What are your opinions on euthanasia and abortion?
538944
You should have the right to choose the manner of your death. As for abortion it's a sad but necessary part of life.
964742
i agree. how can we be shocked and appauled at the lack of moral fortitude of society at large, when "we" as a society insist upon the right to choose.\n\ni am pro choice. but the reality of which Mother Teresa speaks is true, may she rest in peace.
85206
This is up for huge debate. Still much to be decided on this by the courts.\n\nAs for my thoughts on the matter. I believe any person should have the right to die if they are aware of their irreversable situation of health or whatever. I also believe that a "living will" that explains a person's wishes not to be left in a vegetative state should be upheld as well.
869811
I am currently a practicing Physician Assistant and in my first year of school this question was posed to my entire class.  We spent 45 minutes debating it as a class with out professor looking on (and keeping some calm.)  After we finished, he told us the "accpeted" medical position that he found in his practice as a PA-C.  First, as someone else stated, euthanasia is illegal in all states except Oregon (however, I will admit that I do not know the laws of other countries).  What we were told is that if doing certain proceudres or writing certain prescriptions violates our belief system, we are under no obligation to our patient's to perform or prescribe these things.  BUT what we do owe to our patients is to provide them with someone who will help them.  Our role as a health care provider is to help our patients, not to preach our beliefs unto them.  I went to a Catholic university where we were "not supposed" to be taught about abortion and birth control, but of course that is a part of medicine and we need to learn about it for the safety of our patients.  As a side note, if you are uncomfortable prescribing birth control medications and performing abortions, but are interested in OB/GYN then I would recommend working in a Catholic hospital/health system as they follow the Catholic beliefs and cannot prescribe or perform them (unless the mother is in danger).  However, they do speak to their patients about the option of birth control medications (and other practices) as they are health care providers providing patient education, which is an important part of being a health care provider.
113653
I know you don't actually want an answer - you seem more interested in pontificating.  Be that as it may, it is perfectly easy to justify a belief in the legality of abortion vs. the legality of the death penalty.  For me, capital punishment is a governmental rights issue - that is, I do not believe the government has the right to deprive its citizens of life under any circumstances.  It's simply something the government should not be allowed to do, because allowing it for some people (odious though they may be) makes it easier to apply it for lesser crimes - a slippery slope argument, essentially.\n\nAbortion is a different issue, because (1) it is not the government depriving someone of life; (2) there's no scientific reason to argue that life begins at conception; and (3) if we assume life begins at conception, then all laws regarding children would apply to zygotes/fetuses, which would be unworkable in any society.
122673
How about a liberal answer this question?  The death penalty issue is so far removed from the abortion issue.\nThe right to choose is about a womans right to make decisions about her own body and nobody, especially the government, should have greater say over her.  Likewise, the government should not have the ability to end a life.  The main problem is that fact that people have be wrongly convicted and dna freed them.  And people have been scapegoated because they could not pin the crime on the truely guilty party.  I don't have ANY LOVE for killers, rapist, scum of any description.  I know that innocent people have gone to jail and we need to protect them.  If even one innocent person is slain we are all guilty of that murder.
516119
America has had a debate over both issues for many years now.Sentencing persons to death for their crimes has been around for centuries.So has the practice of abortion dating back 5000 years or more.The whole debate is based on ones own morale beliefs.There lies the debate the struggle between the beliefs of individuals.It is a very hard decision to enforce the moral beliefs of one on another individual. If society as a whole can come to a consensus that no form of death of human life is acceptable or a that terminating a life is acceptable in abortion or in capital punishment.I wont insert my beliefs here but I do agree that there is a contradiction between the two.One human life needs to be viewed equally to another.
198790
Hmmm.... I think euthanasia. It will make for a more interesting read to most people as the abortion debate has raged openly for decades and as a result most people are already polarised in their decision. For euthanasia, most people avoid the question and the answer... except the Dutch who are the first to legalise it.
