Why is the abortion issue so complicated?

Question

Seems to me, if you think it's wrong, then you're free to choose not to engage in it. Yes? So why is it so complicated?

Actually, southern... that's NOT what pro-choicers believe. Pro-choicers believe that the government lacks the authority to make that decision for us.

John K: Murder isn't legal. Abortion is.

Answer 1

You hit the nail on the head.

Our constitution specifically states that our government is to never enact laws that inhibit personal choices.

Yet the debate continues.

Answer 2

The compassionate belief of most pro-lifers is only created by what they have not seen, but believe they can change. I'm not saying anyone on this earth should not have been born or should ever be murdered. Visit a state funded home; it’s a necessary hospital environment. Even Catholic nun volunteers cannot hold even just one 10-year-old mentally retarded child for just one hour every day. Some babies lives’ have been, for over 23 hours a day, has been spent lying alone in a metal crib (should I describe the tubes, needles, black bruises, some babies couldn’t even be held if someone was there to hold them for 10 minutes). The cribs come in different sizes from babies to pre-teens, adult body-sized ones come complete with restraints, now they legally have to just use drugs as restraints, and I’m told it keeps the noise down. I’ve always said at least these kids are warm, they don’t need clothes or an education, and are feed, even though its threw a tube they are only starving for affection. Now should I mention the babies of drug addicts or incest, even JUST poverty?

Abortion can not be used as birth-control, and anyone in a drug rehab program or on welfare should require mandatory birth-control. I’ve watched people thrive by working in medical, but these small sad lives of misery affect the people who deliver them, right down to their care-takers for the next few decades. I’ve seen some great caring successful people become numb, hard and ice cold because of what they see and can not fix at work, even some home health-care workers and child counselors. These once happy professionals affect the lives of their neighbors, families and all who they come in contact with. First get rid of the reasons’ that make some abortions necessary, make sure every baby and child is adopted, and then get rid of abortion. Until both sides of this issue can work rationally together for a solution, the same problems’ will remain and grow.

Answer 3

in a perfect society every individual needs to be happy and needs to have the "energy" to go about doing his thing.

abortion can suppress some of that energy - mental spiritual physical etc., so it is considered evil.

how difficult it is for a teenager to raise a child against all odds - but the will and grit to do so is very energizing.

On the other hand statistics may show that teenage mothers fail more often than succeed.

It therefore becomes everybody's problem. But the act of abortion or not having aborting can be done only by the premature mother.

That is why it is so complicated.

May God give us stRength to do the right thing - from the beginning.

Answer 4

professional-selection. maximum contributors of the medical occupation recognize that abortion is mandatory in many circumstances, and could ultimately be the determination of the affected person. i've got considered many a fetus in my time, and at the same time as they could resemble a toddler, they are fairly faraway from being an entire man or woman. It sounds harsh yet they are medically tissue up until eventually 24 weeks, like your hand or foot. heavily, lower back highway abortion is volatile sufficient to be considered a demise sentence, with the prospect of an infection, inner bleeding and/or gangrene. Yeah, real "professional-life".

Answer 5

Because it's not really about 'the sacredness of human life from the moment of conception' at all. If it were, these people would be doing more (like, ANYTHING would be more than ZER)) to save the millions of 'precious' zygotes that are 'killed' via natural, spontaneous failure to implant and expulsion.

It's about (1) limits (or lack of limits) on government power to interfere in our personal choices (2) basing laws on religious belief and moral disapproval rather than on protection of individual rights, and (3) diminishing women's power to control their own reproductive lives.

Kelsette, (1) a well regulated surgical abortion is MUCH less likely to result in health complications than bringing the pregnancy to term and going through labor and delivery, and (2) the vast majority of women who have had abortions report that they are glad they did and feel that they made the right decision; this holds true whether the women are questioned a month later, 2 years later, 20 years later. The "haunted by regret" scenario is largely a myth.

