Abortion should be illegal
Abortion is a contrvesial subject with strong feelings on both sides. It is a subject that has split families and friends. There is no cut and dry answer, but it is a subject worthy of attention.
Posted By JohnnySocko on July 24, 2007
Abortion should be legal, but not easy to get. There should be circumst...
Posted By DiamondLips on September 14, 2007
I feel that the originating author of this debate should be impregnated ...
Posted By Jake_the_Mad on September 12, 2007
I believe that abortion is murder.
Posted By JohnnySocko on July 24, 2007
I dont agree with the statement but I believe in freedom of choice.
Posted By sirenavs on July 24, 2007
Abortion should be illegal
As a woman I think that abortion is wrong in most cases. the only exception is rape. What other argument is there? Oh darn I got pregnant because I was careless or because I was screwing every man that came by, guess I'll go and abort this "mistake". People should live up to their choices and take responsibility. What YOU are saying is that it is ok to murder in order to convince the pregnant woman. Abortion should NOT be a choice to the thoughtless and careless.
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Life begins at conception, and as such, terminating a life is murder. We must stand up to speak for those who have no voice in this.
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...have any of you actually seen an abortion? while doing a research paper on abortion, i had a neutral stance until i came across a medical documentation of an abortion...it was horrifying. thats all i am gonna say.
I feel that the originating author of this debate should be impregnated with a turkey baster.
-- Posted By Jake_the_Mad on September 12, 2007And then told that she has to keep the infant, as doing any less would be murder. Or, if it's a he, that he'll never face the need to choose between abortion and elsewise and that he should let women do as women will do, especially if he isn't one.
good one!
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I feel that life begins at conception. If this is true, then when a baby is aborted, they are murdered. It is not right to kill a defenseless human being.
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if you get pregnate yo faught. dont get an abortion and take the lives of unborn babyies. three ways to prevent getting pregnat. condom, birth control, or keep yo dang legs close. if you choose not to do one of those three than you want a baby so go through labor and deal with it
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Also, condoms are a form of birth control. Just thought I'd mention that.
Last time I checked, the difference between an unborn fetus and a 2-month-old baby is the fact that it is, uhhm, I dunno, I REAL PERSON?!?!?! It's a freaking fetus! It has barely any brain function, probably less than that of a fish. Until the baby is out of the mother and has lived and breathed, it doesn't know what it's missing if it is aborted. Would you rather be born to a crack-addicted mother with 6 other children and be fed every other day living in a dump, or be aborted when you don't even know it's happening and have a chance to be born into a good family that will love and nurture you? If the woman is not ready to have a baby, or is living in poverty and just doesn't want to put another child into suffering, she should be able to get an abortion! You bastards seem not to think so!
"Give it up for adoption!". No. Do you know how many children are waiting in homes right now, waiting for parents and a home to live in? Tons of kids will never get that because there are too many kids there already (because of dicks like you). They will grow up there, waiting, until they are 21. They will never have parents. They will be tossed out on their own with a thousand dollars to start a new life just like that. Do any of you realize how hard that is? Many of those kids will become homeless. Is that what you want? Couldn't their mothers just have gotten an abortion and then maybe that homeless man could have been born to a loving family and grown to be the head of a large corporation he's proud of? That would be nice, wouldn't it?
Also, last time I checked, this country is called AMERICA. And in America, I think we are allowed to make our own decisions. I think killing a fish in our stomach because we are too poor to take care of it well is a pretty good choice on the woman's part.
Abortion is not murder. Whoever thinks so can go f'ck themselves and then have a deformed, freak baby they won't even love. It'll wish it had been aborted.
Oh, and by the way, before you go ripping on me because I don't know what i'm talking about, take into consideration that i'm FOURTEEN. I'm 14 and I already have strong opinions about these types of subjects. doesn't that say something to you people at all?
GOBAMA
You need to recheck your facts. A fetus IS a real person and not a fish or sea monkey. Being that I believe that I fact, I believe that abortion is murder. And no I will not go F myself, thank you very much.
If you are worried about being ripped into, then you shouldn't post such ludicris and ignorant statments. At least show a little respect for those with differing opions.
Listen, this subject is way over argued, and a lot of the time, people say insensitive, stupid things that make hardly any sense. But that's beside the point, I suppose.
As I've been in the situation where I had been sexually assaulted and had conceived from that situation, abortion is still a hard choice to make. It's hard originally for a normal woman, let alone one that has not only an unwanted child growing, but one that was conceived through pain, torment, and humiliation. Some people say "Well, it's your child, you should love it no matter what!" ... But when you didn't even make that choice to have sex in the first place, he fetus inside you becomes... almost.. hated, not because of it itself, but because of the feelings attached to how it was conceived.
Like I said, I've been in that situation, and how I felt was disgusted with myself. For the rape, for conceiving, and for wanting to abort. Which I did. I aborted.
I support abortion not because it's an easy way out, but because without it in that situation, I felt like I would have killed myself. I DO feel guilty, but... I felt I made the right choice.
Sorry if this is unorganized and choppy, but it's a sensitive subject and I tend to jump around while discussing it.
