Is abortion murder or a right to choose?
549587
Yes I would say it is murder. There are people willing to adopt so why kill when you can give others the gift of life. Youth and immaturity can sometimes give us justifications instead of intellectually sound reasoning. Most will agree, unless you were raped or forcibly made pregnant, the life given to you is divine and has a purpose aside from your own. Joseph was probably ill at ease that his supposed virgin wife was made pregnant buy another father before they were even married. I’m so glad he wasn’t about abortion.
171855
Very good question.  Ask Scott Peterson (worthless piece of garbage) about that one.  This is just one hole in the beliefs of the right to choose people that they wish we wouldn't see.  The fact is that a fetus IS a human life and abortion IS murder.\n\nAnother scenario that escapes me is that you will see the same people at a "Fur Is Murder" rally as you will see at a "Freedom of Choice" rally.  I wonder if they see the irony of their actions?
1108382
The answer here is very easy. When you talk about the legalisation of abortion in a country, you are not talking about whether or not abortion (or life) is a good thing or a bad thing. That is a question of ethics and/or religious belief. It is not a question of law.\n\nWhether or not to have an abortion is a choice. People who believe that abortion should be legal believe that women should have that choice. People who believe it should be a crime thus want to take away that element of choice. By defiition then, they are anti-choice.\n\nI have heard a lot of 'pro-life' people call the opposition 'anti-life'. They are specifically trying to bring the legal question back into the religious agenda, and they are overgeneralising.\n\nIt is possible to be pro-life, ethically, and pro-choice, legally.
940429
The Supreme Court has ruled on this already and as long as the first Amendment is not altered, abortion should be legal.\n\nThe S.Court ruled abortion should be legal based on a person's 1st Amd right to privacy over what happens to their body. It has nothing to do with when life begins,etc... as some would like it to. It is all about this great country's freedoms and constitution giving us protections over our personal self.
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An embryo or fetus is dependent upon its mother's body for survival. A woman has the right to have absolute dominion over her own person, and since the fetus or embryo is part of her person, no one has the right to force her to carry it to term.\n\nKilling an unborn child in a war is wrong, because you are murdering a separate life form whose existence is not dependent upon yours. And not only that, but the right of the mother of the unborn child to autonomy over her own body has been violated. It's forced abortion, pure and simple.\n\nI have mixed feelings about the death penalty. On the one hand, since murderers have deprived others of their right to live, they should also be robbed of theirs. On the other hand, since so many people have been wrongly convicted of murder, the death penalty should be abolished, because executions are irreversible.
484087
right to life extremists are arguing on grounds that once you become pregnant you are responsible for another life. it does not matter to them if you want, can care for, or are responsible enough to handle another life. they assume that any life is better than no life. obviously these people have never realized true poverty and abuse. not only do they want to control your life and choices, but they generally not interested in adopting any of the children from the pregnant women standing outside the abortion clinics. these right to lifers only want these women to know that they of course will go to hell because they are murderers, and the ignorance goes on. now, if you really wanna know how i feel, send me an email.
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Does anything really justify abortion?\n\nTo Pro-Choicers : Of course it does. A woman's body, a woman's choice.\n\nIn my opinion, no. It's a baby whether it was conceived 'in love,' by accident, or by rape. Them's the breaks. Life isn't fair, and it's terrible that the woman was raped, but the child shouldn't be punished for it.\n\nIt you actually meant rap...no.
1165760
A fetus is alive since the minute it is conceived. There for for it is a life at an early stage.  It is not a woman's choice to kill but it is a woman's choice to give that child to a couple who does not have to blessing of conceiving there on child. It is not the fetus(childs)fault so he/she should not pay for this. Now is certain situations where the mother was abused there are many other options for that baby. Every baby has the right to live and no one but God can make that choice.
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It should always be an option whether a women takes chooses to take adavntage of it is her choice. For example alcohol is legal and some choose to drink some don't put no one takes away that right. True abortion is more complex because it involves another "life", or some say, but its all about individual choices and rights. Excuse the whole "life" thing its just that a certain stages it can be considered a life to certain people and in others it won't. I don't think society as a whole can ever agree on whether abortion should be legal or not and I don't believe it is anyone's duty to impose their idea on another individual. The decision to have an abortion is based on what a women may be going throug based on her, life, religion, and emotional and personal health. Its all about point of views. I do believe that everyone should have a choice. Say 2 women got raped and because of it ones wants to get abortion because of emotional damage and say possibly finances, on the other hand the other women doesnt want one because of her own personal views and possibly religion. I'm not one to look down on anyone's decisions or judge an individual based off their actions. When it comes to abortion I can agree to disagree.\n\n@dragonflytimes3- You are somewhat very right. There are so many forms of birth control out there and to be irresponsible and use abortion as birth control is wrong.(Wrong by I mean having an attitude- "I won't use protection and if I get pregnant I'll just have an abortion") And its true that the safest sex is to not have it at all But what happens when a female thinks they are ready to have sex and the rubber breaks or that .1% of the pill not working kicks into effect? Sure you can say that if you don't think you can handle the responsibilty of having a child then don't have sex but in society's changing times how logical can that be? My thing is birth control does not always work, so what is a women to do when when she takes steps to be careful and they are not 100% effective?
