I agree with some that abortion should be a choice. No one should be able to stand in judgment of anyone's choice. We all have different circumstances and life isn't the same for everyone.

There will always be exceptions to every rule, so to say "if you spread your legs" isn't a fair rule. Everyone should be educated on how to protect themselves and if an unintended pregnancy results, they should have a choice.

Ms. Karlovich's comments connecting PTSD to abortion is absurd. People have regrets about all types of decisions. I have regrets about not speaking to one of my siblings...to the point of stress and bad dreams. The fact that we all have a choice whether or not to do things in life is freedom and we all should have that.

Abortion is a "CHOICE" that each individual woman makes for herself. There are many reasons for the choice that is made and yes, I'm sure that there are psychological aspects to making and living with this choice. But as a woman, I want to have the freedom to make this choice if necessary. I want my daughter and her daughters to have the freedom to choose to have this done in a clean safe environment. Abortion has been around for a long, long time and will be done whether or not it is legal. Just imagine how traumatic this will be on a woman if it ends up as an illegal choice, where she will have to go to an alley butcher (of yesteryear) and have a botched job done...she may never be able to have children, may get an infection and die. I want to choice to have this done in a medical center where I know it will be safe. If I have issues to deal with, I will deal with them...but please don't tell me I can't do this! Do you think being an unwanted child is less traumatic?? Look at the crime rates...how many of those people were unwanted children? Abortion is not a bad thing, it should not be used as a form of birth control but it should not be illegal!

Oh, as for the "back alley abortion" myth. Even before abortions were legal over 90% of them were done on the sly by doctors. Moreover, it was not legality that led to less death by abortions, but better medical skills and antibiotics.

Pro-Life

1. Since life begins at conception, abortion is akin to murder as it is the act of taking human life. Abortion is in direct defiance of the commonly accepted idea of the sanctity of human life
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No civilized society permits one human to intentionally harm or take the life of another human without punishment, and abortion is no different.
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Adoption is a viable alternative to abortion and accomplishes the same result. And with 1.5 million American families wanting to adopt a child, there is no such thing as an unwanted child.
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An abortion can result in medical complications later in life; the risk of ectopic pregnancies doubles, and the chance of a miscarriage and Pelvic Inflammatory Disease also increases.
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In the instance of rape and incest, proper medical care can ensure that a woman will not get pregnant.

abort if you want. I say there is nothing wrong with it. we need population control, anyway.
Honestly I really dont want abortion to be abolished. this will result in black market abortion, in other words a lot of young women will die from abortions because there wont be a professional doing the job.

Another thing: Abortionists will loose their jobs resulting in even more unemployment. Making america even worse. these people got an education, and if abortion is abolished, they will have done all that work for nothing.

and another thing: what if you were raped and you found out you were pregnant! would you want to keep the baby? I wouldnt! or what if you got pregnant at 15 years old and wouldnt have the money or resources to properly care for and nurture the child. would you really want to bring another human being into a world like that?

some say abortion is irresponsible. Sometimes it can be one of the most responsible things you can do. for the better of humanity.

Pro-choice and damn proud of it.

I'm pretty much pro-choice.

I really wouldn't do an abortion on myself because of the possible mental trouble I may go through, but who am I to say other women can't? It's their body, not mine, and nothing should be able to stop her from aborting the child.

After doing some research...

It could be murder after 6-8 weeks. Since that's when their heart starts pumping blood through major veins. Plus embryos aren't really foetus after 8 weeks. And by that I mean when they become foetus is when they have an human look.


That "human" doesn't show any signs of brain activity, until some moths later.

Would you like to adopt a black baby with the Down Syndrome? There are plenty in this little city.... and no, there are no blonde healthy babies here, why do you think their mothers wanted to abort them?

Here's a reason why abortion should be legalized! Because then women would abort in clandestine places, and THAT's when there's a risk, since these places don't follow any control, and aren't higyenic at all.

...she's already pregnant dear. And most young girls who are raped, feel so ashamed they don't tell anyone. But when it becomes visible... do they have to deal with a baby, born from that awful moment? What if that girl was a 14 years old. I think aborting an embrio the size of a 50 cents coin is easier than having a baby that would bring her pain and could not go through her pelvis, endangering her life, her mental health, and her whole future, if any.

AAAANNNDD, what about those cases where the anticonceptives or the condom doesn't work and you get pregnant... but you don't want the child nor can afford one. Tha child, if it was born, would live with the negativity of her mother, and be unhappy for the rest of his childhood, or even worse, for the rest of his life.

Another example, what if this embryo has a malformation? If it lived, he/she would have to go through the suffering of being different, and the humilliation, since society would consider that person abnormal and good for nothing. That would be worse than death, and sincerely, I think never living would be the best.


