If you are, why are you pro-life?

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nightdrot · Accepted Answer

The British statesman and political philosopher Edmund Burke wrote, "The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do as they please. We ought see what it will please them to do before we risk congratulations." Therein lay the problem with laws that permit abortion on demand.

A society that premises its law as "Choice"- to use the locution of abortion rights advocates - effectively leaves open the question of the value of human life. It becomes not a standing principle, but a subjective judgment to each individual. In such a society, human life becomes not an end in itself, but mere instrument. Life becomes not an object whose preservation is the highest standard, but rather a convenience to be maintained or not according to the satisfaction of another's will.

We shape our laws and then our laws shape us - see also the civil rights laws of the 1960s which have effected a revolution in race relations. (The idea that a black man and a white man cannot sit together at the same lunch counter is as alien to this generation as Neptune. Yet in 1965 it was pretty much the norm.)

Inherent then in the pro-choice argument is the idea that life has no value save that which each person chooses to attach to it. It denies society any authority to make a collective judgment on such questions. Therefore, in this view, the law may not afford protection to life except at some arbitrarily defined (and inherently subjective) point.

This then conduces to an assertion of power over rights. Life is maintained not as its own end, but according to the will of the person who, effectively, controls it because they can. An ethic of convenience is established and it is a slippery slope on which to build a culture and a legal edifice.

Such a society will not value life that sees life as not an end, but as a means to some other end. Indeed, that is why at about the same time as the culture began to shift on the abortion question we also saw a rise in child abuse, spousal abuse, divorce, out of wedlock births and other social pathologies. These were not unrelated phenomena.

Aristotle said that the first questions of politics are, "How ought we to live? What kind of a people do we wish to be?" The implicit answer of those who support abortion on demand is, in effect, that it is nobody's business. Predictable results follow. One cannot expect the society to absent itself from collective moral judgments on the value of life and then expect an ethical social order to result.

Hellraiser1984 · Accepted Answer

I hate old people. Kids become old people. Stop them now.

Tinana · Accepted Answer

I feel like people think with sentiments rather than logic. I understand how important babies are and I know most importantly how important it is to bring them into a loving and safe home.
why bring kids into poverty? What’s the point. For them to suffer it’s wrong. Why bring a child to this world when you’re not ready for it. So many young ladies face shame and discrimination because of how young they got pregnant. Kicked out by their parents and you believe bringing the child into this world they never planned on having is good. I used to be prolife once until I was sexually assaulted by my ex and the fear he came in me made me want to do all things possible to prevent any form of pregnancy. And deep in my heart I knew if there was a child I was going to get rid of it. Because I won’t even have any family support, no school no college. No one has that right over any girl. It’s funny because a lot of prolife supporters are men who can’t even conceive. They shouldn’t have a say in the matter. This should be strictly for ladies it’s their body they face the shame. It should be an alternative for them. No one deserves to go through 9 months they don’t want to go through and no baby deserves to be brought into a loveless family. Sure you could always give them up for adoption. Think about the teenagers do they know the process especially left alone by their families. Except society is ready to give all the love and especially financial support they have for teen parents and single parents especially the mums. Then abortion should be a right of every girl.

WhatTheHeckkkk · Accepted Answer

I don’t like to label my views, because I have my personal opinions and views, but I also don’t care what others do with their bodies as long as it doesn’t affect me. I don’t want to be labeled as either pro-life or pro-choice.

However, for my personal opinions and views, I would not get an abortion under any circumstance unless medically necessary. I personally believe life starts at conception and I don’t think I would physically or emotionally be able to abort my child. My morals and values say that it is wrong, and I am strong in my morals and values of life. I don’t label my views on abortion because I don’t see the point in it, and I don’t think it really matters what I believe in unless it is brought up between me and my partner when it is time to talk about family and compatibility.

