Abortion Sucks!

But, I think it sucks LESS than the kind of totalitarian government that would be required in order to hold a gun to a woman's head and tell her than she has to carry a pregnancy that she does not want to term.

percivale

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God gave His Children the agency to chose for themselves. He did not give them the agency to chose for others. A child is a child, whether a zygote, an embryo, or an infant. Once an egg is fertilized, it is a child and no longer two distinct cells. I, like you, think abortion is wrong-o. However, my beliefs are very, very complicated. If you are raped by your father and end up pregnant, giving birth to your own brother could result in greater catastrophe in the realm of the eternities than ending that life. Also, if giving birth to a child, which would result in the death of the mother, is also not a fair trade, as a mother is needed more in the life of a child than the life of a child is needed in the life of an adult woman. Those are the only two circumstances I could almost warrant an abortion.
Too many young ladies see abortions as birth control you only have to worry about when you have already screwed up. They are expensive, unsafe, and life-altering, regardless of the morality of it. There are inexpensive methods to use to prevent a life from forming, and many are available in your local Circle K. Use them, don't start something you can't finish, and if you aren't ready to accept the consequences of your actions, keep your legs together until you are.

It is your freedom of speech to say that "abortion sucks"; however, when you say that you are exercising your freedom of choice not to get an abortion. How would like it if the tables were turned and you were forced to get an abortion? Well, that is exactly how some women would feel if they were forced to go through with their pregnancy. And don’t tell me you need to finish what you start and stuff like that because you can’t presume to know what a women is going through when she decides to have an abortion.

I agree with you some what. But, what if this situation was to occur; a girl is raped and is pregnant. I believe that that is one of the only true reasons to get an abortion. If she goes on with the pregnancy, and gives birth to the child, and keeps it everytime she looks at it shes going to see the man that raped her.
Jennie.

Your poor writing skills have successfully detracted from the point you were trying to make. Please look into a remedial English course.

But I agree with your sentiment. Now for responses:

@percivale: You fail to realize that abortion is considered murder in many circles. I would hold a gun to your head if you were planning to kill another human, and you would probably do likewise.

Besides, she already gave consent for the embryo to exist in the act of sex, whether birth control was used or not.

@Jennybug: I would not expect that regime to last very long.

JennyBystrom: That sort of situation occurs very, very rarely. Howe'er, the termination of the child's existance is unacceptable. The rape victim can put the infant up for adoption if she doesn't want to keep him/her.

Abortions? I don't like the idea of an abortion. I think, honestly, if you act irresponsibly and get knocked up at like... 14 or 15, it your own damn fault. But I don't know. Forcing these children into keeping the kid is more punishment for the kid than anything, I think. I would hate to be the child of an irresponsible and broke 14 year old. I think I haven't decided about abortion. I don't like the idea, but at the same time don't like the idea of forcing someone to keep a baby they can't handle. I don't know... Abortion is... a complicated matter.

"My Shoes Are On The Ground, But My Feet Are In The Air."
-Katt Martin.... whenever... who the crap knows what this girl is talking about anyway?

I dont really think getting an abortion is that big of a deal. If your going to make the decision at the beginning of the pregnancy where the fetus isn't even developed yet, than I wouldn't consider that killing the child. Plus, there are some situations, for example, some 10 year old girl gets pregnant by her step dad, I would think that abortion would be an option and should be one. I don't understand why people are trying to get abortion clinics closed personally. If you don't want to get an abortion and don't believe in it than don't get one, you don't have to make other people feel bad for making the choice to have one because you don't know everyones situation.

"If people can than they need to be man enough not to abort there children hello!"

The problem in throwing in righteous talk and attributing glory to those who are "man enough" to stick it out and have the baby is not, in the leas bit practical, because we impose our opinions (and not the laws set by the U.S. Supreme Court, as has been stated) on to everyone. Why is your definition of m urder correct? How is using birth control, as stated by the Catholic church for so long not m urder? How is not taking the morning after pill not m urder ? How is interrupting God's divine plan for a child to be born by stopping in the middle of ****ing not m urder? The answer is....they all are m urder, depending on who you are. If we allowed every individual to determine the definition m urder, we would all be considered fugitive serial killers right now. The only practical thing to do in controversial issues is to set laws in motion in defining m urder and what is and what is not acceptable in society. Now, we can be part of making or reforming these laws, but to take something that has been set legal and then instead of attempting to right what you believe to be an injustice in the system you call out individuals that get abortions as m urderders, you have crossed many ethical boundaries. The ONLY way to keep order in our society is to create legislation through democratic methods, and to allow the people to have representation in the creation of these laws, and that is what I suggest avid pro-lifers that throw around the term m urder do. By this group's logic, I can say that I believe when you personally isolating and insulting individuals acting in legal ways instead of working to end starvation in another part of the world is m urder . And, by your logic, I'm perfectly allowed to say this. There's no law saying that it's m urder, but that doesn't matter, I'll just take my personal views on how I think the entire world should run and then insult those that actually abide by the terms of civilization. It's my "freedom of speech" and I have the right to say everyone that posts a blog or even logs on to a computer for any other purpose than serving to benefit those in need are m urderers ....Log off m urderers, log off right now! I have taken the place of the supreme court and deemed you m urderers.....real practical...real logical.....this is what America is all about. Damn, it's good to have the freedom America stands for, and damn it feels good to be american.

Note before you read: This is Pro-Choice.
No person, no matter how powerful or zealous, has the right to limit the availibility of a medical procedure on the basis of religion. If abortion is limited or banned, what will be stolen from the American public next? Public display of condoms is stores because they offend people?
Say abortion is banned. Where are all those unwanted babies going to go? Adoption centers are already unfunded and overcrowded. From my personal interactions with adopted children (so I don't know, but I suspect that this is a large problem), I see that many are afflicted with serious separation axiety and negative self identities. "Why didn't my mother want me?" they ask. Their pain was preventable as is the pain of any unwanted child.
"Killing a life"? An embryo is a collection of cells with human DNA. It has no more awareness than a leaf does. Only after the development of ears could you argue that it was a life. (Once the fetus develops ears, it can hear the mother's and father's voices and remembers them after birth. Hardly uniquely human, but it is taxis, a biological quality of life)
If the mother doesn't want to have the child, it's not especially likely that that child will live a happy life. It takes a lot of love to raise a child into a functioning adult. A mother prevented from having an abortion may not have love for her progeny.
I do not advocate reckless sex though. The choice is truely before the clothes come off. However, It is foolish to believe that a ban on abortion will stop or slow unsafe sex.

Sig: haHA!

Why put an innocent kid up for adoption? How about the kid? How would the child feel knowing that their parents aren't their real parents. That their parents actually didn't want them... That they were the unwanted mistake. People should be allowed to do what they want. If they have enough sense of responsibility to have sex, they should get the right and responsibility to choose what to do about the child.

As a side note the Supreme Court did rule on the side of abortion as even Sandra Day O'Connor said that it was protected by the 14th amendment. But Scalia was 180 degrees on this. Beside the fact that it allowed abortion to not be regulated by state during the first trimester, the court CAN overturn it. There has been tons of more cases about abortion trying to overturn it, and the court still heldthe majority opinion that it was protected as a liberty.