If the definition of "Pro-Life" were extended to include all forms of life, then would abortion be Pro-Life?
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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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Pro-abortionists will say that the unborn baby is a product of conception.  This allows them to not have to deal with the baby issue.  They want to say that pro-lifers are anti-choice....that they are against a woman having the right to choose what happens to their body.  I think the pro-murder or anti-life (I will call them that as they like to use the anti-choice moniker) advocates don't understand that pro-lifers are trying to speak up for the choice of one who cannot be heard...the baby!  The argument that I like to use, from a Biblical sense is that God says He knew us before we were born and that He knit us together in our mother's womb.  This indicates that He began life before our actual birth.  The argument that the baby is just a product of conception...it is true.  A baby is a product of conception, the only one...you conceive a baby!  It is not the baby's fault that you made a mistake, that you were irresponsible or that some sick bas...d went and did something to a woman that he should be strung up by his ba..s for!  That baby is innocent!  The woman who aborts a baby is also, often, wracked with guilt in their later years over what they did.  Why inflict an additional pain on some poor girl/woman who has been raped, etc.?  It is illegal to break an eagle's egg because it is living and the bald eagle is endangered, but it is legal to kill a human infant in the same state...what kind of sick logic is that?
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This is the logic of the pro-abortion zealots (aka "the Democratic Party"): Either lift every single restriction on abortion or ... every woman in America will be impregnated by her father and die in a back-alley abortion!\n\nThose are your only two answers? Do you need another minute?
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Pro Life can be Pro Death Penalty because sometimes the only way to preserve life is to kill.\n\nEven the Bible says that there is a time to kill.\n\nHow can this be? \n\nGod said, "You shall not commit murder." He also said, "He who hates his brother is guilty of murder."\n\nIn God's eyes, "murder" is not "killing". "Murder" is taking value away from God's creation. Killing those who would murder is maintaining the value of life.\n\nTaking the life of an unborn child devalues life.
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I am pro choice.  I believe that every women has the right to what happens to their own body.  If that right is taken away what man should approve an abortion or even the right to carry the pregnancy to term.  What about in a case of rape, should the rapist decide what happens to the pregnancy?  He was just the sperm donor.\n\nMost men cannot make "rational" decision when asked so give them a life or death answer...  Sorry, I wouldn't, and didn't.  \n\nI also believe that every women has the right to say what they want, if they are pro choice or even pro life.  That is the American way.
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No, They are not pro life, they are really anti abortion,\nIf they were pto-life they wouldn't be executing women and incompetants in Taxes.\n\nWomen your birth control pills are next on their agenda. They say that is a form of abortion. Which it isn't. Hope you can afford LARGE families.\n\nANd yes, they don't want to be called anti-abortion. Now it is pro-life, after they just got 3,000 killed in Iraq, though I can't blame them for that. They usually have been on Bush's side regarding the war however. \n\nI am guessing they changed their name probably so they wouldn't be associated with the murder of MD's at abortion clinics and damaging or blowing them up.\n\nPeople are in favor of choice are pro-choice, not necessarily pro=abortion. I imagine the neocons would like to call them pro-death. I don't think there are a lot of people who favor abortion, they just don't want to see it dropped as an option, especially in cases of rape, sexual abuse of a child or the health of a mother's life. I have never been able to understand the rationalization for having a woman who was raped carry the rapist child to term. I think rape is terrible enough without making someone relive it daily. The same goes if the mothers life is in danger. I cannot imagine sacrificing a woman, who may have other children, who is already alive and breathing. It is beyond my comprhension how someone thinks they can make the choice that a living person, who has done nothing wrong, be given a death sentence. And they say no innocent people has been executed. What do you call that?  If they want to make the choice for themselves, go to it!\n\nOne thing is for sure, all those PRO-Lifers are still cutting programs for women, children, handicapped and elderly. Eighty (80) percent are children.\n\nFigures that they won't put their pocketbook where there mouth is.\n\nI don't use the term Pro-life myself because it is a oxy   Moron!
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I also am pro-life (anti-abortion is a better term) for many reasons:\n1. the heart beats on the 22nd day (heartbeat signifies life!)\n2. embryo is growing from day one (also signifies life)\n3. i suffered 9 years of infertility\n4. adoption waiting list for a U.S. child is TEN years!\n5. a baby is the ultimate gift\n6. so many people want children and can't have them...give the child up for adoption\n7. no child is unwanted!  someone out there will take the child if you don't want it\n8. no child asked for the mother to be irresponsible by getting pregnant with a baby she didn't want so why should the baby be punished (murdered) for her mistake, carelessness or stupidity\n9. I would not have my oldest son if his birth mother believed in abortion\n\nWhile I would never deny anyone their right to abortion, they also have no right to deny me my right to believe that abortion is cold blooded, calculated murder (except in very specific situations).
