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by John on March 11th, 2009

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Should abortion be legal?

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  • by itisihere on January 28th, 2010
    voted: No

    itisihere

    If murdering your own child somehow seems right to you, Then you have truely lost all moral sence! The selfishness of it alone is sickning!

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  • by B.O.H.I.C.A. on January 26th, 2010

    B.O.H.I.C.A.

    Women say it is their right because it is their body, but nothing could be further from the truth. It's their body that's carrying the baby but it isn't their body they are deciding to have killed. Every year millions and millions of babies are not born due to abortion. Let me ask you this, if you think abortion is so cool...are you glad to be alive?

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  • by MissChelsea on January 27th, 2010
    voted: Yes

    MissChelsea

    They say that when a girl has an abortion that she suffers from all kinds of mental problems and instability. That's bull shit. If she can't deal with not having a child, do you really think she would be able to deal with the responsibility of raising another human being? Not to mention, not all women who have abortions react that way. A lot of them go on to live their lives like normal. The ones who react that way were usually already mentally unstable (usually prior to abortion). They react that way because society instills in them the beliefs that they are MURDERERS!! That they are BAD PEOPLE because they just wanted to go on to live their own lives and accomplish they're own goals before bring another life into this world. If I had an abortion and I actually believed that bullshit, then I would probably have a mental breakdown too.

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  • by Anonymous on March 9th, 2010
    voted: Yes

    Anonymous

    1: Every abortion takes the life of a human being.
    R (response): What, as opposed to the life of a different animal?
    2:Women suffer physically and psychologically after abortion.
    R: Just like they do after childbirth.
    3: Abortion has a negative impact on communities and society at large.
    R: How?
    4:Abortion kills innocent children.
    R: Who can't feel a thing yet.
    5:Abortion hurts women.
    R: As do childbirth and legally funded U.S. wars.
    6: Real "choice" requires truth.
    R: Wtf?

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  • by DeepMukherjee on February 15th, 2010
    voted: Yes

    DeepMukherjee

    Abortion is so debated because it kills someone unborn......yes unborn and after that u don't care wheather the child dies after birth due to hunger and other poor living conditions..all u want is another birth. Those human rights organisations donot care a damn about what the child will face after the birth. Infact, if this is to be debated at all, then it should be after we make a better world for them to live in.

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  • by mishaped1 on February 18th, 2010
    voted: Yes

    mishaped1

    i think we should be able to abort some adults as well

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  • by MorningEcho on January 28th, 2010
    voted: No

    MorningEcho

    I believe the legalization of abortion is hypocritical and denies the most innocent lives the very rights we fight for in this country. Every woman knows that pregnancy can result from sex, so she made that choice when she engaged in sexual activity. Why should the most vulnerable of our society suffer and die because a woman changed her mind once she knew she was pregnant?
    On the other hand, I struggle with this issue when pregnancy results from rape or incest, or when a pregnancy is life-threatening to the woman.

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  • by lotteyH on February 7th, 2010
    voted: Yes

    lotteyH

    my mom had a kid when she was 18, he's my brother and we both beleive in reincarnation. She knew absolutely nothing about raising a child. and even though she had the best intentions she screwed him up bad and ruined her carreer and marriage because of it. I've talked to him about it and her and they both agree that everyone would have been alot better off if she had had an abortion. so I geuss my point is, by making abortion illegal you are forcing alot of families into situations they are NOT ready for. and yes, these mom's could put the kid up for adoption but you have no idea how hard that is to do in reality. when your pregnant your hormones, and body, and heart are all screaming at you to raise and love this child, but that does not mean you can. anyone who thinks abortion should be ilegal has clearly never kept a child that they were not cabable of caring for.

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  • by JakobA I^_^I the alooney on February 7th, 2010

    JakobA I^_^I the alooney

    It may come as a surprize to many, but the fact is that murder is NOT illegal because it is immoral. Murder is illegal because it is harmful to ordered society, it tends to generate vengeance and vendettas and can (in extremis) decimate a nation (eg: Iceland in the 12th century). It may be that religions declare murder immoral for the same reasons, but that is irellevant. The point is that Morality do not and should not dictate the law. They are separate rule systems, one secular and the other spiritual.

    So I have no problem with religious people declaring abortion to be immoral, they have every right to do that, just as they have every right to say it is immoral and blasphemous to say "God damn it". But they really should remember that their morality apply only to those who subscribe to it (members of their religion). Others are in no way bound by THEIR morality, just as non-Jews are in no way required to wear a yarmulke and have 4 tassels on their shirt.

