Are abortions a necessary evil...and other questions about abortion?
If they are not necessary and were made illegal, is the US financially able to care for the 3000 (+) extra children that would be born everyday?
Children born to poverty are like 80 times more likely to be abused, killed, or turn to crime.
I think partial birth abortions are wrong and abortions after 1 month should be illegal..there's just no reason to wait that long. But perhaps we need to push education of the morning after pill to prevent conception.
I'm going to add a tidbit of information to those who still say absolutely not:
Would you be willing to adopt and take in several more children, probably a child of a different race, to help ease the burden on society from all the extra children that would be born?
If abortions were made illegal, would the US be forced to send children overseas for adoption like China and India?
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I agree with you 100%. There is no way people would take in extra children to ease anyone's burden. I don't think anyone should just be able to run out and have an abortion every other month, but undercertain circumstances, such as rape or incest, abortions should be legal. In the long run, it is the child that suffers the most when conceived like this.
I think we also need to have better sex education classes. I teach in the Bronx and have seen teenagers become pregnant after being very misinformed about sex and pregnancy.
I agree that people should foster and adopt more, particularly minorities and special needs children.
Abortion is a sin against God. Would you say we should just kill all the poor people---that would eliminate all your problems. Do you ever think of what you are saying.
Maybe I'm just nieve, but I personally believe a rich country like the USA should NOT be putting financial responsibility over human lives.
I want Wade versus Roe to stay just like it is, a woman has a right to choose to do with her body whatever she feels is right. To many unwanted children , put in black garbage bags throwing them in the dump ,. flushing them down the stool, beating, straving, put in microwaves just overall we need to have abortion or the morning after pill. If you can't take birth control pills for some reason, have a hospital that gives free abortions to the poor and retarded or the rich whatever a woman wants to do with her body, let her have it, that is her body, not some holier than thou..
Don't get me wrong, I am all in favor of a woman right to choose, but I cannot for the life of me figure out why we need abortion at all (with rare exceptions) with all the birth control/prevention that is available for both men and women now a days?
Children are blessings, not curses.:(
This is a huge battleground which may rage forever. There's no single solution, as many would try to convince us. With ethical and moral issues, religion and politics, it's a tangled web.
You raise a valid point about taking care of the children. If a woman, by choice, wanted to terminate a pregnancy but it was illegal, who will pay the medical bills and raise the child? You can't force parenthood by law. And we must consider the aftermath of pregnancies by incest, rape, rape of the mentally challenged who are unaware of their circumstances and could not care for a child, etc. etc. etc.
Rowe v Wade provided a choice, and it was left to the individual to make the decision based upon their beliefs and morals. After the Supreme Court elected President Bush, they are back in the fray, and the battle will rage on. The worst solution will be political, which is subject to the whim of the majority party, not social conscience.
You won't find an answer here, but open discussion may someday provide a resolution, so kudos for your question.
for all cave men who think abortion is a sin.you got to think harder than that.easier said than done.i will ask you 1 question to you all.how many children are u ready to adopt.Lets be practical i cant even manage myself i am sure adoption is too far for ppl like me if u can then pls do and just dont sit and say yes.what lacks is proper education.prevention is better than cure.every one knows an apple a day keeps the dentist away but even thats hard to do.If we can do that we wont have any dentists(apple a day).sex is such a big issue naturally you got problems.I belive strong education,easy availability of preventive stuff like condoms,pills,medic facilities etc.abortion with in a month
has to be implemented.no point in waitng for so long.for some neondrothols who think what i said is wrong even shagging is a sin bcoz u killng your own seeds.
Few things stretch the moral envelop like this issue, so it might be worth stretching the envelop a tad further and ask a related question: Should all things that are wrong be illegal? There obviously is a strong correlation between the two, but I don’t think the relationship is 100%. Let me explain and then I’ll bring it back to the issue at hand.
Crimes of violence are illegal because without them all society crumbles. If you can’t walk out the front door of your abode without fear of death or at least a good pummeling, all meaningful activity would cease. Nothing would get made, no one could work, no one would get paid, and anarchy in general would reign.
Crimes of property are illegal because our economic system depends on the ownership principal. The end result of not having property crimes is that no one would have an incentive to work.
I’m not going to go to bat for victimless crimes because I don’t believe in them. In most cases the victim in a victimless crime is the arrested person, and the real criminal is society, but that’s another topic.
The recurring motif here is that the criminal code provides a framework for the perpetuation of our society and economic system. Lots of things are wrong but are not the domain of law enforcement, for instance lying (within limits), not exercising, breaking wind, burping, picking your nose, etc, because it doesn’t make society work better by having them illegal.
So abortion is wrong, and we should teach that, but we should also teach that it doesn’t add value to involve law enforcement into what is naturally one of the most tragic things that can happen to a woman.
I should also add because it is a natural outgrowth of my explanation that the moment that a fetus becomes a human is not at all clear and agreed upon. Except for a few morons, few would argue that a fetus at 38 weeks of gestation is not a human, and all but the most idealistic would argue that a day after conception the zygote or embryo is a human. So on this delicate matter of when life begins, I trust the people closest to the fetus at that time, the pregnant woman and her physician. I do not trust law enforcement, religious zealots, busy bodies and populist politicians.
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