Abortion

I myself would never get an abortion. I don't believe in terminating an unborn child and my son is living proof of that.

Children don't ask to be conceived and should be given a chance to live. However, that being said, I'm not some raging religious freak (no offence intended) standing outside clinics and damning young girls to hell. I understand that some girls just don't have the mental stability or financial stability for a child. It's a personal choice and people just need to back the fuck away.

I see no point in judging others. It's not your life and it doesn't effect you in any way, shape or form, so why bother making these poor girls, who already (possibly) feel horrible enough as it is, feel worse?

I'm very much pro choice. I wish it was fully legal here in Ireland, it's very important for abortion to be legal everywhere.

I honestly am against abortion. Feeling as it is killing a child, but everyone has their own thoughts, and their own reasons.

@ Th3_L0n3_W0lf
Do you have any feelings for the woman and the fact that she would be FORCED to go through unwanted pregnancy and birth and then decide if she has enough money/mental stability to raise a baby or if she will be forced to give it up?

For the record, it's a massive clump of cells that can't feel anything until week 24 (the fetus).

The woman is alive now and feels pain NOW.

@ dru is beautiful.
I'm not trying to start a debate. Was just simply giving my opinion. Plus, I said everyone has their own reasons.

@ Th3_L0n3_W0lf
Fair enough. However, these are discussion forums and if you give a response you should be prepared that someone may respond to you.

There is a difference between saying everyone has their own reasons and saying that abortion shouldn't be allowed.

@ dru is beautiful.
As this is a discussion, my response is that abortion is wrong. That's just my feelings. And yes their is a difference, what I'm saying is that, my feelings towards the act, aren't the same towards the person.

I understand some women aren't stable enough, mentally, or financially, to take care of a child.

I've been pro-choice since I knew I had a choice in the opinion. It bothers me to my bones that people think it's okay to call someone who supports or who has had one a murderer. It's like the case recently with a woman who was braindead and kept on a ventilator to keep the fetus alive. Women are not incubators. That was tortuous to that family... my mom was braindead, and seeing her laying there "alive" but not really living hurts deeper than just losing someone. So... I just cannot.

I've always been pro-life. You can say that the baby is just "a handful of tissue" at a few weeks old, but you know that kid can become something? You are not even giving it the chance to live. At least put it up for adoption to let it experience life. I've seen many posts shaming adoption saying that kids live horrible lives, but that's not always true. You have the opportunity to life and enjoy life. And when you have an abortion, you are taking away the opportunity of that unborn child to live. To grow. To make friends, and to love. Yeah, if they're put up for adoption they may or may not have great lives, but at least you gave them the chance to live and enjoy life.
My cousin is adopted, and he is one of the most precious children I've ever known. My aunt loves him dearly, and I am so glad his mother put him up for adoption because then we wouldn't have known him. Yeah, adoption my not always work out. As some kids are unfortunately left in the system, but at least they have a chance to make something for themselves.
Sorry if there is any mistakes in spelling or grammar, I typed this out rather quickly.

@ Smallmeade
I think it's pretty messed up to tell someone they should "just give it up for adoption". I don't like that idea that a baby of mine could be out floating through the world, especially after the rape my mother suffered at the hands of her adopted father. Yes, not all lives are like that but I've seen too many and I refuse. I think it's much kinder to destroy the tissue and not let it live through that ell.

Plenty of people elect for adoption, but saying you either need to keep the kid you aren't ready for or give it away is not a nice way to to treat women.

Forcing a woman to give up her body for nine months is not right. Forcing a woman to go through childbirth, which is more dangerous than abortion, is not right. Telling women they aren't mature or smart enough or empathetic enough to make their own decisions regarding their body and childbirth is not right.

I have not always been pro-choice but fortunately someone pointed out how messed up forced maternity is.

^not to mention the postpartum depression many mothers go through... imagine that on top of birthing a child one didn't even want.

I am adopted, and so I have a very strong opinion on this. Feel free to comment, I don't mind.

I am against abortion one hundred percent. The only time I would see it acceptable is if the mother's life is at risk.

Adoption is an amazing option, and I am so thankful that my biological mother chose that for me. I would not be here today living the awesome life that I am if she had chosen abortion.

