If women can have abortions because its their body, then should suicide be legal since its ones's own body ?
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You can't compare legality for suicide, .... Who are they going to arrest if a person commits suicide??  If one "assists" in suicide, then it's murder
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Because the basic principle behind making abortion illegal is anti-choice -- the fact that individuals do not have control over what happens to their own bodies, and that the govt can make such decisions regardless of what the individual agrees to.\n\nThe death penalty, assisted suicide, abortion -- all of these are debates regarding the government's authority to control life and death, and to take those choices away from the individual.\n\nIt makes perfect sense, under that model, that the state has the sole control over life and death, from conception to sentencing.
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Well, our reasoning is based on the idea that there isn't a simple answer for every situation. You can't just label abortion "mindless killing," because it might NOT be mindless. For example, what if you got raped? Would you like to go through the pain of birthing the baby and putting it up for adoption just for something that entirely WASN'T your fault? Don't you think that could breed depression and neurotic tendencies in anyone? Don't you think a kid separated from his mother or adopted experiences emotional pain? \nAbortion is done to guard against future harm. If there's a mother who knows she won't be able to care properly for a child, it would be merciful to both her and the growing fetus to undergo abortion. \n\nI do agree with you that the sanctity of a life should be preserved however. Abortion shouldn't be encouraged in women who have sex and think there's just an easy way out. It should be PERMITTED, however, because it is a RIGHT and because in the case of rape it is not a case of a woman having made a bad choice; it is a case of BAD LUCK.
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A fetus is alive since the minute it is conceived. There for for it is a life at an early stage.  It is not a woman's choice to kill but it is a woman's choice to give that child to a couple who does not have to blessing of conceiving there on child. It is not the fetus(childs)fault so he/she should not pay for this. Now is certain situations where the mother was abused there are many other options for that baby. Every baby has the right to live and no one but God can make that choice.
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Nope!!!! Nobody has a right to take a life...\nThat includes the person himself.
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The higher purpose in permitting it is to affirm that every person should shall have full jurisdiction over what happens inside the boundaries of his/her body.  Therefore by permitting it we are acknowledging that the freedom of a person to control their own body is more important than other considerations.  However we are not endorsing the choices they make as "good".  We are merely choosing not to intervene forcefully in a person's excersise of thier soverign rights over their body.  In this light, persuasion and dialog become the tools of those who wish to stop the practice, not the threat of imprisonment or execution by the government (there are people out there who believe that it is murder and should be punished with death).  \n\nYour second question becomes irrelavent unless you believe that you or the government has a role in determining how a person should be permitted to exersise control over what goes on inside thier body.\n\nHuman sacrifice is ritualistic religious killing of a person in order to gain some favor with a God that they fear, in hopes that they will be granted some sort of boon from their god, such as good weather or reprieve from a plague.  I don't see how anyone would have an abortion to please God, but fervently religious people NEVER fail to surpirse me!
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Personal Responsibility. Do you want the government to regulate every aspect of your life? Or do you want to make your own decisions in life?\n\nSmoking may kill you, yes. But so can eating Fast-Food if you eat enough of it. Should Fast-Food be outlawed? What about prescription drugs, they can kill you.\n\nThe bottom line is, you should be able to make your own decisions. I personally do not want the government to start telling me what I can and can't to with regards to my body.
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It should always be an option whether a women takes chooses to take adavntage of it is her choice. For example alcohol is legal and some choose to drink some don't put no one takes away that right. True abortion is more complex because it involves another "life", or some say, but its all about individual choices and rights. Excuse the whole "life" thing its just that a certain stages it can be considered a life to certain people and in others it won't. I don't think society as a whole can ever agree on whether abortion should be legal or not and I don't believe it is anyone's duty to impose their idea on another individual. The decision to have an abortion is based on what a women may be going throug based on her, life, religion, and emotional and personal health. Its all about point of views. I do believe that everyone should have a choice. Say 2 women got raped and because of it ones wants to get abortion because of emotional damage and say possibly finances, on the other hand the other women doesnt want one because of her own personal views and possibly religion. I'm not one to look down on anyone's decisions or judge an individual based off their actions. When it comes to abortion I can agree to disagree.\n\n@dragonflytimes3- You are somewhat very right. There are so many forms of birth control out there and to be irresponsible and use abortion as birth control is wrong.(Wrong by I mean having an attitude- "I won't use protection and if I get pregnant I'll just have an abortion") And its true that the safest sex is to not have it at all But what happens when a female thinks they are ready to have sex and the rubber breaks or that .1% of the pill not working kicks into effect? Sure you can say that if you don't think you can handle the responsibilty of having a child then don't have sex but in society's changing times how logical can that be? My thing is birth control does not always work, so what is a women to do when when she takes steps to be careful and they are not 100% effective?
