why abortion legal?

Question

legality of abortion.

Answer 1

Well, abortions exist since the beginning of humanity when expecting mothers couldn't keep the babies. Instead of suffering the aggrevation with the child birth, abortion methods are devised. Regardless of the legality, abortions will happen as part of fibers in human society. If abortions are deemed illegal, they will just be slightly reduced number of abortions and unsafe homemade remedies instead of supervised by doctors.

One of the reasons that abortions are legal today is precisely because young expecting girls wanted to have abortions but had no legitimate means to do so. More than a few of them ended up dead in ghastly fashions. The current debates on abortions are just utterly pointless.

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Answer 2

Because the circumstances of each unplanned pregnancy is different, and only the woman who is affected by it has any right to determine if keeping the baby, giving it up for adoption, or having an abortion is the right thing to do. That doesn't mean that abortion's necessarily a good thing, but it does mean that no woman should be forced by law to go through with a pregnancy that is the result of rape or incest, or a pregnancy that threatens her own life.

Why are so many people against abortion also against the main thing that would prevent abortions--contraception?

Answer 3

In 1973 the Supreme Court decided that a woman had the right to privacy about what happened to her body. It was a privacy issue.

Starting in 1980 the Republicans used abortion as a 'wedge' issue to attract the votes of fundamentalist Christians. But they wanted to use it as an issue, not to resolve the question or ban abortion, so they never actually tried to ban abortion. So it is still legal.

Religious people and political people and the media like to think of issues like this as black and white, like there's a fence and everyone is either on one side or the other. But in reality most of us are on a line somewhere between wanting to ban abortion altogether and wanting to allow abortion on demand for anyone, any time, for any reason. And this is also part of the reason we've never resolved the abortion issue, because we're not able to talk about it in a meaningful way, seeing the other side as 'baby killers' or 'anti-choice' or whatever.

Answer 4

Why is it legal? Because I'm not your baby machine, and refuse to labor simply because someone else wants the fruits of it. The government has an obligation to stay out of my bedroom and out of my body.

Religion has played an enormous role in snatching up science courses and replacing them with more dogma. The war against abortion is a war of power and dominance, not of saving clumps of cells the size of pinpoints that people have been indoctrinated into believing have "souls" or "spirits" or what have you. This is a war on women by the patriarchy, period.

Abortions are going to occur whether or not they are legal. In fact, they occur in much higher rates where they are illegal and taboo.

If I weren't really seen as a brainless, indecisive baby machine, and people still felt like keeping the abortion rate low, then why was I turned down for a tubal ligation because I'm not 30 with 2 children yet?

In short, they are legal for the same reason that I do not have to follow you around town in a burqa: because I am not your slave.

Answer 5

If it were illegal, people would resort to doing them in dangerous ways that could kill the woman as well. I would never have an abortion, but I would rather have those who choose to have one do it in the care of a professional, not some shady character in an alley with a metal pipe.

Answer 6

Prolonged pressure from radical liberal organizations and the liberal element that once infested the US Supreme Court made it legal to slaughter some 3-million babies a year. Just another step down the road to ruin for the United States.

Answer 7

somehow we let go of our conscience when it comes to this. In the same way we do about the treatment of animals, in particular the meat industry. Not saying they are the same but similar in tht aspect.

Answer 8

Why not speak English?

What are you ASKING?

I swear I do not understand how people who can afford a computer can be so illiterate in the English language!

How do people earn a living if they can't even speak the language of the land?

Answer 9

because the Supreme Court deemed it so

Answer 10

Because your mom should have had one