certainly don't want anyone forcing me to have a baby if I don't want one. As a Libertarian, I don't believe you can legislate morality. BUT - it *is* killing an innocent baby. Say whatever you must about it not being a baby, but wtf else do those cells have a chance of turning into? Nothing.

However, unless and until we find a way to hold men as 100% accountable for a baby as the woman is, I have to support it. However, I also feel it has been twisted into yet another way for Americans to avoid any responsibility for their actions.

If it was up to me, deadbeat dads would have a giant tattoo on their faces, informing the world what loser jerks they are.