Abortion, For or against.?

Question

Probably going to get a lot of upset people as this is a hot button issue, but oh well.
Are you for or against abortion? Why? is it or is it not killing like some say.

(I am a guy, so I'm not pregnant, and don't have a pregnant wife/girlfriend, this is just a question)

Answer 1

I am pro-choice. Women need the right to choose if they want to be pregnant. Yes, there is Birth control of all kinds and there is abstinence. Still, there are unplanned pregnancies. I have had an abortion and I do feel that it is like killing. At the time, it was the best choice for me.

Answer 2

Pro-choice is about choice. It's not for or against abortion. Anyone who is dead set against abortion has obviously never been at a point in their lives where they have to make a very difficult choice. I have never been pregnant, nor do I ever want to be. My husband and I take every precaution to avoid a child. If I become pregnant, I will have an abortion. People say, "If you don't want a child, abstain," but how is this realistic in a marriage? There are plenty of women out there who would rather commit suicide than carry a child. That's just the way it is. I am included in that category. I do not enjoy children and do not have the personality to raise one. At least I admit this instead of having 5 children who run wild. People are always going to say "adoption," but I can say firsthand that the life of a ward of the court is extremely painful. The government doesn't consider you a human being, but merely a "minor child." So, instead of bringing a child into this world unwanted, I would choose abortion. A fetus has no concept of death, just as an animal being put to sleep. While this may sound harsh, anti-choice is anti-woman.

Answer 3

i do not think it is as clear cut as for or against, i do not believe anybody if "for" abortion,. its a pro choice, pro life argument.
i myself, as a woman, am pro choice. mostly for the fact that i do not want anyone to tell me what i can, and cannot do with my body.
i feel that whatever decision you make, you live with. and that this decision should not be entered into lightly. i do feel there should be more counseling, and education involved in the process. there are too many people that feel abortion as a form of birth control. i do not feel that is right.
there are circumstances that abortion may be the right choice. and those are personal, and should not be judged by anyone.
when we start getting our personal choices, decisions, and freedoms taken away, well, that is a slippery slope.
its a what next, where is the line drawn?
if it were an issue for men, it, i feel, would be a non- issue.
there is a huge cloud over women who have to make this choice. is it thought as shameful, wrong, immoral, illegal..
and that in itself puts some people in a position to have children that they may not be able to take care of, and are too ashamed, or uneducated as to adoption, and other choices.

yes, and no to is it killing.
yes, it is an embryo, which is considered by some a human.
and no, because it is not able to live on its own, so therefore it is not considered a life by others.

this is not a debate that will be resolved. between religious, scientific, political, and then some.


definitely not cocktail party conversation.

Answer 4

In September 1993, Brenda Pratt Shafer, a registered nurse with thirteen years of experience, was assigned by her nursing agency to an abortion clinic. Since Nurse Shafer considered herself "very pro-choice," she didn't think this assignment would be a problem. She was wrong. This is what Nurse Shafer saw:



"I stood at the doctor's side and watched him perform a partial-birth abortion on a woman who was six months pregnant. The baby's heartbeat was clearly visible on the ultrasound screen. The doctor delivered the baby's body and arms, everything but his little head. The baby's body was moving. His little fingers were clasping together. He was kicking his feet. The doctor took a pair of scissors and inserted them into the back of the baby's head, and the baby's arms jerked out in a flinch, a startle reaction, like a baby does when he thinks that he might fall. Then the doctor opened the scissors up. Then he stuck the high-powered suction tube into the hole and sucked the baby's brains out. Now the baby was completely limp. I never went back to the clinic. But I am still haunted by the face of that little boy. It was the most perfect, angelic face I have ever seen."


But what about if the baby had been aborted at a younger age.. say 6 weeks? When the baby is this young, doctors use the Saline Method, where they inject a salty saline solution into the mother's womb. You would think it would just poison the baby, but it actually burns it to death. Even though the baby is so young, on ultrasounds of the abortion, the fetus is seen pulling away from the poison as it is injected.. obviously wanting to stay alive.(The baby is intelligent enough to move away from the pain..but the child can't escape it)


Think about that before you say that unborn children can't feel pain.

Answer 5

I'm for letting people have the choice to have an abortion.

Imagine this scenario:
A woman has three kids already, and then she gets pregnant. But then her husband dies. And then she finds out there is something really really wrong with her pregnancy or her health, and that if she continues on with the pregnancy, both she and the baby have a very high chance of severe complications or even death.

In a scenario like that, I could totally sympathize with someone for wanting to sacrifice a tiny dot of cells in order to stay alive to be able to raise her children that are already alive and well and growing.

Still, it is only in very rare cases like that where I wouldnt frown upon it...but then it shouldn't be up to me (or anyone else, including doctors and government) to decide whether or not a case warrants abortion. It should be the woman's choice.

Answer 6

I wouldn't say I am for abortion, but I do believe women should have the option of being a mother or not- as long as the abortion is done very early in pregnancy (explained later). That does NOT go towards irresponsible women who just want to sleep around without birth control and not face the consequences of sex. You should not abort multiple pregnancies because you are careless and stupid. You should be fixed.

For those women whose bodies would not be able to have pregnancies because of health risks should be able to choose if they want to take the chance. Also for women who are responsible and do use birth control but they fall in that .01% of unlucky ones, they should have the option because they have tried to prevent it in the first place so they obviously do not want children. Maybe they are trying to pull their life together to have children at a later time, or finishing grad school, etc. For rape victims, I think it would be hard to look at a baby everyday and have it remind you of one of the worst day of your life, they may even resent the child for what his biological father had done.

I would prefer if the women who did not want a child went through with the pregnancy and adopted the child out to a family who is unable to have children, but that does not mean I think they are horrible people for having abortions. If you think about it, when the baby is conceived, it is merely a few cells full of DNA. Sperm are full of DNA, eggs are full of DNA- wasting sperm and eggs is not considered murder so I don't think abortions in early pregnancies should be considered murder. About 4 weeks into the pregnancy the embryo starts to develop a brain. Up until that point, I do not consider it human. After that point however, I can see how people could consider it murder- I don't understand how some women try to abort pregnancies a few months in- that is just ridiculous at that point. But most women find out fairly early and are able to make a choice before the embryo have become a fetus.

Answer 7

i guess i could say both because if you were raped and got pregnant or if the baby was going to be beyond mentally challanged (im meaning a vegetable or something like that) then i can see having an abortion, but to get pregnant and just not want a baby im against. i think there should be regulations on that. now days its to easy for people to just get an abortion just because they dont want a baby. its not fair to that baby. if you dont want a baby then you shouldnt lay down and make one, or at least take precautions.

Answer 8

I agree with what everyone else is saying!!!! AGAINST!!!!
I had a friend that was 16 when she got pregnant by a much older man, she found out she was pregnant at 6months, left the state that we live in to get an abortion!!! BABY KILLER!!!
I was 16 at the same time, and had just had my daughter! Now, i'm havining my son, and she tells me all the time, i want to have a baby! My response to her is 'well ya shouldn't have killed your baby'!!! She got pregnant last summer and lost it....wounder y?

Answer 9

Against

Answer 10

My answer will be more than against or agree about it. Of course abortion will be equal to killing someone, and I really against it.

But we as Christians or any other people who believe in God, must do more than saying that we are against it. Who are going to take care of these children ? Their parents are surely irresponsible enough to make children that they don't want, I won't expect them to raise the children well.

So what we as Christians can do to make people abort their abortion, how we take care of these children is more important issue than against it.