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There are so very many sides to this issue, whether you accept or perceive them. Some people might abhor the very word, let alone the reality of a woman/girl going to a clinic for an abortion. Some, on a less passionate end, find that it has a social stigma attached to it. Pro-choice might mean that it is up to the woman to decide, regardless of the circumstance surrounding her pregnancy. It could also mean that women/girls should have the choice to abort pregnancy in instances of rape or financial strife. There's also the pragmatic stance concerning the abolition of abortion: if it were to be done away with, women can and will find other ways of getting themselves abortions. I haven't even touched on all of the political implications or any pertaining to medicine/science or religion.

What do you parents out there have to say about this?
How about those of you who are single - male and female.

What of those who have had abortions and are willing to talk, are you still firm in your stance?

Discuss.

As a single woman I am completely Pro-choice. I like to apply the US constitution's right of privacy (I think the 4th amendment, correct me if I'm wrong) meaning that the state has no power to tell me or other women what to do with our bodies. Some people may see abortion as murder but thats their opinion, I don't see how other people's opinions should effect ME.

True enough, there might not be an end all answer but dang it if people don't try to have one! Name me a time, though when laws have been executed in a fair way regardless of the social/economical standings of the person in question. Add to that the notion that the previous generation will usually see the next one as being more morally corrupt, lazy, rude, etc. than their own.
I do like what you have to say in that last sentence. Maybe it shows that the blind can't hope to completely guide the blind.



Oh, they have enough power to dictate such things. Keep pocketbooks in mind - public facilities can be denied funding if nothing else. This has happened before, with abortion being outlawed. That goes beyond your faith in the Constitution - women would go to unlicensed quacks in alleys to get their babies aborted, which is a very scary thing to me being a young woman and all.

What if that were to happen again?

What about the physical toll it takes on a woman after she's gone through having an abortion - after you have enough of them, you sustain damage to your lady parts.

And, speaking of the constitution, our country was essentially founded on Christianity and its teachings. What about that whole 'Thou shall not kill' commandment? Forget that there was also a commandment about not working on the day of rest... 'Thou shall not kill' was never disavowed. Even if you don't subscribe to Christianity, there is the golden rule to be spoken of in ethical terms. When is it ethically permissible to extinguish another life?




I agree. There's another issue: Sexual Education and how it should be undertaken. There are a few different schools of thought concerning it: teach abstinence and nothing else, talk openly about the biological and physical actions taking place during sex and leave space/time for people to ask questions, and there's handing out condoms. Just because everything is handed to students concerning the biological and physical details of sex, and room is left for general discussion of all things sex, doesn't mean that students will take advantage of the allowance. All parents are not necessarily happy to hear that their son Billy or daughter Sally was given condoms and told about birth control. Permission slips sometimes even need to be signed in order for a student to sit in on sex ed, in whatever capacity it is taught.

For as progressive as some parents/people are, there are equal amounts if not more who are not.


Please note that I am trying to offer different sides to each reply for the purposes of discussion.

I wanted to say, thank you for you input Shinigami Unity. Unfortunately I can't reply right now as I need to rush to class.

God took my 2nd baby ... they called it miscarriage, but the D&C the insurance insisted on is how most abortions are done. How can I be against abortion when God and the insurance company made me have one?

One out of four pregnancies end in miscarriage; obviously life is NOT sacred to God. Why should it be sacred to us? An unwanted baby will be neglected, abused, and turn out badly. Better never to have been born... better yet, never conceived.

But what to do if your birth control method fails for some reason and you are not able to raise a child for financial reasons or because your child would be disabled and it's raise a too big burden to bear?

Then your child can grow up in a poor environment and experience how bad life is when you don't have money. Or maybe a mommy's life gets fixed fully on raising that one child..
Not that it's impossible but surely also not easy.

But without leaving people a choice also those would be treated unfairly for which birth control failed or doesn't work.

Wow another one of these.. lol. I'm pro-choice. Not really like it matters though, I'm a guy. I think women should have the right to do whatever they want with the fetus. Accidental pregnancies DO happen, people get raped and whatnot, some women would die if they had the child, etc., etc.

Lol - but that didn't stop me from feeling like it was the wrong decision. Social stigmata and whatnot. Took me awhile to get it into my head that other people's opinions didn't matter.