I am doing a debate project on abortion. Can anyone give me a reason against the fact that laws allow it?
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Do you really want to see back street abortions? My God what if your sister (God forbid) was raped and fell pregnant, what if the baby was so badly deformed it would spend the rest of it's life in and out of hospital having painful treatment.\n\nI have a friend who tried for years to get pregnant and when she found out she was she decided she didn't want it after all and had an abortion. People like that make me sick, she was just selfish and wanted a new toy.\n\nYou have to look at each case, everyone is different. I'd give the world to have a baby but I can't and it makes me sick when someone casually says "the baby, oh I changed my mind and got rid of it." I just think FFS why didn't you give it to me.
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this is all philisophical, so there really isn't a "right" answer.  I don't agree with abortion in any case, but if I was to excuse any reasons it would be only two.  One would be rape, child or adult, because the woman couldn't prevent that.  Two, is in the circumstance of placeing the mother in mortal danger of carrying the child.
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Yes. \n\nFirst of all, outlawing R. vs W. would NOT make abortion illegal, despite what many people think. It would simply mean that the states could decide whether or not to make it legal. If your state thinks it's fine, then it stays legal. If your state is against it, they could restrict or outlaw it. Outlawing it simply makes it an issue for the people of each state to decide on, which basically makes it more subject to the will of the people.\n\nSecondly, murder is not an inalienable right granted by the constitution.
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I have given it some thought because my ex-husband had pushed me to have an abortion (after we were married and had other children).  For myself, I could not choose abortion.  But I don't think that the laws are in effect to support (collecting child support is a 50-50 chance in this country) or protect children.\n\nAnd, up to a point, abortion is not much different than the pill or other contraceptive methods.  You still create an egg, that egg can still be fertilized.  It is just "aborted" early enough that you don't think of it that way.\n\nI think if you forbade people (with laws) from having abortions, we would just go back to a time of self-abortions, or abortions in dirty clinics with illegal people (mainly not doctors) performing them and a lot of young girls would lose their lives.\n\nSo given those options, I choose to allow abortion to continue legally.\n\nBut, like you, I sit on the fence, because there are a lot of consequences we don't usually think about.
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There are more reasons than "I didn't want the baby" that women have abortions.  Health (of mother and fetus), rape, age, lifestyle, are some factors in why a woman chooses to abort.  If Abortion wasn't legal, She wouldn't have the law and health care providers looking out for her overall welfare (for her and her unborn fetus).  In the grand scheme of things, it's only in recent history that women have even been consider as actual people with rights.  We have made great strides in that arena in a very short period, but the fact of the matter is...men unfortunately still hold governmental power, and if abortion wasn't legal, we would be taking HUGE leaps backward in equal civil rights for ALL humans regardless of race, or sex.  When most people think of abortion, they think that women use it as a form of birth control...and while I"m not argueing that they don't (because a small percentage do) But most people don't realize that there are many factors that go into making that kind of decision, and if it's taken away from us, then in effect, we are being told that we don't have a right to choose. Women can't get pregnant without a man...whether it be through physical contact, or insemination.  Taking away the right to an abortion takes away the right for us to decide what we want to do with our body...It's easy for a man to get a woman pregnant. It's not always easy for a woman to give birth, and a lot of women have died trying.    Might as well take away our right to vote, or our right to hold a job, or our right to not have a man tell us what to do and when to do it (which at one point in history was a law).  Abortion is about women, plain and simple...We are the only ones that have the power of giving birth...and until men can start giving birth, they are going to do everything they can to take away our rights as individuals with that power, and this is one way they are trying. And you can better believe that if men ever become capable of giving birth, there would be no way abortion would even be talked about as an issue...it would just be law, plain and simple...because making abortion illegal is only about how men can control women.
