2007-12-18 08:51:10 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
I don't side with either stance, just provide reasoning behind your answer. This can be interesting.
2007-12-18 08:57:54 · update #1
Because the fetus is not considered a person and also because people believe that they can do what they want with their own bodies.
2007-12-18 10:27:44 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
In 1973, the Supreme Court ruled on the case Roe vs. Wade where a woman in Texas was denied a legal abortion without traveling to another state. One misconception that many people have, is that is was never illegal in all States to not have an abortion. Some States never had anti-abortion laws. Others allowed it in extreme circumstances such as rape or to protect the life of the mother. Some did not permit abortions.
In order to have uniformity of the application of the law the Supreme Court ruled that the government did not have the right to tell a woman what she must do with her own body. That indirectly allowed the legalization of abortion.
In my personal life, I do not agree with abortion. If you read the ruling, the debate centers around when does life begin and I don't believe that our country will ever settle as what point that is. Some say it is not life, or a life, until birth or viability. People of faith, say at conception or before. In the Bible, God says that he knew us before we were ever born.
In a philosophy class that I took in college, a fellow student made a comment that I have to agree with. Life does not begin because it takes living beings to create life. Life comes from life; therefore, life is passed from the parents to the child.
2007-12-18 17:11:29 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is an easy question, but not an easy answer. The government has historically stayed out of people's personal choices, but they also protect and don't allow murders. So if you consider a fetus to be alive when the abortion takes place, then generally people are against it. I think the baby has a heart and develops into a human as soon as it can begin to feel, which according to my reading, is fairly soon into the first trimester. So I would say I'm against abortion.
2007-12-18 17:10:30 · answer #3 · answered by Nathan W 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
The Roe v Wade Supreme Court decision made it legal. The justification was that the government does not have rights to enforce a woman's body, or her pregnancy. And it is common within the legal framework that life doesn't begin at conception, instead is it usually restricted to the beginning of the third trimester at the earliest.
2007-12-18 16:58:44 · answer #4 · answered by Take it from Toby 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I am a Republican who believes that abortions should be legal. I simply don't believe the government should have any say over a personal health issue.
However, I also believe that a woman should have to attend at least one counciling sesson prior to the abortion (paid for my herself) with discussions that include adoption. My best friend is militantly pro choice, she herself was adopted and I am always thankful that was her mother's choice.
On the other hand I am sickened by those who use it as a birth control option. Any woman who has three or more abortions should have to manditorily get her tubes tied. (I admit this is directly contradicting my original statement)
2007-12-18 17:03:38 · answer #5 · answered by dlil 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
There is no reason to believe that the constitution obligates the government to enforce religious beliefs of some on third parties.
Those people can practice their religion without the government's help, and if that means they choose not to have abortions for themselves, then everyone is OK with that.
But not everyone has religious beliefs in that direction, and as a heterogeneous society, we have to choose the path that works for everybody.
2007-12-18 16:58:30 · answer #6 · answered by Barry C 7 · 4⤊ 2⤋
Abortions were originally against the law, except in certain life or death situations. But since Row V. Wade, it has become more than legal to have an abortion, it is a right, hospitals can get their operating licenses yanked if they don't give free abortions.
2007-12-18 16:55:12 · answer #7 · answered by Jarrison 2 · 1⤊ 5⤋
They aren't completely.
Some feel a human is made at conception (sperm/egg meet), and others believe it it another time (when the eggs grows, gets brain etc). Then they add God and it goes from there.
2007-12-18 16:55:27 · answer #8 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Because it's morally wrong to deny the right of he mother to decide what to do with her body, and this world is better off, by having them legal, considering our unsustainable huge population growth.
2007-12-18 16:55:32 · answer #9 · answered by RadialObserver 2 · 3⤊ 3⤋
Abortion is legal when pregnancy threatens the life of the mother and child. It is also legal when pregnancy is due to rape and incest.
2007-12-18 17:34:29 · answer #10 · answered by FRAGINAL, JTM 7 · 1⤊ 3⤋