What do you feel about abortion?
538642
Abortion is not murder. Murder is the willful taking of one human's life by another human. Physiologically, a fetus is more like a salamander than a human, and I'm not big into the salamander rights campaign. Neurologically, the child isn't complete until it's a year old, so while it's still in the womb, it's certainly not a developed human. Christians claim to take truth from the bible, and the bible makes no reference to abortion or infanticide. In fact the closest thing to a reference is in Exodus 21:22 to the punishment if a man does violence to a pregnant woman causing her to lose the child, which is different from the punishment for murder as described in Exodus 21:12, which clearly indicates that the basis for popular religious thought for the Judeo-Christian-Muslim traditions did not intend for the killing of a fetus to be regarded as murder
954392
I wouldn't tell you.\n\nI think abortion is a desecration of life.   I know from me that's kind of ..."WOW" but that's what I truly believe.\n I think abortion is just an excuse for people to have unprotected sex and not have to take on responsibility for their actions.  I also think it's sad that a baby don't get the chance to grow up and solve all the problems of that crappy country.\n\nI DO however think the men of those crappy countries should be "fixed" after fathering one child.   If you can't feed one and you can't control your pecker then.....
946591
A woman has the right over her own body, regardless of whether there is a zygote, embryo, or fetus present.  It is not a "baby," regardless of the necessity of that word for emotional appeal.\n\nLook, here's my take on things: if you are so opposed to abortions, then stop trying to make them illegal and make them unnecessary.  Work to provide better free or at least affordable health care.  Work to improve sex education for our youth.  Make birth control easily accessible and cheap.  Establish better support for women who wish to give up a child for adoption.  Provide better assistance to people of low incomes who have children.\n\nTHOSE are the major contributing factors to abortion procedures, and if you and all other anti-choice protestors are so caught up in fixing things, then FIX THOSE THINGS.  \n\nI'm pro-choice, because in our society women need to have that option.  I'd love for elective abortions to be completely unnecessary--and so I am trying to fix the problems that lead to them, rather than trying to punish women already in difficult situations by removing their rights.
786173
Bad.  Every abortion kills an innocent human being:\n\nhttp://www.cbrinfo.org/Resources/pictures.html\nhttp://www.abort73.com/HTML/I-A-4-video.html
593000
I can't find where your question asks "what is your opinion of people who have had abortions"...It is uncomfortable, more so the farther along you are, I've had two. Do I regret it...having to make the decision yes...the procedure, no. I have three children and never had a problem getting pregnant. I worked in Social/Court Services and became so burned out seeing woman having baby after baby they didn't want and the effect it had on those children. In real life only a small percentage will give unselfishly through adoption, the majority give birth and spend the next 18 years screwing up innocent kids.
490813
I at one time thought as you do. I now see abortion for what it is MURDER. Religion aside almost everyone agrees murder is wrong. Do you honestly believe for one minute that in our infinite stupidity we as the human race will not find someway to destroy our silly selves
834736
Personally, I believe abortion to be wrong. I will say that to anyone. Most people don't have a problem with getting someone to at least stop and think before attaining an abortion. You always make a better decision when you think about all available options. BTW, I do help feed the hungry.
537387
I have not had an abortion, but had a friend who tried EVERYTHING to have a child, procedures, adoption anything she could and could not conceive! I killed her when a co-worker had an abortion with twins cuz she didn't want them! Why do you have to kill the baby because it is inconvenient for you? You could give it to someone else! If you don't want kids in your future, don't have sex! or at least protect yourself! If you used protection and you still get pregnant, it happened for a reason!! Do you feel guilty now?
208918
It is a very tough situation going through an abortion. There is the natural pain for about two days but the biggest pain is with-in yourself.  I talk from experience, and I’m the guy in the situation and can only feel for the pain that my partner had gone through (and still goes through). For you see we were in a very tight situation in no way able to take care of a child and even the process of adoption would have ruined what chances of life advances we could make. There is a natural tendency to second guess what you are about to do, also there is the natural tendency to reaffirm why you need to go through with the abortion.\n\nI can not and will not preach if abortion is right or wrong, that is your own personal beliefs. But do know that there is severe psychological trauma that can occur. We did what you are doing right now, looking for advise and doing allot of research on the subject and sadly this little fact has been hidden by Pro-Choice for obvious political reasons. It’s been two years since the abortion and it haunts me everyday in one way or another. Here is a web site that helps people who have gone through abortions. I can tell you from my experience that what they say is the truth.\n\nhttp://www.hopeafterabortion.com/hope.cfm?sel=A31Q\n\nThe girl and I broke up a little over a year after having the abortion, I credit a good portion of our break-up to it.  It is a very heavy burden to carry and in the end the choice in any way you go is going to be tough . . . what you may be trying to protect, you'll probably loose anyway.
403462
Do you really want to see back street abortions? My God what if your sister (God forbid) was raped and fell pregnant, what if the baby was so badly deformed it would spend the rest of it's life in and out of hospital having painful treatment.\n\nI have a friend who tried for years to get pregnant and when she found out she was she decided she didn't want it after all and had an abortion. People like that make me sick, she was just selfish and wanted a new toy.\n\nYou have to look at each case, everyone is different. I'd give the world to have a baby but I can't and it makes me sick when someone casually says "the baby, oh I changed my mind and got rid of it." I just think FFS why didn't you give it to me.
