What is YOUR view on ABORTION?

Question

What is your view on Abortion??
Why do you have that view?

I think it is murder if you abort an unborn child.
I have read a lot about it, and that is still my view.

I think this is a very interesting topic because there are soo many different views and opinions on it.

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Answer 1

I think this is too much of a vague question. There are always different circumstances that surround someone considering an abortion.

If you (or someone you knew) got raped, would you use the strict words of the bible to force yourself or woman you knew to have this baby, even tho it was created out of torture and crime?

If your 12 year old daughter was pregnant would you make her keep the baby?

granted, if you think you're mature enough to have unprotected sex and you do end up pregnant then there are consequences you need to bear in mind. Abortion is not a means of birth control.

I became pregnant with my first child when i was 24, my partner was 20 and we had just moved into our first flat. When we found out we were pregnant it was a shock.... we hadnt planned it but as adults we knew that there may have been consequences if we had unprotected sex. At first, we DID consider abortion - we went to doctors and got informed opinions and, in the UK, you need the consent of 2 doctors, it always takes ages and it gives you time to think - thankfully, during that time we weighed up our reasons for thinking abour abortion and decided they were very selfish and now, we have a 2 year old girl and another baby due any day

children are a blessing and truly fulfil your life

BUT

when considering abortion you have to do what's right for YOU, in my opinion its not murder in any shape or form if the pregnancy was created out of harsh circumstances or would lead to the child having a poor quality of life such as being brought up by a very VERY young mother.

Answer 2

I have a question for you....say your 13 yo daughter gets RAPED
maybe even by a family member and becomes pregnant? Then what the hell do you do (this happened to my best friend)?. In that case, if YOU are raped by a stranger, and become pregnant...do YOU think that you could raise the child as a loving parent and not harbor resentment toward that
child? I do not believe in abortion as 'birth control', but I do feel that there are some things that should be taken into consideration before anyone is judged for having an abortion.
To be honest, I had an appointment to have an abortion when I got pregnant at the age of 18....my friend, who was also pregnant begged me to see her OB, after that examination there was no way I could do it, I now have a 16 yo. son who I couldn't imagine life without him.
Also, as a woman, I have the right to chose what I do to MY body, not have someone else, a man no less, make those decisions for me. I would rather have abortion be legal than for a young girl to end up hacked by some back alley butcher!

This topic is like beating a dead horse, we all have our own opinion and until either one of us is faced with the issue personally, no one can make any judgement.

Answer 3

I don't think it would be fair to say one thing or another about abortion across the board.

I think it is wrong if the fetus is at a point where it could feasibly survive outside the womb on its own (aka 3rd trimester), unless the mother is at a huge risk or if the fetus is found to have a disorder that would cause extreme physical pain for its entire life. (My cousin had a baby born with all its organs on the outside. It lived in that pain for 12 minutes, and I don't think that was fair to the child.)

However, before that 6 months--well it's like taking someone who is completely comatose off life support. That person cannot live without the machine, and the fetus could not live without the machine of the mother.

That may sound cold, but let me explain. I do not think abortion should be used as birth control; and, frankly the "birth control" reason is VERY VERY rare. Many women who have abortions are in situations where they can or should not have a child, either health-wise, age-wise, or financially. If a woman is on medications that keep her alive and those meds would be harmful to a baby, or a baby would be harmful to her meds, then she should have the option to abort. If a woman has gotten pregnant via rape, it is not fair to ask her to spend 9 months with strangers asking, "Aww, when are you due? Aren't you so excited? How's the father feeling?" And I could go on and on.

I also don't think it would be fair to women to allow a predominantly male government make the decision. Not one of those men will ever know the feeling of having something growing inside of them that is not a tumor.

Would I have an abortion? Not in my current situation, and if the baby was going to be in good health. (A mental or physical disability DOES constitute good health in my book; extreme physical pain does not constitute good health.) However, if I was raped, if I was on medications that would harm, if I had a disease, anything like that, I would definitely have a decision to make.

I am pro-choice. I am not anti-life.

Answer 4

Personally i don't like the idea of abortion, but what i like even less are seeing so many unwanted and unloved children growing up in this world.

Although i wish everyone could just love and cherish their children the reality is that not everyone does.

So for me i think that if someone wants to have an abortion and goes through with it, then at the very least that is one less child that has to grow up unloved and uncared for.

