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What are your opinions on abortion?
Race, Religion & Politics / 2:38 PM - Saturday July 04, 2009

What are your opinions on abortion?

Pro life or Pro choice? Stars and 2+ to all, I just want to hear some different views.

Update: July 05, 2009.
Thank you to everyone that responded! :) My friend and I had to do a project on abortion from a Catholic view a while ago, and I was just wondering what everyone's opinions were on the subject, not just a bunch of faceless statistics. We even made the Hot 10! :D

- Asked by An Alternative Girl, Female, 18-21, Toronto, Artist / Musician / Writer

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I mostly favor equal rights. The "war" over abortion won't be settled until the feminists find a way to include fathers rights in the important decisions about our mutual children. There are no equal rights in "A woman's right to choose."

- Response by greenwind, An Intellectual Guy, Male, 56-65, Seattle, Construction

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while i personally don't think i could get one i think that every woman deserves the right to choose.

- Response by angel325, A Life of the Party, Female, 18-21, Who Cares?

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STOP AND THINK DID YOU ASK TO BE BORN.

- Response by brezzyblue, A Creative, Female, 36-45, Other Profession

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pro-life. the pro-deathers are just a crazy bunch of people

- Response by pizzatroll, A Mr. Nice Guy, Male, 36-45, Science / Engineering

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Pro choice

- Response by llafsroh, An Intellectual Guy, Male, 36-45, Boston, Science / Engineering

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those that talk about adoption being an option after the baby is born.
well, do you really want to put a kid through the life of being handed off like an old toy from house to house, always wondering why i wasn't good enough for mommy to keep, putting stress on the tax payers who have to put that kid though school and feed it until it does get a home or turn 18. if a mother knows she isn't going to be there for the child it shouldn't be handed off to others. i get there are women who can have children but there aren't enough of those women to take in all the abandoned children in foster homes and in the hands of the state.

- Response by angel325, A Life of the Party, Female, 18-21, Who Cares?

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I am neither. I am pro abortion. You can read my stance in the article I wrote on survivingdating entitled "Pro-Life, Pro-Choice or Pro-Abortion"

- Response by msheartbeat, A Trendsetter, Female, 36-45, San Francisco, Self-Employed

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Being pro-choice doesn't mean a person rejoices in it.
It means CHOICE, and not depriving ANYONE of self-determination over what's done to their own bodies.

And it's surely no secret if abortions become illegal again in the U.S., that women won't seek it anyway, with many dying from botched up ones.



- Response by A Thinker, Female, 56-65, New York, Civil Service

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BOTH. Think abortion is wrong, but don't think it should be illegal.

- Response by girldownunder, A Career Woman, Female, 29-35, Sydney

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Pro-choice. Nobody has the right to force a person to have their body USED against their will to sustain another's life. If we decide it IS OK to do that, then next we will be making laws to force a person to give up an organ against their will, to sustain another's life.

And if I hear ONE MORE PERSON say that having an abortion is NOT "facing the consequences of their actions" I'm going to scream. Having an abortion is EVERY bit as much facing the consequences of your actions, as is having a baby. It's simply a different WAY to face the consequences. People who insist taht abortion is avoiding the consquences of their actions, must be stupid. If you get pregnant and don't want to be, an abortion FIXES that mistake. How is fixing a mistake, NOT facing the consequences of your actions?

Do these same people believe that if you cause a car-wreck, and get injured, that you should NOT be treated by a doctor? Because that is THE SAME scenario as terminating an unwanted pregnancy. You could even use the same arguement: If you're old enough to drive, you're old enough to face the consequences of your actions. So if you get hurt in an accident which YOU caused, you should not get medical care because then you are not facing (living with) the consequences of your actions. Right?

- Response by justpassingthru, A Thinker, Female, 46-55, Financial / Banking

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Pro Life. My attitude is that one has made the choice(see pro choice already to start with) when they indulged in consentual sex knowing the potential risks involved, why should they have a second choice simply because the first choice backfired? It's like saying that a person who walks across a street knowing they could get his by a car chooses to cross anyways and when hit want to change that original choice? The only reason that it's an issue with abortion is simply because one "CAN" make that second choice and the prevailing attitude is simple, who's life and future is more important? One really wonders at this. It;s one thing if the issue is kill or be killed but it's another when the decision is kill or be inconvenienced........ When one knows the risks and still decides to partake in a risky activity then one should belly up to the potential consequences and responsibilities. Besides that there are so many people in the USA that are seeking to adopt that the system down there even goes to the trouble to allow stealing kids from other countries for adoption. Ironic considering how many could be available if abortion wasn't such a rampant and easy thing. We all listen to the arguments about woman's choice yet ignore other factors like did she not make a choice when she indulged in consentual sex???? What about the father's rights? It's his too? Anyone ever find out or ask the baby what they think or what their choice is? It's a slippery slope when a society allows pre meditated killing to avoid inconvenience and responsibility. I believe that the issue of choice is made "BEFORE" the need to choose life or death of innocent and powerless others becomes an issue.