PS: Still, I believe that PROPER SEXUAL EDUCATION, AGAIN, EDUCATION is better than any anticonceptive or methode, and abortion should be a last resort, not something casual.

In my scientific opinion, a fetus is not an indisputable life until it is capable of breathing, eating, and functioning on its own, ie at birth. Until birth, it is the right of the creator and carrier as to what becomes of it.

So yes, I support women who choose to get abortions, because up until a child is born, it is simply an organism leeching off another's body. The fact that it's a growing mass of genes belonging to the woman who's body is housing the fetus, should give her the right as to what becomes of it.

No it doesn't. At conception the baby is just a mass of cells, just like a tumor. Give it time to develop - maybe the part where it has actual brain development, at the 12th week? Then it's a being. At conception, it's a mass of cells and nothing else.

Already refuted in point one.

Ignorant statement. I grew up in a family that took in foster children, and trust me, there are nowhere near enough good homes for kids who need it. There are so many homes who take in kids who are ridiculously fucked up. I wouldn't trust my own kid in the adoption system. (I realize this is ancedotal evidence, but it's all I have right now.)

Having a baby can KILL YOU. What's your point?

This doesn't even make sense. What if she comes after she's been raped/banged by her brother and is... I don't know, three weeks pregnant? I didn't know medical care included time machines.

You mean to say that even if a child of ten, or even 15, where to get pregnant, and possibly not even by her own choice, that she she risk her life because of that child? Isn't she just a child herself? Or what of the Rape victim, do you know what kind of Mental anguish it would put the mother in to think about it every day for nine months? These victims already gain a sence of helplessness....many even to the point where they want to die.

Actually, that is your personal opinion. There is no legal or scientific fact/proof that life begins at conception. Period.

I read this and thought it was horrible. I'm am personally against abortions, but i also think people have a right to choose. I belive the baby IS alive, and that abortions should only be done for health reasons. Maybe getting pregnant is a mistake, but thats what you get for having sex. People know the risks. Abortion should not be an easy way out for the people who can't take responsibility for their action.
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"Children aren't a punishment"
I have met too many people who believe it (except when said children aren't being angels :wink: )
I am neither for or against Abortion but i think it all depends on the situation and i am in complete and utter agreement that Abortion should be a last result not a contraseptive.
It is the women's choice whether she regrets it later or not.
But I do think it is sad that somewhere abortion is banned because if a young girl is raped and gets pregnent, why keep the baby? My city has the highest abortion rates in my country, because of girls coming over from an abortion banned country to have abortions.
We put too much shame in abortion and that's sad.

It's been said a thousand times and I'll repeat it again: pregnancy is not punishment for sex. It's like saying a car accident is punishment for driving; you know the risks of that, too, when you step foot in your car.

Now someone will come along and go 'But what if you were driving while on a cell phone, THEN you'll deserve to get into an accident, because you should no better.' And to that I say: Are we such a cruel society that we have to inflict punishment on others? Why are we justifying cruel thoughts by saying 'they should have taken responsibility'?

I am sorry, but getting an abortion is taking responsibility for your actions. I'm not even going to taint that by saying any 'What ifs' because they don't matter. If a person comes to the conclusion that they cannot emotionally or financially care for a child, then getting an abortion may be the right option for them.

At this time I do not support adoption as a viable option, not after watching a very close friend of mine go through terrible pains trying to put her non-white baby up for adoption. By the time she actually found a family willing to take it, she'd accrued an enormous amount of debt, had spent seven months in terrible emotional distress. And in the end the adoption wasn't finalized because she gave birth three weeks early to a very underweight baby who needed additional medical attention. My friend instead signed the baby over to the state, with no guarantee for placement. Some people may ask why she didn't just keep the baby herself... she couldn't! In that time she lost her apartment, her car. Her family wouldn't support her and me and other friends helped her out as much as we could. Now she is severely depressed, has been hospitalized a couple times for Post-Partum Depression with psychotic features (she locked herself in the bathroom at the place she's staying with a knife because she thought 'someone' was trying to break into the apartment).

Yeah. I really wish that on other people.

Cyanidecookie,you posted a quote I took out (because of the length). This quote is wrong for many reasons.
Late-term abortions are rare and account for 1.4% of all abortions. Intact Dilation and Extraction--what people refer to as 'partial birth'--abortions make up .17% of all abortions. Saline abortions are NOT done at 6 weeks.
36 states currently have a ban on late term abortions, depending on the state is 18-24 weeks.
That quote is meant to startle and alarm people by citing the absolute worst case scenario. I seriously doubt it's even a true story, as most of those are either fabricated or greatly exaggerated. Done by 'pro-life' organizations to further villainize abortion in people's minds.

Be against abortion all you want, just don't reduce yourself to using those petty actions because the actual facts don't cut it. It's scare tactics and underhanded propaganda, a gross misrepresentation of the facts and subjective data misrepresented as fact.