This is mostly for those who are dead set against abortion for any reason. If you knew without a doubt that your pregnancy was going to result in the birth of the antichrist's child or someone who would be born to become someone like Hitler, Ted Bundy, etc, would you then terminate that pregnancy?
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perhaps they're a little slow...no? \n\nyes, let's get Hitler a some counseling...!\n\nnot big on abortion, but you kill the little demon...duh
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That makes sooo much sense! That is such a great point... yeah I'm gonna use it when I talk to my friend.\nOk so I was looking at everyone's responses and people are talking about believing abortion is wrong but we shouldn't do anything about it. I totally disagree! I mean if we just let it happen WE are the ones responsible for the murder of babies. I mean look at the holocaust. Tons of Jews were being killed everyday, but the US did nothing... until we were attacked. Now if we had stepped in and fought Germany right off, we could have saved lives. So is that person who said the government shouldn't get involved but believed murder is right doing the same thing as America during WWII? \nSecond, WHO CARES ABOUT HER SPELLING!!!! ITS A FREE COUNTRY AND IT'S OK TO USE U AND UR AND B/C WHEN YOU ARE RIGHTING A LOT... ALTHOUGH I PREFER NOT TOO. Sorry all those stupid answers by the pro-choicers made me sick! To think somone could kill a little baby like that is rediculous!  \nNow on the guy saying the girl might not have enough money to support a child... its called adoption and also if I don't have enough money could I kill my child because I couldn't support it? NO. \nOh and don't worry your not forcing beliefs on anyone... some people just want to cover up the fact that they're wrong.
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Of course they would if they got in a position where they didn't want a child.  When a lot of those pro-lifers do get in that situation they will try to say something like "Oh I'm not like to the other females, because this or that happen, so this is why I'm having an abortion".  It's usually okay for them, but their anti-abortion when it's someone else.
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Interesting point, but somehow I don't think it will fly. As to your question, I think that life begins at conception, yet I do not believe that a fetus is viable until the point where it can survive outside the womb. I think that the fetus should be protected, but I am also pro-choice. If a woman decides to terminate a pregnancy, then it is her choice. I do not however, feel that women should use abortion as birth control. If one does not want to conceive, then they should prevent conception. There are too many ways to do so in this day and age. If a fetus is endangered by the mother's gross neglect, such as drug abuse, and the end result is the death of a viable fetus or damage to the child upon or after birth, then the fetus should be protected. Proving gross neglect however, is rather difficult.
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This is a very touchy subject. I'm not saying I agree with you though. \n\nIt's the woman's choice, if you choose not to do it, great! But people have no right to tell others what to do with their body. What if it was killing the mother, like an ectopic pregnancy? That doesn't give the mother the right to abort the pregnancy?\n\nJust because someone chooses to abort the pregnancy doesn't mean their children are lower than animals either.\n\nI think people (especially girls) should be educated more about methods to prevent pregnancy, like birth control pills, implants, diaphams, etc. The guy might wear the condom, but it is ultimately the girls responsibility to be more careful about becoming pregnant.
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Against abortion!  With the exception of rape.  \n\nIt must be extremely hard to carry a baby for 9 months out of that circumstance.  \n\nAlthough if I was in this situation, I would still carry the baby & consider adoption, I could never kill an unborn!
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I heard about this on the news this morning. IMO, he had a choice whether or not to perform the act that resulted in the baby. Even if she says she is on birth control, or he uses a condom, it does not matter. The only 100% safe birth control is not to do it. So if he went ahead with the act and she accidently got pregnant, he is just as responsible as she is.\n\nOn the other hand, if she intentionally got pregnant, and knew he had no desire to have a child, then he may have a case. But that will probably be hard to prove. I also agree that the child should not be punished or suffer because of this, but neither should the father.\n\nBut this is just my opinion.
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Although I don't think abortion should be used as a backup form of birth control, I do think that there are always circumstances that are beyond us.  I think that some women have their reasons and that is their choice!
