Pro Life or Pro Choice?

Question

What are you....Pro Life or Pro Choice?
Do you think abortion is Murder?

I'm definatly pro choice. I cant abide people who call abortion murder. In this day and age, a Woman has the right to chose whether or not life comes from within her. If the pregnancy is the result of a rape, then yes, go for it, have your abortion. Those people that stand outside abortion clinics preaching that abortion is Murder, has obviously never dealt with the emotions involved in having this proceadure.

Serena - I'm Sad? .. No sweetheart.. I'm Pro Choice.

I know someone thats had it done, she said it was the most dificult decision shes made, but shes glad she made it

Im not FORCING anyone to have an abortion. all im saying is that its the womans right to chose. I dont want a woman to be forced into something she doesnt want to do. I feel that its my right as a woman to make that decision or not regardless of what people around me think

Answer 1

I am pro-choice because I don't believe I have the right to make the decision for someone else. It is between the woman, her partner, her doctor, her conscience, and her divinity (if any). Not mine.

Indy - I have known women who have had abortions who had emotional repercussions afterwards. I have also known women who had abortions who realized that even though it was a difficult choice, it was the right one for that point in time due to the circumstances.

Everyone is an individual, and you cannot make a blanket statement about abortion that will apply to EVERYONE - which is why pro-choice is the only logical position for me to advocate.

Answer 2

I'm Pro Choice, but for all the wrong reasons.
Yes it is Murder, just because people call it a fetus doesn't mean it's not a living thing.
But why am I Pro Choice? Well take you for example, you don't know any better.
So why would I want to support a child raised by you, who will most likely not know any better.
How about this, In this day and age it should never come to this point.
Rape, incest and genetic deformities and health issues for the host, should be the only reasons for having abortions.
Not for your lack of responsibility, Because that is what you are really fighting for, lack of responsibility.
And if that is why people have abortions, then yeah go ahead.
It just shows what your kid will be like.
And I really don't want to end up paying for your mistake.

One more thing, you say "emotions involved in having this proceadure."
Well if it's not murder, why the guilt?

Answer 3

Pro life all the way. Unless the mother's life is in danger like if she were to die if she didn't get an abortion then I'm ok with it. Other then that no I don't support abortion and I hope that all the doctors and women who have them suffer in the next life. Yes abortion is murder. No where in the Constitution does it say that you have a right to murder your innocent child.

Answer 4

I just wonder how many abortions you have participated in. How much do you TRULY know about abortion, how it is performed, why it is chosen by the mother, what the fetus looks like once it is extracted, etc. I am a surgical nurse, and before I came to my senses, I was assistant to several abortions, and they are one of the most gruesome and horrible things that ANYONE can be a part of......EVERY SINGLE ONE I saw, the first thing the mother did when she woke from anesthesia was cry...from the pain and the confusion as to whether or not she did the right thing.....I am sick of people who support it and have NEVER participated in one. Quite moronic. Maybe you should have been aborted. That was a choice your mother could have made.

Answer 5

Absolutely Pro-Choice.

I have the right to decide when and if I become a mother.

Those people who stand outside abortion clinics preaching Abortion equals Murder, are the ones most likely to use violence to prove their point. In their minds, fetuses have more right to life than a murdered doctor.

EDIT: Serena - well, gosh, how fortunate we are that people who have experienced abortion are now in a position to decide that the rest of us should not. Does that include all the men I see protesting as well? Abortion is certainly an answer for many a woman in many situations. You can not judge anyone else for a decision they have made that impacts their life.

Answer 6

I am pro-choice. I greatly value my right to make choices freely, and will fight for that right if necessary. I am also pro-life, and therefore anrti-abortion. A woman has the right to choose whether or not another human being will exist inside her. There are ways to prevent that from happening. However, once that other human being exists, the mother has no choice but to nourish and protect that child until he/she is born. No-one has the right to destroy the life of another human being.

Answer 7

Pro-Life. I believe that no one deserves a death sentence-not criminals, not infants. The difference between me and other Pro-Lifers is that I don't tell other people what they should decide to do. My sorrow is that someone in our family did have an abortion--she told me in secret and begged me to keep it secret. Every Christmas, I'm sad to think that there's supposed to be one more kid running around, there's supposed to be their presents under the tree. There's supposed to be one more Easter Basket--well, you get my drift. I know it hurts the mother to make that decision, I just didn't realize how much it would hurt me.

Answer 8

You are wrong in saying that pro-life people have "obviously never dealt with the emotions involved" in abortion.

I have. I was in a situation where I had an unplanned pregnancy and TONS of pressure to get an abortion. From the baby's father (whom had recently dumped me for another girl), to my family, to my employer. Absolutely NOBODY was around to help me have the baby. I felt abortion was my only choice.

So many, many women feel that abortion is the only choice they have, because they are pressured by their boyfriends, husbands, parents, friends, career -- even the medical profession, if their unborn child has some sign of a birth defect (which isn't always accurate -- I knew people who were advised to abort a baby with dwarfism...they refused because they don't consider dwarfism a "defect" and their child was born without any sign of dwarfism).

I know that women, as Fredericka Matthews-Greene wrote, "choose abortion the way an animal caught in a trap chooses to gnaw off its own leg," because I've been there. And I swear I will do everything in my power to keep other women from being backed up against a wall like that.

Abortion is horrible, bloody, emotional, difficult, painful, and dangerous. (Hear about the woman in Lincoln, Neb. who almost died after a so-called "safe" legal abortion performed by a doc who had previously resigned from a hospital for ethics violations but still worked at Planned Parenthood?) It is used to abuse women -- men force women to get abortions by threatening them. Employers force women to get abortions by curtailing the careers of mothers (single or married). Parents force teenage girls to get abortions. Incest victims are forced to get abortions to hide the crime ALL THE TIME, every single day. Couples are forced to abort their not-quite-perfect but fully wanted babies because of minor birth defects by medical professionals, insurance companies, family, friends and society in general refusing to provide adequate support due to a prevailing prejudice against the handicapped.

NO WOMAN should be forced into believing abortion is her only choice. I want to stop that from happening. If you're pro-CHOICE as you say you are, why don't YOU want to stop women from being forced into something they don't really want to do?

Another quote from feminist author Fredericka Matthews-Greene, regarding the fact that "nobody likes or wants abortion: -- "If 300,000 women are being forced to do something that they don't really want to do, how is that freedom?"

Abortion is OPPRESSION of women, not freedom!

And what are the side effects? A higher rate of infertility. A higher rate of depression and suicide. An increased risk for infection, breast cancer and more.

Is the FATHER of that unborn fetus paying such a high price? Nope. Just the WOMEN.

P.S. I am also opposed to the death penalty and war.

Answer 9

Pro Choice - As a man I have no right to tell a woman what to do with her body.

As a human I have no right what to tell any person to do with their body.

I am Pro-Life in the sense that we planned our pregnancy and we had a baby when we wanted one. But I believe abortion is a choice to be made by the woman.

As far as fetal development - I have a problem with the 3rd tri-mester abortions because that is when the fetus starts to become viable. But before 6 months - that is very much a non-vialble fetus. THough it may resemble a human being in body - it is in no way a human being by mind nor sustainability.

Answer 10

I am prochoice for two reasons: (1) I do not believe the embryo/fetus is a person until the cerebral cortex develops in the second trimester and (2) no BORN person has the right to use another person's bodily resources against his/her will, even if that person will die without doing so.