Can someone please clarify why they believe abortion is 'right'?

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good,bad,ugly - that is the symptom, the cause is our declining morals. The kids who have babies in a high school daycare and a bunch of fools who are desperate for someone to love them and they think a baby will do that.If they wanted to get an abortion why didn't they it's legal - their choice was to get pregnant and keep and probably neglect these children. My sons have heard about condoms, protecting yourself and anyone you are with since they were barely old enough to say penis. They know sex has consequences and talk openly with me.
You can't have it both ways - either teach them or continue to deal with the aftermath.

Timeout - irresponsible men think it is a great idea, no need to concern themselves with protection or responsibility


fyi - I am pro-choice early termination but think making me pay for something I wouldn't do is wrong, having kids get an abortion without an adult is criminal negligence, late term is clearly murder and taking a stand opposing born alive (Like BO has) is vile and inhumane, if an animal were treated that way PETA would be screaming!...Show more

I totally support women's right to abortion, here are a small number of reasons why:

* I believe it's inhumane to force a woman to carry a child that has been conceived through rape or incest. I also think it's impossible to limit abortion only to women who have conceived through those circumstances; are you going to test them to see how 'raped' they look and refuse them an abortion if they didn't resist enough? Please.

* Without the right to choose, women can never be equal to men. Why should a woman spend years of her life working towards a career when at any time she might fall pregnant and be forced to abandon it? Removing the right to choose also implies that a woman is of less value than the child she carries.

* I believe that children should be a blessing, not a punishment for messing up. Unwanted children are less likely to grow up in a loving environment and are more likely to turn out bad as a result.

* No method of birth control is 100% effective, so it's not a simple matter of saying "If you were careful you wouldn't need to worry about falling pregnant". People who say this are fools, sorry.

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Hundreds of thousands of couples willing to adopt eh? What about the hundreds of thousands of parentless children lost in the social care system? Why don't they adopt one of them, or do all these hypothetical couples only want cute ickle babies? Should we throw the others away once they reach a certain age?

But it's only murder in your opinion. In my opinion it's not a human being, it's a bundle of cells that count as an extention of the mother. That turns 'murder' into a medical procedure in my eyes and the eyes of those who share my view. Call it what you want though, my viewpoint isn't so weakly defined that you can break it through terminology.

It also depends on whether or not you view human life to be sacred I suppose; I definitely don't. And no my view doesn't just extend to the unborn before you hit me with that one....Show more

Well, I don't know anyone who thinks it's "right". Pro-choice people do not encourage pregnant women to abort their babies. We let them evaluate their situation and make their own choice.

Personally, I'm pro-choice for a reason. I believe that if a woman is raped, she should have the option. I believe that it's sometimes better to abort a pregnancy than to later murder your own child. Too many women give birth to babies addicted to drugs or alcohol. Too many women hide the pregnancy and give birth in bathrooms, only to dump the baby in a nearby trash receptacle and leave it to die. Too many women, and yes, men, shake their babies, microwave their babies or beat their babies to the point of death. I would rather see them abort the fetus before it becomes a living, breathing person on the outside of the womb where we KNOW he/she feels pain, than to have it be murdered at 6 months, 2 years, or whenever the parents decide they can't deal with the crying anymore.

In a perfect world, everyone would be perfect parents. Sadly, we do not live in a perfect world. Until we do, there needs to be options....Show more

I don't think anyone is going to agree that abortion itself is "right." Not like it's great and everyone should do one, and we can have campfires and sing kum ba ya and roast aborted fetuses and eat s'mores. Anti-abortion activists seem to think that this is the case.

When you're deciding what can be done with a child that is unwanted or cannot be properly cared for, there is no good answer. For some people, aborting while the child is still a bunch of undifferentiated cells is the least of the evils....Show more

Depending on when it happens, it isnt a big deal. A clump of cells that cant be seen without a microscope shouldnt have more rights than the host it's living off of. Also, I dont think it's govt's place to tell a person what they can and cannot do to their own body.

Id rather seen a clump of cells aborted before it turns into a person than let that person be born, neglected, abused, beaten, raped, forgotten by society, become homeless, mentally ill, etc.

Plus, what if the woman is raped? Or if giving birth could endanger her life?

EDIT= Stephen, that's great, Im gonna use it!...Show more