Do you think "Big Brother" has any business deciding whether or not abortion is legal?
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I think if a woman can live with the decision to abort a life, then let her do it. I could never have an abortion, but I would not want "Big Brother" to tell me it is not my right to decide! This is SUPPOSE to be the "Land of the free" How is it free if everything is illegal?
655543
i never thought about it that way.thank you Spock.people all the time say that Christians are imposing their religion on abortion.you know,your right,if an atheist came forward on t.v and said that, the pro-choice would never say their imposing their views on the abortion issue.\n              God Bless
93759
I believe that a state or two should completely legalize it. however this is no free country so we may never see this. It does have medical use and for a docter not to be able to prescribe it is rediculus. They can prescribe just about anything else.\n\nIts just another " govern-mental " issue like abortion.
288533
No, that's a cop-out by the U.S. Supreme court. But it won't be for long. South Dakota state Senate voted, 23 to 12, to criminalize abortion in their state. It'll get challenged, I guarantee it.
669940
They are legal. The debate about that is over. Roe v. Wade is still the rule of law.\n\nDo I think it is murder? That is a whole other issue. I would never be able to contemplate having an abortion without feeling as though I was killing my child. I know that I would never "get over" having made that choice. I know I would need forgiveness, the question would be==> who would forgive me?  I know there are circumstances where it might be necessary, but pray I am never subject to those circumstances.\n\nIt is a tough, impossible issue. In the end, it probably should be legal, but there should be stricter hoops before it is permitted.
143472
I already do work as one! That is why I need an abortion! My parents don't know anything about me. The think I work at Pizza Hut! Look at my questions. I don't know where I can get an abortion.
766181
I for one totally agree. It a legal issue more than a religious one, in my book. But, you know the christers have to have a cause...They don't want abortion so that the kids can grow up and join thier cult. I wish they'd take it somewhere else.
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*Stepping into this* 1st it should be nobody's business what a woman does with her own body, besides that particular woman.\n2nd If you are male and trying to tell a woman what to do on this topic, simply shut up. We men will never fully understand. (Unless someday science allows males to conceive, carry and birth a baby.)\nOn the topic, I'm neither pro or con, just realize something as personal as this is a personal decision and respect that fact.\nNow, if you are for the war and/or capital punishment you should go away and rethink your values as you are a hypocrit.\nThose who are left, you have your opinion, great I respect that, but you know what they say about opinions...\n\nBut if you want to see the number of abortions go down, make our government allow "The Morning After Pill" like the rest of the civilized world has. It is the fault of each and everyone of you that abortion still exists when we know of far better methods. Take responcibility and do what is needed so we have ALL options available!\n\nWelcome to the world where right wing religious conservatives think they have a right/duty to take away everyone else's rights and force them to do what they want you to do.\nSeems to me that is not the freedom countries are founded on.\n\nIf it bothers you, be very very sure that you vote freedom of choice for every bloody official position there is, from school board to president. It is time the pendulum swung back to the middle instead of the victorian insanity we see today...\n\n*Editing in a note* See below, that was not I who is trying to make a clump of cellular tissue into a baby.
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The hope of the Pro-life camp in South Dakota (and elsewhere) is that it wll be tied up in court long enough for John Paul Stevens to retire (he is 85), and GWB will pick his replacement (who of course will be Pro-Life) giving the Supreme Court a majority of 5 who will overturn Roe v Wade.\n\nSo it isn't a matter of the proponents of the law hoping there will be no legal challenge, quite the contrary: they welcome that legal challenge.
449060
Yes it should be legal and stay that way. Women were getting abortions before it was legal and the will keep doing so. So they should be able to have them done in a clean safe place.
761724
In my utopia,I don't speak for liberals or any group,there would be no abortions.\nI really believe our goal is the same on this,as least abortions as possible but in every country that outlawed it,it still happened and in unsafe and illegal settings.\nI'm not pro abortion but outlawing it does not automatically reduce the numbers of abortions that are preformed.That's why I'm against making it a crime.\nThey will happen anyway,sad but true,I prefer them to occur in a legal and safe setting.\nI think it's hypocritical to claim babies life's will be saved by making abortion a crime when the truth is that most people having them now will still have them but with far greater risks.\nI choose focusing on healthy and open sexual education form an early age to prevent abortions.
702785
I really think the issue of abortion should have no place in\npolitics. It's a personal moral decision of each individual woman.
379298
abortion and adoption... that might work
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.
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This is an interesting point because pro-abortion people always ingore the fact that a newborn can't survive on it's own either.\n\nIt's not about a woman's rights, it's about killing babies. That's it. Some people would rather rip a babies body apart with a suction tube than take a birth control pill.\n\n(now watch, some lib will post something about rape and insest as though more than just a few abortions are as a result of rape and insest)
853168
Yes. A pregnancy would be considered evidence in a crime.
855754
They simply reject any ideation that the unborn IS a HUMAN BEING and ignore the rights of the unborn.  You will hear them equate the child to a parasite, blob of cells, or any other term that de-humanizes the infant, so killing is somehow sanitized.  No problem.  No worries.  The Nazis did the same thing to the Jews preceding and during the Holocaust.\n\nI somehow am inclined to believe if the Liberals could figure out a way to secure votes from the fetuses voting block for the DNC, the fetuses might be able to save themselves, but they can't.