Adoption is another option and yes better in many respects, but at the same time someone who would rather have an abortion would probably not nurture the unborn child there fore giving that child a poor start to life.

This is a highly controversial topic and has been debated for many years, and i dont see the debait going away anytime soon.

Answer 5

I think it is important that abortion be a safe, healthy, legal and affordable option for women who need that service. I think there are women out there who abuse that option. I think it is no one else's business other than the woman involved and her partner assuming there is a situation where both parties would otherwise be involved in the life of the child and the man is not a physical, emotional or mental threat to the woman.

I think that people who freely through around the word murder have never been affected by murder. My fiance was murdered in the first degree and my life was threatened. My sister and my best friend have both had abortions. I believe that anyone who thinks that those to situations are the same should keep their opinion on that quite until they've actually been through both and can fully understand what they say.

I do not believe that abortions should be done after the first trimester. I do agree that the idea of murder comes into play once the fetus is capable of living outside the mother's body.

For myself personally there would have to be FAR extenuating circumstances for myself to go through it as I have been through a natural abortion and it broke my heart. My second and successful pregnancy almost killed me any my son, I had an early emergency c-section after 2.5 months of bed rest to save both our lives. I think for those who think that abortion is wrong in any circumstance should reconsider their views on cruel and unusual and that is what some pregnancy would be if forced to continue.

I know three people who've put children up for adoption and 4 who've had abortions. The women who have chosen adoption have had a harder emotional recovery than those who chose abortion. Neither is an easy decision. I think that people who are righteous and pious enough to say "oh, well you shouldn't have had sex in the first place" should also keep their opinions quite as preaching solves nothing and does not help the situation.

Those who are concerned over "murdering an innocent life" I guess are also vegans or hypocrites.

Answer 6

I believe the Word that tells us that before we were conceived He knew us. I believe that the second you are conceived your soul is here, in its fullness with your personality, your likes and dislikes, and all your gifts, already there and ready to grow and develop into the person you will be when you are grown. I believe that if that is true, then abortion is murdering a whole person, no matter the age of the fetus. That is my belief.

I also believe it is a disservice to thumbs down any answers given that we don't agree with, for this question is asking for opinions, and everyone should feel free to share theirs, even if I know I violently disagree with some given.

Answer 7

It is awful. how would you like it if your mother didn't want to have you, so she just killed you. I think the problem is that the people who support it are only out to get money, if they would think it through then they really wouldn't support it. It's murder, the doctor and women should be put in jail and sentenced to death or life in jail, or at least for a very long time, just like murders are.
And above all, God has made all the babies in the world, do you think that he indevidually carved the fingerprints on their hand, the made the hair on their head, the color of their eyes and skin, just to be killed my a mother unworthy of such a wonderful gift?
Abortion is never right, regardless of the situations, it is still murder

Answer 8

I'm gonna get pounded for this! I have read lots of journals, articles, and had a lot of class debates on this topic and throughout, I have kept the same persepective.

Although I do not think I would personally be able to go through with it, I would never tell another woman what to do with her body and her unborn baby. I believe a woman should be able to choose what she should do with her body and unborn baby. She should educate herself on the situation first and then make the best decision for her and her baby despite how other people feel about it. Then, it is up to her to learn her lesson.

What I don't understand though is how people can be so against abortion but so FOR the death penalty, isn't it the same thing?

Answer 9

I think abortion is wrong. There are many other ways to go about giving up your child, rather than murdering an unborn baby. Abortion is never ok unless of course the mother has a life threatening illness or is the baby is conceived by rape or incest. But there are rarely cases where the mother aborts her child because of those circumstances. It's usually only because they don't want a baby. But if you don't want a baby, either don't have sex or use protection!

Answer 10

Although this question has been asked soooo many times, I will answer with a couple of questions.
What do you thing about putting dogs "to sleep" to regulate dog population. Do you consider that animal cruelty?
What about test tube babies? The sperm/ovaries "donor" gets paid and rhey are used to create a human being, which is sold to "Parents". Isn't that consider "slavery"?
How about surrogate mothers? They sell their bodies to carry the pregnancies of other women. Isn't selling your body considered prostitution?
How about men's masturbation? Aren't they killing billions of possible babies?
Again and again and again, issues like these are created with the sole purpose to obtain power in the political arena. "Ripublicons" try to defend a life that's not a life yet, while they neglect the lives that are already created.
This issue should be left to the woman's choice and hers only.