People have different views than me, people also have different cultures or religions, which may be against abortion, or may think it is okay. I respect people’s religions, cultures, and views even if I disagree, as long as they respect mine and my views. I don’t care what other people do as long as it doesn’t affect me. Plus, I don’t think my opinion on their body and choice matters to other people, and they won’t listen anyway… So I don’t see the point in trying to argue or control other people's actions that have no effect on my life.

OlderAndWiser · Answer

The idea of killing innocent babies is a huge turn-off!

crossdressingrihno · Answer

I'm anti-abortion for a lot of reasons so I'll just select a small group of them

The first one is you never know what that child could become they could become the world's most smartest person they could solve world hunger they could put someone on Mars or invent a new mode of transportation that leads humanity into a new era you never know honestly and for every abortion there is just one more opportunity gone and that's my first reason

My second reason is that I believe everyone should be given a chance to live I believe that is a human right a right exclusive to people and the babies are a people and I'd argue that fetuses are a people as well and to take the life of this unborn human is inhumane and disgraceful of course there are exceptions to this rule a big one being that if the mother is going to die because of the birth then an abortion should be allowed it should be optional but allowed as this is the sacrifice of One Life to save another and I do believe in sacrifice.

My third reason is that humanity might end up needing more people to expand our society end of us every human life we can save is a human life that can be fed into the societal machine to keep humanity as a whole alive and thriving

For my fourth reason I decided I'm going to go with something a little less logical and a little more emotional because unfortunately you can't solve everything with logic.
Growing up I've never really been given much choices I was never really allowed to have free will even when I was 17 almost 18 I wasn't really allowed to have opinions or even emotions and because of this upbringing I've come to value human life and freedom in a rather unique way a way that I don't think most people can ever understand sounds crazy I know but when you're told not to have emotions like at all and when you do show emotions especially emotions that your overlords disagree with (I say overlords because that's how I think of my tyrant mother and sister and they were truly tyrannical to a point where they tried to control my own thoughts and emotions literally yes they literally tried to do that and they went really hard in trying to do it)

Snsl153 · Answer

Lots of reasons. Denying anyone's humanity, for any reason, is wrong. It consistently, and some would argue inevitably, leads to the commission of atrocities upon the group that has been targeted.
I've noticed that the "pro-choice" advocates like to use terms like "parasite", "clump-of-cells", and use the word "foetus" (or "fetus" - US spelling) as though the fact it's a foetus isn't compatible with it being a human being as well.
They try to define who we are (ex. self-awareness, consciousness, bodily-autonomy) in a way that allows them to feel good about what they're advocating for, as though having a certain specific characteristic or facility is what bestows value upon life, rather than it having intrinsic worth.
They try to deny our ability, as individuals, to act responsibly in order to prevent a situation arising where a decision on whether or not to abort a child arises in the first place, and generally carry on like it's somehow "unfair" that they can't always get what they want, when they want it.
Pregnancy is one of those things are are REALLY easy to prevent. It takes two people to make a baby (yes, there is the father there, usually being ignored and laughed to scorn by a society that undervalues him), so really there is no excuse for such a barbaric practice. Situations will sometimes arise when an abortion is required, for example in the case where the mother's life is at risk or it's the result of a rape, but these examples are (thankfully) relatively rare.
By the way, I'm also against the death penalty and war. It's unfortunate that so many "pro-lifers" are absolute hypocrites, and support the war-mongering, psychopathic Democratic Party. The Republicans are almost as bad.

LaFemmeFatale_1 · Answer

I think women should be allowed to choose.

Being pregnant is not a journey for just anyone,
it is a huge stress to body, giving birth is literally - you splitting in half and after that your body is a whole mess, you hate yourself, your mental state is in the worst way possible, you hate life. Your body changes totally, stretch marks, saggy boobs - so on and on…

It’s a huge stress for a woman.

The whole mess is only worth going through if you really want to have a baby, if you are healthy enough to go through this whole thing and and you will be able to provide for them.

Abortion should not be used like a contraception I agree, but women should be able to choose, do they want to go through the living hell or not.

