Why are you against abortion?

Lets clear this up first: Pro choice does NOT mean you support abortion; it means you support a woman's right to choose for herself rather than have the government make the choice for her. I'm pro choice in that I want each woman to be able to make that decision for herself, but I am against abortion in that it would never be a option for me if I were a woman and, if asked, it will always be my opinion that the woman should have the baby. I'm against abortion because its unfair to the life growing in your womb.

Because it's NOT "her body"! Her body is still alive and intact at the end of the abortion....the other body, the one that was growing in her womb, is not. The body that gets aborted is a separate life with its very own body and its own unique DNA - and, a heartbeat. I know you didn't want to hear that, but it's the truth. The heart starts beating around 24 days - yes, DAYS - gestation, which is when most women are just figuring out that they're pregnant. It's not just a blob of cells and it's not part of the mother's body - it's a distinct body that is human and very much alive. Killing it is wrong. Killing it because you don't feel like raising it is wrong. Killing it because it will interfere with your plans is wrong. Killing it because "it's the wrong time to have a baby" is wrong. Killing it for any reason other than self defense - namely, you'll die without one and the baby isn't big enough to have a shot at surviving outside the womb - is the only time it should be allowed.

That's why I'm pro-life. To be pro-choice would mean supporting the choice to suck these tiny lives out of the mother's womb, and I don't know how anyone with any kind of conscience can support such an atrocity. I bet you would be furiously against it if a rapist or murderer was executed in such a barbaric fashion, yet you support that same thing being done to an unborn child. I can't support that. So I'm pro-life.

>Why do you feel you have the right to judge how another person lives or does with their body?

I have the right to have an opinion, just like you do. Believe it or not, you judge them too, only you come to the conclusion that what they've done is acceptable. You still came to that opinion by judging though, so don't pretend like the pro-choice stance is the non-judgmental one. It's just as judgmental about the choices women make.

Becuase I believe the child should have a chance to live. My sister had a baby when she was 20 years old, she was unmarried and the father didn't want to know, so she had him adopted. A few years ago, he got in touch with her again, and we have all got to know him. He is avery nice person and has had an interesting life, and was very happy with his adopted parents. His adopted mother is still alive (his father passed on some years ago), and she is obviously devoted to him and he has made her very happy.

So one way and another, his life has been a successs and has brought great happiness to a number of people. So I am very glad my sister did not have an abortion. And I would prefer that other unborn children be given a chance to live too.

It is obviously a waste of tiem saying such things to you though, because to you it is just 'her body'. not the body of the child, that matters.

its all about the circumstances , if a women has a medical problem that threatens her life or if a woman of any age is raped it would most certainly has a right to do as she wishes but if a woman simply does it because she doesn't want to i think that because there are 1.5 million abortions a year and that there are 2 million couples waiting to adopt, that its just not far to the adopters and the child. and i understand that woman don't go to get abortion for the fun of it (like some religious groups make it sound) but i think that woman shouldn't make a choice they should make a educated choice and make sure they explore their opinions. i understand it would be very scary if you found out you were pregnant and would be frantic and might not be in the right mind state to make a decision, i think a woman should really give it allot of thought and try to her best advantage to make a educated decision but abortion should be a option for certain circumstances.

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when you make the choice to have sex and get pregnant it's not longer your body. when you have a child in you it's not longer "your" body. for those 9 months you're caring for a new life. a new person. in 5 years that person is going to begin their adventure through school and they're gonna have a life, just like you.

i feel the pro-choice is you have the choice not to get pregnant. if you're having sex then you're risking having a child. you have to accept that. if you don't feel you can share your body and support someone for 9 months then you shouldn't have sex.

granted there are accidents. understandable... i have sex and i understand the "scaryness" of pregnancy. but if you can't bear to be "awkward" or "fat" or whatever else you think pregnant people are. if you can't bear that for 9 months then you aren't responsible enough to have sex.

i see from both points of view. and i understand that someone might not be able to support a child, or maybe they just don't want to < that's understandable. but you, or whoever, are able to carry the child for 9 months. what you do after that , choose away. adoption is a completely available option for people that don't want to keep the child. there's adoptions where you never have to see the kid again if you so choose. there's a ton of people out there who can't have children who want to adopt. and there are some people who will actually pay the medical bills of the mother is she is unable to pay them.

so understanding that this is my opinion i look at it this way... take the crap, the name calling, the fatness, the whatever for 9 months. take the pain for 9 months so that the child can have it's own life for 100 years, (give or take)

basically give this new person (the baby) a blessing. take the pain for 9 months and it will be over before you know it. and after that it's over and you can go back to your life, and they can start theirs.

i also like to tell people who are pro-choice, what if your parents were pro-choice. and what if they made the choice to kill you.

