Question:
Are you pro-abortion or pro-life?
indianajonesak
2010-08-16 17:55:45 UTC
I wanted to get an idea if more people are pro-abortion or pro-life. Personally I consider abortion murder, women can do what they like with their bodies, but when it involves another life then they don't have the right to decide whether she or he should live. Please don't give me the it's not a life BS.
23 answers:
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2010-08-16 20:37:29 UTC
First of all, please get your labels correct - the opposition of "Pro-Life" is "Pro-Choice" not "Pro-Abortion". I provided counseling services at a Family Planning Clinic for 5 years. That should tell you what my position is. I don't believe that there is any person who will tell you that they are for abortion, if there is another alternative that is realistic. During every counseling session, I advised the patient of all of the choices which are available. There are situations where abortion is the most realistic choice. Until you have been a woman's place when she is being confronted with an unplanned or unwanted pregnancy, you cannot - I repeat, cannot say what you would do. I have counseled ministers' wives, children of the most devout followers of the "Right to Life" movement, nurses, a 10 year old rape victim, and a couple who were both doctors - the fetus seriously deformed. There is no reason why a woman should be berated because she has made a desision to legally terminate a pregnancy. My wish is...if all the people, who are so concerned about the "abortion" issue would get behind the movement against child abuse and neglect, our society would be so much better off.



Edit: May you never experience a "method failure."
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2010-08-17 03:01:13 UTC
My belief is that this question is a non-issue. What the real question here is: are you pro- or anti-choice? If you're pro-life, you're anti-choice. Those who are pro-abortion should actually be classified as pro-choice, because what they tend to advocate is for the right for a person to choose what they can or cannot do with their bodies. In addition, as far as a legal argument is concerned, it's not even a legal argument as well. Whether or not you believe that a child is alive in the womb, the key is that the government, both state and federal, have defined that a human being "exists" once it has an identity. While it is in the womb, they have decided that it does not have an identity, meaning that they do not recognize that baby as a completely autonomous person until after it is out of the woman's body. If it is in the body, and the government has decided that it is not going to recognize it as a legal human being, then that means it is still part of the woman's body thereby returning the argument back to whether a woman has the right to do what she wants with her body. Now the government could decide to change that stance, and issue social security numbers and certificates of life to embryos (which would require finding out the sex of the baby as soon as possible since, in order to assign a social security number to a person, you have to have a name - something assigned by sex; and this was actually something one state government tried to do but the bill failed), but then a woman could be charged with contributing to the delinquency of a minor, child abuse and neglect, and many other things simply by having a glass of wine or smoking a cigarette (a questionable practice at best, but something that's not currently illegal), or even being a drug addict, or not keeping appointments if the child is the product of rape. How many more criminals do we want to make? Think about this: a pregnant woman pulled over by a police officer because she ran a yellow light while going 5 or 10 miles over the speed limit could now actually be charged with wreckless endangerment for doing what she did. So, how far do we really want to take this issue? People are always telling me to look for the good in others, yet we want to mandate that the federal government legislate morals like this; why can't we just leave things to the best judgment of people, and hope they will do what is best for themselves and others? Oh yeah, that's right, this is the U.S.A., we can't let people decide anything for themselves, it would be horrible to let them make up their own minds.



Let's make it so people can have the right to choose what they want to do with their bodies then the asker, and respondents, of this question can decide for themselves what is best for them.
ShalloWhale
2010-08-17 05:15:31 UTC
I'm pro-life. Abortion should be at best, a tragic choice. I believe that it is murder of human life, however. What is the big difference between life in the womb and life outside the womb? Young people, especially, can't see this as they are so absorbed in their own lives. Young people get themselves into crisis's too. But there is no excuse for destroying human life as though as if it were some insect that you would spray Raid on. Adoption is an option.
Joann
2010-08-17 01:04:42 UTC
Pro Choice. Woman who are raped or victims of incest or know they will die from the pregnancy definitely have the right to choose. Other than that until all the pro lifers decide to join a buddy system where they all have to adopt a crack baby I don't see any way of getting rid of abortion. The pro lifers can rant about it all they want but until they are ready to step up and take care of all of the unwanted children I don't really think they have any room to talk.
Anα Bαnαnα ♥
2010-08-17 03:39:36 UTC
I'm definitely Pro-life, 100%

I think that if people don't want their babies, they should give them up for adoption instead of killing them >.<

When someone aborts, it's exactly the same as just giving birth to a child and then shooting the baby (sorry if that sounds graphic, but abortion isn't supposed to be a nice-sounding thing)

I definitely agree with you that abortion is the same thing as murder, sadly most people don't realize it.
Ian
2010-08-17 00:59:36 UTC
Pro-choice.