For all the women out there. Listen to yourself, and your body. But don't use abortion as birth control. It's damaging enough to make the decision for the wrong reasons, but to go through it ... can destroy you.
Take care, ladies.
Women should make the decision? How about being careful enough not to get pregnant in the first place? That is the worst argument ever. Unless you are a rape victim, you have no business talking about abortion like its just a simple medical procedure.
Some people can be really stupid and irresponsible and they decide to take the easy road by getting an abortion. Even though your not the one that is doing all that stuff that doctors do to kill unborn babies, you are still allowing it. If you dont' want your child b/c you know you can't provide anything than give it up for adoption. The child has the right to live just any other living person.
Womens rights? Hell they dont care bout their rights when their screaming in bed! Those people chose to have sexual intercourse in the first place and not being careful enough about it. I agree to gforce55x that unless you're a rape victim, you don't have anything to do with abortion. Those pregnant unexpectadely, simply asked for it.
And to those who says women can do whatever they want, this issue is regarding a life, what you mean you can do whatever you want? How about someone just kills YOU and simply says they could do whatever THEY wants? It's retarded to think that you have the ability to judge someones life or death...i mean who the hell do you think you are?!
I think that if you're going to get an abortion and kill an innocent child, you just shouldn't have sex at all or use protection. There is a thing called a condom and birth control. Some may argue that it's the same thing, but it's not. using a condom or birth control is very different. It is preventing the baby from being made in the first place. When someone says it is a woman's choice, it is indeed, but does the man have a say in anything? People know the circumstances of sex and if you don't want to get pregnant, don't have sex. It's as simple as that... I think the only reason abortion is necessary is if a woman is raped and will have severe physical problems carring the baby. Otherwise, don't they have the same rights as you or I? They're protected under the constitution. The things they do to those children is horrible. The baby's heart starts to beat at day 22. They can feel pain when the people tear them apart. I was reading for a debate for class and it said they smashed the baby's head right before its first breath. Is this how people have fun now a days? That's cruel!
I still think most of you going "They deserve a chance!" are doing nothing but project your own fears of death and your own lives being devalued onto a topic that has never in human history before the 20th century been such a topic for vainglorious 'concern'.
See, abortion isn't new. It's been used as, da da dadaaa, a form of birth control in many cultures for several thousand years, and -probably- was /sought/ before recorded history properly began.
My point is, as ever, -get over it-. That's right; let it go. Depart from the non-issue. Stop making it be an issue in the first place, 'cause it doesn't have to be.
Whereas there are plenty of issues at hand that could benefit from all this wasted attention and hand-wringing, sob-wailed faux 'net-emotion.
Go help a homeless family. Find someone in your neighborhood that can't find a job and help them find one.
Go find some kids that don't have access to good food, health care or maybe even clean water (yes, it isn't just in Darfur, folks!) and help them out.
Get the hell off the internet with your holier-than-thou "I'm entitled to my ignorant, largely misapplied opinion" crap and be useful.
And please, remember to smile.
Cheers. See you next year when I make the rounds.
Abortion should be easy to get and on demand.
Abortion should be legal, but not easy to get. There should be circumstances to getting an abortion
-- Posted By DiamondLips on September 14, 2007If the pregnancy is the result of rape, then the abortions should be allowed. But any other circumstance should be turned down by the practicing doctor.
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I am concerned, though, that if abortions are made illegal, it will force this practice into the back alleys. Mightn't it be better to allow abortion, but regulate them?
Thats all I have to say.
Where is the money to support these unwanted embryos?
-- Posted By turtlegirl78 on September 7, 2007It might sound crass, but from an economic standpoint, it makes more financial sense to allow abortion because at the end of the day, those who dislike abortion are the same that will not support the child once it is thrown into the system. . And the unwanted child will probably not grow up under the best circ$&stance, possibly providing another type of burden to society later in life from the mental implications of not being wanted in the first place. So, if you are going to outlaw abortion, are you also going to supply the funds to fully raise this child? Are you going to guarantee that they will be adopted into a good home? Are you ready to put your money where your mouth is?
That is a rotten title. There is nothing easy about an abortion...
-- Posted By turtlegirl78 on September 7, 2007Legally, abortion falls under the prenumbra of privacy rights. Back in the day, birth control wasn't even legal. It is a slipperly slope in making abortion illegal. The legal restrictions on abortion are getting tighter, however. As viability becomes sooner and sooner in the pregnancy, then it will become more and more difficult to get an abortion without the law interfering. But as it stands now, anything that completely outlaws abortion could be thereby sentencing the woman to death. You have to keep the health and welfare of the person carrying the child in mind as well, if nothing else.
Do we stop an animal from eating their young? No. Why stop a woman from having a baby that may not be a great idea, not that the two should be compared. In the cases that matter abortion is a humans way of preventing something that shouldn't be.
I don't agree with the statement but I believe in freedom of choice.
-- Posted By sirenavs on July 24, 2007I don't agree with the statement but I believe in freedom of choice.
