Abortion: A Pro-Choice View?

Question

1. Abortion is NOT the killing of a human being. When early abortion happens, it is deleting a bunch of cells. You do the same thing when you scratch your arm and kill skin cells.
2. Put it in perspective: if you were on your way to a good college and got raped, and became pregnant, it would demolish your entire life. No college. Less of a future. Just being at home with a baby you didn't want, working three jobs and getting loans from your parents.
3. Think about it: is it better for a bunch of cells to be aborted, or a born baby unwanted and unloved? Believe it or not, not many people immediately fall in love with whatever comes from their womb.
4. Face it: abortion will happen wherever the laws may take it. But it will happen in back alleys, with unsterilized coat hangers and inexperienced "doctors". Do you honestly imagine the fatality rate of embryos would be more than the fatality rate of women killed by improper abortions?

Answer 1

Tell that to the bunch of cells that are kicking and screaming when the life is cut away from them. Babies are people too! They feel pain and have the right to live. Abortion is MURDER! No doubt about it. You can say whatever you want, but it does not change the truth!

Answer 2

To everyone: read Love My Angel's answer. That is the level of intellect that many anti-abortionists bring to the table. Rational debate is not possible with such fools. Her ilk require stern, uncompromising foils, because that is all their miserable education has prepared them to understand, and it serves to balance out the playing field. I'll get the ball rolling by pointing and laughing derisively at her (I'm doing a public service, people).

To Love My Angel: You disgust me.

#1 is certainly true, but only up to a point. First, even those few cells that make up a new fetus have a different genome than the mother, so the argument that the fetus can be thought of as just part of the mother's anatomy is simply false. If anything, you could think of it as a foreign parasite. Secondly, at SOME point in the pregnancy, the fetus has a well-developed nervous system, and a developed-enough brain to infer consciousness. Where this threshold should be marked is not clear at all, biologically. The supreme court has said 28 weeks. Pro-lifers have said conception. The supreme court is closer.

#2 is a good point, but I think even pro-lifers make an exception for rape...I mean, don't they? I would hope so.
EDIT: Wow, from these answers, I guess I was wrong. To those people, I say loudly and clearly, go **** yourselves, because your voice is white noise. You've clearly never had to deal with this issue. You are out of touch, in the worst, most despicable way.
EDIT 2: Sorry, I'm trying not to use the euphemism "pro-life", because it's just propaganda. I nominate the more accurate term, "anti-abortion". Anyone second that?

#3 seems like a recap of #1 and #2

#4 is the best argument there is. Prohibition is asinine. Regardless of the life/non-life dilemma, it's a public health issue. Either it is legal and women have access to a safe, sanitary procedure, or it is illegal and women seek out back-alley "doctors" and risk losing their life.

Answer 3

1. When I scratch my arm, it doesn't stop a heart from beating. (I saw my two sons' hearts beating via ultrasound at approximately 5.5 and 6.5 weeks gestation, respectively.) Last time I checked, my skin cells didn't have a heart beat. Neither do the hair strands that land on the bathroom counter every morning when I brush my hair. Neither does the bit of tooth I chipped eating a Sugar Daddy yesterday.

2. How do you know? Have you ever had this happen? There are plenty of programs/assistance/family members/support groups/friends, etc. who can help a girl continue her education and still raise a healthy, well-developed child.

3. What's wrong with adoption? People are scrambling to adopt infants. So much so, that there are long waiting lists. On what are you basing your theory that not many people immediately fall in love with whatever comes out of their womb? Personally--I'm not in love with the uterine lining and blood that comes out of mine once per month, but I loved my children LONG before they came out, and loved them even more after they came out.

4. What's wrong with this? If a woman is going to have an abortion, she's obviously not a good person to begin with.

Answer 4

Well said. Abortion is also good if the mother has been ingesting drugs and alcohol for the first trimester, children don't overcome that even if they are wanted. And in cases of incest or rape. Children who are born unwanted and unloved become neglected and abused. They're lives are not happy ones.

