Do you think abortion is legal, moral, and fair?

Question

Legal yes...but how is it moral or fair?

I don't think if you were an aborted fetus you would think it was fair...how is taking away the next potential Beethoven, DaVinci, etc fair?

How is saying "oh...I don't want to be pregnant right now...ROAD TRIP!!!" moral? You NEED to face the consequences of your actions...if you were a ho and slept around, got pregnant, I don't think abortion should be a free ticket out of the situation...that isn't fair either.

How can people see abortion as fair and moral? DO NOT get into "it's a womans body" because that is NOT what this is about...this is about how is it moral and fair not who's right it is...

lowrain, you are MISTAKEN, I never said people who get an abortion are hos, I said if you are a ho and get pregnant that abortion shouldn't be your free ticket out of your consequences...

Answer 1

*sigh* it's a ball of cells. They don't have feelings, they don't feel pain, they have no emotions, they feel no anguish about not living the life they could have had.

whats immoral is having a child and tossing them to a foster home or sticking them in a bad home where they weren't wanted in the first place.

and I take offense that you assume that anyone who has an abortion is a ho. Most abortions occur with women who don't want anymore children. Married women, christian women. Women who have affairs and want to get rid of the evidence.

Most girls who get in trouble by mistakes don't have the money to have abortions.

abortions are going to happen, wouldn't you rather they be performed legally by qualified professionals instead of in back alleyways with rusty knives and folding tables?

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ho's are already immoral, what does it matter if they have an abortion? And a good 'ho' knows how to not get pregnant. Otherwise they wouldn't be able to 'ho' so much.

Quiet.Buck, most abortions occur within the first two or three months. Big as your hand? Try size of fingernail. Even up to 12 weeks which I believe to be the maximum time to wait, you are only talking 3 inches. What you are talking about is partial birth abortion and that IS wrong.

Answer 2

First of all, Do I "think" abortion is legal? That question does not make sense. I know it is legal in Canada (or at least I hope it is!) I believe it is moral and fair.

I believe it is a deepy personal thing that is nobody else's beeswax.

Personally, I am married and if I got pregnant I would not have an abortion UNLESS the fetus had confirmed severe defects or down's syndrome or some fatal defect OR I was raped by someone. I would not carry the seed of a rapist.

I kind of like the Buddhist way of thinking, the soul just kind of gets recycled and used again somewhere else. It definitely is not murder.

Answer 3

Yeah there's nothing wrong with it. It is aborting a cluster of cells that is without a nervous system or brain-- how can you kill something that cannot think, feel, or that doesn't have a heartbeat? How does it count as even being alive?

And for every DaVinci, there is a Hitler.

And everyone that believes in abortions doesn't "sleep around" thank you. I've only ever slept with one man in my life, I use protection-- but if that protection should ever fail, I will get an abortion. It will be immediately-- no pain for the fetus, at a stage when it's not even able to think or feel. That isn't murder. How would that be immoral or unfair?

Answer 4

its a personal choice the government cannot let personal morals/religious morals dictate the law or they would have a serious uprising, it would no longer be a democracy but instead an anarchy. the time will come when someday it may be safe to illegalize it but that is not now. Pierre Elliot Trudeau said "the government has no business in the bedrooms of its people"

Answer 5

Abortion, is permitted only if the continuation of pregnancy poses a threat on the mother. The Islamic Shari'a considers the mother to be the root and the fetus to be the offshoot; the latter to be sacrificed if this is necessary to save the former.

In principle, the Qur'an condemns the killing of humans (except in the case of defense or as capital punishment),

The Qur'an says:
We created man from an essence of clay: then placed him, a living germ,
In a secure enclosure. The germ We made a leech; and the leech a lump of
Flesh; and this We fashioned into bones, then clothed the bones with flesh;
Then We develop it into another creation. (Surah Al-Mu'minoon, 23: 12-14)

In principle, the Qur'an condemns the killing of humans (except in the case of defense or as capital punishment),

Islam's approach to the issue of birth control and abortion is very balanced. It allows women to prevent pregnancy but forbids them to terminate it. In case of rape the woman should use the morning after pill or RU486 immediately after the sexual assault in order to prevent the possible implantation of a fertilized ovum.

