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Will asked in HealthWomen's Health · 6 years ago

Why should abortion be legal?

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  • Anonymous
    4 years ago

    Should Abortions Be Legal

  • 6 years ago

    Why shouldn't it?

    I think by now it's been well covered.

    Human rights.

    Basic medical care.

    Pregnancy should be joyous, not torture or punishment.

    Only people ready and willing should be having children.

    Putting a plug into a socket doesn't make you ready for a child.

    People who can become pregnant are not baby factories.

    People have lives outside of pushing children out.

    Most people seeking abortion already have children.

    Most people seeking abortion have numerous reasons as to why, and stretch marks and nausea aren't even the top fifty for most of them.

    There's also this little tidbit that every time abortion has been illegal, it has done everything BUT stop abortion.

    People still got them, it just wasn't safe.

    So they died.

    Children were orphaned.

    People in back allies had cash to spare.

    Supposedly moral people continued to rave about how moral they were, even as pictures of women bleeding to death because they would rather take that risk than be pregnant floated around newspapers and various other sources.

    This isn't something that just happened in the U.S either.

    It's a common theme everywhere abortion has been illegal.

    No babies are saved.

    No life is preserved.

    It's just moronic ideals being shoved onto people with no intent of those morons suffering the consequences of their ideals.

  • 6 years ago

    It definitely shouldn't be legal, unless the pregnancy will be fatal to the mother. People say "it's my body I can do what I want with it" but the thing is, it's not your body. It's someone else's body, it just happens to be attached to your body. They don't have a say yet what should happen but that doesn't mean anyone else gets to make that decision for them. A 1 year old doesn't have a saw and isn't really intelligent either and are twice as annoying but you wouldn't just kill them.You can't kill someone just because they're inconvenient. Otherwise half my graduating class would be gone. There are so many people out there that would love to be able to have kids and can't and yet others just keep getting pregnant and killing their kids. Just have the baby and put it up for adoption if you don't want it. There's literally no excuse why you can't do that.

  • 6 years ago

    So people can have all the sex they want without having to take responsibility for their actions. I mean come on now, why should anyone have to use condoms or birth control if they can just get an abortion?

    While a case can be made in rape, incest, or if the mothers life is on the line. If two people consent to sex then they consent to the consequences of it. A unborn person shouldn't have to be punished because two dumb teenagers went at it.

    That my body my choice is a load of crap, you make your choice when you decided to have sex ( except in cases of rape). The only reason people support abortion is because it is convienant. If we lived in a world without rape/incest/teenage pregnancy. People would be horrified at the thought of abortion.

    Btw, everyone for abortion has already been born.

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  • 6 years ago

    I'd rather women get safe and legal abortions than to stick a hanger inside of herself, than to go behind some ally for a creepy man to put her under surgery and than to see her unhappy or possibly dead. It's her body. It's her choice. The decision she makes shouldnt concern you unless it some how affects your life. A woman getting an abortion isn't a choice for YOU to make. It's a her own choice.

  • 6 years ago

    Because otherwise pregnant mothers will find other ways to get rid of their baby period. It is unfortunate that there is still unprotected sex leading to pregnancies, but that will not change and making abortion illegal will not reduce that either. The women who get abortions as birth control are hurting themselves for when they may want to have a baby after they have matured and are prepared to give birth and raise a child. Having repeated abortions seems as though it would be seriously damaging to your female reproductive system.

  • Anonymous
    6 years ago

    I personally don't think it should be legal...You may have exceptions, rape, incest, medical deformities that make life incapable of living, life threatening conditions to the mother, ect, and those should all be discussed with a doctor and the best method that should be taken, although it doesn't mean it should be widespread lawful. But to abort due to irresponsibility, lack of self control, eg. birth control, ect, then the consequences of pregnancy should fall on the responsible party. Adoption and surrogacy are wonderful for those incapable of providing for a child, so that's no good excuse that one simply cant provide. But hey, in many states, if someone murders a pregnant woman, regardless of the term of her baby, the baby isn't even considered a murder victim. So, yeah, that's what the world has come to. It's a right now, kinda hard to fight the system, just bow head, cover face with hand, and wonder......what has this world come to?

  • 6 years ago

    It shouldn't be legal. If you were raped adoption not abortion if it was an accident that on you. It shouldn't be legal period. No exceptions

  • 6 years ago

    I believe abortion should be legal. You should be able to have the right of your body and make decisions on it. I would only approve under the circumstances that:

    The person was raped

    The person cant take care of the baby because they dont have the money

    The person and their partner separated in a nasty breakup

    Something could go wrong with the baby or the mother could die from the birth

    etc

    But i dont think that people should be getting abortion after abortion because they dont practice safe sex.

    Its sad to see many people against it and claiming its murder when they dont understand the reasons why a person would want to get one

    How woyld you feel if you were raped and got pregnant and the people around you wanted you to keep it and you didnt want to becuase all you would see in the babys face would be your rapist.

    Please think before you make decisions about womens bodies when you dont understand how difficult it could be

  • MissA
    Lv 7
    6 years ago

    Because the state is not the owner of a human's body. The human is. Anything else is a return to legal slavery.

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