I may never have an abortion if I keep up on being careful with the choices that I make. But because I’ve never been in that situation where I had to make the choice, I could never really say, “I’ll never have an abortion” or “I’m going to go full term with this pregnancy.” Right now, my thoughts are that I don’t plan on aborting any future pregnancies. This doesn’t mean that I’m pro-life. It just simply means I’m pro-choice.
It’s my choice that I won’t have an abortion.
It’s your choice if you want or need to, just as it’s your choice to go full term.
When we have senators and even a president who feel it isn’t the woman’s right to decide on aborting her pregnancy, and it’s theirs, it makes me question what else I won’t be able to decide on my own. From what part of my body I tattoo to where I should go to college, should I rely on the government to make decisions for me? When does a fetus have more value than me? Why is it that our president can be called pro-life when he’s engaged in this war that is killing many?
I just ask that we respect each others decisions. To have an abortion or not is a personal matter that should not involve our government, nor any religious fanatic. So I say again, stay out of my vagina, it’s not yours.
did you know that the root of the word vagina is sheath for a swoard while the word cunt means holy well?
Learn something new everyday.
Very interesting.
I don't need drugs - I have genetics.
Totally agree, exactly what I feel and tell people constantly.
I completely agree.
And I also hate how people call pro-choice people pro-abortion.
It is a personal decision and our right. No one tells a guy what to do with his penis.
Another thing that I've heard people say is, "so you think killing kids is ok?".
If those that oppose the right to choose want to coin "pro-choice" in harsh words, slogans or whatever to try to sway me to being anti-pro-choice, it won't work.
I agree 100% . I personally would more than likely (never say never) abort, but I don't hold that against anyone. It is personal choice and I would hate for someone to tell me what I had to do/believe. So why would I go out and be a hypocrite by telling people what to do/believe? And a lot of people like to compare allowing women to have abortions with giving drug addicts drugs because they say it's like the same thing, but really? How can you compare the two? I wish religion weren't such a factor in this society.
Yeah, I wish (we can all wish right?) that religion didn't play a major role in the decisions of our society.
Then what would play a role? I believe in the separation of church and state but i also believe that one's morals/religion/standards are initially the determinations in the decisions we make. C.S. Lewis, in his lectures "Abolition of Man," approached this question by separating man into the visceral section and the section that holds morality. How could man make a justifiable decision based on what feels good? Morals must be involved somewhere- even if they are unrecognized.
That's great if you live by certain morals (we all do), but to implore your morals and standards on everyone else is wrong. When we're dealing with the law of the people, religion shouldn't show it’s ugly face, we need to use reason, not a bible.
Morals will obviously play a role in everyone's decision, you can't stop that from happening. How I was raised effects how I see things around me. People have to consider everyone's viewpoint, no one is above the other. There are certain things that the government shouldn't have a choice to decide upon.
I can personally say that I do not plan on ever having an abortion, regardless of the circumstances, because it violates the moral principles that I derive from my religion. I am, however, pro-choice, because I believe it is a woman's right to decide what to do with her own body. My objections to abortion are grounded in my religion and while I value my religion I realize that everyone does not share the same ideas. I resent the fact that so many people in our country try to use politics/the government as a way to impose their beliefs on others
I agree with you for the most part. I too have deep convictions as far as my morals which are also deeply rooted in my religious beliefs. Yet I believe that the terms pro-choice and pro-life have been marginalized to "yes let's abort" or "you must have your child." Understanding that I can not press my own personal values and views on others I am split within myself,. And yet If given a choice i believe that i lean more toward pro-life. I can not say I think it is ok for any woman in any circumstance to make a possible life or death decision based on how they feel. Yet at the same time I can not moraly pass the judgement that one must make a decision to have her child regardless of circumstance. I do believe that we must be responsible for our choices and as far fetched it may be for some, I personally think that if a perfectly healthy human being is not capable of taking care of another perfectly healthy human being then they should not perfrom those acts that put you in the position that would possiblely force you to make a decision of such caliber. I believe that in most cases not all, but most, woman lack self-control which includes abstaining from having sex, even though it feels good and makes you feel like your connected to your partner. If you doubt that you are able to handle the consequences than why do it! I believe that we all make selfish decisions and sometimes instead of living up to the consequences of those decisions we would rather take an easier course or the quicker way out. This by no means denies the physical and emotional stress that an abortion has on a woman but i don't believe it mounts up to that of a mother.
:D thank you. i've been having such a problem explaining to people that i'm not pro-baby killing, i'm pro-women being able to decide what goes on in their own bodies. this is helping me enunicate it better.
anyway, back-alley abortions are worse, and they are the only thing to come out of making abortions illegal. besides "fewer abortions" (there are women who would avoid breaking the law regardless of anthing, ti's true).
Well, I just have a question, should this be absoulte? Like "getting rid of the pregnancy" days before it's born? Or early on? Just wondering.
I'd hope the woman would make the decision to abort or carry through long before the baby is almost due. I'd be a hypocrite to tell a woman that she can't have an abortion during a certain time whether or not I feel it isn't right.
I sort of feel the same way too. Though I am more pro-life. I guess if you take care of it before it's nine months.
Why is it that if you have an abortion your called a baby killer and if you have a miscarriage it's a tradgedy? If a woman has a miscarriage because she isn't taking care of herself (drinking, taking drugs) isn't that murder? I've always been pro choice. I don't think I have the right to tell anyone what to do with their body.