692374
I'm with you. I've often wondered the exact same thing! Like with Lacy Peterson, or other murdered pregnant women. There's this huge uproar...Oh that poor baby...it was...murdered. Ok, so then why is it legal to go and voluntarily murder that baby? Is it ok because it kills only the baby, not you? Sad thing is, if abortion were made illeagel women would still do it, and possibly get themselves killed in the process. But, why? Is it worth it to you?? To be rid of this "burden" as you see it, at the risk of your own life? If people aborted every unplanned pregancy, a lot of us wouldn't be here. Look, it isn't a choice between aborting the child or becoming a mother. there's another option...adoption. Heck, they even have laws now saying you can just leave the baby at a hospital or fire station or other drop points with no questions asked, no reprecussions. There are thousands of loving families out there who want a baby so bad and adoption is the only way they can. You say you were raped or something? Well, two wrongs don't make a right. Murdering an innocent baby changes nothing. Now you have to deal with the rape and the guilt of knowing you murdered your own child. I'm sorry, nothing makes this right. JMO
856301
There is no question about it.  God does not like any abortion to any child in the womb or out.  He is the creator of all life and therefore cherishes it and values it like a woman with a diamond ring on her finger.  He gave His only Son, for our lives and forgiveness, which no one can replace, or takeover.  He did not create us for us to die, Adam sinned against God and therefore we brought all the injustice to ourselves by Adam's sin.  Since we are all from the offspring of Adam we inherited that sinful nature.  So when that happened it was necessary for God Himself to remedy that situation, due to His love for all mankind.  Although he does not like killing of any kind, especially of humans.  What was one of the commandments, that we should not murder.  In His eyes it is murder when an abortion takes place.  Humans have no right to place a value on human lives.  We try to justify our decision to put someone to death, we do not have that right.  We cannot ressurect those whom have died, only God Himself.
148773
Life, liberty and the persuit of happiness. Without life, there are no rights, so when the out of control Supreme court said it's legal to kill innocent babies before birth, they infringed on every one of their rights. As for the death penalty, those people gave up their right to life when they took another person's life. In that case, it's not murder, but consequences.
1073110
I believe it is 100% WRONG!! The definition of abortion is:\n\n'An abortion is the removal or expulsion from the uterus of an embryo or fetus, resulting in or caused by its death."\n\nThe pro-choicers would have you believe that it is not a living thing. Well, if it isn't a living thing, then how can it result in DEATH? And if it truly isn't human, then how do women give birth to human babies? And, did you know, that if for some reason an abortion fails, the doctor then has a moral obligation under the hypocritic oath to do everything in his power to save the BABY! “If a baby is born alive following a failed abortion and then dies (because of lack of care), you could potentially be charged with murder,” said Shantala Vadeyar, a consultant obstetrician at South Manchester University Hospitals NHS Trust. Wow, how did it go from a fetus that we can just kill, to a baby we must try save if the abortion fails? \n\nEven international law is on the babies side: The 1978 American Convention on Human Rights states, in Article 4.1, "Every person has the right to have his life respected. This right shall be protected by law and, in general, from the moment of conception."
232765
It is a good question that I too have. Some of the answers have clarified the matter somewhat.\n\nI am also pro choice. I believe in choice of action and deed, choice of religion and choice to decide how your body is used.  As a biologist I have no issues with abortions for medical, genetic or psychological reasons. I think that if by the first trimester you have not figured out what you want, then it is too late. Except for medical reasons, this is a touchy area. I disagree with the statement that your destiny is prechoosen. That an aborted baby could have cured HIV. That same baby could have just as easily turned into an oppressive dictator. It is a moot argument as it has no basis in fact. I may cure AIDS next month, but it has little to do with my parents choices years ago.\nI used to have strong feelings that I would not only support a womens right to choose, that I would sleep soundly after the procedure was done on someone I cared for. Unless for genetic or medical reasons, I now feel it is not an appropriate form of birth control except in cases of rape, or medical reasons.\n\nAs for capital punishment. I fear our justice system is not sound. While I think that murder should be dealt with swiftly and with equal justice, I feel that too many innocent people are railroaded by the system. Poor people, minorities, lesser educated are often singled out and targeted and end up convicted. Mistaken identy for a crime is scary as I can attest. If it had been a more serious offense, the unreliability someone typing data into a computer could have ruined my life. That said, for those where guilt can be proven 100% (i.e. you rob a bank in LA on live tv and shoot someone- kinda hard to not be guilty of that) then you should be executed without years on death row.\n\nSo in the end, I guess I belive in moderated killing of fetus' and moderated killing of adults.
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.
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Blingme - Her question was stated correctly. She is essentially trying to determine why states allow abortion if it is illegal to kill a human being. And if a state charges a murderer with two murders for murdering a pregnant woman, what is the exact definition of life. \n\n1) Either a baby is alive and the two murders is correct. In this case, abortion should be illegal; or,\n\n2) A baby is not alive and only one murder should be charged. In this case, abortion would be okay.\n\nShe is pointing out a convenient catch-22 in the abortion debate.\n\nEDIT: bree123 - I do not believe she is calling out the hypocrisy of the double homicide law. She is calling out the hypocrisy of abortion.\n\nAnd citing the ACLU does NOT make me put a lot of trust in your judgment. It is a little like me citing all the evidence the National Right to Life cites proving that life starts at conception. You aren't going to buy that. Any evidence cited should be from a) a disinterested party, or b) a source that gives BOTH sides of the argument - like my initial assessment of her statement above.\n\nSource(s): Debate 101.
489474
I used to be strongly against abortion because it was killing life. And I thought that if the girl had got herself into it(unless it's rape), she shouldn't kill her baby just to make life easier for her. But after a lot of thinking, I decided that it should be legal. And while I am still against killing life, I realized that if a woman did not get an abortion, so many bad things could happen to the baby after it was born. The woman could kill it by dumping it somewhere. Even if she kept the baby, she could ignore it and not really take care of the baby, which is basically killing it anyway. There are so many factors like that, so now I believe that the woman should have a right to choose even though the baby does not have the right to choose.