    In another forum I i recieved this document:
    http://content.thirdway.org/publications/17/Third_Way_Policy_Memo_-_The_Demographics_of_Abortion.pdf
    which gives us some actual data about abortions and who have them done. I would recommend you read it all, but one item is so noteworthy that I will repeat it here

    1) Abortion rates have been steadily declining in the USA while Roe vs Vade. has been in effect. see: Part I, Finding #2

    As a curiosum I can tell you that abortion rates here in Denmark (where abortion is not just legal, but also free of charge and unencumbered by mandatory counseling) have been even lover, while descending in a similar pattern.

    regards JakobA

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  • by MissChelsea on January 28th, 2010
    voted: Yes

    MissChelsea

    Fetuses are obviously conscience beings.
    When they are aborted and murdered, the parents should hold funeral services for them.
    In memory of the long eventful lives that they lived, and in remorse and in respect of their tragic deaths.
    My friend had an abortion recently and I'll tell ya one thing, I havn't cried that hard in a long time.
    I felt really bad for that fetus.
    Especially because he/she died such a horrific death.
    I say he/she because we don't really know what the sex was.
    And it really brings me down when I think about what must have been going through his/her mind in those last moments.
    That poor fetus.
    And to think, he/she never even got to play with a toy (because fetuses are children and they do understand the joy that comes from playing from toys)
    And he/she never got to ride the school bus (because fetuses are children and they have a conception of what school is and they understand emotions such as the excitement that comes from riding the school bus for the first time.)
    And he/she never even got his/her first kiss (because fetuses are children and they have the ability to understand that children grow into young adults and kiss eachother)
    And he/she never got experience life's wonderful pleasures, such as having sex and making fetuses (because fetuses have brains and they understand what sex is. They understand how the penis enters the vagina for pleasure and rarely for the purpose of making other fetuses. Fetuses also understand that before they were fetuses, they were embryos, and before that, they were a sperm and an egg. They even understand that after they are fetuses, they will be infants, and then babies, and then toddlers...and so on. That is why when babies are born, they have a perfect conception of life, how it is created, and how it can be ended. They learned it all when they were still an embryo. That's also why there is no such thing as the sex talk.)
    And I'll tell ya what, if I were that fetus, I'd be pretty pissed at my mother for murdering me (because like I said earlier, fetuses have a conception of life, death, and all that can happen inbetween. They understand this from all of their experiences in the womb.)

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  • by Aspergers syndrome on February 5th, 2010
    voted: Yes

    Aspergers syndrome

    Simply but unfortunately, humanity is overpopulated as is. It does disturb me but anything to slow the growth besides war is neccesary at this point.

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  • by dmazzei54 on January 25th, 2010
    voted: No

    dmazzei54

    Where are people's empathy? You were once fetuses you know. Yet, you think it is okay to take the life of a fetus (baby). Unbelievable.

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  • by eminentelphie on February 10th, 2010
    voted: Yes

    eminentelphie

    Abortion should most definitely be legal. Yes it is a human life. but what if the mother had been raped? Then is it fair to make her have her rapist's baby?!? Making abortion illegal won't make people stop doing it, it will only make it more unsafe and will more likely kill women. Making abortion illegal won't save lives, it will just waste more and more.

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  • by VanCityKid on February 2nd, 2010
    voted: Yes

    VanCityKid

    I think that anybody should have the right to do anything they want to as long as they do not hurt another. A Fetus is not a person, but a developing embryo, in the case of abortion, this embryo is not wanted.

    Haven't any of you illogical thinkers thought about how bad a life a child would have if it were to be brought up by a mother and father who don't even want it? You're hurting all 3 people in this situation, unlike if you were to just take it out before it is even alive.

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  • by mhayes36 on February 2nd, 2010
    voted: Yes

    mhayes36

    Abortion should be legal, not because getting one or not getting one is right or wrong, But because no legal group of men or women has the right to enforce their religious belief on the women of their country. If we are a free nation, it is then indicative to allow our individual religious beliefs to be played out. So we must abid but such standards by allowing our people to practice in their own belief system and morals in such free country. Not everyone in country is the same. Allow the phrase " live and let live" say it all.

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  • by Once here now gone... now back? on January 30th, 2010
    voted: Yes

    Once here now gone... now back?

