Let me ask you this. If when you were a fetus in your mothers womb, and your mother decides to have an abortion, would you know the difference? Would you feel anything physical or emotional? The answer is no, you would never even know. Killing an undeveloped fetus in its early stages of life is completely acceptable to me. I think its ridiculous that so much controversy revolves around this subject.
2007-07-23 04:34:52 · 25 answers · asked by behindthesmile22 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
i agree. if my mom aborted the body i was meant for, my soul would have found another body. i believe the soul doesn't enter the body until birth.
2007-07-23 19:48:53 · answer #1 · answered by GothicLady 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Abortion is a tragedy, but I understand why it is done in certain cases. If a mother of 3, is going to die because there are problems with the fetus she is carrying, should we tell her that's not right to terminate it because it's wrong in the eyes of God or that it might feel pain? The developing child could be feeling pain either way from the complexities of pregnancy. What about the existing children that would be orphaned because of the decision? You have to weigh the situation. In other cases where women use abortion repeatedly as birth control or those who decide in late term pregnancy that they don't want to go through it and get a partial birth abortion is completely horrific. I think if an abortion is needed you must do it ASAP to prevent the developing nervous system from feeling anything. Once it's developed, I believe pain would be felt.
2007-07-23 05:22:24 · answer #2 · answered by DAR76 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How do you know if the fetus feels pain? Do you remember? The same can be said for an infant. How do you know they feel pain? Do you remember? By that irrational argument murder shouldn't be illegal until the victim had cogent memories.
I noticed someone below basing the opinion that fetus’ don’t feel pain on the fact that they do not have a developed nervous system, this just reinforces my argument. The fact is that children are still operating without a fully developed nervous system in most cases though early childhood. Put simply, bad argument. Cold hard fact is that is something people say to help them sleep at night, flawed or not.
2007-07-23 04:41:02 · answer #3 · answered by smutz 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
You're missing the point of the debate. While your argument is a valid counter-point to the anti-choice position that fetuses do feel pain, it doesn't focus on the most important legal issues.
The issue on the freedom of choice debate is (or should be) whether a person (the mother) can be compelled to give life support from her body if she does not choose to be part of the process.
The abortion debate can be 90% resolved if all the anti-choice people put their time and money into medical research to create artificial incubator technology. That way, if the mother doesn't want to be involved in the process (her right to choose her involvement), the embryo or fetus is just transplanted out to the artificial incubator, and can continue to develop.
But it seems that many anti-choice people are too focused on wanting to control what other people do, and don't really have any interest in ensuring development of the child.
2007-07-23 04:37:00 · answer #4 · answered by coragryph 7 · 4⤊ 2⤋
Incorrect. Surgical abortion begins, in general, at about eight weeks. Some clinics will attempt to do abortions before then (about six weeks), though it is avoided due to the fact that it is hard to estimate pregnancies at that point, making it potentially more dangerous than most abortions.
Thus, at eight weeks, the fetus can indeed feel pain. The nervous system is functioning and interacting with the brain. in addition, fetuses at this point have been observed reacting to pain in an intelligent way.
Moreover, this is a bad argument. You don't feel pain if you are killed in your sleep, but it is still wrong, isn't it? Why, then, does it matter if the child can feel pain?
2007-07-23 07:38:39 · answer #5 · answered by justiceforall234 2 · 2⤊ 2⤋
This is a really sensitive subject. It is hard for me to answer. I look at it both ways. Women who are pregnant and are afraid of giving birth is it right of them to kill a child and take away it's ability to experience life. Is it right of the government to take away the rights of women? No neither is right. I spent time thinking whether I was pro choice or pro life and I just cant come to a conclusion. People think it is so easy to just have a baby. It definitely is not and for you Men who think it's a piece of cake going through labor...think of a tennis ball shooting out of your... yeah so it's no picnic. There is also the money involved in taking care of a child. I don't even want to know how much my parents paid for me to live under their roof. Oh course there is always places like foster homes and orphanages but the question is would you want your child to feel like you just abandoned them. (There's adoption too). I have never been pregnant and I think If a women is pregnant SHE should have the choice not the government. The government isn't going to gain almost 35 pounds, the government isn't going to have to take care of the child and they are not going to have to have their period for a month. Government shouldn't have a choice in the matter. That is my opinion on abortion. So I ...sort of agree.
I hope this will get you thinking .
2007-07-23 04:59:26 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I have no problem with it as long as the fetus cannot sustain life outside of the womb. (I mean a completely formed child born after at least 16 weeks gestation, not something in a lab dish.) I think we need to do more to protect lives that already exist. We need to feed children that are hungry, house children that are homeless, rescue children that are being abused. Until we can take proper care of those who already live, we need to stop worrying about those that are unwanted before they are born
Please, before you decide to burn me at the stake, I have nothing against children or God. I am a Christian woman with 8 children (by choice) and 5 grandchildren (by their mother's choice.)
2007-07-23 04:45:50 · answer #7 · answered by miki m 2 · 4⤊ 1⤋
I am not sure how a fetus feels pain when it doesn't have a developed nervous system, however that is just my scientific standpoint.
Legally, abortion has been decided. Outlawing abortion is not going to curb it, yet lead to more victims.
2007-07-23 04:41:38 · answer #8 · answered by smedrik 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
The central issue is not pain. The central issue is the defenition of Life. It is widely believed that due to the size of their brains that fish do not feel pain, but there is NO argument that they are not alive.
Oh, and to answer your main question, I am pro choice, but I do NOT beleive in abortion as a form of birth control.
2007-07-23 04:42:21 · answer #9 · answered by elysialaw 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Would the killing of a human life, no matter at what stage of development, be considered murder? The baby has not done anything worthy of a penalty of death. The mother decides, for what ever reason, that the baby is not wanted and then proceeds to kill the baby. It seems to me, that the one who is guilty of murder is the mother and any accomplice she employs to carry out the task. Following your logic, if you were unconscious, it would be OK to kill you because you would not even know you were being killed.
2007-07-23 05:19:27 · answer #10 · answered by careerslacker 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
So the soul has noting to do with it? Are you that into believeing there is no god? I say that it is very, very wrong. Yes there is conciesnes, yes there is feeling. YES it is killing and wrong. I believe that a woman and the Father should be sentanced to life without parole if they have an abortion. The man is just as responcible for pregnancy.
2007-07-23 04:45:23 · answer #11 · answered by bildymooner 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