I’ve never had abortion, nor have given birth but I can only imagine how scary and painful this whole experience is and how awful it is to be forced to give birth when you don’t want a baby.

It’s interesting mostly men are pro-lifers and the only thing they have to do in this whole process is just put their dicks inside vagina and cum there…

If I have to choose between a life of an already born person whose life might be ruined by giving birth and life of a newly merged sperm and egg, I would rather choose the life of an already born person.

However, if anyone is going to have abortion, they should have it as early as possible.

For example 4 weeks is a poppy seed size, abortion should be addressed before the fetus develops nerves to feel pain.

This being said I don’t think I’d ever have to have abortion because I believe pregnancy needs planning and I am always careful when making love, so I don’t have any unwanted pregnancies.

I and my boyfriend wanted to have our first kid at 27, we broke up so…

ChrisMaster69 · Answer

I am very much Pro Choice.

Abortion is a very necessary evil.

For those having an abortion, it often stays with them for life, it’s not always an easy decision.

There are many reasons someone will go for an abortion, that is their personal choice and yes it often involves their partner.

My personal view is that when a couple enter a relationship or have unprotected sex, they need to have had an adult conversation about what happens if the girl gets pregnant, in the real world not all guys want to be a daddy and will happily want her to have an abortion. Equally a girl might be, if you are not happy that I have an abortion, then we are finished as a couple or no more unprotected sex, keep that condom on.

As for birth control thing, it is a thing where girls do not know they are pregnant even up to the point of their waters breaking. A lot definitely do not show for months.

The decision by a country should also be a medical and legal one, no political point scoring and definitely no religious input.

It also needs to be very well regulated both within the medical field and also legally.

On here it’s also rather funny how a number of Guys are very much anti abortion BUT are also the ones who will kick their kid out of house at 13 or so if they are gay or lesbian or heaven forbid Transgender.

they love their children that much they are happy to disown them, shoot them (it’s been said a lot), kick out of the house before they are adults.

I wonder how many of those would be happy with abortion IF it was 100% possible to know if their recently conceive son would turn round at 13 and say he was Gay….

Also how many of these guys would be happy if their 18 yr old white daughter got pregnant by a black guy with zero prospects… ‘it’s okay Wendy, have your child we will look after it while you are at college’… yeah as if.

TheReturnOfTheK1ng · Answer

Let's get one thing straight here: abortion is literally killing people before they're born. We can give you all sorts of fancy medical terms like "early termination of pregnancy," "forced miscarriage," and the like, but at the end of the day, abortion is killing people before they're born. Spot. People can say what they want, there is no way that abortion advocates are so passionate about killing babies before they take their first breath. Are you really that enthusiastic about inserting transparencies into a vagina and cutting up a fetus? Let's keep it 100 here... there are so many lame excuses I don't even know where to start: "I DON'T WANT TO BRING A CHILD INTO THIS CRUEL WORLD!". You don't give a fuck about anyone but yourself and now we're supposed to believe that you suddenly care about your unborn child? So much so that he is willing to kill him to keep him away from the dangers of life? Have the child, put him up for adoption. There are plenty of infertile couples out there who would love to adopt a baby and raise it as their own, and you know it. "I'M NOT READY TO BE A MOTHER!" Nobody is, honey. But she should have thought of that before she let a man pour his sperm on her because it was "soooo cool!" Fortunately for you, as stated above, there is the option of adoption if you want to avoid the consequences of your slutty actions…again. There are also thousands of fire stations, police stations, and other organizations that will take a newborn off your hands with no questions asked. But that would be too easy, wouldn't it? “WELL, I DON'T WANT HIM TO BE IN FOSTER! I HAVE HEARD STORIES!” So pick it up yourself. Oh, don't you want to? Correct…. that “cruel world” excuse again.

Aerissa_Jade · Answer

I can't say I am pro-life, I'm pro small government, especially on the federal level and states should have the right to decide the issues locally.

I do think that the morning after pill should be over the counter and easy access, and required to be given to rape victims when they report a rape.