    Regardless of legality people will do things. Women will get abortions if they are legal or not. If they are illegal women will be forced to use back alley methods which may endanger her life.

    The argument that abortion is murder is the same that not having sex every minute is murder, so many children that will never get even the chance to begin.

    In order to murder someone that someone needs to be a person first, what defines a person from a finger, or a lock of hair other than the shape, thought. Free thought. A fetus may possess instincts and begin to form memories but I argue it does not have free thought.

    It is not like the moment the sperm enters the egg the pinhead amount of cells say, "Oh whoa, I am alive, wow look at that. I wonder what great life is in store for me.". A fetus doesn't have such thoughts. It doesn't have dreams or goals in life either.

    It isn't even aware of itself nor what it is. It is easy to think of a fetus as just a little child but doing so is really cheating yourself of the truth. Some scientists do not believe a child is even self-aware until the age of three.

    Before that they do not understand what "me" is, nor can they separate themselves from the room they are in. So how could a fetus have any such thoughts, it simply doesn't.

    It does have the potential to become a wonderful and beautiful child, as do all sperm and eggs but it isn't considered to be mass murder to join a church and remain celibate.

    Regardless if it was a change of heart, a mistake, a rape, change in life situation, or unforeseen health risks the point is that mother either cannot care for that child, does not want that child, or may die from having that child.

    So in the first two cases people suggest adoption, but adoption agencies and foster homes are already full of unwanted children. Why add more children to that already alarming problem? It is just making it harder on every other child who will now compete with this one, and this one will have to compete against them.

    For example every person who gets a job, there is a person who won't because of it. There are only so many families, so many houses, so much food, so many resources, so many jobs to go around.

    Everyone can't win, and every time you add one more person to the mix, you also add one more person who will lose, since there isn't enough as it is. And you want to add children to foster care? How does that not hurt all the children involved?

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  • by Nemesis on January 26th, 2010
    voted: Yes

    Nemesis

    It should be.......its a woman's rights

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  • by stasia.hylas on February 7th, 2010
    voted: Yes

