If someone created “the perfect contraceptive” would you support it to eliminate the need for all abortions?
151966
I would support it all the way. There are too many idiots out there having kids. Yet this pill that you speak about should have to be totally free. The only requirements that should be in place is that you should be checked to see if you are competent enough to raise kids. You can see it all the time on TV, kids trying to get pregnant, women killing their own children, countless abortions. What a better world this would be.
62714
pro choice.\n\nwith 6.2 Billion people on the planet, don't you think it's about time we start thinking about population control?\n\nNow if only the rest of the planet would start thinking this way
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.
957884
Very thought provoking question! I am suprised that the responses you have received so far have been either negative or incomplete. It does pose a serious problem for conservative minded people. If the creation of a "Frankenstein" embryo by the hands of man is a religious abomination as you postulate, then supporting its existance is an equal abomination. But then comes the right to life issue. So far the responses seem to have been "well, too late to do anything about it". I think those responses are cop outs.\n\nI think that, should God make available to man the technology to perform such acts, then God must want us to be capable of doing it, otherwise he would prevent it.  Interestingly, it calls into question fundamental religious beliefs of whether or not this might be a "test" by God...\n\nI really dont have an off the cuff answer. This has provoked a lot of questions in my mind, and I have to sit back and think about it carefully for awhile. Thanks for the great question.
802536
I do not agree with abortion being used as a contraceptive. What I do agree is abortion should only be used in the following circumstances.\n\n1. If the fetus is likely to be born with severe deformaties\n2. If the mothers life is put at risk.\n3. In some cases where the fetus was the result of rape.
705476
To help someone in a time of need is a lot different than the liberal point of view.\n The liberal plan does not encourage the recipient to stop taking "charity",but to keep on taking it. That is why we have generation after generation on welfare.\n Abortions are going to happen,either naturally or medically. I think both sides of the issue should sit down to work out some sort of compromise to allow medical abortions for legitimate reasons,not on demand.\n  A woman who needs an abortion should be able to get one that is safe and would allow her to have children later if circumstances allow it.
416176
nothing.  it's a power that women have, not a right.  So make all the rules you want, women will still take care of business.  FYI if no one had an abortion, there'd be 25% more people.
770153
Abortion is murder so the answer is yes.\n\nSolution is also simple: want no kids? have no sex! or make sure of double or even triple protection (pill, condom etc...)
297426
I love the idea. If you can't support a child, you can't have them. Sounds cold and logical.
498580
Abortion should be a woman's choice. There should be a separation of church and state when it comes to this issue. Morality is something that each individual must realize for him/herself and not have it pushed on them by some other person. I don't think I could go thru with an abortion except under certain circumstances, but that would be my choice. Who am I or anyone else to judge a woman who has one? If people are going to be throwing around quotes for this here is one to add: Judge not lest ye be judged. I think the whole world would be better if people stopped worrying about what other people were doing and governed themselves in more civilized fashions. \n\nBy the way I like your question and following comments. It was funny and philosophical.
146414
It very well could be ... that's why we need to get involved NOW ... for every vocal pro-lifer out there ... there are hundreds of silent pro-choicers ... you need to advocate!!!
379298
abortion and adoption... that might work
944843
Although I am a Christian and truly believe that at the moment of conception a human being is created, I really struggle with this issue. So, after years of fierce internal struggles, here's what I believe.\n\nAbortion, no matter what the reason, ends a life. But I do not feel that you can legislate whether or not abortion should be legal. The decision to abort or not to abort is a moral issue, a decision that rests on the shoulders of the woman carrying the child. The consequences--if the woman chooses to abort--are between the woman and God. \n\nWhat needs to happen in America and around the world for that matter, is a massive effort to educate people with viable information that will prevent unwanted pregnancies. Prevention is our only hope.
464946
i don't agree. every child should be a wanted child. it should have two parents who can love and provide for it. done early enough, an abortion is the most sensible and ethical thing to do.
184171
This is a false dichotomy; you're presenting two options as if they couldn't both be true, or both be false, as if some third option could not exist.\n\nAbortion is definitely homocide. You're killing a human being.\n\nBut it does need to be legal, for the same reason Thomas Jefferson knew he couldn't ban slavery when he was president. \n\nToo many people depend upon it, and think that it's acceptable...banning it would probably cause MORE abortions, as doctors would start doing them secretly for their patients. Even more certainly, it would be yet another reason for expanding the police state, as it would be even more impossible to prevent than drug use and terrorist attacks.\n\nSomeday, as with slavery, we will have the technology and social responsibility to end abortion. \n\nWith slavery it was industrialization which allowed the kind of moral evolution necessary to be convenient, in this case it'll be the discovery of more foolproof contraception and some viable alternative, like being able to raise "unwanted" babies in artificial wombs.\n\nPeople are too irresponsible to just give up something, no matter how evil it is, when they've grown to depend on it as a society. Something has to come along and make it easy.
232964
YES. I think that birth control should be mandatory for females AND MALES from puberty on. And if a couple wants children, they should have to APPLY FOR A LICENSE.
1079817
That's one of the reasons I'm pro-choice. Abortion may be the wrong personal choice for me, but who am I to tell someone who can't afford the medical care to have a child -- much less care for it after birth -- that they must have one?\n\nOn an semi-unrelated note -- Ever notice how it's the people who are against abortion are also the ones against educating about birth control in schools and also usually -- but not always -- the ones most likely to limit welfare benefits?\n\nAdoption is nice, but since everyone seems to want to adopt perfect little babies -- not kids whose parents have abandoned them, or kids who have spent time in the foster care system -- it doesn't seem viable to have that as the only solution. **EDIT to clarify** My point here is that even when people do decide to adopt, they often overlook or choose not to adopt at-risk or high-needs children, older children or children who have been  in the foster care system. So simply saying every child that would be aborted should be put up for adoption doesn't seem a viable solution to me.