Literally almost no reason to have an abortion if one can take a pill the next day, just in case or when against will.

If in a relationship, the couple needs to do other kinds, IUD's, and so forth.

I don't like the idea of them cutting up 7 or 8 months old babies because they aren't born yet, but anything done with the morning after pill is fine by me.

Even 8 weeks or so, is still fine by me... chemical abortions.

I know a lot of people are like the morning after pill is abortion to.

Lionman95 · Answer

I´m pro-life because having unprotected sex naturally leads to the creation of another human being. Who am I that I´m deciding who is worth living and who´s not? If you wanna prevent a pregnancy there are other ways to do so.
But for me there are exceptions possible to allow an abortion like in cases of incest, rape or the mothers health and life is at risk. In such situations there should be the option of an abortion because of the negative consequences they bear for the mother plus those situations are more than often not a consequence of consensual sex.

Reaper1985 · Answer

I understand there have been cases where a woman gets pregnant without her own consent. so I'll typically say that after the first trimester I lean more pro-life. unless there is medical reasons why not to continue the pregnancy. like the woman and/or child could be lost or have major health issues. but I would say try to save both the woman and child if possible. because the child could be put up for adoption if she can't or won't care for it herself. there are many people in the world that could offer to adopt the child if need be. however there have been studies showing that with each abortion a woman has. she decrees her ability over time to ever carry a child full term in the future.

Friendlybro79 · Answer

I'm personally pro choice. I don't think this something that should be taken lightly however.

Sometimes life is cruel and with that you have rapists. Some will rape kids. If a 12 yr old is raped and you think she should have to go through carrying the baby and raising her rapist's child, I believe you're a monster.

That said I respect when consenting adults decide they don't believe in abortion if an accidental pregnancy happens. I'm mainly pro choice to protect a young girl like in my example. Outside of that I don't think it's anyone's business what they do with their body really. There are many hypocrites with pro lifers when you ask them about life after birth.

TexasRed95 · Answer

So my thing is that I do find it to be murder. But other than that I have heard of many people getting them because they can't handle or don't want to handle the responsibility. When I was in highschool a girl had 2 abortions by senior year. And just laughed about it saying she doesn't want a kid but she wants to be able to have fun. And really it was right then that I started being against it. Now that's one example I know. But I also believe if adoption was more about the children rather than making money off them then less people would choose abortion.

Cubus · Answer

1. I believe killing is wrong
2. I believe right to live is a natural human right, which is not regulated by any law
3. I don't like dehumanisation of a baby in mother's womb. Hitler used to say Jews were not humans, so killing them is nothing bad - saying a baby in mother's womb is not a human is not far from it (by the way, III Reich was second country in Europe to legalise abortions, first was USSR - I have to admit pro-choicers have good role models)
4. It's only one step from eugenics, which is undoubtly bad
5. 90% of abortions are for selfish reasons/ lack of responsibility. People want to eat a cake and have a cake at the same time
6. It can cause bad results in longer term - look at China and India - there was a huge abortion of females and now the gender ratio is screwed there.
7. I don't like calling a child in womb "a parasite" etc. which is very common among left-wings.

ChrisWhiskeys2 · Answer

I'm not very involved in politics these days and couldn't give a shit about their back and forth arguments.
All I know is that for myself I chose to have sex while in a committed relationship, while employed, and I made sure I was prepared to be a father.
Abortion was never an option, discussion, or even an issue for us.
I'm pro-life on the basis that I have no plans of aborting kids, but I also stay out of other people's lives as well.

Tomboy5249 · Answer

I believe everyone deserves a chance at life. No matter the circumstances the child has a choice what path they decide to go on. It also gives couples/singles a chance to be a parent if they cannot conceive. Infertility is a struggle in many homes. A child can’t choose to strive and be successful when the person just decides they can’t go through with it so have it killed. Even from rape. Turn the other cheek. Try to be positive one way or another that rape is going to stick with you. I know it’s hard bc it’s a traumatic experience but the child doesn’t need to know what happened. The child also has a choice to be a better person. Also abortions can cause a lot of problems for females

MCheetah · Answer

I'm pro-life in the literal sense, but I am also pro-abortion. I think everyone who is anti-abortion (regarding other people, not themselves) are just virtue signaling out bullsh*t and pretending to care about something they don't give two sh*ts about.

