ABORTION....?! yay or nay?!!

Is it evil to intervene with the path of life and destroy it?

Thinking about it terms not of two seperate entitites..but simply life evolving and trying to breathe...Is it like playing god to suffocate the thing becuase you don't feel responsible enough to look after it, or take the consqequences of your actions...ie' cause and effect....karma?!
[where in other areas of life..if you're going to be spiritual about a situation, you'd say..well i chose to do this..i need to follow it through]

Obviously if your a christian and you're one of those 'anti abortion christians...' [groannn] then please ExAPLIN yourself SANELY...I don't care....if you think it's 'wrong' I want to know precisley why, and with what theory.

Also it may help to imagine that you are pregnant right now. Not someone else that you're advising,. but You, how would you advise a pregnant you? [Who, didnt want the baby]

thanks for reading this

 

well, i've always been up for women's rights, and I believe abortion should always be available. If you get into the religious side of things, it is always going to be controvertial, for obvious reasons.

If i fell pregnant right now, i would keep it. Even though i'm single, have no job, i'm still at uni, I'm old enough to be a mother. If i was a couple of years younger i would probably consider abortion. Well, knowing this, i think i'm old enough to know how prevent a pregnancy, not saying that I couldn't happen to me, but if it did, it would wreck all my short terms plans and i would end up staying home and I REALLY don't want that. but as i grow older i've realised that some things are meant to happen.

 

its not a human until it is out of the womb and begun to develop social awareness and logic (in the womb, human baby learns instincts), and even then it is less human than a well trained dog. so if you say no to abortion then you gotta become a vegetarian pretty much. and not cut off a cancer (because it probably has more of your dna in it than a baby of yours would)

 

lol.. interesting perspective... but what if you thought that a human isnt just an animal, but has a soul inhabitating the body for reasons of learning spiritual lessons/truths...???

 

I don't think anyone is "Yay! Abortion". If they are, it's possiable that they have mental problems. Abortions happen, they have a purpose... I am pro-choice, but not "Yay! Abortions for Everyone!"

 

another abortion thread......get ready for a long thread ppl!

im pro choice.

 

...and some slamming!

I too am Pro-Choice. Definitely not hip, hip, hooraying for abortion, far from that, but it is the woman's body, it is her choice, and whatever decision she makes she will have to be the one to live with it.

 

I am pro choice...it is not anyone else's place to decide for me what to do with my body. That being said, I think it is every sexually active man and woman's place to do their level best to prevent conception with birth control methods (whatever works for them) if they do not wish to conceive a child. I DO realize that, even with birth control, conception does sometimes happen, and at that point, it is up the woman whether she wants to get an abortion, keep the child, or put it up for adoption. No woman should absolutely be expected to be a living incubator for an unwanted child. I am not in favor of late stage abortions, but done in the early stages, I feel that abortion may a viable option for women not wanting a child.

 

Thanks for your views.....but actually i didnt want to know if you were pro choice or not....because i am pro choice..and people who arent are just control freaks...

what i wanted to know..is COULD YOU DO IT?.....I MEAN WOULD YOU FEEL COMPELLED TO KEEP ITM, BECUASE IT IS LIFE...FUCK WHAT ANYONE SAYS TO YOU ABOUT IT BEING RIGHT OR WRONG..I MEAN ON A PERSONAL EMOTIONAL LEVEL....

sorry for the capitals..im going insane.

 

I think the issue is really complicated.

I think the pro abortion crowd need to admit that it isn't just a simple "wander in, lie down for a second, and you've reversed getting pregnant". You've just killed something.
It's amazing how many women get pregnant soon after this, out of feelings of guilt or sadness.

I think the pro life crowd should stop blaming the victim and rather than trying to upbraid, scold, shame or criminalize single women up against the wall should put their money where their mouths are and house, feed and support these women, if they want to.

People should be entitled to a choice but also to understand exactly what they're getting into with the choice, on both sides.

 

i have done it. it was the right decision and one i felt i had to make. were there other options? sure. but i did what was right for me. selfish? probably. i still dont regret it.

 

I don't know if I could do it. Personally, I think it's one of those questions that you can't really answer for sure until you are faced with the decision, and the circumstances around the decision. I might feel one way if the pregancy was the result of a rape, another if I had been 15 and pregnant, and yet another if I was 23, in a loving relationship and pregnant. Circumstances change everything, IMO.

As of now? No. I am 27 and happily married. If I got pregnant, I wouldn't abort it. But, 5 years ago I wasn't in a stable relationship, and I was a heavy drug user...having a child wasn't a viable option, so I might have aborted if I had become pregnant.

 

could i have a abortion - no i personally couldn't live with myself if i had one. A freind of mine had one and crys all the time over here baby.

and to the person who said its not a real baby until outside the womb!! i dont agree on that at all - i personally think a baby is real from when you concieve,

 

I would not recommend one to anybody, even though I am pro-choice.

I have been questioned by my OB that if I were to become pregnant again if I would consider a termination due to the extremely high risk I have of not surviving another pregnancy. The thing is, I don't know what I would do. I don't think I could do it. I'd probably have a major emotional breakdown But then there's the part of me that says, wouldn't it be selfish to try and carry another pregnancy, only to die and leave my three beautiful children and husband without a mama and wife? Of course, that is a whole different situation than simply becoming pregnant and deciding to abort.

If my body allowed me to carry another pregnancy and survive, no, I would not even consider abortion.

 

Wow, noone attacked me. That's cool. That tells me what I said I said in a non hurtful way.

 

I actually agree with what you said earlier, that a lot of people really simplify the abortion experience and that others blame the woman who had an abortion. It's a lot more complicated an issue than most people realize.

I'm pro choice. And yes, if I got pregnant right this minute I'd have an abortion. I'm in a really bad place financially, emotionally, and just all over. I'm in the middle of my education, feeling like I'm about to hit a depression wave again, and hating all men (that one's temporary, but still). I don't think I could raise a kid properly right now, that I don't have enough of myself to give, don't love myself enough to love a child as well. It's kind of a sad way to look at it, but it's the truth. In a couple of years, well, hopefully I'll be better andI'll be done school by then. I'd consider it then... it depends a lot on my situation at the time. but I know right now, it would be a very very bad time to have a child, even if I were to give it up for adoption I don't think I could carry around a life for 9 months without having some serious problems. the joys of being messed up.

 

I actually think that your post was a very insightful one. It made a lot of sense and was done respectfully.

 

Cool.

I personally am pro choice but wouldn't make the choice to abort. I abstain.

 

I'm not really on either side. I wouldn't have one. I wouldn't suggest having one. I don't like the idea. But I wouldn't demonize someone who does. I wouldn't vote to make it illegal. I don't think it's murder. So I'm really somewhere in the middle, but because I don't want it illegal, I guess I'm pro-choice.

 

It would depend on the circumstance for me, but despite my pro-choice stance, I think it would make me sad to do it...I would always wonder what kind of person the kid would have been...