Is Abortion okay?

I'm sorry but god didn't give humans the right to think on their own. I had to say c because it was the only one that didn't involve something that doesn't exist

I think each person has to make their own decisions, but I think that sometimes, depending on what decisions we make, we all have to live with either the guilt or consequences. My dad admitted to me once that he had gotten a girl pregnant before he met my mom (whom he got pregnant outside of wedlock too), and he talked the girl into having an abortion. He told me that he felt guilty and condemned all of his life. He also told me that when he met my mom, he purposely got her pregnant. I think he did this because he was trying to make up for what he considered a mistake of the abortion previously. However, it was evident to me, all the years that I was growing up, that he never really wanted to be a father and that he did not have what it took to be a good father and/or truly care about me, so sometimes I wish that I had been aborted too because of the way that my father treated me while growing up. He was physically and verbally abusive to me and everyone around me because he did not want to be a father. He was too immature and emotionally unstable to raise children. Over the years, however, I'm glad that I was not aborted, but I wish that he had made the choice for the right reasons - to not abort me because he loved me. Instead, he chose to not abort me because he had a guilty conscience about the first baby! To this day, my dad and I do not speak to each other and I think that's sad.

Society will never agree on this subject as it deals with different ideologies of life.

If a girl gets raped and becomes impregnated, should she be allowed to have an abortion?

That's the classic argument and if you say yes, why then shouldn't a couple who didn't want a child be forced to raise one. Not that I feel sympathetic towards the parents but rather unwanted child.

Sure you can put them up for adoption but what are the percentages of positive outcomes of that? A child without love goes deep down in the "unconscious" mind as Sigmound would've said.

"well you shouldn't have had sex then if you don't want to deal with the repercussions."

Although true, I understand there is that line of responsibility and also the "I'll just get an abortion" excuse. Which I think is very disturbing but not far fetched to how people deal with things.

"don't drink and drive." How many of us have driven home a little more tipsy and made it out okay?

Yes, don't have sex until you're ready but people do it.

"abortion is killing a human baby." If I masturbate, am I aborting billions of babies? Is a baby only when the egg and sperm are one, 1 month, 1 year?

When a girl releases her egg, did she abort a potential human?

Pro-Choice.

Its a question of the heart and the mind . That's one of the toughest decisions to make . I've been involved in that . Basically we were seperated for ten days when she found out and told me . She wasnt working and I wasnt making much money with the job I had . My car wasn't reliable and hers was looking like it would be repossessed . After arduous discussion she reluctantly decided for an abortion . Its bothered me for over a year now . I know its bothered her because she has a low chance of having kids to begin with . She felt it was meant to be . A question of the heart . I felt it was unfair to the kid because of our love and financial situation . A question of the mind . Its bothered me because there's always that "what if ? " . Maybe our relationship would have worked out . I know that if we decided to have it, I would have loved it more than life and that bothers me . Knowing that fact, can an abortion ever be the right decision ? All I know is that I don't know anything and no one can answer this for you . What I do know is that I'm pro choice . And I know that there aren't any loves in my life now,but there could have been two . And I know id be happy .

Choice C just infuriates me. While I am very pro choice, I would not personally be in favor of an abortion. That being said, why is it a womans choice? Why isn't it the couples choice? Why should a man be obligated to financially support some womans choice? Either it needs to be the couples choice or the womans responsibility.

I think it's okay.
Its down to the "couple" to decide whether they are ready for a baby in their lives. If they decide to have an abortion, then hopefully they've learned from it, and will then use contraception in the future ..

The way I see it, there are two basic mindsets one can have when approaching this question: Religious and Secular/Non-Religious. From the standpoint of a secular person, the question of when a cluster of cells becomes a human is a scientific one, and there is no answer that is 100% universally accepted. However, most scientists agree that the point at which an embryo has a functional nervous system (i. E. When it is developed enough to "suffer") is when it becomes a human.

Now, when you cross over into the realm of the Religious things tend to get a little hairy. Most would say that life begins at conception (because that is when god gives it a soul/spirit/whatever). However, things like chimera and twins seem to disprove this idea. The Bible does not comment directly on abortion, even though abortion was practiced even during biblical times. All Biblical arguments on abortion are indirect and open to interpretation, and debate continues even among the world's most respected theologians. Even so, the Bible seems to suggest in several places that the unborn are not endowed with the qualities or rights of personhood. In fact, the Jews, who are famous for their preservation of tradition, have never considered abortion to be a sin.

Pro-choice activists also have a near-argument stopper in Exodus 21:22-23, where the person hood of an unborn fetus is almost explicitly denied:

"If men who are fighting hit a pregnant woman and she gives birth prematurely but there is no serious injury [i. E. , to the mother], the offender must be fined whatever the woman's husband demands and the court allows. But if there is serious injury [i. E. , to the mother], you are to take life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot"

The traditional interpretation of this text, which even rabbinical scholars accepted for thousands of years, is this: if a man hurts a woman enough to cause a miscarriage, he reciprocates according to how much injury he caused her, I. E. , an eye for an eye, etc. However, if the miscarriage resulted in no injury to the woman, then all the assailant had to pay was a monetary fine. The fact that the Bible does not equate the assailant's life with the stillborns life is proof that the Bible does not count the fetus as a person.

In any case, do what you want, based on whatever you believe is right, and don't try to go around shoving your morality down other people's throats.

Abortion is basically killing an innocent human baby before birth. Anybody that voted for answer d should rethink why they voted it because god did give us the choice to do what we want in life but not when it involves killing an innocent life. 'All persons have a basic right not to be killed, but they can forfeit that right if they commit a serious enough crime" What crime did that baby make?

Hey. Just keep the religious out of it! Look at the moment. Can you afford it! Cause if the kids is out, he deserves the best. So no messing around. More importantly it should be both individuals choice.

Pro-Choice. But it must be a mutual decision.

Her choice. Who am I to tell a mother-to-be what to do?

Abortion is murder. Plain and simple. No thoughts, actions or deeds justify the taking of an innocent life.