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I think that assisted suicide should be a right. I would rather have a medical professional helping me to die, rather then blow my brains all over with a gun or something and I think suicide should be a right. \n\nAs for the death penalty for abortion doctors, what are you nuts. Isn't there enough killing in the world without killing a doctor for performing a medical procedure.
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They can't.  A desperate person will resort to desperate- and dangerous methods.  How many women died from botched abortions done by amateurs, or even by themselves?  Is it worth it to have a law that protects a clump of cells, yet endangers a fully formed, living and realized person?  If Roe v. Wade is overturned, women will have no other choice than to go back to the coat hangers, and knitting needles, and whatever else was used in those unsafe, risky techniques.  History has shown that making abortion illegal will NOT stop women from having them, will NOT control the number of unwanted pregnancies, and will NOT make this country a better place.
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They should not be allowed to have an abortion unless it is to save the life of the mother. I understand accidents happen but practice safe sex and if you still get pregnant give it up for adoption. Killing your own baby in an effort to ease the problems in you life is sick and wrong. It is a sad reflection on our society that we have made this discusting act into a simple procedure like getting a tooth pulled.\nFurthermore why is the biological father not a part of this choice.\nThese pro baby murder wack jobs have just gone to far. Then they have the nerve to call it pro choice! The choice was made when you decided to have sex. Unborn children should recieve the same protection as any other citizen.\nI like your question.\nHowever it damn near has my blood boiling. I have both a daughter and a son. The fact that there are doctors out there that would do this without my consent to my child is discusting. I find it hard to believe the liberals have led this country that I love so much down a path of disolving morals.
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The Abortion Debate\nShould abortion be legal?\nShoud Roe vs. Wade be overturned?\nHere are the two sides:\n\nPro-Life: Once conceived, the fetus is a LIFE, so it's a crime to kill it.  Therefore, abortions should be illegal\n\nPro-Choice: Having a baby is not always the best thing to do (If the mom was raped and became pregnant, if she's too young or immature to be a parent, if she's a single parent and can't handle it, if she doesn't have the money to support a child, if she'll just be bringing the child into a horrible life...).  Thus, the woman should have a CHOICE in whether to give birth to the baby or to have an abortion.
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I don’t agree it’s a “woman’s choice”. First because a man is involved as well, second because a new human is involved, third because a doctor is forced to do the operation which is perhaps against his/her ethics.\nAs for snakeman’s idea, the problem is that quite a few people are viable before their teens. Kids in the womb have reaction to outside effects at quite an early time.\nAmhark is right, however, that it may lead to underground activites, as it was in previous centuries. I guess more and far better youth institutes are needed without encouraging mothers to leave their babies there.\nI’m against abortion, except for special cases, like when a woman is raped or when the baby would risk her health. If you don’t want a baby, use protection.
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Anyone who equates abortion and capital punishment likes the sound of their own voice.  There is no relation.  One is a voluntary, unilateral decision acted upon a defenseless and guiltless victim.  The other is the result of a highly scrutinized public trial that affords every right to defense to a person who committed the most abhorrent crime a human is capable of.\n\nAbortion is legal.  For myself, I think it should remain so but much greater restriction should be placed on any abortion performed after the first trimester.  I think  that after 6 months a baby should be afforded the same protections under the law that are given to the rest of society.  It is aware and capable of life outside the womb.  This should only be limited by situations that actually threaten the life of the mother.\n\nPeople convicted of capital crimes are worth nothing to society.  They should not be allowed to pose any additional threat to anyone.  Not prison guards or other inmates.\n\nNo comparison between the two.
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No.  Everyday millions of young innocent babies are not killed through abortion.  Don't exaggerate the statistics.  If this were true every woman in america would be having several abortions a year.  \n\nSecondly, aborting an unwanted pregnancy and killing an adult human being are not the same.  A fetus is not equivalent with an adult.  Even if it were, the right of a woman to do with her body as she chooses trumps the right of an other to life.  \n\nLet's ignore the issue of whether or not a fetus is a person, and just assume they are the moral equivalent of an adult.  Think about it:  if you say that the right to life of even an adult human being trumps the right of people to the privacy and control of their bodies, then you would have to say that people could be forced to donate kidneys, blood, bone marrow, etc. in order to save lives against their will.  Why do we think that people should not be forced to do these things even if it means an adult human will die?  because we hold the right to the privacy and choice of what will happen to one's body over the right to life of those who may need that body for survival.  If we are not even prepared to force people to donate blood (a minor inconvenience) to save lives, how can we force a woman to go through pregnancy and birth (a much larger inconvenience) to save lives?  And if you are ready to force people to donate blood, do you think people should be forced undergo more extreme medical procedures, like kidney donations, to save lives?  If you think this is immoral to do, then you agree that the right to bodily choice overrides even the right of other adult humans, let alone fetuses, to life
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Yes, I think women should have the right to choose.  :)
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You should have the right to choose the manner of your death. As for abortion it's a sad but necessary part of life.