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Daniel
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Daniel asked in Politics & GovernmentPolitics · 1 decade ago

Are you pro-life or pro-choice? Why?

What if there is a possibility that those unborn children are actually humans? Could we be committing genecide? I think this is important, do you? Why or why not?

Update:

I guess Im talking about birth control abortion only. Not abortion for rape and medical issues. I can see why they would be grey areas.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    I'm pro-life because I am not 100% sure when life actually begins and I do not wish to possibly support murder....why risk it? The stakes are too high.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I personally am pro life because I do not think it is right to take another human's life. That being said I also don't believe I have the right to tell someone else what she can do with her body. We tried to legislate morality with prohibition and all it did was give rise to the Mafia and kill people who drank home made hooch that had God knows what in it. Women who want an abortion will have one whether in a clean, well lighted clinic staffed with medical professionals or in a back alley at night with a coat hanger. So whether I like it or not it is going to happen and so we might as well provide a safe and clean place for it to happen. First we need to council and we need to rear our children to not want or need that but just in case we need the clinics.

  • 1 decade ago

    Abortion is either legal or it's not, especially when the biggest argument to make it illegal is "it's murder." Circumstances don't make homicide something else.

    Personally, I'm pro-choice - meaning, I think it's a woman's choice whether or not to incubate a fetus for nine months. What arrogance there is in thinking we have the right to legislate someone else's reproductive decisions.

    That said... I don't think I could ever have an abortion.

    But I don't trust a bunch of middle-aged politicians who've never met me to make that decision for me.

  • ...
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago

    My opinion: a fetus is a human being that the government has a responsibility to protect the life of.

    Abortion is murder, regardless of the circumstance of the mother or the child (illness, etc).

    It is legal for a mother to drop a baby off at a firestation or a police station, no questions asked, for christ's sakes.

    But noo, these women would rather keep their parts "tight" so that other men don't think their loose because they have had kids; thats priority for you.

    Birth control may or may not be ethical, but it should be legal; but of course, abortion and the morning after pill, etc, are not birth control.

    The abortion-giver and the abortion-taker should both be put to death; one for murder and the other for assistance in homicide

    I've lost 3+ of my little brothers and sisters to abortion; don't tell me I do not know what it is like

    Why was Lacy Peterson's husband charged with 2 murders instead of one????

  • 1 decade ago

    Pro-choice and Pro-life. I do feel that at the first stages of conception, all that the "baby" is is a blob of replicating cells. It isn't really a human until it develops a brain. After it has started to develop a brain, it shouldn't be aborted. So I am pro-choice, if the mother gets the abortion soon enough, and pro-life once there is a brain.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Actually humans? Why, it is a scientific fact.

    They are alive and they are humans.

    If you know the details of abortion procedure and you have studied fetal development and have a reasoning ethical mind,

    it's a no brainer what you are to believe is right or wrong,

    for ANYONE, the unborn child that is in one who thinks it's a nothing and deems it unwanted is similar in every way to the one inside the person who looks forward to it's birth.

    Source(s): atheist, prochoice up to the 8th week gestation and then completely BANNED thereafter, that's time enough for those with reckless disregard and the itch to kill.
  • 1 decade ago

    Just a few weeks ago a baby was born. What made it so remarkable was it was the youngest baby to survive birth.

    No one thought it was possible for this young baby to survive.

    Yet, he did and thrived.

    Now, everyone is wondering if the abortion laws should be re-written because of this one amazing child. Yes, I think it's important. Any life is important. How do you pick and choose who should survive? I couldn't

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    What do you mean possibly? Why do you think the pro abortion movement is so terrified of women having to be shown the development of the unborn child before having an abortion. They want to keep the mothers as ignorant as possible.

  • M B
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    Pro life I do not feel like I have a right to pick and choose who lives or dies. I do not like telling other women what to do with their body but I am still pro life and would back that up with my vote.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I am pro-life....I do believe that people has the right to chose, but if a person made the wrong choice, must live with the consiquence instead of purnishing the unborn for their convinience.

    Life is precious - noone has the right to make choice in terminating a life!

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Genocide is the deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group. There is nothing deliberate about abortion. It is a personal choice.

    I am pro-choice, but have my own personal views should I get pregnant. However, I believe that my gov't does not have the right to intrude on a personal medical procedure, which is the basic premise of Roe v. Wade.

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