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Posted: Aug 24th, 2007 at 09:15 am
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Posted: Sep 12th, 2007 at 05:17 am
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Im definitely pro-choice! First of all what if it's a rape Second of all if you are young, still in school and have your whole life ahead of you but happen to get pregnant when you're e.g. 15 years old, then I think you should get a chance to wait untill you are ready, old enough, have steady income and have the right person with you to support you with the pregnancy. It's different if you ARE old enought and let's say married but just don't feel like having a child, then I think it's wrong:/
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Posted: Sep 12th, 2007 at 05:19 am
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Choice. If you don't want the child, can't support the child or are otherwise unable to raise it properly and with love, don't ducking have it. It's not fair for some innocent kid to be born and then spend his childhood hated, resented, or suffering because they don't have food, housing, healthcare. They'll grow up to be well-adjusted, happy people, I'm sure.
If you're a junkie living on the streets, you're pretty much ducking your kid over, and no pro-life person can argue that that's less cruel than aborting an embryo. There are MILLIONS of kids in the world who are living on the streets because they weren't wanted or couldn't be cared for. And rich people like us are bitching about "life beginning at conception." It's all bullshit that we, the lucky few, can bitch about to make ourself feel better.
There, now I'm disgusted by myself and people in general.
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Posted: Sep 12th, 2007 at 05:19 am
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To each and their own, whichever side of the abortion debate you side with, you have (presumably) a well-grounded argument to back your point.
The problem arises when you apply the question to an international audience. Abortion is viewed very differently in parts of the world. Merely the fact that it's illegal in many parts of even the western world already swings the general perception of it one way or another.
There are really only two reasons why people may be pro-life.
One, it's for personal reasons, possibly relating to one's own life and life situation. It could be very difficult to convince a woman who desperately wants a baby that abortion is a good thing, when they themselves could never personally fathom terminating the pregnancy they are really striving to have.
Then there's religion. The Catholic church, to name one example, is one of the main reasons why abortion is illegal in many western countries. When one is raised to "respect" all life, hence being pro-life, they are strapped to their point of view by their beliefs.
In an ideal world, abortion would be a non-issue, available everywhere, for whoever wants it or needs it.
The reason this is a heated debate is because people are trying to impose their beliefs on others. Not just the religious, but the other side too.
Personally, I believe abortion is a entirely a woman's right, making me pro-choice. In the end, what matters more than a feud between pro-life and pro-choice is the woman's physical, mental and social wellbeing.
The ironic thing in this debate is that while pro-life believers support only their point of view, saying that abortion is murder, etc, etc, pro-choice believers tend to allow for both sides, really making them pro-choice in if truest meaning of the term.
If you want to keep the baby, go ahead and keep it. It's your right.
If, for whatever reason, you wish not to have a baby, you should have the right and opportunity terminate the pregnancy, without other people telling you it's wrong or calling you a murderer.
Being pro(-woman's)-choice, I believe no man should ever tell a woman whether or not to have an abortion. In addition, being pro-choice means allowing pro-life believers the right to oppose abortion.
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Posted: Sep 12th, 2007 at 05:20 am
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Abortion, the termination of pregnancy in the first six months, could not be called immoral by anyone who has thought the matter through. It is not murder to prevent a foetus or embryo from turning into a baby any more than it is to use a condom, because in my opinion a human only begins his life when he is able to sustain it independently outside of the womb. In the first stages of pregnancy the foetus is not yet sufficiently developed to breathe or eat by itself, not to mention that it is utterly incapable of even the most elementary thought.
If a woman becomes pregnant and does not wish to have a child, she must make a choice between giving birth and abortion. If she does choose to give birth, she must again choose between keeping the child and giving it up for adoption, and in either case, an unplanned and unwanted child is brought into existence. The mother and the child would suffer unnecessarily from their experiences. After giving birth, the mother is often emotionally very attached to the baby but can not provide for it, and an adopted child will be more prone to a crisis of identity later in life at best, and placed in a completely unsuitable family at worst. With this in mind it might very well be the best option of all to stop the process of creating this particular life. Especially in circumstances where the life of the mother is at risk, she has been raped, or the child would have severe disabilities, abortion is not only acceptable but perhaps even recommended.
Abortion is incorrectly thought of as the end of a newly begun life when it is in fact simply a method of preventing life. Murder is an act which requires that the object is alive to begin with, and a foetus is not truly alive by my definition, as stated in the first paragraph. If something is not truly alive, it should of course not have any legal rights either. A foetus is not yet a human or a child but instead a mass of tissue, the blueprint and mere possibility of a baby.
So if a foetus is not an individual living creature, what is it? In my opinion, the foetus is still in fact completely a part of the mother. Connected by an umbilical cord, the foetus is physically attached and completely dependent on the mother for survival. Thus it should be so that the mother also has total control over the fate of that foetus or embryo.
If and since humans are quite rapidly overpopulating the planet and humans have the ability to safely terminate unwanted or unplanned pregnancies, I believe that abortion is a perfectly acceptable option. Every child brought into this world should, in my opinion, be wanted and cared for by a loving guardian or guardians. Making abortions illegal would not stop them from happening, but instead would simply make those who have them criminals. It would be in the best interests of everyone to campaign for further acceptance of abortion and to rid it of its controversial status in society.
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Posted: Jan 27th, 2008 at 06:40 pm
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Personally I'm Pro-Life....I've never quite understood why adoption is overlooked when talking about abortion. Yes I understand that being raped is a horrific thing. In fact I've been through something quite similar so I can honestly say I understand. I also know that getting pregnant at an early age usually isn't warranted as a wonderful thing either. But what would be so horrible about carrying the baby (and yes I believe it is a baby as soon as the sperm makes it's way into the egg for conception) to term and giving it a chance at life with parents who possibly in any other circumstance would never be able to conceive a child. Adoption is the brave thing to do. I also believe that the public is also so very poorly educated when it comes to abortion. The public doesn't know exactly what happens to the baby (which is so horrific beyond belief!) and to the woman carrying the baby because the doctors in the field don't want the public to know so they can continue their "business" (for lack of a better word). I believe that if women truly knew what was going to happen to them (emotionally, physically, and mentally) after the abortion they would (in most circumstances) rarely go through with it. HOWEVER and this is a twist on Pro-Life....I believe that abortion should be legal BECAUSE when abortion was illegal women went to uncertified doctors who basically butchered them (a lot were never able to conceive later when they wanted to....many died of infection and various other ailments). So if women are going to go through with an abortion one way or another I believe that having it legal so if something goes wrong they can seek help without fear of being prosecuted. But honestly what's so horrible about adoption? At least consider it before going through with an abortion.
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