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Did you know that there is a perfectly legal killer in America today? In fact, it kills over 1 million people in the US per year. This is not a disease or a natural killer. This is murder. This murderer kills about 1.25 million people per year, every year. It is abortion and it is perfectly legal in the United States today. It has been the topic of discussions across the country for years. Everyone from simple workers to presidential candidates is asked their views on this subject. At every presidential election, candidates must give an opinion on this matter. It is a huge subject. The problem is why it is such a big topic and why is it still legal. What is abortion? It is the purposeful killing of an unborn child. Killing its life before it even has the chance to live it. Women across America say that they should have a choice and that they should be able to decide. What about the choice of that child? They should have the chance at a life and a future as well. Abortion is wrong and the practice should be stopped in this country as well as others. This essay will look at this practice and show why it needs to be stopped right now.\n\nMurder in the US is illegal. You cannot go out and kill someone just because you don’t want them around. A person might be bothersome or an inconvenience for you to deal with, but you cannot kill them. Why doesn’t this apply with abortion too? In polls of why women have abortions, 93% said that it was do to social reasons. That means that the child would be an inconvenience or would make it hard for them to work and be social. They are saying that they have to kill a child because it would make it hard for them to go out and be social. It is just like murder. They don’t want the child around, so they kill it. Why are people not punished and why isn’t it illegal.\n\nOne of the major reasons people say that abortion should be legal is for the victims of rape and incest. These people are victims and they should be treated as such. They were a victim of a horrible crime and they won’t forget that, but using this as an example to justify abortion is not valid. These types of instances only account for a total of 1% of all abortions. People in this situation should be allowed exceptions to rules, but you cannot use it to justify abortion when it is only 1% of the people who get abortions. The majority of the women who use abortion are not victims, they decided not to use protection or had sexual contact with a contraceptive and they won’t take the responsibility of their actions. They just think that it would be easier to kill the child so they don’t have to own up to their mistake.\n\nThe other major debate is whether or not the fetus is a “human” at the time of abortion. As of now, the US does not classify the child as a human during the abortion. This would classify the abortion as homicide because homicide is a human killing another human. During the pregnancy, the child is determined to be a fetus and not a human. It does get tricky though. Science and medicine say that a person is defined by its genetic make-up. Medicine and science have also proven that the fetus gets almost all of its genetic make-up at the time of conception. So wouldn’t that make the fetus a human? Secondly, the US law states that abortion is legal up until 24 weeks of pregnancy. That is almost 6 months. Science has proven that the fetal period begins at about the 8 week mark. This means that by this 8 week mark, the fetus has developed and almost all of its human parts are developed. Almost no new structures will form. It also proven that the fetus has a small brain and can feel pain and vibrations. It also has a vague hearing and senses. This sounds like a person, but some say that it is just a fetus. Keep in mind, this is still only at 8 weeks, abortion is legal until 24 weeks. That is a lot of time for the fetus to be developing. At the 24 week point, the baby is very developed. It is a little over a p
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If you're talking about abortion it's allowed in the following cases:\n1-Continuation of pregnancy can lead to the mother's death (Where it becomes obligatory to do it, since mother's life is more important than the baby's).\n2-Any time before the 40th day, if it was proved that the baby will be retarded. Why the 40th? It was proved scientifically that the embryo becomes human (Religiously speaking, was given a soul by God)\n3-Any extreme necessities that requires the abortion. \nAny other situations it's not OK.\nI already said, it's believed in Islamic faith that the soul enters the body in the 40th day.
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Abortion is totally against halacha. The only exception is if it would be a threat to mother's life but even this is not a straight and simple answer.  It's a very complex issue, involving many factors.
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Well here's a few places you can start looking for information.  Further down there's a colored world map concerning abortion laws.  And even further down is a chart by continent with specific laws and yes or no.
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Against abortion!  With the exception of rape.  \n\nIt must be extremely hard to carry a baby for 9 months out of that circumstance.  \n\nAlthough if I was in this situation, I would still carry the baby & consider adoption, I could never kill an unborn!
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The privacy laws are a thinly disguised method of hiding abortion statistics, so nobody will know the true scale of all the death and destruction that's going on in this country.\n\nYour issue is simply another example of a way this wrong headed law injures society.