According to Freakonomics, all children that were prevented from being born 1973, when abortion was legalized in the US - by 1990, when those (now aborted) babies would have been 17 (common age for bad-neighborhood-children to commit crimes), the crime rate in the country substantially went down.
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2010-08-17 04:22:26 UTC
Pro-life but everyone is entitled to their own opinion. Just because someone else doesnt have the same opinion as i do doesn't make them wrong it just makes them a person. I'll listen to their side of things but i won't try to change anything. When i think of the word abortion it sounds bad just like the word murder. Thats my opinion, everyone is entitled to have different views. (:
2010-08-17 00:58:21 UTC
I am for whatever the person feels like is best. However if they do this all the time because they keep getting pregnant than pro-life. You can't keep running away from your mistakes. You have to take responsibility sooner or later.
Shadowsedge
2010-08-17 06:14:52 UTC
Pro-choice

I used to be pro-life till someone told me this...you can be pro-choice and always choose life.



Because God gave humans the power of choice, who am I to take that away?

God gives every human the choice to choose him/her or to not to...he/she does this freely. Humans who decided that they are better than God take away the power of choice and in reality, side with satan. Who do you side with? Be-careful of your answer because even satan can quote scripture for his use.



Logically speaking...

Taking away someones choices only leads to slavery of the body and mind. And when you take away someones ability to choose, your only putting the shackles on yourself and making yourself a slave. You can't force someone else to follow your wishes without giving up that same right yourself. Regardless of the reasons, the ends do not justify the means. I choose life and the right for every person to make their own choices...until it affects me.



Even if you don't agree with the God part, the logic is still sound.
2010-08-17 00:57:16 UTC
pro choice

i'm sorry but if i get raped i'm not keeping the baby end of story

how about this scenario for you

one day you have a daughter shes 13 and someone kidnaps and rapes her --your going to make her have the baby?

that is what i find the most inhumane thing

what about the life of that 13 year old girl? is her life not important
Fortean
2010-08-17 04:14:11 UTC
Pro-life.

People who believe in pro-choice think that the mother oughtn't be forced to be "inconvenienced" by childbirth. So, basically, their entire argument is that it's better to de-inconvenience the mother than to allow a person to be born? Live or death vs inconvenience. I chose the former.

Other arguments are that the mother can die. Surely, anybody who has done research - or even anybody with common sense - would realize that fatality during childbirth is extraordinarily rare.
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2010-08-17 01:53:33 UTC
Pro-life. Even if they keep the baby they might not have enough money, she might get kicked out, abuse the baby because of stress etc. Besides it's her life and her body. And the world's overpopulated anyway.
Nabi
2010-08-17 00:58:17 UTC
I'm pro-life. Not meaning to offend anyone, but its a human beings duty to contribute to the populace of the species. You're gonna have to do it sometime, and really..I feel very strongly against abortion..



Stupid teenagers and their sex crazed lives..No life deserves to be extinguished just because you felt like having a d*ck ram your loose as hell p*ssy, with no condom..Honestly, I am disgusted..



And if you don't wanna keep a baby, then put it up for adoption..



But quite frankly, I think you should play it through, because its YOUR fault..Sorry.
Jesse E
2010-08-17 00:57:48 UTC
Pro-Choice because of how much child cruelty and orphanage overpopulation would take place otherwise. Also, they don't develop real thoughts and a full nervous system until after most people abort.
SHades
2010-08-17 00:56:27 UTC
pro life
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2010-08-17 00:57:47 UTC
Have you ever had sex and used any method of birth control? If so you've killed many many many sperm. At which stage does an organism become "alive?"
jrtheproducer
2010-08-17 00:59:25 UTC
If two humans create another human. Its theres. They choose.
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2010-08-17 00:58:20 UTC
Pro-Life!!! all babies are a gift from god, and everything happens for a reason...
2010-08-17 01:04:34 UTC
all pro life people are asshole (no offence) but if you are to redneck that you go around telling people what they can and cant do with there own body,
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2010-08-17 00:58:50 UTC
pro-life people who get abortions and the doctors who perform them should get sentenced to death by hanging!
2010-08-17 00:57:07 UTC
pro whatever the **** works for you, people have a right to choose!!!!
?
2010-08-17 00:58:01 UTC
i totally agree...abortion is murder. who would want to kill a baby?
?
2010-08-17 01:16:26 UTC
pro-choice...women have the right to choose...


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