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Wow!!  Either you're really brave, or a pot stirrer!!!  I like that! ;) I think you really opened a can of worms, though.  \nI believe in the right to choose, and also that the soul enters whenever it is ready... I lost a baby between my two kids, and it broke my heart. And, no, I didn't abort it, it miscarried.  I guess that the soul who would have used that vehicle chose not to come into this world at that time.  The whole idea that the body is the whole of a person, that the death of a body equals death of a soul, is absurd.  We come here to learn whatever lessons our soul has charted out, and sometimes we aren't quite ready when the body, or embryo, that we thought would provide us with the best opportunity for learning those lessons is ready for us.  At that point there is either a spontaneous death, or, sometimes, the mother's soul and the incoming soul have agreed that an abortion is part of the experience for each. If a soul is meant to be incarnated at a given point in time, there will be a vehicle ready to facilitate that incarnation.  No soul has to go without just because someone decided that she wasn't, for whatever reason, able to play the role of mother at that time.  \nThose who judge others should be very careful that they don't set themselves up to prove that they would truly do a "more virtuous" job with the same set of circumstances.  I get so sick of people who say, "well, if I were you, I'd do it differently."  Wow, don't quite realize the absurdity of that, do you?  If you were me, you'd have all my past experiences, and all my reasons, and you'd make  precisely the same choice I did, because you would then cease to be you.   \n  And just a word  or two to the man who feels that "such a woman" shouldn't be allowed to ever be a mother.....you aren't ever going to be allowed to be a mother, either...maybe that's because you're no more qualified than those you are judging.  And maybe next time you come back here to learn lessons, you'll decide to experience for yourself what it feels like to be faced with such a hideous decision.  Have you ever held the hand of a heartbroken woman who feels that she has no other choice, and felt your own heart break because you couldn't help her come to some sort of peace with the gut-wrenching guilt, and self-loathing that followed?  Have you ever thought about how horribly difficult such a decision must be, and what awful straits a person would have to be in, to even consider that as an option?  \nThe Cherokee say that a man should not judge until he has walked a thousand miles in another's mocassins.  Do you qualify?  I think not, or you would have learned compassion.  And if you are a Christian, do you really think Jesus would be as beligerant and vicious as you are showing yourself to be?  I thought the goal of christianity was for people to emulate Jesus, and that includes having the same loving, compassionate, non-judging attitudes he has.  All of you who judge should re-think the place where you are standing.  If you were utterly without sin, then you would be utterly compassionate.  If He isn't judging, how can you justify doing it in His place?
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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.
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y do ppl have to put there beliefs in when answering the question. i would think the person bleeds, i didnt read much of the attached site but its about after and abortion(just read it up to 3weeks of bleeding)
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I apologize now cause this is gonna be long and more than likely will be added to.\n\nI'm always wondered about this.  I know it's one of those spin things but it's hard to pin this one down.  To use myself as an example, I am Pro-Choice.  I also consider myself Pro-life because I would never ask a woman I got pregnant to have an abortion.  First off, I think I should take the responsibilty for it and carry it through to term even if we don't want it.  (This brings up the debate of it's not my body so I can't choose and I agree, I can't.  But I would hope that a woman I slept with would be willingly to listen to what I have to say about the baby inside her that I helped create. Once Again I hope she would, but it's not my body and thus I cannot choose for her.)\n\nThe reason why I would never want an abortion are two-fold, I'd want to step up to the plate and father that kid.  If we decided not to keep it, then I'd want to give it up for adoption so someone else who can't have a baby for some reason or another can finally have one (I have a friend who cannot get pregnant through normal methods and she wants mroe than anything to be a mother.  Did you know invitro-fertilization is like $4000 a shot?  That doesn't even mean you will get pregnant, it means you have a chance to!)  I think that clarifies my Pro-choice/Pro-life stance.  I also don't believe that I have the right as an EQUAL member of human society, to force my values on others.  I don't consider myself to be any more special than anyone else on the streets.\n\nPeople refer to it as "Pro-Death" because they feel like it needs to be an opposite of the "Pro-life" platform.  It has to be called an opposite to be given a choice is rational while outlawing CHOICE, and thue FREEDOM is not.  I bet the tunes would change if "pro-Life" was refered to instead of "Removal of a right", which is what it really is.  Secondly, has anyone ever been to a pro-death rally?  Of course not, That would be considered Genocide (stopping all births would be an effective method of stopping humanity and thus genocide).  \n\nHere's the funny thing, people who are "Pro-life" also tend to be for the Death Penalty.  How is that Pro-Life?  There IS debate on whether a baby is a human or not and thus a murder, there IS NO debate on whether a prisoner is a human.  Perhaps a foul murdering human, but nonetheless human.  Is that not a murder?\n\nOh one more thing.  I am 100% against partial birth abortions.  That practice disgusts me.  I think it disgusts just about everyone who knows teh method of it.  Regardless, I would not want a law that states you cannot do it.  But here's what i think, you carried it that long, just deliver the baby and give it to someone that wants it.
