Question for Pro Choice?

Question

As it is understood Pro Choice advocates that an individual has the right to choose whether to abort the life of an unborn child or not.

If that be the case then why does one not have a choice to smoke a cigarette in some restaurants?

Answer 1

I am pro choice, for all of these issues. I do not believe that the government has the right to interfere with our medical care. I don't believe that the government has the right to restrict trade to consenting adults, therefore if a business owner wants to open a smoking establishment, which the public has the right to go to if they want or not, I believe that he has the right to do so. We have many Adults only establishments in every city in the country, but I guess sex for sale is less objectionable than smokers.
I am opposed to abortion, because I believe that it is murder.
I am opposed to inflicting smoking on anyone who is opposed to it or finds it objectionable.
I am opposed to legislating the behavior of people in their own homes, or in their cars, which are an extension of their homes.
I am opposed to any restriction of legal behavior of parents in the company of their children. (I may be opposed to the spreading of the opinions of racists, but I don't have the right to tell people what kind of education to give their kids)., and I think that racism does a whole lot more damage to our society than second hand smoke.

Answer 2

Its not an 'individual' its the woman who would otherwise be mandated to carry to term a fetus which could be severly damaged, cause the woman to lose her life, ruin the chance for her or her family to have a decent life. If you allow abortion for rape victims, you dilute the argument that its an innocent life deserving of living no matter what it does to the woman.
Compulsory pregnancy isn't even a rational idea, since when abortion was illegal, women had them anyway, proving that you can't eliminate it all you can do is see that the woman can have it done safely in a sterile setting.
If the smoker was only going to affect themselves it wouldn't be a probem, ignoring the cost to the taxpayers when they get ill of course, an entire restaurant must smoke along with the smoker.
An entire restaurant will not have babies because someone is pregnant.
Mandating pregnancy will increase the costs to the taxpayers as 42% of single parents never get out of poverty.
Its not even on the same planet.

Answer 3

I also have a problem with the smoking laws.

First let me say I am against smoking, and really quite allergic to it. That said, I don't understand why if you want to have a business that caters to smokers, you can't. Esp if you provide a separate ventilated room for a smoker to go to. Where I live, it is gotten to the point that if you are at an outdoor table, you cannot smoke at the table, but you can stand next to it and smoke. In the next town, you cannot smoke by the doors, so at malls, there are all kinds of people hanging around in the parking lots. You don't know if they are smoking, or waiting to jump you when you get to your vehicle. The no smoking lobby is getting to be very N*zi about our rights. We can do whatever we want, as long as it is what we are told to do.

The new move now is to disallow smoking in cars with children. Don't most of these children live in a home with a smoker? What's next, being reported for smoking in your own home?

Answer 4

I believe people have the right to choose what they do with their own bodies. I believe that God created Choice and I have no right to take it away, UNLESS, their choice does physical or emotional harm to myself and/or others.

In that case their choices should be limited so that they cannot harm other people.

In Exodus 21:22 God gives the Judges and the Husband of a Woman the choice of the penalty for aborting a baby. In the United States SCOTUS Judges have decided that the punishment is nothing.

Answer 5

I consider myself a liberal, but I'm also a libratarian. I believe the government should not restrict the right to choose or to light up a smoke in a resturaunt, or any other personal freedom for that matter. If people are so concered about "polluting" each other's air then they shouldn't drive because a car causes a lot more pollutants than a ciggarette.

Answer 6

I think that in public places it is a good thing. Majority rules. It is the rabid who want to force restaurants and bars (private business owned by supposedly free individuals) to make the decision whether it is in their clients wishes to allow it. Private property rights are supposed to be guaranteed. If people don't want to go to a smokey bar they don't have too because the "smarter" people will choose a business who caters to non smokers.

There is room for everyone. It is the one size fits all mentality and its draconian minions who think they are the conscience for the world that make life difficult for the rest of us.

"Choice" is just a marketing slogan chosen years ago to make the issue more pallatable for those who want to champion the cause. It has nothing to do with choice, just ask the dead babies.

Answer 7

A woman making her own medical decisions does not affect me.

Disgusting cigarette smoke infringes on my right to enjoy the meal I paid for as the smoker spews their filth into the air.

Comprende?

Answer 8

The two are not comparable. If a woman chooses to have an abortion - that is a decision between her and her God. It does not impact the health of others around her. Smoking does.

Answer 9

If you smoke in a restruant then you are affecting all of the ppl in the restruant. But you abort your baby (esp. before it has brain waves or a heartbeat) then you are affecting you! I've been in Foster care and many ppl who are unfit to have kids get pregnant. Those kids don't deserve what was given to them... Its the Mom's right to choose.

Answer 10

The government has NO place in a decision between a citizen and her doctor. To address your analogy, her doctor would tell her not to smoke.