106637
I'm pro-choice but here's my take on it.\n\nThe only difference is that abortion removes the fetus from life support before awareness begins and pulling the plug  removes a body from life support after awareness ends.
721657
It takes a while to get to the animal rights part...\n\nFirstly, one thing is I think most liberals (and most people in general) do care what happens to unborn babies, even if they support women's rights to abortion.\nIt's just that an abortion supporter is also considering the negative impacts of a mother giving birth to a child she isn't ready for, or doesn't want. When this is taken into consideration, a decision (of whether to have the child or abort) is a weigh up between the good and bad outcomes on each side. Someone's opinion on this then depends on what sort of being they perceive an unborn child to be at different stages of development - how aware it is, etc. It also depends on how they feel the mother and child's lives will be if the child is born. To me it is morally fair for a mother to abort, if she has given the matter enough thought. I certainly feel compassion for an aborted child (and a little for a wasted sperm or egg when I think about it), but I also think lives would come out worse in general if mothers weren't allowed to abort.\nIt seems there are certain positive things we do in terms of  actively caring for unborn babies: medical things, dealing physically and mentally with pregnant mothers, and educational things, improving how everyone acts, like promoting safe sex, etc. (I think abortion actually falls under the first category. Although it doesn't immediately "care" for the child being aborted, I think it brings more positive benefit for mothers and children in general.) So I suppose one's perception of how we treat unborn babies depends on whether they think we are doing well in these areas. No doubt they could be improved...\nAnimal rights activists clealy believe we are not doing well in our treatment of animals, so spend time and energy trying to change this. However, this doesn't mean that they don't care for unborn babies. But they may well spend more effort in promoting animal rights than promoting unborn babies' rights (which they might have done by promoting safe sex for instance). So an observer might think the activist cares *more* about animal rights than unborn babies, however this might be false. The activist might simply think we are already treating unborn babies fairly well, but animals very badly, so feel it's more important to act on the animals issue. So I don't think it's twisted that someone does this, it depends on subtle perception differences. In fact it's probably important that there are people specifically involved in each of these (and of course other) issues. That way they can do a lot to promote that one issue, and someone else can deal with other issues. All of these things do need improvement.
854151
How about this.\n\nI am personally opposed to abortion, but know where my business ends and someone Else's starts.\n\nLove and blessings Don
800853
Disgusting and barbaric.  I am pro choice.  I am even more pro choice up until the 2nd trimester.  Once the first trimester is over, abortion should no longer be a topic of interest.
773408
Yes, I feel it is perfectly ethical. You are desposing of a parasite that can't survive outside the womb. Without an abortion, it is adding another unwanted child to this already overpopulated world.
771496
I believe we should be able to die with dignity. While there are obvious needs for safeguards and protocols to protect the innocent from predators, if someone is terminally ill and no longer considers their quality of life to be sufficient to continue, then they should be allowed to request medications to end their life.\n\nI have watched relatives die of cancer; no-one deserves to be forced to go through that process unwillingly. Those that want to should get all the support they need; those that choose to die early should be given the means to do so.
170718
How about just "Hypocrites" for both? The "pro-life" people think life is sacred, and abortion should be banned, but then they turn around and sentence people to die for heinous crimes. But then your "pro-choice" people think it is OK for a woman to kill an unborn child, but don't you dare kill someone who raped and killed an 8-year girl.\n\nBoth sides make no sense to me at all.
435055
I agree. I find it interesting that it is okay to abort a fetus while it is in the womb but not when it is out of the womb. This makes no sense to me. It seems to me that if it is  to be legal then parents should be allowed to have an abortion up until the fetus is 18 years old.
1154052
I think abortion is bad! It is a terrible and cruel thing to do, i don't know how some people have the heart to do that! I would never be able to do that to a poor tiny baby who did nothing wrong! \n\nThe only time i feel abortion is okay is like you have said when there is rape.  Then i can understand and it must take real guts to get rid of a baby.  That must be difficult and i sympathise for the people who have to go through with that.  \n\nThe government should make it illegal to have an abortion under certain circumstances.