Why is abortion wrong?

Question

I'm just curious why all of you pro-life people think abortion is wrong. If you can only have an abortion in the first trimester of pregnancy, before the brain has even developed, that "baby" has no conscious thought. How can you call that murdering a person unless you believe that the baby is a person from conception, which, by the way, is a religious belief and you can't make everyone follow those beliefs. Also, do you believe taking the morning after pill is also murder?

chococoffee2 : the existence of a soul is also a religious belief. Can you give me a reason abortion is wrong without using a religious belief

chococoffee2 : Also a one year old or one MINUTE old baby has conscious thought. Any voluntary bodily motion like kicking, which a baby does do in the womb but not in the first trimester, requires concious thought.

Tommy : I believe that if the person who was put under had concious thought previously, then it's wrong to kill them.

Overseer : Society determines right and wrong. Not religion. Actually, 90% of the wars in this world are caused by religious beliefs

Answer 1

Depending on where you live abortion is done up to 39 weeks in Kansas.I live in Georgia and it 26 weeks here. I feel if you do it in 1st its ok, but 6.5 months is to far. but sometimes the women find out medical conditions later in pregnancy. The morning after pill prevents pregnancy by thinning the uterine lining to make it difficult.

Answer 2

I believe that destroying innocent human life is wrong.

An unborn baby is alive (growing, moving, taking in nutrition, etc.). Are you going to say this life is non-human?

Everything in this world is either human or non-human. All humans deserve rights, which include the right to life. The U.S. Declaration of Independence declares this as an “unalienable” right.

If a human fetus is not human life, then what kind of life is it? It is a dangerous precedent to determine that certain human life is not human enough to deserve our protection!

What is next? Can we kill the mentally ill? Can we kill the elderly? If we can kill children in the first trimester, then why not those in the second or the third? (There already have been many third trimester “abortions”!) Why stop there? What’s the difference in killing a pre-born child and killing a new-born child? Are any of these any less human than the others? What gives you, or anyone else the right to choose what is and is not human enough to deserve to live?

I believe all humans, no matter how small, deserve the right to life! The small need our protection the most!

Some say that it is a religious teaching to say that life begins at conception. I ask, if not there, where does it begin? Why is your opinion any less of a religious view than mine?

The question is not "if" we are going to adopt an opinion, but which opinion. It is not an opinion that it is a human fetus. It is not an opinion that it is alive before the abortion kills it. It is not an opinion, therefore, that this is human life. It is not an opinion that abortion, therefore, ends human life.

The only opinion is whether this human life has enough value to be allowed to live and whether we have the right to end that human life! The only opinion is if the so-called right to choose has more weight than the right to life.

In most abortion cases, the pregnancy was a result of unprotected sexual relations outside of marriage. It is my opinion that the parents exercised their "right to choose" at that point.

God hates “hands that shed innocent blood”! (Proverbs 6:16-17)

Answer 3

No, it's not a religious thing. I've always been against abortion, yet I've only been a Christian for a year.

By the time a woman knows she is pregnant, the baby has a heartbeat and brain waves. This is a scientific fact.

Ever seen an ultrasound taken at six weeks? It is most definitely a baby.

Ever heard a baby's heartbeat at eight weeks? It blew my mind the first time I heard one. How can anyone NOT know that it's a LIFE?

As far as the morning after pill, I ONLY think the pill should be used in cases of rape. What the morning after pill does is stops the sperm from fertilizing the egg. It has to be taken within three days of sexual intercourse. Considering the fact that a sperm can survive for up to five days, there is no way to know for certain whether or not fertilization occurs at the very moment of ejaculation.

All that is known for certain is that a woman doesn't usually know she's pregnant until she misses her period and/or starts showing early signs of pregnancy (sore breasts, morning sickness, fatigue, et cetera). And by that time, the baby has a heartbeat and brain waves.

I learned this in biology and human development. Didn't you?

Answer 4

It is wrong to kill a human being.

However the DEFINITION of a human being is KEY to this argument.

The question you need to ask is:

Is a fetus still at the stage where it cannot think, control its own bodily functions, sustain its own life, cognitively react to its surroundings (1) a human being or (2) a form of human life.

If it is an autonomous human being, then killing it is unethical unless it is in self-defense.

If it is merely a form of human life, it falls under the same category as sperm, eggs, embryoes. In that case, choice is still an ethical option. The human being's well being takes precidence over something that is not yet a human being.

Personally, abortion is not a desired choice. I am a mother of three and I would never choose abortion myself. But I do believe all women should have the right to choose, But NOT when the point where that fetus becomes an unborn human being has passed.

Answer 5

Abortion is murder because at the moment of conception, that baby has a soul. You say there is no conscious thought; however there is no conscious thought at 1 or 2 years old either. Do you remember being 1 year old? Is it ok to murder a 1 year old?

Answer 6

Consider anesthesia. The person has no awareness of what is going on. Their mind is quieted and dormant. When they come out of it, their experience is as if the time span while under never existed. Is it any less wrong to kill someone under this state compared with someone who happens to be aware of what is going on at the moment? A pro-life advocate considers it wrong to kill someone whether or not they are conscious and aware of the experience.

Answer 7

I know this girl that is a catholic and has had 2 abortions but goes to church constantly! and me the poor atheist, gets all the crap from the religious creeps ! I don't sleep around ! she does though and even has an STD now but God will fix that,or so she says!

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Answer 9

in my opinion, if made the wrong choice by getting pregnant, you shouldnt not follow the consquences. its not fair to kill your baby because you dont want to deal with it, or cant afford it. and if thats the case, give the baby up for adoption. and ive read facts that say some babys are alive after the abortion. and they just die. just because they aren't fully developed doesnt mean anything. still alive and just thrown out. thats disgusting on the aborters part. taking the morning after pill is a different story. its basically just killing the sperm, it destroys everything before the baby even starts to develop.

Answer 10

There are more people on Earth than we can feed and care for. Money spent saving a fetus is money not spent saving people that are already living. So the choice is about what is the most efficient method to save lives Being pro choice actually leads to saving more lives than being pro life. People who claim to be pro life should be called anti abortion, because what they advocate causes the death of humans. Being pro life causes death.