    stasia.hylas

    Reading the “NO” side of this argument was really great, I learned quite a bit about abortion. Let me tell you in my paragraph by paragraph analysis:
    1. Five months after fertilization, unborn children feel pain. It’s too bad that most abortion clinics don’t perform abortions after this time because then we could be murdering something that could feel instead of a boring old painless death.
    2. Those Prolife people are so kind and morally upright. The Family Research Council says that because they’re so generous, they treat all human beings equally; they think it’s unethical to have the Powerful decide whether or not the Defenseless live. It really doesn’t make sense to have laws that allow women to decide if they want to have a child because that means that they would be in a powerful position, which is understandably dangerous to all of the Defenseless out there. Instead, all power should be handed over to people who detest power; only then can they decide that the defenseless should live. They must be really strong if they can tolerate doing the one thing they hate: controlling the fate of another.
    3. Three-hundred and thirty-six women have died of legal abortion from 1973 to 2003. This means that for thirty years, there were about 11.2 deaths per year from legal abortion. It’s reassuring to see that such upstanding Americans would care about the deaths of 336 women out of around 304,060,000 people living in the United States who made a conscious and willing decision to murder the defenseless being inside of them. Like any cold-blooded murderer, they deserve a chance at life.
    4. Women can suffer post-abortion syndrome, which is a subset of post-traumatic-stress disorder. It’s obviously more serious to suffer from this than post-partum depression; therefore, we should make women become depressed while having a child to take care of instead of suffering the depression all alone.
    5. In 1973, the time of the Roe vs. Wade case, 15.5% of children were born out of wedlock and the numbers increased to 36% in 2004. There is also a high correlation between these out-of-wedlock births and unfortunate social conditions such as pervasive child poverty. This means that the Roe vs. Wade case single-handedly increased the illegitimacy rate among people who suffered from pervasive child poverty. Therefore, we can conclude that the Supreme Court declaring abortion to be legal in the eyes of the Constitution made people who engaged in pre-marital sex more willing to go through with their pregnancy rather than blasphemously murdering the defenseless.
    6. It appears that the birthrate fell 17% from 1990 to 2002. The Alliance Defense Fund concludes that this caused population aging that will be detrimental to our economy’s well-being when old people retire. Thus, I am forced to conclude that Roe vs. Wade is the reason why young people are able to get jobs; clearly if not enough young people are being born, there should be a lot jobs available to them when senior employees retire. There is one flaw in my theory: I think that the economy’s current terrible condition is preventing young people from getting jobs. Damn, I guess abortion, or lack thereof, isn’t related to economic crises.
    7. Abortion reduces people to what they can do rather than who they are. That statement alone has so many bases in fact; she even said “rationally” in the same paragraph! How could something like that be false? I’ve realized that all along, I’ve been hiding behind nebulous slogans like “pro-choice.” For those of you who don’t speak crazy, this means that I never specified what choice I was talking about, and neither have other “pro-choicers.” At the same time, fellow abortionists have freely testified in court the exact specifications of how they intended on brutally slaughtering human beings growing in the womb.
    8. The womb is dangerous. Somehow, people profit from killing innocent babies who aren’t classified as sub-human. This profit may or may not be defined through economic significance. These anti sub-human, yet valuable, creatures must be saved from the evil womb because no person’s life is worthless. Basically, (what I gathered from this nonsensical paragraph) profit doesn’t mean value because profit is bad but value is good. The womb is dangerous because babies are killed in there, but we shouldn’t save them from the womb because it is also a shelter: a dangerous shelter. Fetuses aren’t sub-human because they live in this dangerous shelter and they are also people who are put on the value and profit scale when they shouldn’t be put on the profit scale because profit is bad, just like the womb.
    9. (At this point, I’m already getting tired of this article, so…) Roe vs. Wade forced doctors to perform abortions that they didn’t want to do. Back alley abortions were very common before this case. Consequently, back alley abortionists were turned into doctors.
    10. Ectopic pregnancy is often caused by having so many abortions. This is because of the scar tissue that develops when the wound heals. There is a lot of scar tissue because of these back alley abortionists turned doctors. Ectopic pregnancy is the only danger involved in childbirth, a natural and healthy process.
    11. Women are pressured by their boyfriends, parents, and sexual abusers who want to hide the evidence (wtf?). Abortion is causing women to feel like they have no choice. In the olden days, a woman would be punched in the stomach by her abusive boyfriend if she didn’t want a baby. Nowadays these abusers would rather make their wives get an abortion. Therefore, abortion’s legalization has caused abusive boyfriends to be nicer to their girlfriends. Early feminists hated abortion, but current feminists are idiotic because they’re for it. This is because early feminists know that removing a fetus from the uterus directly would kill it, while being punched in the uterus wouldn’t guarantee death.
    12. Abortionists are secretly entering a low pay job just because they want to profit off of women suffering. Even though they incessantly interrogate women about their decision to have an abortion, they are hiding facts, plain and simple. Those women are almost as evil as the womb.
    13. The “pro-choicers” choose to hide the efforts of the “pro-life” movement to provide helpless women life-affirming choices and schooling. There are obviously a lot of laws blocking women from seeing their ultrasound when they get an abortion. Forget the fact that abortionists often ask a woman if she wants to see her ultrasound before she slaughters the baby in her dangerous womb. The obvious difference between an abortion center and a Pro-life center is that abortion centers ask you to pay to kill babies while Pro-life centers are completely free. Excuse me, typically free.
    14. The abortion industry has succeeded in weeding out all of the poor and ethnically diverse members of the population. In fact, that’s why the clinics are in poor neighborhoods. According to this argument, poor, black people get a lot of abortions, so I suppose that the ultimate goal was met.

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  • by lotteyH on February 7th, 2010
    voted: Yes

    lotteyH

    let's break it down shall we? let's just say that someone approaches you on the street and tells you that there a potential human human been now growing inside you for four weeks. This human being though it does not currectly have emotions nor the ability to feel pain nor even a funtioning brain. This person tells you that if you'd like they can get rid of this little person so that you do not have to worry about raising the child or putting it up for aboption. of course anyone at this point would say "yes, i'll have it I don't mind I'm sure I can find a home for it if i can't raise it. But then the person tells you that in the process of carrying this child you will suffer from many aches and pains, vicious mood swings, and a daily vomiting process for three months. and giving birth to this will be the most excrucetating thing you will likely ever experience, because human beings have the most painful and dangerous child birthing process in the animal kingdom, due to the largness of our heads and narrowness of our hips. still at this point many would say "its okay, its all temporary." but then the person tells you that you will become extremely attached to baby while its inside you making it likely you will fall into a vicious depression after it is gone, also likely making you wonder for the rest of your life how is this child doing now? But that's not all your body will also change in such severe ways that it is you will likley receive ugly stretch marks and its likely your body will never bounce back completely, or never bounce back at all (e.g: you used to be skinny but you will never be again). he says its even possible that you will be left with a hideous scar across your stomach. at this point most people will have excepted his offer. but not you, your not that superficial, so you say I'll still do it. "alright" he says, but one thing there is a .01% chance that this will kill you (small yes, but its a chance none the less). and here's the kicker! even if you agreed to all that there is over 50% chance that this child will not even make it to term (I looked it up. So ask yourself honestly and completely, put aside all thoughts of religion and morality, and ask yourself would you do it?