51012
wow, i'm really surprised at all the abortion-is-murder stuff here.  a human embryo is a microscopic clot of cells and is hardly even visible to the naked eye, much less a fully-developed organism, for many months into a pregnancy.\n\nit's difficult to draw a line in the sand and say "this is when life begins" but i have a hard time agreeing with the notion that something qualifies as a person if it is just a little clump of cells without organs or specialized tissue of any kind, that is entirely dependent on its host for absolutely every function of life there is (except for cellular division).\n\nobviously, that little clump of cells represents a potential to become a human life, and it may be wrong to prevent that potential from being realized, but it is hardly as cut-and-dried as "this is MURDER."\n\nto answer the question, i think the answer depends on your own personal ethics.  lots of people feel that it is wrong to get an abortion because you just don't feel like having a baby.  people have an objection to doing such a serious thing for reasons that are frivolous.  lots of people say "well, you went out and had the fun part of having sex, and now you should have to bear the responsibility that comes with it.  it's not right to get an abortion every time you get knocked up because you had a one-night stand."\n\non the other hand, when someone is raped, a lot of people's objections to abortion end there, because it was not an irresponsible decision by the mother.  she had the act forced on her in a traumatizing, violent and demeaning way and it can scar her for life, and it is bad enough that it happened to her - she shouldn't also have to spend the next 20 years trapped into raising a baby she never asked for and that constantly serves as a reminder of her humiliating experience.\n\nof course, all of this is deeply personal and everyone will have different opinions about it.  also, a lot of people who say that "no, nothing justifies abortion" probably have never been faced with such a difficult decision, and if THEY were in the same situation, their moral indignation and black-and-white absolutism would probably evaporate pretty quickly.
286196
You raise a perfectly valid point, and one with which I happen to agree. That's why I tend to avoid answering abortion questions. When I do weigh in, however, it is always on the side of choice, simply because the alternative contradicts my fundamental philosophy regarding the rights of the individual in society. It makes not one iota of difference what I personally think of abortion, unless I am directly involved in some way (i.e., I'm the potential father). \n\nMore to the point, however, I don't believe this issue is ANYONE else's business but those parties directly involved. In other words, it NEVER should have become a political or moral issue in the first place. It is an entirely personal and (very) private issue. So, when male politicians and religious leaders jump in with both feet, that's when I get really angry. It could not be any LESS their business, and no amount of sanctimonious moralizing is ever going to change that fact.\n\nOne final point. I think every abortion is a tragedy, but not for the reasons the pro-life zealots say it is. The tragedy is that a young woman is going through personal hell and is making a choice that may well haunt her for the rest of her life. She may be having the abortion for any number of reasons (rape, incest, health dangers, personal choice, whatever) and she will doubtless suffer for whatever decision she makes. That sad fate is plenty bad enough without having perfect bloody strangers blundering in to voice their disapproval on top of all else. \n\nThe bottom line is that this is rightly her decision to make in the end. Sure, if there is a father present who actually wants this child, he should have a say in the outcome. And doctors clearly have some role to play here, too. But how did such a deeply painful and personal choice ever become fodder for hypocritical politicians and pious religious leaders (whose primary responsibility is to preach tolerance, surely)? It is madness, pure madness...
580996
It's not any different as long as your abortion is done by firing live amunition and hurling bombs up your snatchal area.\n\nDummy.\n\n\nSplooch!
941078
I'm pro choice and freedom. Nobody has the right to force you to follow their beliefs. If you decide abortion is right for you, that is your choice to make and none of my business.\n\nI don't take the anti abortion crowd seriously because I have not seen one of them go out of their way to help some poor young mother or to care for the many starving and mistreated babies born to mothers incapable of caring for them.
665837
Thanks for the warning, that video was horrible. I'm numb.\n\nI'm against abortion itself (with the exception of r@pe) but pro-choice. I BELIVE that it is the WOMAN'S choice, not the law's. A woman should be able to do whatever she wants with her body. But I do believe that if you make the mistake of becoming pregnant, it is YOUR fault and shouldn't get an abortion. But it is YOUR choice.
266546
Abortion is murder, you are killing a life (the fetus IS alive at the MOMENT of conception). Abortion is the must DISGUSTING thing ever.\n\n1) why should we punish the child, it was NOT the child's fault it was born\n2) With sex comes responsibilities, and if you're going to engage, you BETTER be willing to pay (whether it means adoption, giving up your life for theirs, what ever the consequence is- you better be ready.)\n3) From the moment of conception it has its own DNA coding, therefore it's tech. not the "women's body", the only thing the women is doing is housing and feeding it.\n4) The two participating had the choice whether or not they were ready to deal with the consequences so why give them more choices if they're already making bad ones?\n5) rape, I sympathise greatly, but why punish the child? it's not the child's fault, yes it is a HUGE burden and COSNTANT reminder, but still- from a political perspective it's all or nothing, if it were up to me those who were raped (politically) would have the choice (religion in there there would be no rape or abortion- but that's not life). If I were raped though I would definately keep the child though. But in politics it's all or nothing.\n6) There is ALWAYS adoption- if you're willing to kill a child, why are you worried about its life in an adoption agency???\n7) We are not God, we do not have the right to say who lives and who dies. \n8) From the moment of conception it IS alive.(to be alive it has to fill 4 criterias, (1) metabolism, (2) growth, (3) reaction to stimuli, and (4) reproduction)\n9) It's either pro-life or pro-death, not pro-choice because where is that child's choice? and the oppisite of life is death and that's what they are saying is good- the right to put a child to death- YAY!!! hah not!\n\nI see NO plausible defense for this abomination at all.
809936
Abortion is killing a person at a very tender age.  It is stoppage of life at its earliest stage.