Females...re the abortion issue are you pro-choice?

Question

if so should the potential "daddy" have a say in your choice? if not why not? unless you can prove "immaculate conception",(i am a catholic christian who believes the Church's teaching)

even if you dont believe abortion is killing an unborn child u cannot deny that it is ending a life even if it is only a "lump of cells"...it is still a "living" "lump of cells" independent of your life. Dependent on your body for survival until birth, yet still entirely seperate from you. my beef with abortion is that it is a deliberate act of ending a life, a human life! (trust me you wont be giving birth to say a goat) whichever way you look at it.

why shud the fact that a male doesnt have a womb negate his right to any part in the decisionmaking process?

if you are pro-choice why not consider carrying this life to full-term if "daddy" is willing to take full responsibilty and leave you out of it?...is that even an option in your choices?

im utterly fed up with the "its my body and i can do what i like"...its a cop out!

ok females lets say your life is in danger, fair enuf but its still a choice. either your life or the babys life. i wont condemn you for choosing your life over your babys life. however this isnt my question.

most women i believe have an abortion because they cant see any other choice. all im asking is do you even consider the father in your decision...its his child too. it is not just single women that decide on abortions...many in relationhips (if their partner is against having a child) will kill a child for the sake of saving a relationship. others will choose their "right" to kill a child (because its her body) over their partners desire for a child.

why shud abortion be the norm?...its a cop out when there are other options which doesnt invovle killing or if you like "terminating" a child.

wickedan...: i beg to differ, how about replacing "foetus" with "baby" and see if you agree with yourself. i dare you

sweet sweet jane.....i know what it is like to carry i child i did not want (do you?). im well aware of the struggle and mental anguish a woman goes through in making this decision. yes it is a choice but i dont believe it is a woman's perogative to kill her own child. i chose MY BABY'S life over my selfish desire to be free from the responsility of rearing a child.

Answer 1

Abortion is the murder of innocent life! If one does not want a baby the time to think about this is BEFORE conception! To get rid of a baby because it is not convenient is immoral! Too many couples want children these days! There are other options........like LIFE!

If a father wants his child, he should have a say and a right to claim this child before birth. The mother should have the baby and give it to it's natural father if she does not want it!

Answer 2

I would think most girls/women getting pregnant and wanting abortions do not have close ties to the father or the father is a deadbeat, thus the need for an abortion....this is not true in all cases, but the fact is, there is no court in this land that is going to accept "he promised to take care of the kid without any help from me" as a valid excuse for not paying child support. Further, if the daddy was crappy enough that I would consider abortion as an option, I certainly wouldn't hand it over to him for raising.....if he wasn't fit as a boy friend or husband, what would make him a fit father. Abortion is not the only answer, but in many cases it is the best one for the person who chooses it......think of it this way: If a woman is does not want to be a mother, she will, usually, not want to be a mother 9 months later as well. While every woman has other options, until you are in that situation you can never know how difficult it is or what all is involved in the decision.

By the way, people who say "my body, my choice" are usually protestors and pro-choice advocates.....while it is indeed a true statement, women who are actually pregnant and facing this issue are not shouting that slogan from the top of a building....but merely trying to come to terms with what is best for them, the child, the father, and the future.

Answer 3

For the very reason that the foetus isn't an independant creature. It is a group of cells fused with the woman's body.

The last thousand years when men "had a choice", they've proved their inhability to limit themselves to that.

This argument is only an excuse for men to assert more power over women. Males automatically assume that females are their property once they are in a relationship.

There are only two possible comments for a man to say when allowed power into this decision:

"It's MY kid, keep it!"
Or
"It's My business, get rid of it!"

The power of procreation (sometimes unfortunately) BELONGS to the females of the human species. When males are brought into the process, it is a simple transfer of power.

This is not a dividable power. Therefor, can only belong to one half of the population.

You cannot label organs of a woman's body and decide their ownership.

It was done in the past: sexual organs once belonged to the husband, breasts belonged to the husband and breast-fead children, hair to the husband or father, womb to society...

Note that the opposite was never true.

Before Christianity arised, most religions were duel (Male and Female both ruling equally over the universe). Female figures were always reveared for their ability to give (or take) life. Sometimes, both at the same time. The Goddess Shiva is both a destroyer and a creator.

Christianity established a patriarch society where females were considered inept creatures. The power of Life was taken from them and attributed to males, along with everything else.

It took women 2000 years to win back the right to be the master of their own body. Sorry friend, but you're not getting it back.

Answer 4

I'm pro-choice but I think the choice happens when a woman decides to have sex...anything that happens after that is a consequence of the choice and trying to avoid that consequence at the expense of someone else (be it the child or the father) is immoral.

Of course, I would also argue that a man who chooses to have sex with a woman is tacitly agreeing to live with the consequences...and one possible consequence of having sex with a woman who isn't your lifetime partner is that you don't have any legal say in what she decides to do about an unplanned pregnancy.

The simple truth is this...if a man chooses to give a part of himself to a woman before he knows whether she will respect and value the gift, he has only himself to blame if that woman chooses to throw it away! You do have a significant right in the decision-making process...you can choose not to have sex with a woman until you know that she would have no reason to consider abortion! ...and if you're Catholic, you know that means waiting until you are married!

Answer 5

1) Generally, abortion is from when they don't want to marry, just a one time thing 2) I only believe in abortion if the baby being born will kill the mom or if they'll be a medical issue that could kill the mom, so I don't think a guy can say,"Well, I don't want to kill someone before birth so I'll let my wife and the baby die"

Answer 6

Yes I am Pro-Choice...

It doesn't matter to me whether the man wants to take responsibility or not I am not an incubator....

If a man wants to hire out a uterus, hire a surrogate, my uterus is not for rent....

I have always been upfront with all of the men I have ever been with, I have told them should the sex result in a pregnancy I alone will make the decision as to what I will do.. They have the option then of not having sex... That is when their choice is made...

Answer 7

Because "daddy" often changes his mind, finds someone new, etc. You can't make a decision to have a baby or not based on what a man promises you.

And of course a man shouldn't have a say over whether a woman has a baby or not? What's next? Should they decide whether we can vote or not too?

Answer 8

the father has a right to lend his insight, but it is NOT his choice in the end. it is the woman's choice. and has it ever occured to you that MAYBE some women don't want to be pregnant AT ALL?! no one denies that a fetus is killed, but that still doesn't give ANYONE the right to tell me or any other woman what i can and can't do with MY uterus, MY vagina, MY fetus.

Answer 9

I can not tell someone else what she should do with her body but I know that those that do make this decision more often then not regret it.

Answer 10

I'm so pro choice that I'm pro eugenics.