Where do you stand on the political topic of abortion.?

Question

I am pro life for a few reasons. I do not support killing someone that is going to one day live a life like me. I wouldn't want someone to have done that to me.

Don't say that it's just an embryo, it is about what it will become.

Secondly, I believe that people need to live with their actions. I can't stand people who have abortion after abortion because they don't want to use birth control!

I know I am opening a can of worms, so fire away.

Answer 1

It's MURDER. It's immoral, sick, twisted, and not being able to accept responsibility for refusing birth control, and not being abstinent. We need to pass a law to make it illegal. It should not be used as a form of birth control, and only by the .01% chance that the mom's life is in danger.

Keep your legs shut...It's that simple.

Answer 2

You allready know what I'm going to say. :) I think it shouldn't be used as birth control. I think that in extreme circumstances (rape, health problems, etc) then it is morally justified. And I think the majority of the people feel that way, or they should. (Any person that would allow a woman to keep having an abortion over and over just because she didn't want to use birth-control is a complete idiot.)

However, I highly doubt laws will ever be made to stop abortions.

Another person on here said that you weren't really pro-life. Obviously, this person is a liberal. What I can't get about Liberals is that they say their pro-choice but then they'll fight tooth and nail to save a tree. An embryo is "alive", it just isn't "sentient"...however, the tree isn't sentient either, so how does that work? They'll also fight to get rid of the death penalty, which completely confuses me! They won't fight to save a few-weeks-old baby but they will to a convicted murder or rapist or child molester? Liberals also say that it is the woman's choice of what she can do with her body and shouldn't be made by some politician....but then, why is prostitution illegal?

And you were right too, you were opening a can of worms. :) I can't believe at the amount of people on here who were calling you names or were mad at you just because you think a certain way about a certain issue. Really shows their character, doesn't it? :)

Edit:
(Sorry, but I have to comment about scenic_point's post. HOW can you compare the choice over suffering in 9/11 verses concentration camps to abortion? Are you saying that a child born into a life of abuse, neglect, depression, and hopelessness will NEVER have a happy moment in their lives, ever? They'll NEVER be happy, or make another life for themselves when they grow up? They'll NEVER be happy in school? They'll NEVER find a man/woman that loves them and they love them back? How can you say that the child will PROBABLY NEVER be adopted or will NEVER find great adoptive parents? I'm not saying that their life will be perfect or even pleasant most of the time, but how can you make that choice for them? How can you DARE say that it's better to just end their life? Why don't we just let anyone who wants to kill themselves go ahead and do it then? Why are there even rehab clinics for that matter? I'm really shocked that you would say something so cruel and inhumane.)

Anyways, still love your name!!

Answer 3

I feel it should be the woman's choice up to the end of the first trimester and the baby's choice after that.

Abortions are an unsavory topic but forcing a child into a environment where it is not loved or, wanted is an even bleaker choice. Especially because many women who have abortions are unfit to be mothers in the first place and too selfish to give them up for adoption.

As much as I hate to condone abortions, I would feel even worse about sentencing a child to a lifetime of abuse, neglect, depression and hopelessness.

It's like the old profiling question -

Which was the most inhumane and which caused the least amount of suffering:

1) 9/11
2) Nazi concentration camps

Of course, the concentration camps were the most inhumane and in comparison to years spent starving, suffering, watching your loved ones be killed, raped and tortured, knowing that your own trip to the 'ovens' could likely happen at any given moment, 9/11 caused the least amount of suffering.

In the end, though both were horrible, 9/11 was unexpected, swift and over in a matter of minutes for those who lost their lives. Ironic as it may seem, it was the most humane.

The same question could be asked on behalf of the children who fall prey to abortion or, otherwise spend their lives in pain.

Answer 4

It shouldn't be a political issue. I think the government should stay out of people's private lives and private decisions. Whenever abortion comes up it always gets wrapped up with religion and religious definitions of when life begins. If we really have separation of church, then the government shouldn't be trying to legislate for all based upon the religious definitions of some.
BTW... I'm a Libertarian (pro-individual rights)

Answer 5

" Don't say its just an embryo, it is about what it will become".

Well if it will become a human then it cannot already be human. So we agree that embryos are not human.

Any other non-human organisms we should afford human protections to? How about all the sperm (which have the potential to become human) that fail to fertilize the egg? Multiple murder counts on dear ol' dad? Or the ovums that are not fertilized and subsequently sloughed off during a woman's period? Each of those could become human you know.....