    so given all of the risks and difficulties i have named, do you honestly not think that every woman has the right to decide whether to put herself through this or not? If you don't think she has this right than you should be living a communist country where 60,000 to 100,000 women die every year from botched abortions that they were forced to seek out simply because they did not want to put themsleves through this extremely difficult experience.

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  • by TjoeBaxter is Hot Yo on February 7th, 2010
    voted: Yes

    TjoeBaxter is Hot Yo

    I voted yes but I also wanted to vote no. I find it interesting that you did not include in your poll another option. I am against late term abortions but I do feel that a women should have the right to choose. Every situation is different...its not all about black and white and yes and no. There is always that gray area we forget about!

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  • by Suzieblue on February 1st, 2010
    voted: Yes

    Suzieblue

    Yes it should because the embreo does'nt even think, it's not a person. Before it was legal, women were getting rid of the unborns themselves, which put their lives in danger. If it were to be made illegal again then women would go to backstreet abortion clinics, which would make the situation even worse.

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  • by Lucy in the sky on January 29th, 2010
    voted: No

    Lucy in the sky

    If someone murders another person they go to jail.
    If someone murders an unborn person it seems to be exceptable. What is the difference?

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  • by Nightwatchdog on January 26th, 2010
    voted: Yes

    Nightwatchdog

    If it's what the majority of people what - then it should remain legal. My advice to those who don't like it is to say - "then don't have one", and to leave the rest of those who do want them to live there lives in peace.

    Frankly I have no use for abortions and will never have one - but I can understand why those who want the option available support it. It's a real pity that so many are so intolerant to the wishes of the majority and can't just live their own lives in peace and with respect to the wishes of others.

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  • by Rinky Dinky Do on March 11th, 2009
    voted: Yes

    Rinky Dinky Do

    Absolutely! That should be a choice left to the woman not a matter of politics of for others to decide

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  • by arkin on February 27th, 2010
    voted: Yes

    arkin

    abortion should be legal, coathanger abortion is gonna happen if its not. might as well save one potentially lost life. but in any case, emergency life saving fetus removal should be done, in case of pregnancy complications that is threatening to the mother

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  • by Twisted Taco on February 16th, 2010
    voted: Yes

    Twisted Taco

    Yes!

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  • by strung_out_atom13 on February 7th, 2010
    voted: Yes

    strung_out_atom13

    Abortion should not be decided by a large group of people. Abortion should be legalized in every state because women can make up their own minds. For every single one of you that voted "NO" to making it legal take a minute and think about if you had a 16 year old daughter. One night while out with her friends perhaps at the movies. She gets up and goes to the restroom and while doing so she is raped in the bathroom stall. You are horrified by this incident, but you are very thankful she is still alive. Then you find out that she is now pregnant because she was raped and abortion is illegal so she is stuck with it. Every time she looks into her child's eyes she remembers the violent raping in that bathroom. If abortion were legal then she would not have that child, but she could then have a child with someone she loves causing her to forget that night. Now every time she looks into her child's eyes she will think about how lucky she is to have this child with the love of her life. Stop and think about the life of the woman who has the decision to make and not the life of the fetus in her womb.

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  • by gplaza01 on February 4th, 2010
    voted: Yes

    gplaza01

    yes every women has a right to whether or not she wants to be a mother. PRO-CHOICE!

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  • by brogan516 on January 29th, 2010
    voted: No

    brogan516

    I'ts like killing a baby! Once their heart starts beating they are a person!

