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Do you view abortion as morally right or wrong?

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  • Paul
    Lv 7
    1 year ago

    What part of "Thou Shalt Not Kill" do you find confusing?

  • viola
    Lv 4
    1 year ago

    Wrong. PERHAPS you have heard that question before, or have even asked it yourself. It arises often, in connection with a variety of problems. So, you may wonder: Is legalized abortion the best way to curb earth’s population explosion? Might it end abuses that claim the lives of many women seeking abortions outside the law? And is legal abortion the way to solve personal problems associated with unwanted pregnancy? Attitudes and laws on abortion differ greatly from place to place. abortion is not the right answer. For individuals desiring sexual intimacy, marriage is. Then true happiness can be achieved as those united in matrimony plan their lives with a view to pleasing God, who originated human life, love and wedlock.

  • glcang
    Lv 7
    1 year ago

    Neither. It is what you think it is .

  • Rico
    Lv 6
    1 year ago

    Depends on the circumstances.  Sometimes ethics trumps morals.

    Abortion as contraception is morally wrong. (Men should use a condom and women should take contraceptive medications, OR persons of both genders should get sterilised, if they want to have unrestricted sex with no risk of pregnancy.  OR just don’t have sex)

    Abortion of a single foetus in a multiple birth pregnancy to ensue the survival of as many foetuses as possible is ethically right, but morally questionable. 

    Aborting a foetus with a severe genetic abnormality, which could affect its quality and quantity of life is morally and ethically questionable 

    Abortion to save the life of the pregnant woman is morally and ethically right. 

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  • 1 year ago

    I presume you are talking of medical abortions. Most abortions are natural with more than 50% of fertilised ova aborting naturally. Medical abortions are a drop in the ocean by comparison. 

    Is contraception morally right or wrong? Some argue for both positions. Some forms of contraception cause the fertilised ovum to fail to implant on the uterus thus achieving an abortion without all the fuss. Other forms prevent the sperm from reaching the ovum, others control the release of ova so that fertilisation cannot take place. If contraception is morally right then so is abortion as there is no difference

    Women have a moral right to control what happens to their bodies and only  they should decide when and if they have children. It is no-one else's decision. Most women will discuss these matters with their partners but the final choice is theirs.

  • yesmar
    Lv 7
    1 year ago

    As a follower of Jesus, I have to agree with him that standing up for life is the moral high ground, not terminating it.

  • 1 year ago

    Abortion is wrong. Abortion is defined as the deliberate termination of a human pregnancy. Because life is biologically defined as beginning at conception, this means abortion is the termination of life. Statistically, most abortions are performed due to not practicing safe sex and out of sheer convenience of the mother. Thus, this makes someone who had an abortion someone who terminated the life of their own fetus to live more conveniently which can be morally seen as selfish and degrading. If abortions statistically happened from other factors such as rape, then I might be a bit more accepting of abortions, but as previously said this isn't the case.

  • 1 year ago

    Abortion is murder. And murder is morally wrong.

  • Anonymous
    1 year ago

    Giving my opinion won't make any difference so why bother answering this question?

  • Anonymous
    1 year ago

    I find it morally inert.

    The morality is in the right to choose.

    The morality of self-sovereignty.

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