How do you feel about South Dakota passing a ban on Abortion?
137849
They should since all persons in the jurisdiction of the USA are supposed enjoy equal protection under the law according to the 14th Ammendment (read the last part). Pro-choicers dispute whether or not preborn human beings are persons, but in most dictionaries I have looked at, the first definition of 'person' is 'human, individual'. According to biology texts, preborn homo sapiens (human beings) are defined as "individuals' even though they are in utero (in their mother's uterus) and even if they are a single celled zygote. In my embryology text "A zygote is the beginning of a new human being" The pre-born human being is a person.
849637
I don't believe it should be abolished, however, you are entitled to your opinion as well. Its not that I support the practice, Its just a scary notion that the government would have power over reproductive rights.
702785
I really think the issue of abortion should have no place in\npolitics. It's a personal moral decision of each individual woman.
859212
Abortion - Don't think I could do it unless my life was in danger, but I think it should be legal and I don't judge those who have them. Don't think they should happen after 12 weeks except in the case of medical emergency.\n\nStem cell research - no reason whatsoever to protest stem cell research if IV fertilization has been OK and still is. \n\nIraq War - with all the "threats" in the world, we went after the one that got away from his Daddy. Convenient, isn't it?\n\nGay marriage - sad that this is even an issue.\n\nWomen's rights - um, they should be the same as men's rights...\n\nThe Deep South of the US, I'm an atheist.
1187326
I wouldn't have an abortion, pay for one or agree with one.\n\nBut I think everyone have the right to make the decision. Then you deal with God later, if you believe in it.
306263
Abortion is big business and big dollar's for politician's. It will never stop even though it is legalized murder. Just think, one day, we may even kill children with birth defects or even kids with downs syndrome. That seems to be the path we are taking. The silent majority will not speak out to stop this immoral practice, so it will continue.
742057
For the most part, abortion is at the top of my list.  I know it might be silly to some but we have to answer to God and I feel that to protect the life of an innocent baby (and it is a baby, not just a blob of tisuue) is at the top of the list.  Of course I feel that some candidates play the "Christian card" like George Bush.  I'm not a huge fan of Bush and this war but I didn't want Kerry in there, either.  Some candidates just through in Pro-life to get the Christian vote and you have to take a look at their record.  Bottom line, I just pray about it and pray that God will have the candidate He wants in there.  Of course, if you don't believe the Bible to be the Word of God then you won't understand where I'm coming from and, most likely, disagree.
773408
Yes, I feel it is perfectly ethical. You are desposing of a parasite that can't survive outside the womb. Without an abortion, it is adding another unwanted child to this already overpopulated world.
934550
One of the worlds' great mysteries.\n\nAs one of the people above me said....They support someones right...even if it's a mistake.   Well if it's a mistake...Why the hell do you support it?!  But yet, smoking is a mistake, and you do everything in your power to stop smokers.  Damned Hypocrites!\n\nHere's a question...if an unborn baby is a female... aren't you taking away her right to choose?\n\nHey, death penalty opponents...think of the death penalty as a 'late term abortion' ....\n\nI don't get it...kill the ones who have not sinned, and save all the sinners.  Nice.....
807051
I believe that's taking it a bit too far. I consider myself to be anti-abortion but at the same time, I realize there are certain cases when abortions should be a choice for the woman just like how the death penalty and divorces should only be reserved for extreme situations. Those cases include rape, incest, performing the operation to save the woman's life, or finding out that the baby will be born so deformed that it'll die in less than a year.\n\nOn the other hand, I don't believe a woman should simply choose to have her own baby killed just because she decided to get drink just a little too much at last night's party or willingly gave in to her boyfriend because "[she] thought he loved [me]." When that happens, I'll have absolutely no respect for her if she chooses to go to one of those alley-way abortion clinics.
357991
I do not agree with abortions.  I am totally against them.  It is killing innocent children.  What slays me is some women use it as a type of birth control.  I have two boys and both of them weren't planned but I deal with what God has dealt me.  I love both my boys and never regret the decision I have made.  I would never have an abortion.  I am not a murderer.
175213
Texas is very strict with abortions.\n\nCalifornia is a lot a looser.