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  • by denizlefoshizle on January 27th, 2010

    denizlefoshizle

    People don't want to consider abortion murder because they don't want to look bad.
    They don't want to keep the baby because they know it'll "get in the way" of their life.
    so people like.. my sister get in the way of MY life. Would I kill her? NO. how much more your own child?
    YOU PEOPLE HAVE NO MORALS

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  • by Account Closed on January 25th, 2010
    voted: No

    Account Closed

    Who of you would take a baby from it's crib and murder it? No one? Well who of you would have your baby taken from the safty of your womb and murder it? A baby is a humam being from the time of conception. No one has the right to take the childs life away. The Lord says in His commandments " Thalt shalt not kill". Debate is over, the question has been answered. The Lord has spoken.

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  • by RefreshPerspective on February 7th, 2011
    voted: Yes

    RefreshPerspective

    Legal? Hell, in some cases it should be mandatory.

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  • by Meg on April 10th, 2010
    voted: Yes

    Meg

    Abortions should be legal because you have to be realistic. If they are illegal, they are only going to happen under the table, putting the mother at risk.

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  • by angus1 on April 10th, 2010

    angus1

    Only after the age of 17. By that time, the kid is strong enough to make it a fair fight.

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  • by s@r@ on April 5th, 2010
    voted: Yes

    s@r@

    it might be wrong in your eyes but its not up to you if its not your baby. i think its wrong but at least i know i have the choice. some girls go through drastic things to abort a baby that is harmfull to them. if it was legal then the girl can be safe and atleast she has the choice.

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  • by skep on March 11th, 2010
    voted: Yes

    skep

    Abortion is between the expantant mother and her physician. Politics and the so-called "law" should stay the He!! out of decisions requiring intelligence.

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  • by MrReason on February 13th, 2010
    voted: Yes

    MrReason

    What if the woman is a victim of sexual assault, doesn't that constitute the right for an abortion?

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  • by Reptar on February 7th, 2010
    voted: Yes

    Reptar

    I Don't think anyone who isn't forced to make a decision of this kind really has a right to put someone who does down.

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  • by miserypop on February 3rd, 2010

    miserypop

    if you have a kid you have to look after it. kids will get abandoned after being born.

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  • by Daydreamer on January 28th, 2010

    Daydreamer

    This is a very tricky subject for me, I have read above and can see BOTH sides and can almost agree to both too. What I don't agree is fundamentalists on either side. I don't like the term pro-life, that seems to point the finger at those who chose to have an abortion as being ant-life and that is just not true, they made a choice for the best and these choices are never easy. Its uncomfortable for me because I had an abortion at 19 and I WAS very much pressured into it. But I also know I had no money, support, experience and was not mentally stable enough to cope with a baby and that baby and me would have struggled throughout that time. I hear and have been told that it was at the time just a bunch of cells which helps a little to relieve some of the pain and guilt I still go through. Somehow word got out I had an abortion and I have been judged and thought of as a murderer and it was very VERY painful and humiliating. But sometimes the guilt tells me they were right and abortion should not have been an option and I would have had a baby. A big part of me wanted to and regrets what I did, and although I was pressured to do it, I have to take responsibility for it. All I can say now is that I learned to take what happened very seriously and if I were to get pregnant now then there would be no decisions to be made, I would have it. I personally think that abortion is an easy option in the system to take, and maybe too ready available. But young girls will never understand the mental and emotional scar it leaves and this was never discussed. I DO think it is a woman's right to chose and in certain circumstances such as rape, it should be available. But if more time was taken in the process and the system, say putting to woman/girl to a counsellor to discuss in full the whole situation, then maybe abortion would be taken more seriously and each decision was a fully conscience one. Abortion CAN seem like an easy way out, but from my experience it was just awful and something I will never repeat again.

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  • by denizlefoshizle on January 27th, 2010

    denizlefoshizle

    Murder's illegal. Why should abortion be different? Some people don't even want their kids AFTER they're born.. but it doesnt give them the right to kill them.
    1) maybe embryos arent scientifically considered humans, but they have potential to be. You were an embryo weren't you? I guarantee you that 100% of people who are pro-choice were already born.Plus, dogs aren't human, that doesn't mean we kill them.
    2) It isn't the mother's right, just because it's in her power. It's in her body, but it's not HER. You can't kill a child, why should the fact that the child is inside the womb make it legal?
    3) There's such thing as adoption. And if you say that "oh well a lot of kids get lousy adoptive parents and end up miserable anyways." Yeah well I bet you that if the babies inside the womb had a voice they'd rather live and possibly end up in a bad environment than not live at all.
    4) If you can't financially support a kid, you should have thought about that before you decided to lay around. It's your problem, not the child's. Take responsibility for your actions. Eliminating the "issue" is immoral. Don't eliminate it, learn to deal with it.
    5) If you got raped, again.. ADOPTION. It's a sad reality, because you didn't choose to get pregnant.. so you got hurt and now you can kill someone right? wrong. Again with the right to life.
    6) Afraid of death by child-birth? Well that's a different story. Now you're choosing your life or the baby's, but that's where it's really based on your morals. I know I would jump a bullet for someone, and I know people who would jump a bullet for me. Now of course that's a much harder decision, but that's when you prioritize. If you've lived already, then wouldn't be more unfair to kill someone who wasn't even born yet?

