Yes and No. Is it fair to the baby? HELL NO! But at the same time when you have a case when a sick dude rapes a 10 year old girl and she gets pregnant, yes this is true and yes a 10 year old did get pregnant then you have to have the abortion, because come on. But anyways personally, it depends, I think it's up to the parents. I ALMOST agreed on it, I'm happy i didn't though.
Well put it this way, is it fair for a mother to give birth to a child, not being able to provide it with food or shelter?
^^That is the problem i have with having abortion be illegal. So many more people will be put on the streets, and children will have to grow up malnurited (sp?) and likely extremely neglected.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting TheFreshPrince:</div><div class="quote_post">^^That is the problem i have with having abortion be illegal. So many more people will be put on the streets, and children will have to grow up malnurited (sp?) and likely extremely neglected.</div> That's a good point, being on the streets isn't as bad as dying but putting more people on the streets will only lead to a higher crime rate. Charles Manson was the son of a 16 year old prostitute who didnt want him, look how he turned out.
I don't support abortion at all... but I do support a woman's choice. So many factors can go into child birth that it's not our right to tell every woman in the world that they cannot abort their child. Pro-Life people act like it's so easy for the mom to just abort kids left and right... it's a life changing decision and incredibly hard for anyone. It's too dynamic of an issue to put a ban on it... give it stipulations MAYBE but still leave it up to the mother.
Pro-choice for me as well. I am totally against abortion, but in different situations, people make different choices. Not to drag religion into it, but everything will eventually be handled by God. A woman may escape being punished here, but her time will come.
Sorry to bump this back up, but I am currently doing a Research Project on a controversial issue and I chose Abortion as my controversial issue. I have to find 3 articles supporting my argument, 3 against my argument. So I was doing a little search around the internet, and I thought of the time we had this thread, so I decided to bump it back up to see what you guys think of abortion. Once, I am done with my project, I will give a well thoughout reasoning behind my argument as I've read tons of different sources both for/against abortion. So what is your opinion on abortion?
This is pretty simple. Abortion is murder. Murder is not protected under our right to privacy, therefore abortion should be illegal. There should probably be an exception for rapes cases. If you want to make an argument for the thing inside the woman's stomach as not living, then fine. But I think it is quite clear that at some point that thing in the stomach is living. So the people in this camp have to go and determine at which point the thing in the stomach is actually living. They can't hide under the veil of, "well we can't determine this, so abortion should be legal"...nope, at some point here we no they are committing murder, so you have to take the better safe than sorry and ban all abortion.
Life doesn't begin at conception and abortion isn't murder. No heart beat = no child. (Souls don't exist either)
Life does begin at conception, even with a single cell or two there is DNA of a unique individual. A baby is a baby 1 second after birth and 1 second before birth. If you work backwards from that 1 second before birth, it is always a baby human being - all the way back to conception. Is abortion murder? No. It is justifiable homicide. For whatever reason the woman chooses, it is ultimately her choice to share her body with the fetus or not. It can't be put any simpler than this.
For me I have always said it depends on the situation. I'll take the two extremes. Firstly If some Dumb woman wants to go out Drinking and Flirting with every man and gets pregnant by Consented sex then its her own fault, its up to her (and possibly the father) to bring up that child. BUT If a woman were to have unConsented Sex I.E. Rape then she should have a choice, IMagine if that woman was in a loving relationship with a man and they eventually wanted children but this Rapist has Forcefully Impregnated a Woman then I for one would not so much Hate the Child but I would always feel a slight Resentment to it.
The woman consents to share her body with the fetus when she decides to have sex, with rape being the sole exception.
A cell with DNA in it IS life A cell can die, it feeds, it reproduces, etc. It is the DNA that determines what the life is, be it plant or animal or even human.
A bowl of bread, a jar of tomato paste, a plate of cheese, and some basil are on a table. You can mix them together and still not have a pizza--just the potential for a pizza.
Abortion is the mother's right. As already said, no heartbeat = no life, and as a result, its not murder.
So you are okay with murdering babies (as you put it). If you support 'exceptions', then you're okay with abortions. You just support killing babies for this reason and not for that reason.
