After reading these threads i cant help but post from the other side. many people believe that abortion is murder well I see it differently. Some say that they should wait the nine months and just give the baby up for adoption. "There are plenty of people who cannot have a child." Well The stats alone show you you just how much of a failure our foster care system is and the cost of adoption is just outrageous.
http://www.casanet.org/library/foster-care/fost.htm#foster-care-adoption
You see it depends on the situation of the "mother-to-be" whether or not they are in the condition, financially, emotionally, and physically, to have a child. I am sorry to say that just because you have concieved doesn't make it right to have the child. has everyone forgotten the days of the hangar, that caused the deaths of both mother and child. The basement and backyard abortions. The "black market" that opened up for women who wanted abortions. Similar to the "speak-easies" of the days of prohibition(if you illegalize it, it doesn't mean it goes away). Let us not forget that women went to third world countries to get abortions and majority of the time didn't come back or came back wihtout the ability to conceive. Where is the protection for these women.
Abortion is not an easy way far from it, the psycholigical and emotional trauma associated with abortions alone is a story unto itslef. I feel as if "Pro-Lifers" look at the whole issue through rose colored glasses. The issue is not simply a balck and white issue, it's no longer about immoral or moral, the legal definition of murder yes is a human being killing another, but that argument is flawed because what happens if you kill a dog is that murder, not by the legal definition. (not to compare a fetus to a dog, its just for an example). It seems that women who have had an abortion have to hide in shadow, and remain secret, why, there is no shame in your decision. "Pro-lifers" tend to (not always and not everyone) make us out as savages, and call us murderers for our choices and thats not right waht about the decision to ut animals to sleep or assisted suicide what about those issues. Are they just as immoral, what about stepping on a roach, or killing a spider. Life is life right and extinguishing one life whether it be human or not isn't that just as immoral. What about the death penalty, murder is murder right, the death penalty is the exact definition of murder. i don't mean to go off on a tangent, but this is an emotuional issue. The rights of women has always taken a backburner even when it comes to their own bodies and I say enough is enough.
Abortion is a very personal decision and these women are not murderers or monsters. They know that they cannot have this child, they are being responsible enough to face this decision and learn from their mistakes. What of these young girls who dont know enough and at age 13 are pregnant themselves, from circumstances that she could not prevent, or were minipulated into. These girls have the right to terminate and have a chance at living a life that is not filled with constant struggel and strife.
Stay tuned.......
