The Abortion Debate – Pro Choice, Pro Life
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This is a war that will never be won. Not while people are still trying to make decision for others.
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Abortion is defined as “the premature ending or abandonment of an undertaking”. You can abort a mission or even a task, and then there is the very touchy subject of aborting a pregnancy.
There are many whom are Pro Life and many whom are Pro Choice and many men as well.
I won’t lie. I will openly state that I am Pro Choice on this subject. I believe in a woman’s right to chose what she does or doesn’t do with her body. I would never go through with the procedure myself as there are many families out there who can not have children that are very deserving of them. But, I would never hold it against somebody if they had one or said that they were going to. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion and choices.
I do agree that there are many situations that arise where a woman may come to this decision. Be it that she feels obligated to due to family pressure, possibly she was a victim of rape, whatever the reason may be, she feels she is in the right position to make this decision and that it is the correct one. There are also people whom have made this decision thinking that it is the right thing to do and then regretted it afterwards.
A lot of the debate in regards to this subject stems from whether life begins at conception or at birth. There’s no way to deny that life begins at conception. Birth, is when a child is born, and you can most certainly feel that child moving months before it makes his/her way into the world. For those who believe that life begins at birth, I can only assume that you have never been pregnant, because you can not deny something that you can feel dancing around inside of you.
There are groups who want to make this procedure illegal. I can’t possibly understand why. As I stated before, I would never have it done, but if a friend of mine decided that abortion was her only option I would want her to be able to go to a licensed doctor in a sterilized facility rather than back to in the previous days when anyone is a back alley with a rusty coat hanger could perform the procedure. That’s how people get infections and die.
We fight for equality and a woman’s right to choose, and we are still bombarded with men and woman trying to tell us what we can or can’t do to our own bodies. Yes, I understand that there is another human inside that body, but it’s not yours to make decisions for.
This is a never ending war. It will go on and on and on until the end of time. It’s the same as everything else. You can’t have everybody be happy. I just don’t understand why people can’t let people make their own decisions.
“I believe in a woman’s right to chose what she does or doesn’t do with her body.”
This is what I cannot understand. Does a woman have two hearts? Four legs and four arms? No. The baby is a separate human being inside the mother’s womb. The baby is not the mother’s body as stated above. Who is going to protect the unborn child?
“Yes, I understand that there is another human inside that body, but it’s not yours to make decisions for.”
…so the mother has authority to kill her child? That is exactly what abortion is. Killing something that is living, thriving, and in a few months or even weeks, could live outside the womb.
This is one of the ugliest parts of our society and it breaks my heart that precious babies die everyday, because people think that murder is OK, as long as the baby is still inside the womb.
I didn’t say that it wasn’t murder. I belive stating that I am personally against it as there are so many people out there that want a child and aren’t able to have them that I would choose adoption, but at the same time I’m not going to force my views on any other person. I am a mother and I love my son dearly. No, I wasn’t trying to have a child at the time, but I would never ask for anything different as he is my world.
you would have to take in consideration why the mother is making that big choice. if the mother was able to take care of that child and provide a good home for that child it would not be a ? WHAT TO DO
I just wanted anyone’s opinion on if I was in the wrong here, and what any of you guys would have done in this situation. So my wife is quite liberal and I’m more on the conservative side, and she’s about 3 months pregnant. She can’t work right now, so I’ve been forced to support her as of late. The thing is that about a week ago she started asking me if she could borrow $400, and being pretty secretive about the reason why. I soon found out that $400 was the average cost of a back alley abortion, which is ridiculous considering that she knows how vehemently pro-life I am. After refusing to give her the money and the countless hours of arguing that ensued, I ended up making a comment about how if she wanted to do something liberal with $400, she should take advantage of Obummer’s “American Recovery and Reinvestment Act,” so that “instead of murdering our kid, he can have satellite internet at a smashing price!” (I linked it so you can actually see it’s about $400 in taxpayer money that our President chose to waste on this crap, aren’t I so funny hah). The messed up part is that she went and told her dad, who happens to be just as liberal as her, and who also happens to own the house that we’re renting. To make a long story short, my tenancy has been “suspended” from his house (I’m now staying at my buddy’s place until this thing blows over) and he gave her the money to get the abortion. I haven’t talked to her in almost a week, so it’s pretty safe to say that she has already gone through with it. So my question is, do you think I was being inappropriate for mocking my wife and father in law’s political ideologies, or do you think I’m being unfairly persecuted because of my relative conservatism, and the Obummer joke I made has little to nothing to do with this? I’m thinking the latter.
Mason, you are completely right. at 3 months old the baby can feel pain. and if you look at the methods of abortion many of them would be agonizingly painful and brutal. Your wife seems selfish, i can’t believe she would think it would be okay to take your money and kill your child, that’s wrong, it’s very, very, wrong.
Jessica i think your awesome, took the words right out of my mouth
Mason, I certainly feel for you and I don’t agree with the fact that you were removed from your home just for having an opinion of your own. Everyone is entitled to their own beliefs and one should not force theirs on another. I can’t say if what your wife did was right or wrong as I don’t know either of you or what had been going through her mind. Although it seems safe to say that at this point in time she was not ready for a child. Did the two of you discuss the possibility of having children prior to your marriage? Ultimately if she did go through with it ( you had stated that you assumed she did when you commented) nobody other than her can decide for her what she is allowed to do to her body or what is inside her. It’s obvious that you wanted this child and that really tears me up inside and a couple obviously can’t have things both ways. Again, as I’m not her I don’t know what she was thinking at the time but I certainly hope that she thought long and hard.
Wish you well
I kinda need help for my abortion debate, any useful comments?
“I didn’t say that it wasn’t murder. I belive stating that I am personally against it as there are so many people out there that want a child and aren’t able to have them that I would choose adoption, but at the same time I’m not going to force my views on any other person.”
I understand. I’m personally opposed to slavery but I think it should be each person’s right to do with his slave, his property, what he wants. Now does that make any sense? Why would you be personally opposed to something unless you think it is truly wrong? And I understand you don’t want to force your beliefs on anyone else, but if you were opposed to child abuse would you keep quiet while your neighbor beat his son?
“The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings”~ William Hazlitt