Opinions on Abortion

[nmmoore13]

Pro choice

Women have a right of private property over their own bodies. The unborn fetus has no right to live in the mother without her approval.

 

[the monopoly guy]

I sense a flame fest on the horizon.

I'm just saying, abortion isn't the most, well, mundane of arguments.

 

[Amnestic]

On the whole though, I wish someone would step up to the plate and declare it legal or illegal and end the whole fucking controversy once and for all. I'll forfeit my preference just to have it decided on. If it's illegal, then it's illegal and you just have to deal. If it's legal, then protesters who continue with their BS should be arrested.

Legal in the UK up to 24 weeks if the woman's health (mental or physical) is deemed threatened by two Doctors. No time limit if their health is 'gravely' threatened.
Legal in Canada.
Legal in US...well, it's meant to be. Doesn't stop people protesting though ;/

Pro-choice here.

 

[aRealGuitarHero707]

whenever i get involved with people on the topic of abortion i always refer to this video as it matches my standpoint perfectly

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrXvDXVhqfU

 

[meatloaf231]

Pro-choice, but not for any "it's her body" reasons. Those are good, but my main argument is stem cell research. It's too useful to not do, with all the disease curing and all that.

So keep aborting those fetuses!

 

[AuntyEthel]

Banning drugs doesn't stop people using them.
Prohibition didn't stop alcohol.
It just makes people seek out more desperate measures to obtain them.
When governments ban abortion, desperate would-be mothers would try more dangerous methods when they have no alternative. This leads to backyard coathanger jobs that seriously threaten the woman's life. Legally or illegally the foetus dies. At least in the former the woman is safer.

 

[Xaryn Mar]

Well i am for abortion (or pro-choice as the americans call it). Of course using abortion as a sort of contraceptive is just plain stupid, since an abortion is not without risk to the woman (as far as I known, I am no doctor).
Here in Denmark abortion is legal and has been for quite a long time. I think the time limit is around 18 weeks, but I am not sure (have so far not had any reason to research it more). What I know though, is that if it was not legal, a lot of abortions would be performed anyway, only they would be made by people who knew very little about the risks and a lot of women would die because of it (like they did before abortion became legal)

 

[Cab00se206]

On the whole though, I wish someone would step up to the plate and declare it legal or illegal and end the whole fucking controversy once and for all. I'll forfeit my preference just to have it decided on. If it's illegal, then it's illegal and you just have to deal. If it's legal, then protesters who continue with their BS should be arrested.

Legal in the UK up to 24 weeks if the woman's health (mental or physical) is deemed threatened by two Doctors. No time limit if their health is 'gravely' threatened.
Legal in Canada.
Legal in US...well, it's meant to be. Doesn't stop people protesting though ;/

There's a really weird situation in Australia regarding abortions in that technically it's illegal in every state except Victoria but almost nobody knows this and it happens every day. I don't know how doctors justify it or anything, but in my opinion it's a good thing. (Pro-abortion)

It's all a question of 'how will this affect the parties involved?' If a woman has an abortion she could be avoiding having the baby at a bad time (financially etc.) or avoid the possibility of the baby having a debilitating disease, causing premature death or very intensive and expensive treatment. The mother might feel guilty, but it's not like she has a limited number of eggs. The baby can't feel anything. From what I can tell the abortion limit (up to what, 3rd trimester? not sure.) is because at that point the embryo's nervous system hasn't developed, meaning it won't suffer at all.

For the record I know that people with disabilities and mental disabilities deserve the right to exist, but in my opinion at this point in time it is the mother's choice whether or not to have the baby. Once the baby is delivered, their life is sacrosanct, but when they are an embryo in their mother's womb she calls the shots.

 

[gim73]

You know, I always found it odd that they consider it statutory rape if two consenting teenagers have sex under a certain age. Is this because they don't want teen pregnancy? If that's the case, we should ENFORCE abortions on ALL girls under the age of consent.

Really, is a 12 year old ready to have a kid? If you are a teenage mother who has succeeded despite the odds, congrats, you are a minority. Abortion is the answer to pretty much all teen pregnancy.

Looking at divorce rates, people are starting to realize that most relationships are going to end in bitter and total failure. Sadly, most children will wind up as bitter and total failures as well. Trailer park mom, can you really afford to have a fifth child to the third father?

The US should really start looking into enforcing how many children each woman can have, like china. Do YOU want to see what this world looks like with 10 billion? It's not that far away. With our crusade to stop world hunger and disease, we are working towards that overpopulation problem at an increasing rate.

My opinion on abortion: all for it.

 

[Aries_Split]

Abortion's a tricky subject and I don't know what i or my girlfriend would do if she got pregnant, it's just not something were ready for. On the one hand terminating the pregnancy would be easier in the long run and we'd be able to plan for a better time, however I don't know if i could bring myself to do it I mean it is MY kid in there.

To this I ask, do you fap?

How can you!

I mean, it is YOUR kid your wiping onto a sock.

See, there's the fallacy of that argument, no one can really justify calling it a kid, but at the same time, no one can really justify calling it a bunch of cells.

It's a very touchy subject, with lots of gray area.

 

[LewsTherin]

My stance on this issue is that abortion would be a choice in some situations. Not in the lieu of "Oh, I'm pregnant again, I'll just have an abortion", blowing it off as an excuse to just go around having sex with whoever because the doctors can magically un-impregnate you.

I'm talking about situations like the mother is a victim of rape or the child would be born into a family unit that would not be able to support it, be it from financial troubles, abuse, whatever else. You have to consider the child in your decision making, as much as the parents, IMHO.

As a fairly sane Christian, I understand how people would disagree with it, some for the right reasons, some not so, but the same goes either way. It's not an argument to be entred lightly, without taking every possible side to the argument into account.

 

[wewontdie11]

Pro-choice right here as well.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrXvDXVhqfU

About sums up my feelings on the matter. I need say no more I think.

whenever i get involved with people on the topic of abortion i always refer to this video as it matches my standpoint perfectly

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrXvDXVhqfU

Edit: God damn it already beaten to it. Not really surprised though he makes a very good argument.

 

[Break]

Funny, I was just thinking about this earlier. My major problem with the whole "pro-life" thing, is that it generally assumes that human life has some kind of intrinsic value.

 

[The Potato Lord]

Firmly against. I'm honestly surprised people are so desperate to not have a child that "We could kill it." becomes an option. Adoption is the way to go, or perhaps some reseach could be done into fetus transplanting, Then the same effect is achieved without killing.

 

[Fruhstuck]

Pro-choice here
I don't see how anyone else can dictate to a woman what she can and can't do with her own body. And that group of cells in her womb is not a child.

....But there's an excellent chance that those cells will develop into a child, so you have to take the future into consideration, right?

There's an excellent chance the next load some snotty teenager wipes away with a kleenex could have been a child. i fail to the see the point of that argument

I say: woman's choice completely, i've been through this, would've been with my girlfriend w/e she decided, i can't tell someone what to do with their body at all, it's just basically wrong

 

[The Wooster]

Abortion can't be morrally wrong by definition but killing a child is. The question is when a random group of cells becomes a person. If we solve that particular problem everything else will fall into place.

At the moment I'm Pro-choice mainly because the pro life argument doesn't make a good enough case to supress the rights of pregnant women.