what is your stance on abortion?????

Answer 1

I am pro LIfe

Answer 2

People are such dimwits. You can't do ANYTHING you want with your body. If you asked your doctor to cut your leg off for no reason, the friendly white-coats would come for you. If the doctor did it, the people wearing blue clothes would come for him or her. So the absolutist philosophy is bogus, and has plenty of precedent stacked against it.

1. Completely unrestricted access in the first trimester.
2. Banned in the third trimester at viability, except for medical necessity. (Yes, if you have it I will raise it. Well, I won't raise it, But I will find a respectable infertile couple dying to adopt an infant within an hour of delivery)

Anybody who thinks late-term should be completely unrestricted should have their skull cracked and their brains sucked out. See how you like it.

7 month preemies survive all the time and are people. So the "It's a matter of religious opinion" argument is dead too.

Answer 3

I say that Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey were lies about the U.S. Constitution. The Constitution does not mean what the Justices claim it does. The Constitution does not prohibit state governments from banning abortion or imposing any regulation that they like. Roe v. Wade should be overturned completely and the issue should be returned to the state legislatures where it belongs.

The Constitution also does not permit Congress to ban abortion. That is for the states to do. So I believe that the Court got it wrong in its recent "partial-birth abortion" ruling.

If and when the Court overturns Roe so that the issue is returned to the states, then I would be perfectly willing to vote in favor of legalizing abortion prior to fetal viability.

But we must not misunderstand our U.S. Constitution ever again.

In response to "kill_yr_television," ... have you ever read Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.s dissent in Lochner v. New York, 1905? Or his dissent in Baldwin v. Missouri, 1930? How about Prof. John Hart Ely's Law Review article, in 1973, condemning the Roe decision? Or Ely's book, published in 1980, Democracy and Distrust?

Answer 4

I am Pro-Choice and I always suggest adoption, although, when witnessing to an addict I have come very close to telling them to "go get an abortion you moron!". Never actually said the words though, thank God.

I believe that Abortion is a sin and that God gave people the free will to sin. My job is to witness the good news of forgiveness of sins, not force people to live what I think is a sinless life.

Exodus 21:22 tells us that Judges decide the punishment for abortion and the Judges in the US have decided the punishment is nothing.

Answer 5

Abortion isn't the problem. The problem is unwanted pregnancies.

But unfortunately, the zealots on both sides of the abortion issue would rather spend all of their efforts fighting over whether abortion should be legal or not, rather than putting those same efforts into bringing down the number of unwanted pregnancies.

If all of the time and energy and resources that have been wasted on the abortion debate over the last 30 years had instead been devoted to limiting unwanted pregnancies through education, access to birth control, etc. I bet there would be a tenth as many abortions today as there are.

Unfortunately, the right wing dingbats ultimately aren't concerned with abortion. It's just a proxy. What they're really upset about is that people are having sex outside of marriage and they want to control every facet of peoples lives. And so, they will get no satisfaction in limiting unwanted pregnancies because they'll still have their panties in a twist at the very idea of people having sex, who in their opinion shouldn't be.

Answer 6

Ok well everyone who was negative on this topic should ask themselves this question...HOW DOES IT EFFECT YOU? Does it really matter to YOU what the lady next door does with herself...does it inhibit YOU in any way? Personally I am for abortion in some situations. Honestly I would rather have my tax dollars go to the national deficit or in someway help make this country better than it is than see thousands of dollars a month go to the 16 year old slut down the street with 4 kids and no job. If she can keep her families population down in any way I think that would be a positive thing.

Answer 7

That a fetus is a person or has rights can no more be either proven or disproven than can the existence of God. It's a matter of faith. I am a strong supporter of religious freedom, but I don't support the notion that any sect's religious beliefs should have force of law. An analogy is the Roman Catholic belief that legally divorced persons are NOT free to remarry. The RC church is quite firm in this belief but doesn't seek (at least not in USA) to give it force of law.

Some people are going to argue that they CAN prove that a fetus is a person. Sorry folks, but such a proof would have to be based on empirical criteria and no such criteria exists, just as there is no empirical criteria on which to base either proof or disproof of God's existence. I can respect "I believe this because it is my faith" but when false "logic" and non-signifying "evidence" is cited, I lose that respect.

IMO, to give force of law to ANY faith-based notion diminishes freedom of religion for all of us. If you don't want the government deciding what your church should sanctify and what it should condemn as sinful, then your church had best not presume to tell government what should be legal and what should be prohibited. When the WCTU shoved Alcohol Prohibition down the people's throats, a backlash of anti-Christian, anti-religious sentiment followed. We see similar anti-Christian, anti-religious sentiment today. Sow the wind and reap the whirlwind.

In responce to Mark D: Altho it is not perfectly observed, it is an important principle of our Freedom that government not interfere in the private behavior of consenting adults UNELSS that behavior is infringing on the rights of others. Should any state's law violate this principle, it is the duty of the Federal government (the USSC) to invalidate that law. State's rights never extend to any "right" to violate that principle.

Answer 8

I am morally opposed to abortion due to religious reasons.
However I know that my beliefs are not everyones and that abortion should and must be kept safe, legal and regulated. I believe it is a personal choice that one must make for themselves.

Answer 9

Larry Craig has a wide stance.

Answer 10

I personally don't believe in abortion and I WON'T GET ONE.

I do believe that this is a decision that should be left up to each individual. Who am I to judge someone's desperate situation.

We all will have to meet our maker and atone for our sins.

Answer 11

Pro-Choice