Don't you think it's time for the UK to lower the time as to when a woman can have an abortion?

Question

I am personally against it... unless it is life threatining.... many women are using it as a way to correct thier mistakes... it all could be avoided if you just use protection... there really is not excuse.... except if your raped-sick- or like I mentioned before life threatning.

This is disgusting to me... that is a human at 24weeks.. After watching that documentry I was so sad..

Here is a link to see the video http://www.bedroommedia.com/videos.php?id=6338

Answer 1

At 24 weeks, a foetus does not always survive outside the womb. The reason why this argument has come about is because of 4D screening - the antis have leaped on these images and think now that the foetuses can now 'wink' and 'smile' whilst in the womb when this is not the case.
Premature birth leads to severe underdevelopment in the organs, smaller development later in life and a smaller chance of survival.

If the health service and society wants healthy children, then it must have healthy and willing women who can carry such foetuses. Those contributors who want abortion outlawed are beside the point - what if their daughter got pregnant and termination services were not available? Even if abortion was outlawed, they would seek terminations elsewhere (women with herbs and crochet hooks, aka 'Vera Drake'...).

Answer 2

No.

The laws in the UK on abortion are based on foetal viability. In English, this means can a foetus survive outside the womb. It is legal in the UK to abort a pregnancy at any time. After 24 weeks though it was to be for a very severe condition.

Once a woman reaches 24 weeks, or rather the pregnancy, if normal, the baby if born will survive most of the time. Often it will be severely brain damaged at this gestation. Before 24 weeks, in general, the foetus is not able to sustain life outside the womb. The reason for this is that the lungs literally have not formed to the point that the baby can breathe. It will make attempts at breathing if born, but its lungs have not matured to the point where they can sustain the baby even with medical help. There are a few babies born before 24 weeks that do survive, but this is not common, and most are brain damaged in a very very bad way.

The other issue is foetal screening. Pregnant women have a scan at 20 weeks. If there is an abnormality, a sample needs to be taken from the womb, and this takes both time to arrange and analyse. Lowering the time limit would mean that women could be scanned for an abnormality, but then would not be able to do anything about it.
In the future, this will change with nucal scans being more available. But until then this is another reason to keep the current limit.

Answer 3

I know a number of families - a surprisingly high number - where they were unable to have children themselves, and wished to adopt. No children were available. That is, A: the Tarzan course leading up to the authorization to adopt is so severe that a lot of perfectly eligible families just don't get to the end, and B: the children who might have been adopted are dead. Killed by their mothers. So they go overseas to adopt. The rich white man from the West comes to the village and effectively buys an African, South American, Asian, Russian...child. There has just been a scandal about this in France, where an association called Zoe's Ark was nicked in Chad for buying babies for French adopters.

Some may say that taking a third-world child and bringing it to the West may be the best thing that will ever happen to it, and there is some truth there. But there are far, far more people wanting to adopt than you might think, and there would still be the opportunity to help a child from a disadvantaged country.

But we would have the choice if our own "unwanted" children were still alive, wouldn't we?

Answer 4

Some people shouldn't be allowed opinions, (superwisdom, I'm talking about you. Fish!?). I'm with you on this, I don't think abortions should be banned but I think they should be restricted to special circumstances. I'm sick of hearing how it's every woman's right to have an abortion, it's not a right. I can understand how a woman might make a mistake and I would never judge some one for admitting to an abortion but a lot of women use it as a birth control method. Pregnancy is completely preventable in this day and age. More money should be spent on educating young women to take care of their contraceptive needs, instead of paying for abortions. I personally don't know how anyone could go through that unless the pregnancy was going to cause them mental or physical harm.

Answer 5

NO...ARE YOU STUPID...women should allow to have abortions, just because you think its sick, doesnt mean its wrong...i mean you might be rich and if you get pregnant its fine to support the baby and the baby will be happy ever after, but a poor woman having a baby its not right because the baby will suffer, i mean its better for the baby to suffer as an embryo and plus its just an embryo its not an actual human being...than when its an actual baby to todler to child to teenager...having an abortion isnt wrong, if its so wrong to kill and embryo then its extremily wrong to kill a fish, because an embryo really is just a fish...if you think about it, now i know that sounds a bit ignorant but all human beings begin as a fish and then they evolve into a propper human being, thats what scientist say, i didnt made it up....
so i think you should not make this comment as its is very ignorant...
oh as in killing an actual featus of 23 weeks then it is wrong...but abortion its not wrong if you make it early...

Answer 6

Medical Termination of Pregnancy in the cases of minors ,rape victims etc irrespective of age is a social need.There is no need to have general relaxation in all cases.
In other cases people should be educated to use preventives like pills,condoms etc.
Compulsory sterilization of rapists(men) is a must,even if human rights activists may object.

Answer 7

Trouble with giving women the right to abortion is you allow them to play God. They have the choice to effectively murder unborn children. That is no choice at all, that is horrifying. Look at our society, it is sick. Children are aborted and tranquilised in great numbers, we have some of the worst bullying in the world in schools, the highest rate of teenage pregnancy in Europe, old people are not merely neglected but treated with positive cruelty, children are killing each other in our cities, and there is only a 6% success rate in rape prosecutions. One could go on and on, our society shoes all the symptoms of collective mental illness. All this seems to have occurred since life was cheaprned by the introduction of legal mass abortion

Answer 8

yeah, i definitely do, im 14 weeks pregnant, im showing and feel like i ve bonded with my baby already, i felt the same with my first child, i think as low as 10 weeks!!
but luckily i ve never been in the situation where i had to consider one, so i guess i cant help but be a little biased, even so, im all for a womans choice

Answer 9

i think it is time for uk to think its whole stance on abortion, im not saying outlaw it because sometimes it just isnt right to make the mother keep the baby, but there are SOME people who just should be made to take responsibility.

Answer 10

They should not get pregnant in the first place, as it is no excuse to say it was an accident. Rape is a totally different issue, and if made pregnant they should be allowed to have an abortion