Why do you support elective abortions?

This is why I don't support any abortion. There is always, always another choice.

As an adopted person myself I must say adoption is not the cure all for abortion, they are two entirely different decisions. You are entitled to your opinion of course but it is unethical to demand a woman carry to term just to surrender or for any other reason. By doing that we would negate the rights and autonomy of the pregnant woman for 9 months giving the fetus precedence over the woman and her choices, capabilities and beliefs. I don't understand how anyone can be okay with that. A woman's private decision doesn't even effect you in any way.

And as an adopted person I would imagine you know the heart break of some biological mothers who suffer the rest of their lives and the countless adopted kids who felt unwanted and live in pain because of the fact they were adopted. You should go ask this very question on the adoption board, some of those people will tell you just how unhappy they are with their choice to surrender or having been adopted. Adoption isn't always all happy and sweet.

Your edit there is exactly the reason why men shouldn't be involved in this debate. Every time a woman gets pregnant she may have to make that choice. All pregnancies don't go as planned, birth control isn't 100% effective. No one plans on having an abortion. Why don't you try getting pregnant just to have the fetus stop growing three months in and see how easy that choice is. Why don't you have multiple miscarriages where your body obviously made the choice for you then have someone tell you that your mind isn't allowed to make the same choice. Why don't you tell a 50 year old menopausal woman who has no idea she can still get pregnant that she has to carry that fetus to term, or that she should abstain, better yet tell her husband. Do you honestly think you have any right to insert yourself in these decisions that women face?

The world isn't as black and white as you seem to think, there are so many reasons a woman's right to choose should be protected. No one cares that you think a woman should be abstinent or that a baby is a " consequence" because it is so much more than that.

I can't imagine how it can be so difficult for anyone to realize why someone might not want to carry through a pregnancy?

What kind of magical world of unicorns and pots of gold at the end of rainbows do you live in that it's honestly so difficult to understand that some people just don't want to be pregnant?

Or that some people just aren't in a situation where it would be wise to carry out a pregnancy?

Is it really that hard to understand that children need more than the bare qualities of "life" to truly live?

That they need a loving home, food, shelter, clothes, and an education at the very least?

Is it really so hard to understand that not everyone can provide this for themselves, never mind any child they may have?

Adoption is an alternative to caring for a child.

Not an alternative to pregnancy.

To even consider adoption, you'd have to risk your job, your education, your health, your relationships with other people, your ability to care for the children you already have, and maybe even your life.

Not to mention, it isn't an alternative for everyone.

Foster care is filled with babies that will never be adopted.

You act as if carrying a baby to term is easy and without risk or cost. You also seem to assume abortion is an option women/couples choose lightly. I think you are wrong in both instances. While I can admire someone making the choice to give a baby up or adoption I can also understand why a women would not want to do that.

Adoption has NOTHING to do with abortions.

One would think you'd know better...being adopted and all.

I don't understand why people seem to think it's acceptable for a women to be forced to carry a baby for 9 mths and give birth. And then turn around and say she should hand it over to someone else...sick. You're a man, you can't possible understand.

My aunt is in her sixties now. She never wanted children and never had them. Are you saying that because she never wanted children, she should have gone this long without having sex? She should never have sex in her life?? Ridiculous.

I feel sorry for your child/children especially if you have a daughter or daughters.

I don't support abortions unless you have been raped. Because once you have the baby, and see it for the first time in your arms, can you imagine how hard it would be to give it up? But you just CAN'T raise a baby?

But you are right, there is adoption. But some people don't have the money for pregnancy vitamins or the pregnancy itself. It is alot of work, I know b/c my sister is pregnant at 17. She would never abort a child, and she is keeping it !

But my mom said if you abort it early enough, you are just killing cells, not a LIVING thing yet. But it is debatable.

Not everyone gets adopted. Orphanages are overfilling and the world is overpopulated. Also abortions are for women with health problems which adoption obviously can't help with. I personally think its sad but it's necessary. My mother had an abortion because she couldn't afford that kid. She can barely support us. Sometimes it's better to have the kid aborted than make them live the shittest life ever

It's not all about YOU! And the narrow little world you live in. I support elective abortions because it is a woman's right to choose. Most people don't want other peoples unwanted babies...

Like we need 100 billion people on the planet. In many parts of the world, one abortion is one kid who won't die of starvation.

When you yourself can carry a fetus to term within your own body, then we can talk about abortions. Until then, my three daughters and I invite you to mind your own business.

It's about a woman's right to control her own reproductive cycle. Keep the government out of a woman's uterus.