Abortion

[Kotori82]

I believe abortion should happen if the mother is at risk of dying or the baby has a small percentage of suriving the birth.

If the woman gets rape it's up to her if she wants to have an abortion. She didn't want to be pregant and it might be too much for her to handle. Being pregant from being rape, she might harm the unborn baby even if it's unconcoius. It's too much for a woman mentally to care an unborn baby like that.

Those are the reasons fro abortion. Any other reason...they should have the baby.  

[Charlie Dodo]

AninOnin

Charles Dodo

I see no reason a woman should be forced to use her body as life support for a fetus. This is as someone who has seen the torment that parents and child are put through when an unwanted life is brought into this world. Better by far to die unborn that to live with people who resent you simply for existing.

If you're insinuating that your parents consider you "unwanted life" and they "resent you simply for existing", you need to reevaluate your outlook on life. I'm sorry, but feeling sorry for yourself is not going to help.

I did not speak of myself, and I find your statement cold and cruel. Do not imagine that a child who is told "You were an accident and should never have been born" is merely "feeling sorry for himself". Even when grown it is no simple matter to simply move past the feelings of worthlessness that this kind of upbringing instills.

People incapable of offering children unconditional love should not have them. If this means that a fetus must, on occasions, be killed then so be it.  

[Edwin Dragonblade]

Dylanthevyllan

In the word's of Jay, "A woman's body is her own ******** buisness!" (Quoted from Dogma)

Agreed. However, the debate is far too complex than to be summarized by that statement alone.

Let's start by making a necessary distinction- the way I see it, there are two types of abortions: The first, and one which usually comes to mind when the word is mentioned, is when the pregnancy is unwanted or unplanned. In such a case, the quoted statement above should, in my opinion, guide our decision making profess. Moreover, in George Carlin's (RIP) words: "when these people raised a couple of kids on minimum wages I'll be glad to hear what they have to say about abortions"

The second type, the one that is often overlooked, is the one in which the fetus isn't wanted (because of diseases, defects etc). This case is trickier, because it really does bring up the whole "who are we to decide who gets to live and who doesn't", and how do you determine which disease is bearable and which should result in terminating the pregnancy?  

[Ayame_M]

i personally dont think abortion is the right way to do thingas if u dont wwant a baby there is always adoption. but if u kno thaat ull die from having the baby i think u have the right to choose if u want it or not. but then again is there ever a right or wrong way to do anything it depends on how u were raised and ur own personal opinion really. i dont like abortion i would never do it but those who have gotten an abortion i wont judge them its their right after all  

[NoodlesandChips]

It's the mothers choice in all cases. However i don't feel that an "accident" counts as a reason.  

[Iconoclast Enthusiast]

Unilover07

It isn't completely up to the woman. It is a decision that should be made carefully between both parents. That being said, there should be the right to choose. Government shouldn't have the ability to mandate every aspect of our lives.

The man does not have the final say on an abortion. The woman is the one who would have to go through the pregnancy, so she does and should get to choose whether or not to go through with it. The man, if he is staying with the woman and not running to the high hills when he finds out she's pregnant, can and ought to have an input with the woman, but ultimately the woman makes the decision.  

[momo the momi]

I guess the final say is up to the woman, but really, the father should at least have some input on the matter. It's his too. And a doctor should be able to choose whether or not to perform an abortion just as much as a woman should be able to make that decision or not. I think it's such a tough subject and nobody is going to completly happy no matter what. Personally, I think it should only be allowed under extreme cases, like stated earlier by others: Rape, Incest, Dying. That's it, for me. But I do want to say that I think it's awesome that everybody here can discuss this debate intellectually and we're not going off the deep-end.  

[roses_diamonds]

I feel and strongly believe that people need to consider this deeply. You see, to me abortion after a certain amount of time is not okay. If any of you have seen Juno, she doesn't get an abortion because someone told her the fetus already had nails. Nails.

I am pro- choice. I believe that if a mother who is carrying the baby is allowed to get an abortion if she wants to. It is her body and she HAS the RIGHT.

No one ecspecially not the government can tell her she can't get an abortion.  

[G0d_0f_R0ck]

im pro choice there are laws protect the fetus so that it can not be harmed one it has a brain and actual feeling if there weren't id probably be against it but abortion is the mothers choice and since it affects me in no way i don't care what u do personally if i got a girl pregnant i would not want her to have an abortion i would want to put the child up for adoption but of course that wuoldn't be up to me. thats another thing to i think it is wrong that the father ultimatley has no say in the matter i mean it is his child to even if it isn't his body he should still have a say in the end i mean if the woman has an abortion and the man is strongly pro life it could devistate him