What is your OPINION on ABORTION?

I support a woman's right to choose for herself. Being a parent is more work that most people can imagine. If you go into parenthood because someone else forced you to, you will grow to resent and even hate the child. It is wrong to have a child you can't provide for.

Do I care for the arguments about when life begins? No. Because I know the church only got a hard on for abortion after the AMA decided it didn't want unlicensed people giving abortions (about 25% of pregnancies were terminated at that time). If they only recently got this position, it isn't because there was new source material, its because of politics.

I have a good friend who (we live in a very conservative town) got pregnant and needed to have an abortion. She couldn't find anyone to do it without a parental consent letter (she is a foster child), and eventually paid $250 on the street for someone to preform it.

This disgusts me. Abortions need to be made available to those who need them, but should not be used as birth control. An Abortion needs to have a worse stigma than having premaritial sex... so that IF you have sex, you fear getting impregnated for the impending abortion....
2 cents

I think that if you can take the religious aspect out of the debate then it just becomes another medical procedure that's performed hundreds of times every day.

I'm pro-choice. There's way too many kids out there being born to parents who don't have the means or common sense to raise a child.

I would even like to see abortion go a step further in our society. Just because you can biologically have a child doesn't mean that you should. Every pregnancy should be held up to standards for raising a child. Do you have the maturity and the means to raise this child? If the answer is no, then you are given an abortion OR you are mandated to give the child over for adoption upon its birth.

I mostly agree that it is the woman's choice, but some control should still be exercised. I don't agree with having more than one abortion, it just doesn't make sense to make such a mistake TWICE or more and expect to not have to deal with the consequences. But the first time? Every woman would have her own reasons, both for getting pregnant & for having an abortion, so who really has the right to judge her? She should be able to do whatever she feels she should in order to have a better life.
I believe it's kind of useless to use the argument "What if that baby would've grown up to cure cancer, etc." because really, what's the point? It didn't, and you'll never know either way, so why waste your time with "what if"s. What happens, happens. The life of the baby didn't even begin, it wasn't born, it had no experiences, no memories, no anything. I don't think it's innocent to get rid of a fetus, but I also don't think it's the same as killing an actual baby. It's complicated really :/
As for giving it up for adoption instead, I'm against that for personal reasons. I've seen the adoption and foster care scene, and I myself would never be able to put a child in that situation. There are too many children in there already who can't find homes and families to love them, why would you want to add to that? Why would you want to bring a child into this world knowing that their parents didn't want them?
So with those reasons, I guess I'm basically pro-choice because it's not MY life or decision, people can do what they want. "Right" and "wrong" mean different things to every one of us, there can't be any complete agreements.

I feel as though every child has the right to be wanted! I am PRO-CHOICE! Depending on an individuals social situation, abortion should be open for discussion, however, I am not a fan of abortions farther into a pregnancy. It also is not something that should be abused. Abortions should be thought through rationally. In the end I feel like it is a woman's choice. If a man wants her to go through with the pregnancy I still feel like the final decision is hers. This is something that couples need to discuss before sex to avoid this result. All in all, it is a woman's right and privilege to choose to have a safe and effective abortion.

I say: Its your choice.

If it is a teenager that has her whole life ahead of her, and has a choice of living with a screaming crying baby, and decreased social life, then she can choose that. If she wants to go to collage, or go into the army, or do something to improve her life, then its her choice to get rid of the baby.

But then again, Its a life. Its a small human, who deserves a chance to live. Its a part of you, even if the father doesn't want a part of it. Go for putting it up for adoption. I dunno. It would just kill me and haunt me if I killed a part of me, not knowing how it would grow up. But its my choice. Everyone can take their own poison.

I've had abortions (3- 2 surgical and 1 medical (the abortion pill)) and I'd have to say without those abortions I wouldn't be where I am today. This all happened in a span of 10 years, so it wasn't like every three months I went in and had it done. The first one I was 15 with a guy who was 4 years older than me and had his whole family convince me to go through with it. The second one was right after my first daughter was born, I was 20, and her dad didn't even want her much less another one, so I felt I had to. He hated me because I had already had one child of his. The third one was the worst. I wasn't in a relationship and was just casually seeing this guy who didn't have a lot of money to live on and I just couldn't see myself with him. I was 26. I took the pills at the clinic and then came home and took the other pills they gave me. Over the next 24 hours I bled and cramped horribly. It was then I decided I could never do it again. I have since had another child and have tried to have two others which resulted in miscarriage. I feel its pay back for the abortions I have had.
I am pro-choice, however, and feel that its up to a woman on how she wants to live her life. Does she want to be married before having a child? Can she afford a child? Can she live off of public assistance if she needed (only because the state gives you barely anything to live on, unless of course you have like 10 kids in the system already)?
Abortions should be safe and legal, no matter what.

Abortion should not be abused. In other words it shouldn't be you back up birth control. It is a serious matter. I am for it in situations if the woman was raped or too young possibly hiv infected or any health concerning matter. Then again as parents we need to teach our children about safe sex. In my mind if the woman is not responsible she can give the baby up for adoption instead of countless times of aborting it. Abortion is ok in a serious matter but not if its being abused.

I think what's important to remember on this subject is what's right for one person is not always right for another. For some, abortion is wrong for THEM. For others, it may be the right thing to do. It is up to any person to do what they want to with their own bodies and it is wrong for anyone else to tell them what they can and cannot do.

It should be available, and it should be safe. It should have to be done during the early months of the pregnancy. There should be no shame involved as long as you aren't using abortions as a method of birth control.

My ex boyfriends little sister is 18 and has had 2 abortions because she figures she has no need for condoms, or because pills, or anything of the sort since abortion is available, in that case it's wrong.

To quote something I read somewhere, I think it should be rare, safe, and legal. I think that, until they find a way to transplant the physical aspect of the pregnancy to a man, it's ultimately the woman's choice.

If I was to get pregnant (well, in the long run - right now, it would be immaculate conception, so I'd probably want to have the kid. ), I honestly don't know what I'd do. A couple of years ago, I'd have gotten an abortion. I wasn't mature enough or with enough resources to deal with a kid, and I wouldn't want to have a kid just to throw them into foster care or adoption. Now, I've got a degree (soon to be two) and the capability of getting a good, well paying job. So it would depend on the guy I was with a lot more. But it would be a hard decision.

Abortions shouldn't be used as birth control, but they should be available. Someone made the point that that group of cells (I'm of the opinion that the fetus becomes a baby when it can survive outside the womb) could grow up to be the person who cures cancer. Well, that's awfully unlikely if the child is born HIV-positive and already addicted to illegal drugs, or if the kid is being raised by a mother who never wanted them, or gets shuffled around the foster care system without finding someone to nurture them. So it's all situational.

I mean, hell, I wouldn't be here if my mom HADN'T gotten an abortion when she was in college, because she probably never would have met my dad. So there are always different ways of looking at a statement like that.

To me having an Abortion depends on the situation. If someones been raped and is really young, I think that it is okay, but other then rape I think that the person should keep the baby and if you don't want it after you have it, place it in foster care. At least then it would have a chance at life.

Personally I think abortion is big people killing little people you never know if the child that is killed had the potential to do something like cure cancer when they get older or something I really think there isn't really a right to it except that if someone can't raise a child why bring one into the world that is the only good part about but the other reasons are really bad