Those who are anti-choice believe incorrectly that person hood begins at conception in spite of any evidence to the contrary. Even the bible doesn't support that view. The Repugnant party encourages them so that they will have a way to get the vote on "social issues" from a bunch of people who otherwise might understand that this is the party of the rich and to vote for them is not in the best interest of the poor (or middle class for that matter.)

Answer 5

it never ceases to amaze me about how Satan deceives

1- a bunch of cells do not have a beating heart- scientific fact- the baby's heart is beating at 3 weeks after conception- a cell does not have a beating heart.- or developing lungs, etc.
2- being raped is horrible, so please do not think I am underestimating that. however, that baby is not to blame for the cruelty of the one that did the raping- the rapist should get the death penalty not the child. Adoption is great option here- the woman can still go to school, and get a job, and not have to raise the child, however, give life to her/him.
3-So it is ok to play God and take the life of the BABY- not cells- God knew us before we were in the womb- He loves people, not cells. It is better to kill something then to hate it? Hate is what makes the women kill in the first place-
4- You are right that abortion will continue to happen. However where ever it happens is a sin against almighty God. About the fatality rate of babies from abortion- did you know that there are 4,000 abortions in USA alone every day.Yes, you heard me right- a day, not a year.

One day the whole world will know that abortion was the greatest holocaust of all. PLEASE do not think that I am negating the tradegies of Hitler and the Armenian genocide, I am not- THESE ARE ALL HORRIBLE sins against God's creation.

EDIT- how sad to think that thinking that killing is not ok would get all thumbs down- oh well, sorry- I have to speak truth from my heart- God said that people will not like truth

Answer 6

Apostle Jeff thinks that from a scientific point of view no less, that you can actually, "Tell that to the bunch of cells that are kicking and screaming when the life is cut away from them. Babies are people too! They feel pain and have the right to live. Abortion is MURDER! No doubt about it. You can say whatever you want, but it does not change the truth!
Source(s):Science"

This is absurd. Cells don't have ears to hear. Nor do they have the ability to process words and their meanings; nor do they have a voice box with which to scream; nor do they have legs to kick, nor are they babies, and killing millions of cells is impossible not to do in just living. And all of this enlightened knowledge is based on science? Abortion is not even close to murder and the inability of people like this to face reality and impose their absurd views on others is immoral. And, especially in the example you cited.

Answer 7

I agree with you in some aspects. Abortions should be allowed when a woman is raped. She did not do anything to bring on the pregnancy, so she should not have to deal with carrying it for 9 months, whether she plans on giving it up for adoption or not. However, I think women who were not responsible enough to take protective measures against pregnancy should not be allowed to have an abortion. They engaged in the behavior and they need to deal with the consequence. The unborn child should not have to pay for the mistake of the mother. I know that sounds tough and harsh, but I don't pity women who don't use their heads and think they can do whatever they want and not deal with the consequences. They are aware of the consequence, so if they don't want to suffer the consequence, they need to take action to prevent it. If they don't want the baby, they can give it up after it's born, they do not need to kill it. Bottom line--if you don't want a baby, don't have sex. Have some self control. Abortion is very shaky ground. You are dealing with a human life, not some sort of disease.

Answer 8

Eh... I'm going to sit out on the fence for this one.

I'd never have an abortion myself, unless my own life was at stake, however I can't look a fellow woman in the face and tell them that they must follow my example, though I wish they would.

Answer 9

Abortion as a release to the pains of rape or incest makes some sense. Abortion as a form of birth control? If those 'accidents' happen?
They made the choice to have sex, once the child was conceived, it is no longer the mother's choice.

And prove there isn't a soul in that bundle of cells

Answer 10

Well said.
Here in Canada, abortions are not only legal, but paid for by the medical system.
And to date, NO one has ever used abortion as (as the religious right said they would) retroactive contraception.
It is done because there is a need. That need may not always be for the happiest reason, but the needs are there.

Answer 11

All I can say is, I have never seen a collection of cells, that isn't even a fetus yet, kicking and screaming. It could be that legs and arms have not been developed yet, as well as vocal cords and a brain.

If you are pro-choice, the choice is not to have or to have an abortion. It's a choice.