The scholars all agree that abortion is forbidden after the first four months of pregnancy, since by that time the soul has entered the embryo but it would allow the use of RU486 (the "morning-after pill"), as long as it could be reasonably assumed that the fertilized egg has not become implanted on the wall of the uterus. Most scholars say that abortion is legal under Islamic Shari'ah (law), when done for valid reasons and when completed before the soul enters the embryo. To abort a baby for such vain reasons as wanting to keep a woman’s youthful figure, are not valid.

"...And do not slay your children for (fear of) poverty -- We provide for you and for them --- and do not draw nigh to indecencies, those of them which are apparent and those which are concealed, and do not kill the soul which Allah has forbidden except for the requirements of justice: this He has enjoined you with that you may understand." (6:151)


Allah Almighty knows best.

Answer 6

Brian, I commend you on your stand about abortion.

Yes...it is legal. That does not mean it is moraly correct. Look at the battle today over moral & law regarding same sex marriage. Look to yesterday's fight over segregation - once legal, but never moral. Or look to suffrage movement, the denying women the right to vote - once legal, but never moral. Look to slavery - once legal, but how moral?

I guess what I'm saying is Legal does not equal Morally correct. At most...politically correct.

Before joining Christ, I was in favor of abortion. As a guy, it was always the "ace in the hole" should another hole appear elsewhere. When I became one of His followers, I ceased having pre-marital sex, but was very slow to abandon my position on "it's legal".

More study has led me to the same conclussion you have. And pretty much anyone that has been born in the last 30 years should call themself a survivor...having survived a "choice" they had no voice in.

Answer 7

This old man was around during the time of Roe v. Wade, so make funny noises and tell the world how dumb I am if you must, but I remember the time abortion became legal in my country. It all started with a simple outcry from very liberal minded people who claimed a grave injustice was being foisted upon poor downtrodden womanhood. There were probably about a hundred women or so a year dying from illegal abortion procedures in "back alley" abortion clinics. How could anyone be so cold hearted as to allow these innocent deaths to occur?
Well, as it turned out we have aborted nearly half a generation of our own population. You see, in every abortion someone dies. The coldness of heart has grown to catasrophic proportions.

Answer 8

I personally disagree with abortion, I do not think it is right, I could not do it myself, and would encourage anyone who asked to think about other options - but I would not try to make that decision for them. However, I do not think it should be make illegal. As both a person and a woman, I do not think anyone should have the right to tell another what they can and cannot do with their body. I think that equal weight and attention needs to be given to all the options, not just abortion. My brother could have been aborted, but my parents chose to adopt him and I could not imagine my life without my brother. I think a lot of the problem lies in the lack of proper sex education and the "It won't happen to me" mentality of the young.

Answer 9

"I don't think if you were an aborted fetus you would think it was fair...how is taking away the next potential Beethoven, DaVinci, etc fair"

Why do people always use Beethoven, DaVinci, etc. as examples when they're talking about the potential of an aborted fetus?

Why do they never use Hitler or Stalin or Charles Manson?

And why do the people who are avidly pro-life not adopting all the unwanted babies that they are demanding be brought to term? Or are their consciences salved by the "she didn't kill the baby, we are vindicated" mindset, and completely ignoring the miserable life conditions that they may have condemned that child to by living with a mother who didn't want them? Is a childhood being ignored or unloved (or abused) moral or fair?

Answer 10

I like how it's all the woman's fault in your world. I mean, if she loved her boyfriend and was committed to him and used birth control but it failed and now he's left her alone to deal with the pregnancy and all that comes after, it's still her fault if she chooses the legal option of abortion. The man is blameless, and she's a ho.

It may be legal for you to be so ignorant, but it's hardly moral and fair.

By the way, how many babies have you adopted? You must be willing to help raise these babies that you don't want aborted, right? Or does that duty simply fall to the hos?


(Edit: By the way, there's a fascinating section in the book "Freakonomics" about abortion and its effects on our economy.)