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its a hypocritical name that some people use. some people are only pro life in terms of a fetus, but they support the death penalty, which we all know has some problems.
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I don't know that is a hard one. I'm pro-life and but I'm for the death penalty (and there isn't anything wrong with that, Babies don't murder, people on death row do) I think I would, just to get rid of abortion. I think it might be worth it.
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How about this.\n\nI am personally opposed to abortion, but know where my business ends and someone Else's starts.\n\nLove and blessings Don
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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.
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You are right, if pro-lifers are going to preach that fertilized eggs are living humans, then they should treat and value them as such. Therefore, if possible, I'd save the 1,000 fertilized eggs.\n\nHowever, I'm sure I'd receive a lot of heat from the media, and pro-choicers. The decision to save the 1,000 fertilized eggs over a child would definitely anger them.
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I should make it clear that this answer doesn't represent my own opinions on the subject, but only represent the (possible) logic behind this view.\n\nYour question essentially asks how someone can justify abortion, and yet be against the death penalty.\n\nThe answer is that, unlike you, they do not equate abortion with murder.  There can be several reasons for this.  First off, they may not consider a fetus to be a person.  Many people hold this view, and there is much debate about at what point an unborn child can be considered a person.  The only line absolutley defined from a legal point of view is that once a child is actually born, it is a person.  Before this, there is a legal gray area, and thus a lot of debate and disagreement.  Someone who does not believe a fetus is a person would have no problem reconciling being for abortion and against the death penalty.\n\nAnother possibility is that the person supports abortion only in certain cases, for example, when the mother's life is at risk, or other special cases.  By this logic, putting a criminal behind bars (but not executing them) is potentially protecting a life, and so is allowing abortion in these cases.\n\nThat may not cover everything, but I think it gives some very realistic reasons why someone could be against the death penalty, and still support abortion.
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I would think that Mitt Romney is Pro-life.  Or maybe he is like me, Pro-life, and Pro Choice.  Let me explain my Pro-choice, though,.  I believe that every woman in Ameica has choices, alot of choices, Depo- Nuva Ring, The patch, ortho-trycyclien, other pills, Norplant, etcc.  There is also the choice to have your tubes tied. If none of the above work, since when does the woman have to keep the baby, she could always give it up for adoption.   And then there is the Most Effective Choice of all- ABSTINENCE.  You don't want a baby, Don't have sex.  Murder should never be considered a viable choice, since there are many other choices available to women.
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A woman has the right over her own body, regardless of whether there is a zygote, embryo, or fetus present.  It is not a "baby," regardless of the necessity of that word for emotional appeal.\n\nLook, here's my take on things: if you are so opposed to abortions, then stop trying to make them illegal and make them unnecessary.  Work to provide better free or at least affordable health care.  Work to improve sex education for our youth.  Make birth control easily accessible and cheap.  Establish better support for women who wish to give up a child for adoption.  Provide better assistance to people of low incomes who have children.\n\nTHOSE are the major contributing factors to abortion procedures, and if you and all other anti-choice protestors are so caught up in fixing things, then FIX THOSE THINGS.  \n\nI'm pro-choice, because in our society women need to have that option.  I'd love for elective abortions to be completely unnecessary--and so I am trying to fix the problems that lead to them, rather than trying to punish women already in difficult situations by removing their rights.
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I think all of that is hogwash. I'm an advocate for abortion if it's for the right reasons. Do you remember anything about being concieved, or do you remember anything about being a fetus, because I sure don't. It's "preventing" life, not killing it. And i'll take that in a second, rather than another crackbaby born into a dysfunctional family with a miserable life ahead of it.
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The answer here is very easy. When you talk about the legalisation of abortion in a country, you are not talking about whether or not abortion (or life) is a good thing or a bad thing. That is a question of ethics and/or religious belief. It is not a question of law.\n\nWhether or not to have an abortion is a choice. People who believe that abortion should be legal believe that women should have that choice. People who believe it should be a crime thus want to take away that element of choice. By defiition then, they are anti-choice.\n\nI have heard a lot of 'pro-life' people call the opposition 'anti-life'. They are specifically trying to bring the legal question back into the religious agenda, and they are overgeneralising.\n\nIt is possible to be pro-life, ethically, and pro-choice, legally.