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  • by Anonymous on January 27th, 2010
    voted: No

    Anonymous

    I say yes for certain cases,
    If you were raped, it wasn't your fault, so yes.. but I would still hope you would keep the child to let it be born, then put it up for adoption; it may not have the greatest of chances, but at least it would have a chance.
    If the child will kill you, well, that's an unfortunate fact of life, so yes.

    Otherwise, no, it's your fault, even if you used protection.
    Therefore, you aren't allowed to abort it.

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  • by CrazyDiamond2012 on January 27th, 2010
    voted: Yes

    CrazyDiamond2012

    Abortion will happen whether it's legal or not, why subject woman to the old fashion back alley coat hanger method? We are far more evolved than that. It is a woman's body and therefore a woman's right. A full grown woman, who is able to conceive is also able to decide for herself. Her rights far outweigh that of a mass of cells that cannot think, remember or even know of it's existence. We don't even remember the first few years of our lives, a 12 week old lump of cells is not going to suffer any great deal of stress from being aborted. Any developement it has, lungs, fingernails, whatever, it is not going to feel pain... it is not a developed human yet. People make mistakes. While abortion should most definately not be a means of birth control, a 16 year old girl should not be forced to give up her entire life over something that is not even a life yet. Hell a 25, or 35 year old should not be forced to have a child if not ready. If you were to take a newborn baby and kill it, that is murder. Aboring a 12 week old fetus is NOT EVEN CLOSE TO MURDER!!!! IT IS NOT A HUMAN YET! The world is not all peachy and there our people with severe addictions that cannot just stop on their own. Should they go on and give birth to a retarded child and then not be able to care for it? There are enough people who have children and don't take care of them properly. Why force a woman to have a child that she doesn't want? Is that really a way to bring a child into this world?

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  • by Countess Crapula on March 11th, 2009

    Countess Crapula

    Abortion IS legal. However, it should NOT be a government, a religious or a mans issue. No one, I mean NO ONE likes the idea of abortion, but sometimes it's a necessity. I've never had one nor do I plan on having one (or kids for that matter), but I support the right to have one.

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  • by Big B on March 11th, 2009

    Big B

    You betcha! Clinton said it best, "abortion should be safe, legal, and rare"...

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  • by cowpow on February 7th, 2011

    cowpow

    yes it should be legal, f-in law makers sticking their nose into everything.

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  • by Brandon on April 20th, 2010
    voted: No

    Brandon

    If killing a newborn infant is legal,then so should abortion be. There is virtually no difference.

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  • by grim545 on April 3rd, 2010
    voted: Yes

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    Caleigh

    I keep making the point that it is not a baby, because other people insist on the opposite.

    "This is all about where you draw the line, pro choice arguers always rest on the date of birth because it give a nice clean cut off date." Thats not why most people use it, it is because that IS when it is a life.

    "But it's when we start drwing lines like this that we loose the only thing holding us together as a civilization." Exactly how does drawing lines on abortion not hold a civilization together?

    "when we start making exceptions we are regressing back to the animals we truly are instead of working forward to create these moral boudries." Abortion, killing, rape, slavery are not 'exceptions'. They are the other side of the line, and I think drawing a line about killing or slavery would regress us back to animals. I am pretty sure it means we are making logical decisions. We would be regressing if I handed a guy a gun and told him to go kill, rape, and enslave anyone he came across, that would be regressing.

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  • by Seb35 on March 28th, 2010
    voted: Yes

    Seb35

    Of course abortion should be legal. Why not? The fetus probably doesn't suffer; it has no frame of reference.

    Frankly, a fetus does not count as a person. A person has feelings and memories. There is no proof that a fetus has either. If it does, it is at a low level of intensity, too low to understand pain, or even egotism.

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  • by alex on March 12th, 2010
    voted: Yes

    alex

    People should be able to do what they want with their bodies right?

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