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I say that abortion should be legal but monitored. Limit the number of times that people can get an abortion. This weeds out and punishes only those who are just using abortion as birth control.

If you ask me, there should be an age limit to abortion. If you're under a certain age, you can get abortion. BUT if you're somewhere around 17 or older, abortion should NOT be aloud. If you can carry out a pregnancy and birth, or at least a cesarian section, then you should. There are plenty of people who are willing to take care of the baby. I know that if I some how got pregnant, my mom would take care of the child so that I could go to college. The reason I say that abortion should be aloud under the age of 17 is that this would insure that any normal woman would be through puberty and fully capable of carrying a child. If you aren't at a certain age, then you're lower body probably wouldn't be built for pregnancy. Keep in mind, this is only my opinion, not to mention that I'm 14, so yeah. I'm just average little nieve kid, I only exist in your miiiiiinnnnd!! sweatdrop

I'm against it 100% in every single case.

You say something really self-contradictory when you write, "I see it as okay if you or the babies life is in danger." Um, the abortion ENDS the baby's life, so I don't see how abortion is a good thing if the baby's life is in danger. Hmm, dying naturally or being torn apart bit by bit? Thanks, I'd take natural and so would any baby.

The child's life is equal to the mother's life. Sometimes all efforts have been exhausted and only one of them can be saved, and in that case nature must take its course. We don't have control over everything. It is NEVER okay to destroy one person to save another person. That makes no sense because we are equal. It's one thing to let someone die in a burning building because you can't save them, but it's another thing to set the fire. We can never play God with someone's life. Aborting a child to save the mother makes no sense. When it comes to that, we can only stand back and let nature take its course and do our best to save BOTH. It makes me really angry when people put the mother's life above the child's life. Don't people realize that every mother started out as an unborn child?? They are equal. The child is not greater than the mother and the mother is not greater than the child. One is an adult and one is a child, but that does not make one more deserving of life than another. And as for me, I'd rather die any kind of death than kill my own baby.

I agree with you in everything else you say, apart from the above. Abortion is murder, pure and simple, the murder of an innocent, brand new life. It destroys the child's body, but even more importantly, it prohibits that new person from entering the world and fulfilling his or her unique purpose in life. It's like murdering a plan of God altogether.

They mean when it's BORN. If it has fetal alcohol syndrome, and it's so messed up that there's not a chance that it'd make it past 3 months, would you allow it to live those 3 months in agony and twisting pain while it's inards fight to survive? If its stomach is somehow slower producing of cells, so within a year, the stomach is entirely destroyed by the acid within it, and the child is left to starve or somehow put through extreme measures that no child should really go through?

It IS okay to kill one to save another. The fetus isn't considered living till it's taken it's breath of air outside of the womb. If this woman is, say, 15, she can still produce children. If the sperm of the father was not right in some way or form, or if she uninentionally harmed the baby and its birth is considered a terribly hazard, where she's likely to DIE, maybe even WILL die if she doesn't abort, she SHOULD ABORT. If there is nothing to be done, you're willing to let someone who had a future ahead of them, but went to a party, got drunk, and got it on and got preggers die? Who didn't get to finish school die? Are you really THAT AGAINST IT? that you're going to be able to sit at a memorial in school for this young woman who could have just taken a pill/shot/whatever and lived? I feel that this was NOT thought out in the slightest. If you die and the baby is in the womb, and its too young to be born, that'd be killing it. way to go.

Not to take the miracle factor out of it at all, but a newly concieved child is only 2 cells =/ Sure, it multiplies, but at one month, a child is only this big ---> .

so no, its not murder. Sure, we shouldn't play God, but people kill each other all the time. it's the way the modern society is.

I'm completely against abortion but sometimes it is necessary. if a girl is under 18 or 17 and pregnant, she should consider getting an abortion, teens aren't ready to be parents yet and never can until they learn to take responsibility for what they do or are involved in. however if you are 18 you shouldn't even consider abortion. It is your fault you did what you did so( i hate to sound like a b***h but...) suck it up and take responsibility for what you did. it doesn't matter if you didn't want to get pregnant, you did. People always think" oh I don't need protection. It won't happen to me" YES IT WILL. It happens to everyone. It might be hard but you can get through, even if you need to ask for help from friends and family. But an adult should never consider killing an unborn infant because they don't want it. If you didn't want a baby then you should've used protection
I don't think that adoption can be considered as an option either. Think about it, a woman/ teen gets pregnant with a child and they don't want to keep it, but also don't want to kill it, they'll send it to a foster home or something right? But when that little baby grows up, they'll be thinking their whole lives "i'm not wanted in this wold. After all my mom didn't want me"
That's a scar you'll leave on a child their entire life. They'll be wondering why their birth mother didn't keep them, why they sent them away to live somewhere else.
I know that some do this because they couldn't afford to keep them or because they felt that they weren't ready to care for them, but it still hurts that child no matter what they're told. They will still think they are unwanted and that could damage that child's confidence. It might even make them suicidal. I know kids who are adopted and one of them used to be depressed cuz he never knew his mom and he was suicidal because kids would always tease him about being adopted.
just remember that this is just how i feel about these things. i don't expect anyone to agree with me

I say that it's a big fat juicy NO! The only reason that I would ever even think about abortion is if I got raped. And that's only because, I know that there would be a possibility that the baby could end up like it's daddy. And God knows that that's the last thing we need in this world right now. Another malester/rapist or whatever you wanna call it...But other than that, OPEN ADOPTION PEOPLE! I mean, there are tons of people out there that want a baby that can't have one. And you would be helping them. And I mean, yeah it would probably be the hardest thing you'll ever have to do, giving your baby up that is, but that's why you make it open adoption! Open adoption means you can see the baby whenever you want to, you can help out with the money if you want to, the 'parents' could send you pictures and write letters about how the baby's doing and stuff. The baby can still be a part of your life. The baby can still be your baby. You could have it be like the baby knew that you were the birth mother and that the peoples they live with adoptyed them but that they are still his/her parents. Abortion is not nessicary unless you get raped. My oppinion on that will not change. It's obviously a very strong oppinion. You can reply to this, you can voice your oppinion. But just like you can voice yours, I may voice mine as well. Wow I just realized how long this response was! haha

I am staunchly pro-choice. I do not believe that there are certain circumstances in which abortion is okay or not okay, unless you count "abortion is only okay when the woman wants one" as a circumstance. I believe it should be an option available to all women, and that we should trust her, and any unbiased counselors she may ask assistance of, to make her own decisions about her life and her body.