Uannoyme · Answer

I am pro life for myself. As far as what others choose to do, that's not my business. I can't, and don't want to, control what other people do.

lofii · Answer

Women should have thought about the consequences before deciding to have intercourse.

All these women fighting tooth and nail to defend abortion just shows how selfish some of them really are.

There's no difference between them and serial killers

Adam1978 · Answer

I am pro life by being pro choice. If you remove the choice you create more miserable lifes than otherwise. So quality of life is better than quantity. We have enough people growing up in broken homes and under less than ideal situations.

Msputiton · Answer

So. I would never get an abortion because i would never ever want to kill my child. However I do believe others should be given the choice to make their own decision.

Better_off_here · Answer

i am pro-choice actually, i think that we all should choose what we want and if we can not take care of a baby we do not need to bring it into this world.
i am not a savage, i understand that what abortion is, is wrong, but it is not my choice as a man to what a woman should do.

Chiarac2003 · Answer

I would think everyone is pro-life. I’d hate to be pro-death.

gabby100 · Answer

I dont think abortions should be treated like a last resort contraceptive. It should only be done when it is medically , necessary to save the mothers' life..

DarkWinterNights · Answer

I’m pro life from conception because I don’t want to be held accountable for determining what is and isn’t a human being. Our society already made that mistake.

Anonymous · Answer

I didn't use to be I admit, it was the constitutional issue of Roe V. Wade that drew me to to support pro-life position. That changed for personal reasons lately when I realized just how real and important the tiniest life really is.

DeadlyCreed · Answer

I'm Pro-Life because abortion is profoundly anti-family, anti-woman, and anti-man. By taking away birth, it gives men no responsibility, and so they stop acting like men, effectively neutering the father.

NorthwestRider · Answer

I think pro-lifers are lazy and hate their own life  Me on the other hand, I can care less what other people do in their lives. I have my own life to take care of

SlangSlayer · Answer

Because it makes women mad. And I think that's what's best for this country and we need to take it back and make AMERICA GREAT AGAIN

joeldalton · Answer

A fetus in the womb has a right to life. When a woman has an abortion, she is killing that unborn child without its consent.

genericname85 · Answer

i'm neither pro choice nor pro life. i think generally we shouldn't condone abortions but i think there should be certaine exceptions.

Jamie05rhs · Answer

Because killing an innocent, defenseless person is wrong. It's evil.

Massageman · Answer

The government should not be sanctioning 100% avoidable murder.

John_Doesnt · Answer

Because I hate women and babies. If I'm Pro-life it means both women and babies will suffer greatly.

BillyBalls · Answer

Who isn't "Pro-Life"? The Alternative is "Pro-Death"!!! What sane person would be pro-death?

OddBeMe · Answer

You’re all religious. Admit that’s the only reason.

Sabretooth · Answer

life should be protected. now, I can't say I support overturning Row vs Wade due to the implications and the precedent it sets.

Fromdusktilldawn · Answer

We have an overpopulation risk why are you Americans implementing a law that makes it even worse

Aiko_E_Lara · Answer

I'm a pro choice and I don't regret anything. I guess I don't have to answer why. I'm just saying

MrTaboo · Answer

That's a babies life. What did they ever do to be killed?

fireforeffect · Answer

Because I do not believe in the killing of innocent Human beings.

Slartybartfast · Answer

No, I'm just anti choice.

boobliker · Answer

we only get one so make good use of it!

Markie-mark · Answer

For lulz

Iron_Man · Answer

Thou shalt not kill

jamartheg · Answer

Wtf is a pro life

JesseJayNeak · Answer

Because I like kids

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