Why would you want to kill a baby? It doesn't really matter what the situation is. If you're sixteen and you screw up and get pregnant, yes, that really sucks. Yes, you have to tell you parents and that's going to be tough, but it's not the child's fault! They deserve a chance at life! And in the case of rape, again, that's horrible, but it's not the child's fault.

For any other situation, if you really don't want a baby, then use the resources available to you and protect yourself! I'm sorry, I just cannot understand abortion. You can talk about women's rights all you want. I am a woman, and I don't feel like my rights are being taken away if abortion were to become illegal. What about the child's rights? They're still a life too.

@ Rachel-Marie
It isn't a child; it's a clump of cells that can't feel pain and can't live on its own. The mother, on the other hand, is a child at the age of sixteen with a life and the possibility of death if she gives birth to the baby. The majority of women who get abortions are in their 40s and already have one child. Can you imagine trying to explain to the child you have that you love it enough to keep it, but you have to give it's brother/sister up for adoption because you're too poor?

Do you think it will be healthier for the fetus when the mother tries to abort it herself with a coat hanger and the both die? Do you think it will be healthier when the mother kills herself and the fetus as well? This is what happens when abortion is illegal. Abortions don't stop; just safe ones.

My mother was adopted and raped by her adoptive father, so adoption isn't always an amazing process for the child. My friend in high school was abused by foster parents. I know they aren't all like that, but some of them are and that's just a fact. My mother is pro-choice.

My biological mother already had two sons when she gave me up for adoption, and everything turned out fine. I'm not saying every adoption is perfect, but it's a better option than killing a baby.

I'm sorry, but it is a child from the moment of conception. A person is a person, no matter how small. A mother shouldn't really be trying to abort her own child anyway. That's my opinion, and it's not going to change. I respect your opinion, though.

@ Rachel-Marie
Killing a baby and terminating a pregnancy and two different things. i don't support infanticide, but I do support the right of a woman to make her own medical decisions regarding her body.

A mother shouldn't really be trying to abort her own child anyway.

That is precisely why she is having the abortion, sometimes; she doesn't want to be a mother.

May I ask why you think women have abortions?

I'm definitely pro-choice. While I, myself, wouldn't consider having an abortion, I still think abortion should be a choice for women to have. Women should have the right to do what they want with their own bodies, and if abortion happens to be that decision, then that is their decision. That's just my opinion.

Adoption would be a great solution if you could snap your fingers and transfer the embryo (and placenta and whatever else is in there ) into someone else's womb, but you can't. You have to spend nine months being pregnant first, which for about three to six months is a very visible condition. Forget the actual physical ramifications; I can't imagine having to explain such an intensely personal decision to every single person I even kind of know. "Oh wow, you're pregnant? Congratulations! When are you due?" "Uh, well, a few months, but I'm giving it a way...can I just have my mail, please?" And if the pregnancy is the product of rape? Forget it. There are a whole bunch of good reasons to keep abortion legal, but that's something that really hits home for me.

Abortion for any reason is valid. Even if the reason simply is ''I don't want to be pregnant''.

JJ;:

Abortion for any reason is valid. Even if the reason simply is ''I don't want to be pregnant''.

Do you not feel that this will lead to the 'Ooopsies, I'm preggers. Better go get me an abortion!' attitude; which ultimately leads to an immense amount of carelessness , wasted resource and dangers to oneself?

@ Damon Salvatore;
No. It is much easier to use birth control than to get an abortion. Just because one can legally get an abortion does not mean one has easy or ready access to such.

I think it's pretty disprespectful to assume that women take such a cavalier attitude toward such an important medical decision. I know women who made this decision instantly because it was the right decision for them, but they still took it seriously and it still was not a hard decision to make. The majority of women who get an abortions say they feel "relief". Feeling relief means you were feeling an emotion in the first place that needed to be relieved. It doesn't mean you were sitting at home giggling and watching "Gossip Girl" and planning your next date while waiting for the abortion.

(And even if women did have such a cavalier attitude about i? Who cares? I'd rather have a woman who wants to be a mother carry her child to term than someone who just randomly keeps getting pregnant and getting abortions because they clearly are not responsible and ready to care for another life.)