Should abortion be illigal? why?
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Are we not over run with unwanted one parent children
prevention is better than cure
but do the parents use protective measures in the class rooms these days I THINK NOT
not that most of them can read the leaflets anyway
It's not abortion that should be legal - IT'S THE RIGHT TO CHOOSE!
No, it should not be illegal.
Let's set aside the issue of whether you think abortion is a good idea or not, or how often (if ever) it should happen.
Abortion should not be illegal because the concept of reproductive choice NOT being a fundamental personal right is equally bad to pro-life and pro-choice folks.
The thing about the abortion debate is that the two sides are arguing entirely unrelated issues. Pro-life people say "abortion is bad". Pro-choice advocates say "The government not should be making personal decisions that like". It's NOT about abortion. It's about WHO gets to make the DECISION.
Face it -- someone is going to choose. It's either going to be the individual, or it's going to be the majority (through enacted laws). If the majority gets to choose, then they are effectively imposing their belief system -- which is almost always religiously-based -- on everyone. If the individual gets to choose, then it allows for those people who happen to believe that a 6-week old collection of cells is not yet a person, as well as those who believe it is.
But if the Supreme Court decides that reproductive rights are not fundamental rights, if women lose the individual right to choose, and the government makes all the decisions. Try to imagine what could happen, if all reproductive rights are now subject to state control.
New York or Florida could pass a law saying that anyone making less than $30K per year cannot have children, and must abort any pregnancy, because they obviously cannot support them financially. No constitutional challenge, because reproductive rights are no longer nationally protected.
Or North Carolina or Texas decides that convicted felons should never have children, and starts imposing mandatory sterilization as part of criminal sentences. No constitutional challenge, because reproductive rights are no longer protected.
South Dakota has already outlawed abortion, even in the case of rape or incest or permanent harm to the mother. Then, they decide that they have too little population, and require every female under the age of 28 who is not celibate to have at least one child. Or mandating that women serve as surrogates. No constitutional challenge, because reproductive rights are no longer nationally protected.
Once the right to reproductive privacy is taken away by the court, it will be decades before it can be reestablished. Conservatives better start praying, if they get their wish, that during that time they don't become the minority under a legislation that decides to require abortions. Because, once that right to personal choice is lost, the government will always be able to decide whether you can have children or not.
That's why the issue is not about abortion. It's about who gets to make the choice.
Sure no problem, Back street abortionists need the money. I am old enough to remember them, With disgust not at them but at the system that made them the only option for desperate women.
No. A woman should have the RIGHT to do whatever SHE chooses with HER body. The Govenment has NO BUSINESS micro-managing people's lives...
learn how to spell. Illegal.
The religious right want to outlaw abortion. Ok. So a woman in a poor neighborhood can't keep her legs closed. She has sex with 5 different men, all of them one night stands. She gets pregnant and doesn't know who the father is. She has no money to take care of the baby. Logical answer would be to abort it. If it's born, it will be living on the street and be forced to sell drugs or something to get by when it's older. Cons say no. Have the baby. Then they spit in your face when you need assistance taking care of it. Should she keep her legs closed? Yes. But there's also rape to consider and the fact that people who use protection do not want a baby.
No. Our founding fathers never intended on the government making decisions for the people in regards to their own bodies.
Seatbelt and helmet laws should be struck down as unConstitutonal, as well.
I don't think it should be illegal but believe it should be monitored more closely. There are certain circumstances where termination is necessary but to have it used as a form of contraception is out of order and is nothing short of murder.
no, folk that cant spell illegal should be
No Dave, what about rape victims?
Women should be able to choose.
NO. The government has no right to tell me what I can and cannot do with MY BODY!! Plain and simple... Even though I personally don't believe in abortion, I think it should be legal so that the industry can be monitored. I also think that if it were illegal, women would still find a way.
Take for example a rape victim. They are give emergency contraception. SO what's the difference between that and an abortion. ABSOLUTELY NOTHING...
Who knows, because it is a woman's freedom of choice what she want to do with her unborn child. But I feel abortion is taking a child's life before he / she is born. It is wrong to commit a murder.
Yes. It's just simply killing a human life. And woman use it as a form of birth control.
It depends on personal situations, personally I couldn't do it. Only time I personally think it is acceptable is if someone was raped or if there is somthing really terribly wrong with mother or baby. I know someone who had an abortion and the baby was with her long term boyfriend, cos (timing wasn't right) but then a few months later started trying for a baby and had one! Think that was soooo wrong!
It should most defiantly be illegal! I mean look at it, your killing an innocent child thats isn't even born in the world! Thats just plain cold murder!
