pro-abortion arguments?

Question

in english we are doing debates. i got put in a group that is supposed to argue for abortion...problem is iam pro-life. any ideas for arguments for pro-abortion

Answer 1

No one is pro-abortion. It is a belief that every human has the right to make personal decisions. The right to make these type of decisions without government or religious fanatics interference.

Answer 2

I believe that a woman(any human) should be in control of her own body. That being said this is a subject in which I don't think you can find a satisfying answer. In the case of rape she did not choose to have sex, but her body chose to make the baby. Someone may or may not want the baby if given up for adoption. If the baby was an accident between two people and the woman chooses abortion, I think the man should have some say. It is her body, but it is also have of the mans DNA. That is the part that is really wrong to me. The bottom line is that no ones mind is going to be changed by any argument that you make. Until you go through something like this you will never know how you will choose.

Answer 3

Your best shot is an argument for Legal Pro-Abortion. The main purpose for most truly thinking people that are for abortion policies is to limit other government and cultural expenditures of armature abortion procedures.

When abortion was illegal, it suffered the same fates as alcohol (when it was illegal), prostitution, and drugs. Just because something is illegal, it doesn't stop happening. It makes the behaviour dangerous. Without being able to get real help without being stopped, women would do some very dark and dangerous things to abort a birth on their own.

The current system of legalised abortion is really just a form of defeat. The people horrified and sympathetic to the plight of these teenage criminals caved in to the thinking that if it were legal, at least the atrocities would end.

As for whether it is right to allow abortion, that is obviously a different question. But if you are looking for an argument to build a case, this is where you would start.

Answer 4

I am also doing a English project, yet I am Pro-Abortion. To the people who say abortion is murder, under the Constitution murder is defined as taking the life of another human being through the initiation of physical force. Since the fetus is unborn, it is not considered a human being until it is born and the umbilical cord is cut. Until then it is the mother who can decide the fate of the unborn fetus. Just to fill you all in.

Answer 5

First, you need to figure out when is it illegal to do this. Does conception mean that there is a baby? What features make a baby in the womb "untouchable"? Is it a heart, a brain, blood circulation? I'd start there first.

Second, you can mention rape or incest as a means for an abortion.

Third, argue that the government has no business telling women what to do with their bodies.

Lastly, discuss the strain that the lack of health care places on citizens. Our foster homes are a joke. No one is adopting like they use to. And the vast majority doesn't want to provide welfare for mothers and their children.

Where does that leave a woman?

Answer 6

I had to do the same thing in college. I used the argument that if a woman was raped and got pregnant she should have the right to chose. I also used the argument that if the parents found out the child would be severely retarded and I mean very severely, then the couple should have the option to terminate the pregnancy. Its hard to argue for something you dont believe in but I hope this helped a little.!

Answer 7

You can argue that the child welfare system is unable to manage the number of cases it currently has and by welcoming in an influx of unwanted children you will just be increasing the burden exponentially.

Economically these are all children that need to be educated, fed, sheltered and given medical care until they are 18 years of age. An aborted fetus is unwanted. It stands to reason that a high proportion of these unwanted children would require some addition public funding and assistance, whether it is because they are put in the child welfare system, or a family who otherwise would not be able to afford a child is put in a position of having to care for it.

Abortion saves the economy a lot of money.

Answer 8

Here's a few points.
>first, you can be opposed to abortion personally, but still recognize that you don't have the right to impose your personal beliefs on others (this is my view, BTW)
>there is nothing in the Bible that says a fetus is a human being (surprised? don't be--a lot of what the religious claims the Bible says isn't true).
>until the mid 19th century, Christian teaching was that the soul did not enter a fetus until "quickening"--roughly the end ofthe first trimester.

Also--take a look at the majority opinion of Roe v. Wade. Most people have never bothered to read it--including most of the "pro-life" and "pro-choice" activists. You'll be surprised at how thorough the Court was--and how hard they tried to find a legal justification NOT to overturn state anti-abortion laws.

here's one more interesting item--BEFORE the Roe decision, abortion was legal in 17 states-and there wer already a lot of abortions. Roe didn't "open the floodgates" --it simply recognized wat was already a reality.

Answer 9

First of all, arguing the opposing side is a key component of debate. Being able to acknowledge both sides of a subject, even if you personally agree with only one, makes you more informed and is the hallmark of an intellectually honest approach to your own personal belief system. Anyone who resists looking at the other side is just subjugating themselves to ignorance. In other words, this is the perfect way for you to ensure yourself that your belief systems are actually what you believe.

For your argument I would consider:

There is no evidence that an embryo or fetus during the first trimester is a viable human being. In other words, it cannot survive outside of the woman's womb. It is therefore NOT (yet) a baby. It is a fetus. It does not have the rights granted as a citizen. It is therefore set as existing precedent by the Supreme Court of the USA that the woman has the right to choose for herself if she wishes to carry the pregnancy to term.

Answer 10

The whole idea of the argument is that no one is pro-abortion.

People advocate a woman's being able to choose what happens to her body.

That is the pro-choice movement.

prochoiceisprolife.com

That's the very best site I've found so far, LOTS of reasoning, very simple. Be sure to visit the "questions" section.

Answer 11

Here's one reason why it ever became legal in the first place:

Because women will do it. If abortion is illegal, some women that conceive children will kill them themselves or with assistance. When they do this, they run the risk of infection. Pretty sad to legalize a form of murder just because 'they'll do it anyway'. They don't legalize drugs just because people will do them anyway.