I really don't agree with the statement Abortion should be easy to get and on demand, but I do believe that woman have a right to choose for themselves. I personally would never choose an abortion and I would talk to women about the other viable choice, adoption. I think that there would be fewer abortions if women knew what would happen to their bodies and pro-life people would approach women this way instead of labeling them as potential murderers. Abortion can cause many horrible side affects for the woman and it can lead to not only the death of the fetus but to the death of the mother. Still it is ultimately the womans choice and I would not take that away from her. My main belief is that if a woman just sleeps around, gets pregnant and then decides to have an abortion and she does this over and over again, then she should be labeled a murderer but if a young woman or even a young girl is raped or sexually molested by a family member and ends up pregnant, she should be allowed to terminate the pregnancy. If the child is the result of incest, how much more damaging will carrying the child be? So on one hand I am pro-life but on the other I am pro-choice, but abortions should be approached by women who have done the research and understand the implications. Medically speaking, abortion of babies is already illegal. The pregnant woman carries a fetus for most of her pregnancy. The reason the difference is important is because a fetus is not a viable life-form. It cannot live outside the body or womb.
What a woman does with her unwanted fetus is no one's business but her own.
-- Posted By HltrSkltr on August 18, 2008Whether or not you believe abortion is morally right or not, it should still stay legal. What a woman does with an unwanted pregnancy should be her choice, and not the business of the government, the Catholic or any other church, or anyone else. I personally think that it's much more responsible to abort an unwanted fetus than to raise a child in a home that is not prepared to raise a child, by parents who don't want the child. Also, do you pro-lifers believe in the death penalty or war? Because those are murder of actual people, not fetuses.
We are all just a bunch of cells. A fetus is a stage in human development, it is not a seperate thing from a human.
people have the right to choose a man and a woman have the right to choose together but its up to the woman its her body. Its not somthing you have the right to make illeagal or legal fact is it exsists and always will wheather in a back ally or a clean safe enviorment, if you want too put your opinons and laws and stipulations on it its futile you really just deside what your comfortable with. so would you be more comfortable with your daughter, wife, mother going to the back ally or the safe clean enviroment?
are u kidding me? The baby might be coming,but the women is here today. SoI am to wait until Im 9 months, w/o a choice? F off!
If you make abortion illegal it will NOT stop them from happening. Women will resort to back-alley abortions. It happened before 1973 and would happen again if it became illegal. I personally would never have one myself, but I believe that women should have that right to CHOOSE whether they want to keep the baby or not. They are the ones that have to live with that choice. I'm sure it's not easy to live with that. But it's their body, their choice. Not yours.
There's already an over-population of un-educated, homeless thugs in the world, why make even more?
like seriously, everyones @ least had 1 abortion... cant be all bad.
It should because what if some one gets raped and ends up getting pregnat do u really think they will want the baby? if a teen gets pregnat on an accedent and doesnt want the baby thats thier fault...In some ways it shouldnt be legal and some ways it should!
If a girl is raped and gets pregnant, they should be able to have an abortion. But not if they didn't do anything to avoid pregnancy
In my opinion, abortion should be an option for women up to a certain age. Teens should definetely have this option because you know how we are when we just cant stop our "fun" but it really does get hard to say no especially for a girl who has low self esteem or bad home situation. if they do not beleive they are ready for a baby, and do not want to birth it, this option should be available. i mean, this is america and were allowed to make decisions. Although, I thik that condoms and birth control should definetely be used, smetimes things happen and you wouldn't want the baby to have a bad life. Plus, adults should be responsible enough to take this into consideration so they shuldn't really have to use this as often. whenever you have the chance, take a look at the procedure and then make your decision, trust you me... it may change your mind.
Over 90% of all abortions are a form of birth control. I think the facts are enough to prove that abortion should be made illegal in the form of birth control. There are many women who show up for seconds and thirds on killing an unborn human. I realize certain circumstance should be taken for consideration but after the first abortion was done because they were to stupid to use birth control and now they are back for seconds... come on.
Thats all I have to say.
Duh, its totally a womans choice what she wants to do. No one should be able to take that away from her!
I'm against abortion, but if someone has to have an abortion for medical reasons, has been raped, doesn't feel herself capable of being a good mother to the child or will in no way be able to provide for the child's most basic needs, then okay, let them do it.
If she just has an abortion, cause it's 'an alternative contraception method', there's an 'alternative to living' that she should in my opinion take, as well.
Everyone keeps saying "my body, my choice", but it's not just the woman's body that she's deciding about. The baby should have a say in what happens to its body, just like everyone else, and it's safe to assume the baby wants to live. And if she was so worried about her own body, she would've chosen birth over abortion due to the side effects of abortion, like the increased chance of breast cancer.
Let me put this in a way people understand. Abortions aren't fun. You don't wake up one day and say, gee, I should get an abortion because it's (YIPPEE) a fucking hoot! Having an abortion is a serious decision and should be an individual choice.
i agree, when they're illegal, people get them anyway and end up with complications (sometimes life-threatening) from dirty instruments and sham doctors, they should be made legal, but reghualted carefully, and the clinics and doctors need to be regulated to make sure they are up-to-date on cleanliness and legal matters


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