Ok. Enough picking your position apart. To actually answer the question I would continue to allow the abortion of non-human embryos. Furthermore, it should be a state issue so the Feds should bounce it back to the local level.

Answer 6

I am always pro-choice, because women must be allowed to choose whether or not they want to have the child.

If someone has a history of repeated abortions (exact numbers to be determined later, such as "three times or more in a five-year period") then that person should be put onto some form of long-term birth control because they are too immature to be having children. Draconian, I admit, but realistic.

Minors must *always* give notification to their parents and have parental consent before any choices are to be made.

Of course, I would also close down all the fertility clinics, which destroy most of the embryos created during the process--that is the same thing as abortion. If you cannot have children naturally, then adopt.

Answer 7

Pro life. Abortion is not designed to be contraceptive. Too often, people do not want to take the responsibility that comes with sex. Rape, I am up in the air on. Not my call to make.

I defer partial birth to Sen Santorum. He sat on the floor of the senate and asked for 1 example where it was needed. Silence.

I cannot stand the it is my body argument. Government tells us we cannot do drugs and cannot kill ourselves. Blows that argument out of the water.

I do not take the religious argument because it is not the best one. Life begins when you can stop something from growing into something else. Welcome to conception. If you can stop it from becoming human it is living.

Answer 8

Well, no one can force a woman to give birth if she doesn't want to.

Abortion is not a political issue, it is a woman's choice and Roe v Wade protects that choice. I can't understand why everyone wants to discuss it. It is the law.

And, how do you feel about the males involved...are you as outraged with them for having unprotected sex?

Or, do you not know that it takes TWO to make a baby....in the usual way?

Answer 9

so, you're pro-life? do you support the death penalty? if so, then you are NOT pro-life. do you support universal health insurance for children? if not, then you are NOT pro-life. do you support expanded benefits for women and children, ie, wic, food stamps, etc...? if not, you are NOT pro-life. and, are you btw, supporting the adoption industry? you know, those people who decide that they want a 'perfect' white baby (which, to tell the truth, is what most 'right to lifers' are interested in, they don't care about minority babies, or mixed race babies, only the cute, healthy white ones), without the inconvenience of pregnancy? the ones who want an fashion accessory kid?

and, btw, if 'someone had done it to you', you'd never have known, there is no consciousness before life.

if that embryo will become a rapist, murderer, child molester, would that justify an abortion? if you would want to execute the resulting person years later, then what's the problem, if you've avoided the misery for whatever victim?

Answer 10

First of all abortion is a woman's health issue that has been politicized.

Having said that I believe it should be between a woman and her doctor and if she chooses her husband.

But I do agree with you that abortion should not be used for birth control that is wrong. Abortion is not a situation to take lightly nor do I think the decision should be an easy one.

I value life but the law should not be governing a medical decision.

I love how all the war mongers are so anti abortion but don't blink an eye in sending our men and women to die in an illegal war. What's wrong with that picture?

Answer 11

Nothing can be passed without constitutional ammendment, so until a larger majority of democrats become pro-life, it is of no use to argue about it.

Personally, I am pro life, but I do not feel that I have the moral authority to tell other people what they can and can not do with their bodies.

I also believe that support of life, does not end at birth, like many republicans who turn their back on social service policies like health care, food stamps, or other programs for people in need. There are already thousands of children without homes, many who are growing up without families. Not enough people are there to open their arms and homes to them...

If you are going to support life.. Support ALL LIFE... Do not kill for the sake of money/oil. Do not let people die without health care.. Do not turn your back on those who are alive.

It is a moral and religious decision, that has been used to bring people out to vote time and time again. Even with republican control of three branches of government, it was not something that could be passed. It is a banner 'conservatives' wave, to have religious followers side with them, and yet they know they are powerless to do anything about it. It is the primary way the 'conservatives' use religion for government support..

(remember, our founding fathers wanted a seperation of church and state????)


Even if you stop it legally, the procedure will still take place, people will still have them done. Wealthy will travel out side of this country to have the procedure if they wish, while the poor will revert back to the alleys with coathangers.. (remember how it was before legalization???)

Stem Cells... as republicans like to call it, research that kills babies. What they fail to tell people is that thousands of fertalized eggs are destroyed during the fertility treatment process.
So it is ok for a couple wanting to get pregnant to create and destroy numerous fertalized eggs, so they can have a child.. .but it is not ok for those eggs to be used before they are destroyed for stem cell research.. to help people who are alive.