No. It should be a woman's choice to have an abortion. Not many women would want to have a child that is the product of rape, incest or will be born with a deformity that can hamper the child's entire life or cause it extreme pain and ensure that it needs constant care of doctors. There are some cultures where if a woman has a child outside marriage she can be stoned to death, what do these women do if they have been raped by their brother in law?
Besides if you make it illegal women can just travel to places where it is legal (especially if they live in Europe or travel to a different state if they're in the USA) or, even cheaper, get a baseball bat. The truth is if a woman doesn't want to have a child or her child after it's born she can find a way, she can also (sadly enough) dump her kid on the doorsteps of a church and abandon it.
no way!
there are certain circumstances that support abortion and shows the need not to outlaw it
if you had to find out that your mrs was expecting a baby that would have no quality of life if born and it was advised for you to abort for the sake of the child then what would you do?
No - ( it is hear in Ireland) , when using abortion as a form of contraception then yes ,but people know the risks of having unprotected sex and what can happen if ,there old enough to be having sex then that should be old enough to take responsibility .
I'm not for abortion and I'm not against it either everybody has the write to choose - what if a 12yr old child or younger was rapped by her father or another man and got pregnant from that ( it does happen ) what if it was your child , you couldn't let a child have a baby then give that baby up for adoption ,what would you do in 18/20 yrs time when that child who was conceived from being rapped knocked at your door HOW DO YOU EXPLAIN to them , would be very hard and how do you think that child would take it .
so no every woman has the right to an abortion its there decision not all these anti abortion groups - what would thay do if it was there child .
no ...one example being if a woman has been raped and falls pregnant she should have the right to choose to terminate the pregnancy ...or not .
Well obviously your going to get different opinions based on one's individual beliefs. Speaking as a Pro-Lifer, I believe that it should be illegal. However I don't believe that it should be done overnight. There are a lot of things to be taken into consideration, For example what is going to happen with all the unwanted babies, there needs to be programs in place ahead of time. All in all it should be illegal but it needs to be thought out and not done hastily
of course it shouldn't ppl get pregnant by mistake even wen they have used protection or on the pill.ect..
many ppl do it for there own reasons and personal reasons...
so no.
I think abortion should be illegal. The whole "It's a woman's body" thing is stupid to me. Abortion should not be a form of contraceptive. Women do have a choice, have sex or not. The reality is you may get pregnant, that's a risk you take. Instead of people accepting the consequences of their actions they look for an out. What about the rights of the unborn? Doesn't an unborn child deserve a chance at life? Maybe people would think before they had sex if it weren't so easy to abort or kill an unborn child.
Abortion is a sad thing. I wish that more people valued the lives of unborn children.
only the living can ask this question...It would have been nice if the aborted was not aborted an was here to answer this question... we will not know will we... because there are so many answers.. an ounce of prevention is worth it should be illegal to get pregnant for any one that does not want a baby but made one any way... it is very nice that you are alive to ask this question... it's out and out murder no one has the right to take anothers life especially those that can not speak for themselves..if you know you don't want any children stop being lazy and do what it takes to not get pregnant.. there are many people that even after being raped keep the baby and adopt the baby out... some even raise the baby.. this takes a person with great compassion for the innocent one the baby... I have a friend that is a rape baby and she will never know her dad... her mother raised her she is now a doctor and have a son and 3 daughters.. this is a very beautiful woman out side as well as in side and her mom.. they don't make them like her anymore...it is not a matter of choice. it is a matter of what is the right thing. most human just will not do what is right...doing what is right has always been hard for us human.. we are most of us are a sad lot..thank GOD some of us do have a reasoning conscious like my friends mother. this is why Jesus died for us saying "forgive them father for they know not what they do" .we don't
no because everyone has the right to choose
If I am pregnant for example and my doctor tells me that my baby has a brain damage,Down syndrome etc etc I WILL CHOOSE to terminate the pregnancy
Recent studies (March 3rd 2007 Womens departure group )on this concluded that illegal abortions means shoddy backstreet abortions. They concluded the woman should decide unless it is very late on in the pregnancy. So perhaps the answer is No but yes if late on in the pregnancy. So its yes sometimes and no sometimes.
No it should not.
Those who have argued so far for abortion to be made illegal have cited the 'it's being used as a contraceptive'. Rubbish. The law says terminations can be sought under certain circumstances, if it is detrimental to the health of the woman or any other children in the household, or if there is a life threatening disability. It says nothing about contraception in the law.
If you want to increase the number of women dying in botched backstreet abortions, go ahead.
If you want to increase the number of abandoned newborns outside hospitals and other public buildings, go ahead.
Quite frankly, I'm not prepared to see that happen - that's why it must remain legal.
It should be a matter of individual choice
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