"Why do you feel you have the right to judge how another person lives or does with their body?"

wouldn't you judge someone who runs down the street naked? wouldn't you judge someone who has sex for money. people get judged for the choices they make no matter what. but when you're pregnant, no matter what the situation may be, it's not your body anymore. there's a person in there, they're just a little to young to have a say yet.

People dont have the right to their own bodies! You cant even sell a kidney to a dying friend, unless you wanna do 20 years in jail! You can't kill yourself, because that's illegal too! And being a prostitute is illegal- even though starving mothers can argue that them being prostitutes benefits both their starving kids and their sex-starved socially inept customers. Yet even though kidney transplants and prostitution seemingly are mutual beneficiaries, they are illegal! Why should abortion (a callously vicious murdering act) be any different?

So if you cant even save a life with your own body, or end your own miserable one... why should you be able to kill someone under the same context?

Get the feminism out of your mouth and start thinking logically. This is america. Here, we dont kill people, because we believe its wrong. Here, we DON'T have the rights to our own bodies- men OR women! Here, we don't have the right to decide whether another person lives or dies.

Thats just the way it is. I dont believe this because Im a man, or a chauvinist, or an a**hole republican pr*ck. I just follow the laws of the United States of America, and I also am a strong believer in common sense and moral decency.

Well, first off, I'm against abortions even if you were raped simply because I have a friend who came to be because some one did rape her mother when she was 13, but her mother loves her more than anything and realizes that just because her father did awful things to her, it's still her baby and it hasn't done anything bad to her. =) Still, I won't hunt you down and murder you if you were raped and have an abortion, but I just prefer the whole adoption thing in thise cases.

In other words, you were the one who made the choice to have sex and have unprotected sex. The child is a result of your mistake and I'm almost certain it wasn't the baby's fault for your mistake and I see no reason why you should punsih him or her for just happening.

Never in my life will I get an abortion unless I KNOW that both the baby and myself will die if I don't, though I don't think I could live with myself for long. If I was going to die but the baby would be alright, I'd have it because it's just a good thing to die on. =)

Cheers!

~Holly

To be honest I'm going to ask you your question back at you, just worded differently. Why do you feel you have to right to decide to keep or take another persons life.

I'm sorry but (with the exception of rape) a woman has willingly slept with a guy, and protection or not there is a risk of pregnancy, so she has already made her choice. As well what is developing inside her is a human being and taking its life is murder. If that woman was to wait six years and then shoot the child them she would be accused of murder. Taking a life is taking a life.

Now with rape it gets tricky because she wasn't given a choice. She was unwillingly violated and the pregnancy was not her 'fault'. My personal belief is why do you punish the child for the crimes of its father? You don't hang a six year old because his father robbed a bank now do you? But again it gets tricky with rape pregnancies.

"Why do you feel you have the right to judge how another person lives or does with their body?"

Therein lies the question. It's not just the mothers body is it? The baby's body grows inside. When does it become a life, a person, a human with their own body?

Your argument's main flaw to me is that it seems to imply that even a 9 month pregnant woman is entitled to abuse their body and the baby however they like, because no-one has a right to tell them what to do with their body. Maybe that is just the way you say it, though.

We legislate what people can do with their body all of the time, too. Prostitution etc.

Just a few questions. Setting aside the question of the life or rights of the developing child, let me ask about the State's right to regulate what you do with your body:

Every State (country) in the world reserves the right to enslave its men in defense of the nation (otherwise called conscription). This includes forcing men to kill, and forcing men to die. So, why do you feel the State has this right?

Every State in the world has laws concerning drugs and drug use that regulate what you are allowed to put in your body. So, why do you feel the State has this right?

Every State in the world has laws concerning self mutilation and suicide. So, why do you feel the State has this right?

Just wondering.