Answer 6

Because the abortion issue goes past politics - it's a heart issue. And most women are not aware of the pain, both physIcal and mental/emotional, that they will have to endure if they go through with abortion.

Most abortion clinics, i.e. Planned Parenthood, do not relay this crucial information to young women going in to consider their options - they are not informed of wide range of complications they may subject themselves to if they go through with an abortion, such as infertility and ectopic pregnancies, miscarriages, and even breast cancer.

A link has been found recently between the termination of a first pregnancy, and developing breast cancer later in life. When an abortion cuts short a pregnancy, women's breast tissue is left in a dangerously stimulated but undifferentiated state, increasing the risk of later cancerous development. According to studies done by Dr. Janet Daling there is reported fifty percent increase of breast cancer among women under forty five who had induced abortions.

EDIT: Also, in my opinion abortion is murder. There's no other way to look at it - you are ending the life of an innocent child..just because you are doing it inside the womb doesn't make it any different - you are still stopping the growth of life merely because you have decided you don't want the child. So if I decide I don't want a family member or someone in my life can I just kill them, too?? Because it's a choice, right??? Well what about the first inalienable right which is LIFE, what about the choice of the unborn - what about equal rights for unborn women, as well?

Of course, people will argue "it's not a baby" that they're aborting, well then, if it's not a baby then you're not pregnant .. simple as that. And aside from rape cases (which is less then 2% of reasons abortions are done anyway), if you are adult enough to make adult decisions to have sex then you are adult enough to face the consquences, and if you are not ready for a child you can adopt it out but abortion (killing an innocent for YOUR mistake) is not an option.

EDIT: You heard it here first, boys and girls, what kill_yr_television has said overrules documented medical facts. Kill_yr_television, just because it is a "surgical abortion" it does not eliminate the risk of breast cancer, among other things. Regardless what type of abortion you have it would still leave the breast tissue in a dangerous state which increases the risk of breast cancer. Also, surgical abortion has risks all of it's own including damage to uterine lining or cervix, perforation of the uterus, infection, and blood clots.

Answer 7

Because it is an emotional one. It deals with the most intimate part of a person: their emotions, body, and behavior.

You have the feminazis who believe that they can do what they want whenever they want. They will militantly defend their "rights".

You have social conservatives who correctly believe that life begins at conception and believe that abortion is murder.

Also, politicians use the issue to divide and polarize.

My issue is simple: sex is a responsibility. You have sex you can get pregnant. If you are not ready to have children, do not have sex. This is a hard one because our kids are inundated with sex at young ages.

Forcing people to behave appropriately is a hard thing to do. People who are irresponsible take any attempt at this as a direct personal attack. Either way it is no win.

Answer 8

It's not complicated at all. Abortion is the willful destruction of human life. Capitol punishment for the innocent. And yes I do believe in the death penalty for those who commit heinous crimes-proven beyond a reasonable doubt. But in the case of abortion, the baby is assassinated with out justification.

Answer 9

I agree. No one has the right to regulate my body's functions.

EDIT:

"Why should any woman be allowed this extraordinary power of life or death?"

We already DO have that power. It's called a spontaneous miscarriage. Or did you forget your basic human biology?

WOMEN make a humongous biological, mental, physical, emotional 18 year and 9 month sacrifice to create and nurture a life.

And society, religion, the government, heck, the world places that responsibility for that life squarely on OUR shoulders.

I feel WE have a right to chose when, where, and how many times we have that responsibility, NOT THE GOVERNMENT OR RELIGION.

Answer 10

It's really not complicated. Life is life. Supported by another makes no difference. Its not something you should be allowed to put back like something from a grocery isle.
Where's the complication? You take a life and you've killed. Notice that there is no longer a real question about when life begins?

Answer 11

I think abortion is wrong because I believe it is life. On the other hand, if that life cannot sustain itself outside of the woman's body, how can we as a society tell another human being what they can and cannot do with their own body. That being said, I would encourage my own child to carry the baby to term and give it up to someone who did want a baby.

We all make choices and have to live with the consequences of those choices.