What are your arguments for or against
abortion? Have you ever had a personal
experience with abortion and did it change
your views. (there is no need to answer
in long detail about a personal experience
just a simple yes/no will suffice)
these threads have gotten so out of hand
that it's hard to piece anything together
anymore.
My answer:
i believe that it is wrong because we all
deserve the right to life no matter how
big or small.
Someone very close to me has been deeply
negativly affected by abortion and it has
nearly destroyed him and it makes my
anti-abortion opinion much stronger!
Please don't turn this into an
agrument...I just want to know exactly
where everyone stands and exactly why they
feel the way they do!
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foreverblue
Active User, Really EHEALTHy
Joined: 17 Jan 2005 Posts: 577
Posted: 02-02-05 03:30am
I am personally against abortion but
believe it to be a neccesary option for
other people.My reasons are this when I
was 18 my then girlfriend went away for a
week when I saw here again she told me she
had been pregnant but had had a
termination because she didnt want it,this
was devastating to me and I dont think
women realize the effect it has on the
father,it took me about 6 months to get
over it.It might have been easier if she
had of told me.
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bd1012
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Joined: 31 May 2004 Posts: 1998
Posted: 02-02-05 10:11am
I am prochoice because I believe no matter
what.. It is a woman's right to choose to
remain pregnant or not and there are too
many kids in the adoption system as it is
and to top it off.. I don't know if you
guys heard.. But there are now people
trying to screw birth mothers out of their
contact agreements.. There's even a book
about it. I believe that both pregnancy
and abortion has it's risks and neither
one should be forced upon anyone. In the
constitution.. Which protects it's
.B.O.R.N citizens, it saws no law shall be
made that will cause undue harm on ones'
person. There is no way the fetus can
have equal rights to the women because if
you grant it the right to life than you
are granting it a right that no other
person has.. And that is the right to
life that involves leeching off of
someone's body or organs. I believe in
quality of life over quantity but that
does not mean I want to off anyone who has
less than a glorious life so dont' even
start in case you were thinking about it.
I believe life is not black and white..
Not everyone who is this, does that..
Etc. I believe everybody percieves
pregnancy differently and everyones
pregnancy is different, and everyone's
life is setup different and not all the
time does pregnancy fit into their life
and I know you think it's selfish to put a
career over pregnancy but we don't so why
should we do something that we believe
could put us in a tight spot for morals
that don't belong to us? You wouldn't do
it so we won't either.
That's all I can think of for now.
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Kourtney08
Active User, Really EHEALTHy
Joined: 08 May 2004 Posts: 937 Location: Alaska
Posted: 02-02-05 13:17pm
Im pro-choice. That means im not going to
sit around and try to dictate what people
do with their own bodies.
Yes i've had a personal experience with
abortion, and if it hadn't been for the
rights to choose that, i'd not be here.
Yes, everyone has a right to life, and the
woman was born way before this baby
started growing in her stomach. If shes
not ready for a baby, why try and make her
be? Why would I want a child to be born
to parents that don't want it. That
childs not going to have a very happy
life.
Anyways, it should be the womans choice,
period, no one else should butt their
little noses in it and tell woman what
they think is right and wrong. I could
careless what someone thinks is wrong, if
its right for me, they're opinion isn't
going to mean a thing.
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steen
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Joined: 18 Nov 2004 Posts: 1797 Location: Upper Midwest
Posted: 02-02-05 13:46pm
Women are the ones who know what goes on
in their lives. They are the ones who
knows what life situations they can handle
or not handle. Nobody are more of an
expert in their lives than they are, and
thus they are the ones best situated to
make personal decisions about their
current and future lives. This is true
for abortions, for relationships, for
careers and everything.
Likewise, people are the owners of their
own bodies, and nobody or no thing can use
their bodies against their will. Thus,
neither you, nor the pregnant woman can be
forced to give of your body unless you
chose to do so voluntarily, regardless of
how much it would mean to whomever or
whatever receives your bodily resources.
This is a very basic human right,
regardless of the status of the person,
embryo or tapeworm receiving your bodily
resources against your will. If you say
no, they die regardless of how much they
need your bodily resource, or regardless
of how important or innocent they are.
This is the case for everybody, and only
ardent misogyny and hypocricy can say that
women are second-class citizens who do not
hold such rights when thos arguing for
taking their rights also insist on
preserving their own right to bodily
integrity.
And in addition, people have the right to
live their private lives without the
government regulating the smallest and
most private details of it. Attempting
to regulate a person's private healthcare
decisions is gross government intrusion in
best eastern communist style.