- Response by canajun, A Mr. Nice Guy, Male, 46-55, Vancouver, Self-Employed

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abortion is murder of your own child I am definatly against it

- Response by bigcurt, A Mr. Nice Guy, Male, 46-55, Pittsburgh, Self-Employed

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THE DECISION TO ABORT IS THE PREROGATIVE OF THE WOMAN CONCERNED,NO ONE ELSE

- Response by duggers, A Guy Critical, Male, 66 or older

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Well, its up to the couple whose carrying. They're the ones who have to live with the decision either way for the rest of their lives. Peace. :)

- Response by mortaune, A Guy Critical, Male, 22-25, Student

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I am pro-choice. I believe that every woman should have the right and the option whether she goes through a pregnancy or not. Especially if she would not be able to provide a good life for a child due to financial poverty, emotional immaturity, lack of support or other issues. Its her body and life, its her choice.

- Response by sunset77, A Sweet Sarah, Female, 29-35, Who Cares?

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i view it as a life at least when the heart starts beating, which is 7 weeks i think. after that, i view it as live baby. u cant kill a live baby, so the same rules should apply to fetus if the heart is beating.

- Response by foonlord, A Creative, Male, 26-28, San Francisco, Internet / New Media

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Pro choice Cause some ppl have health issues
In my case a hiptopic pregnancy in my younger days early 20's a few complications for me came from that and the very young seed/baby that was growing in my tube and may have caused also growth defects to the baby . We wanted the baby . We had No choice , had to terminate. I to this day cannot have children.
I agree that a healthy women with a heathy pregnancy a women who choices to not want there child has always got the option to give to others for those who cannot and there are many wowmen who cannot have there own child/children..
Cheers

- Response by berri, A Career Woman, Female, 46-55, New South Wales, Medical / Dental

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Abortion is worse than murder. It's butchery. "Thou shalt not kill" is still in the Bible. If women hate babies that much, they shouldn't have sex.

If you can't take the heat, stay out of the bedroom.



- Response by thundermist04167, A Mr. Nice Guy, Male, 36-45, Who Cares?

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I'm pro-life.

In my view, the choice is made when the couple decide to have sex.

- Response by avatar83, A Mr. Nice Guy, Male, 26-28, Teaching

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My opinions on abortion I say go for it. I believe that if a woman is not mentally or financially stable to raise a child then they should not have one. If a woman has to look to the state (welfare, parents..etc) to help her take care of her child then that person does not need to have one. People seem to think that women that have abortions are killing the baby but if you were to look on a ultrasound screen you will see that there is no baby in there. It looks like a circle of tissue or something. When should not have children if they are not married and financialy stable period.

- Response by libralady28, A Thinker, Female, 29-35

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I DISAGREE....IT'S MURDER IN A SENSE. THERE'S ALWAYS ADOPTION!!

- Response by forry28, A Guy Critical, Male, 29-35, Food Service

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I love how people are saying that gestating a pregnancy to term is "a consequence of having sex"; that's about as logical as saying that people who have cancer have cancer as the result of having lived, therefore they should have to die of the cancer rather than have a doctor "murder" the clump of cancer cells--after all they're human, alive, and have their own DNA.

I am 100% pro-choice. That means that I support the EXISTING abortion laws, which stipulate that abortion on demand is not legal past the viability cut off. Due to current medical studies, that viability cut off (24 wks) is still valid: there is no evidence that a fetus can respond to stimuli before the 27th wk of gestation--and a lot of evidence that it can't; the likelihood of a preemie surviving even at the 27th wk of gestation is still pretty low. At the 24th wk of gestation, survival rates for preemies are dim: 20%, I believe the latest study said.

That being said, virtually no one has an abortion at 24 wks gestation: late term abortions are performed when there is some complication in the pregnancy or the life of the mother is endangered. No one who doesn't want to be pregnant stays pregnant that long--96% of abortions happen before 16 wks gestation, when there is absolutely no chance of viability.

All that being said: the people who want to make abortion on demand illegal (with the stupidities like "it's murder" and "everyone deserves a chance" etc etc) are just misogynists; because if they really cared about the fetuses, they would want women to be forced to give all the frozen embryos discarded by fertility clinics "a chance"--those embryos are just as viable as about 96% of abortions that happen every day, and often they're in the same stage of development. So, unless you want to prosecute the staff of fertility clinics for "committing murder," you'd better think long and hard before pretending that you really believe the junk like "everyone deserves a chance." Giving a chance to a nonviable fetus, that doesn't have a functioning brain, means TAKING a chance to live like a human being (that doesn't have to share her internal organs as though she were some sort of animal being harvested for internal organs with anyone) from the woman involved with the unwanted pregnancy.

Unless YOU are willing to give YOUR "extra" kidney, blood and bone marrow to help people who need these things, YOU should keep your mouth shut when it comes to dictating to women when they should support another individual's life with their internal organs. You wouldn't like it, and women are *gasp* just as human as you are. Unfortunately, even some WOMEN apparently believe they shouldn't have the rights that second class citizens in America were always able to expect--the ability to control who uses his / her internal organs.

- Response by electragold21, A Thinker, Female, 29-35, New York, Teaching

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