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Some folks carry the abortion thing to extreme extremes, like to the point of conception.  Get a copy of monty Python's "The Meaning of Life" and check out the (I think second) vingette, "Every Sperm is Special".  It's a hoot.
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You give a good argument for pro choice, and to me, it's a refreshing one.  I am in agreement with a woman's right to choose but become less committed when the babe becomes a viable age.  I have worked in neo-natal units and clearly see that they are more than a "fetus" at 24 weeks (or less) of gestation. I would like to trust the woman to make a decision that is best for her own well-being, but with consideration of the unborn potential person she has created.  Unfortunately, not all women are so unselfish and generous, and even go so far as to use abortion as a frequent form of birth control, which disgusts me.  I have also had the experience of these same "mothers" not being fit to take care of themselves, let alone a baby, and one with the multiple health concerns that many premature babies must deal with throughout their lives.  This too, consumes the same, or more, of the natural resources you speak of and is also commonly a drain on society's welfare system.  \n\nSo, the debate continues.  Yours is a fresh perspective.  Thank you.
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right to life extremists are arguing on grounds that once you become pregnant you are responsible for another life. it does not matter to them if you want, can care for, or are responsible enough to handle another life. they assume that any life is better than no life. obviously these people have never realized true poverty and abuse. not only do they want to control your life and choices, but they generally not interested in adopting any of the children from the pregnant women standing outside the abortion clinics. these right to lifers only want these women to know that they of course will go to hell because they are murderers, and the ignorance goes on. now, if you really wanna know how i feel, send me an email.
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I think that is a rather disgusting thought.... no amount of money could ever replace a human life.  Abortion is not birth control, it's MURDER! 18 days after conception the heart begins beating, most women don't even know they are pregnant at that stage of the game. Abortions are not done before 6 weeks and by then there are facial features, the arms and legs have budded, the nervous system is in tact, it is a growing living human with potential not potentially a human.
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Good question, good thinking.  I certainly don't like the idea of abortion, but the alternative possibility of the outcome is scary. \n\nFirst all more ignorant women will bring their babies to term and discard them or  kill them.  \n\nReopening of Orphanages and the financial burden in society. Would you like to spend your childhood parentless wondering why mom and dad didn't want you?   Pro Lifers say oh, people will adopt the babies, but the truth is, the majority of the people who are adopt are white.  The majority of the babies put up for adoption are black or hispanic.  The majority of white couples do not want to adopt any child other than white because people know that their children were adopted.  The other problem is that couples do not want to adopt in the United states because it is too easy for the birth mother to reclaim her child after she has given up rights.  You cannot imagine the mental horror.  \n\nSo - what I am saying, we SHOULD NOT punish or outlaw abortions.  To do so is inhumane.  Unfortunatly and contrary to popular belief, Not all life is meant to be.\n\nKnowing what I know now, I would rather be humanly killed than left in an orphanage to rot, or being pulled between different gaurdians.  \n\nWe need to promote birth control and the morning after pill so that a fertilized egg does not have time to develop into a fetus. \n\nLook at it this way:  Just because you have and mix all the ingredients to make a cake, if you don't bake it, it's still not a cake.