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I don't know the answer to this particular question, but for information on all aspects of abortion, see:\n\nhttp://Abort73.com
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I'd like to warn you that my opinion about abortion is based on reason, and very few people approach the abortion debate using reason. For most people, it's an emotional debate fueled by guilt. The emotions on the issue tend to run so deeply most people forget which is which. So I do apologize for any hurt feelings which result from my dealing with abortion reasonably.\n\nI support a woman's right to have control over their reproductive capacity. Abortion does not affect citizens (a person is not a citizen until they are born) or the intrinsic assets of the nation, so there is no legislative basis for there to be any laws taking rights away from a citizen (the pregnant woman)\n\nFurthermore, abortion is not murder. Murder is the willful taking of one human's life by another human. I've seen pictures, and the fetus might look vaguely human, but physiologically a fetus is more like a salamander than a human. I know that sounds harsh, but there's also a degree to which deep down you know that it's true.\n\nNeurologically, the child isn't complete until it's a year old, and continues developing for about 25 years. So while it's still in the womb, it's certainly not a developed human. It's a part of our natural development for the brain to be undeveloped at birth because otherwise the head could never have fit through the opening. \n\nI asked the question "What makes humans distinct from other animals?" I received many interesting answers: The awareness that we are different from other animals, the ability to make rational decisions, the ability to suppress our animal nature, the ability to conceptualize good and evil, large brains, the ability to create art, the ability to question one's existence, speech, self improvement, and so on. At a glance, it's fairly obvious that a fetus does not have any of these qualities. In doing further research, I came across this website which I strongly recommend: http://7e.devbio.com/article.php?id=162\n\nA fetus has the potential of becoming human, but being human is a very special thing and a fetus isn't there yet. Being human is more than just a matter of our genetic make-up. It's about the way we think. Without the way we think, we are like any other animal. \n\nGiven that most people believe in the existence of a soul, It becomes an issue to consider when a person gets a soul. If you believe that only humans have souls, then the fetus doesn't have one because it's not yet human. It has the potential to become human, but it's not there yet. If you believe that all creatures have souls, then it goes to wherever souls go. If you believe in Karma, then that life served a purpose which it was there to do and can karmically celebrate that it's life accomplished what it was destined to accomplish.\n\nDon't get me wrong, I don't want anyone to think that I'm advocating killing babies. Babies are cute and respond well to people, kinda like puppies, and I am also opposed to killing puppies. In fact I have often been very supportive of all things child related and puppy related. But when it comes right down to it, and we consider the neural biology, certain facts become apparent. But I want to make it very clear that I am in no way advocating infanticide, which is much nicer than the bible which doesn't even mention infanticide despite the fact that it was commonly practiced at the time. In fact, until about a hundred years ago, I can't recall this ever having been much of an issue ever in the history of the world. But now, as infant mortality rates are at an all time low, and population is soaring out of control, now is the time in human evolution when people decide to stand up and say that abortion is wrong.\n\nChristians claim to take truth from the bible, and the bible makes no reference to abortion (which according to Wikipedia did exist in ancient times http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aborti
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The UK is once again debating over its abortion laws. It is allowed in this country currently up 24 weeks providing 2 doctors give their consent that to not abort would be of detrrement to the womans physical or mental health, that it would harm the child or their family. \nseems about right to me.
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For the record I am against all abortion.  But from what I've read thus far on the subject, it seems that the opponents of the abortion are looking at the baby and arguing it is cruel to them.  Supporters are arguing it is safest for the woman (since they may not consider the fetus a baby until it is born).\n\nThey do crush the skull and/or cut it open and remove the brain into a vacuum.  With the subsequent smaller head it is much easier to remove the baby/fetus (whichever you'd like) from the uterus.  The only other way that I know of is to cut up the baby part by part inside and remove each part one by one.  The baby is killed first so its pain is limited in that second one.\n\nIt does seem to me that since both styles hurt the child about the same, that in essence the opponents aren't trying to end one as being too cruel to the kid; rather they are trying to limit abortions and make each abortion type illegal one by one rather than the stop all abortions at once (which has repeatedly failed at the Supreme Court level).  I guess its up to each of us to decide what we believe is right and then to fight for that.  I've chosen no abortions, but I fully understand when others want to make exceptions or make it fully legal; we each go for what we think is right.
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I don't know where they get the idea that women use abortion as birth control and are just out there whacking fetuses every month.  I would give anything to have a child but if I were faced with a life threatening non-viable pregnancy I would hope that I would be able to receive safe competent medical care rather than have to seek the services of some shaman with a coat hanger or an herbal tea.  Women have been terminating pregnancies for good reasons since the dawn of time and will do so til the end of time as needs be.  Abortion is not wrong...forced full term pregnancies for 12 year olds carrying their own siblings is wrong...under certain state laws an abortion is not attainable even in the case of incest...no exceptions...now how is that healthy?
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Hell yes abortion should be illegal! It's murdering a human being, no matter how you look at it! A woman knows what causes her to become pregnant, and if she doesn't want a baby, she should stop being a  s l u t  and close her legs! I understand  there's issues with rape and what not, but you have a point, that's still a child, and it's not that child's fault that he/she is a product of rape. Adoption would be a great idea I would think for situations like that.\n\nIt would be bad for a doctor to take a newborn baby and strangle him or her to death or bash his or her head in on the floor wouldn't it? So what's the damn difference with an abortion, just because you can't see the baby yet, it means it's not a person? Anyone who supports abortion is a total idiot, they should support murder of every kind then if they don't want to be a hypocrite!