526364
Hey good question.\nI myself am a Wisconsinite.\nI'd vote anti-death penalty, but pro-choice.\nNow listen before you call me a baby killing hipocrite.\n\nI don't support abortion, or the promiscuisous sexuality that causes unwanted children. I suggest counciling and deep consideration before having an abortion because it is indeed a child. However, in the end it is a woman's right to choose.
175630
So much for Democrats complaining about too many constitutional amendments.\n\nWith or without the interpretation which allows any abortions, the Constitutional amendment would fail. It won't even make it out of Congress, much less make it to the states.
90294
NO, not right.  Your question is conveluted and misses the point completely.  I can't even respond becuase your conclusions come from no real reasoning.  The tall and skinny of it is this: our governement is not anti-life.  It is pretty clearly pro-life, and anti-abortion.  Consider the fact that there is currently a third trimester partial birth abortion ban.  This is the only kind of abortion that the Supreme Court has said would be acceptable to ban completely.  And the FEDERAL government did this.  It is not a people or a state issue.  It is no business of the government's what I do with my uterus - I would never presume to tell you or Ms. Rice what to do with yours, so stay the hell away from mine.  The fact is abortion is not a form of murder (argue it all you want, I am talking legally) , so your argument that we can't comitt murder in our bedroom blah blah really doesn't follow.  This is a privacy issue - the Supreme Court has held that our Constitution protects privacy interests in our own homes in many many different ways.  I suggest you consider the fact that this posting board ONLY exists becuase the Constition provides a free speech protection.  The government cannot come in and tell you not to express your opinion (thought the Bush White House apparently feels this doesn't apply to them...).  Get off your crazy high horse, your argument is so off and so full of misunderstings its not even funny.
1072414
It's really amazing to me how many people don't see the freight train hiding being their little conservative posterboard...\n\nDo you know why China can mandate abortions and force sterlizations? Because reproductive choice is not a guaranteed right.\n\nAs soon as Casey is overturned (for those who forget: Roe v. Wade was overturned by the Court in Planned Parenthood v. Casey in 1992) we've lost freedom from government intereference in reproductive choice.\n\nIt's not about abortion. It's about who gets to make the decisions. Right now, it's the individual. But if the Supreme Court decides that reproductive rights are not fundamental rights, and thus subject to state regulation, try to imagine what could happen.\n\nNew York could pass a law saying that anyone making less than $30K per year cannot have children, and must abort any pregnancy, because they obviously cannot support them financially. No constitutional challenge, because reproductive rights are no longer nationally protected. It's up to the states to decide.\n\nSouth Dakota has already outlawed abortion, even in the case of rape or incest or permanent harm to the mother. Then, they decide that they have too little population, and require every female under the age of 28 who is not celibate to have at least one child. No constitutional challenge, because reproductive rights are no longer nationally protected.\n\nOr North Carolina or Texas decides that convicted felons should never have children, and starts imposing mandatory sterilization as part of criminal sentences. No constitutional challenge, because reproductive rights are no longer nationally protected. Let the states decide. Right?\n\nOnce the right to reproductive privacy is taken away by the court, it will be decades before it can be reestablished. Conservatives better start praying, if they get their wish, that during that time they don't become the minority under a legislation that decides to require abortions. Because, once that right to personal choice is lost, the government will always be able to decide whether you can have children or not.\n\nDo people really want to live in a country where state legislatures can decide who can be pregnant, and who cannot, and who must?  Do people really have that much trust and faith in government that they think the legislature will always make the right choices? Because we'll be stuck with those decisions.\n\nWhy can't people understand that freedom of choice is not a minority value, even if the majority happens to disagree with the minority's choice?
431445
What anti abortionist want is for it to go back to the way it was. Girls will still get abortions but will end up in makeshift clinics and backroom places to get them from unqualified people. Her is a question for them, how are you going to like it when your daughter is found in a back alley bled to death with a coat hanger hanging out of them, I know it is a gross thought but it happened in the 50's just that way. I think that any governments choice to try to legislate morality is wrong and could be the downfall of that government. \n   That being said I am against using abortion as a form of birth control. It is just wrong, especially with so many alternatives that one can use. With abstention being the best. However it is a fact that girls will still get them and you won't stop it with laws.