How come we have abortion is legal but not the right to die?
463334
Very good question!!!!\nMy nephew was 28 wks at birth and he died, he was a whole little man. All his fingers and toes, etc. and it is legal to abort at this stage in LIFE.\nAnd if my pet is suffering I can have them put to sleep.\nBut I am forced to watch a loved one die because we can't even do for them as we would a pet!!!!!! Hmmmmmm\nOUR GOVERNMENT?????????
892827
The right to life isn't absolute so people can still be killed ie death penalty or resuscitation it depends on the circumstances.\n\nThe right for freedom applies to everyone in the country where the law applies.
1075646
While the father doesn't have the right to contest an abortion, he DOES have the right to stop an adoption and volunteer to take custody of the child, so that sort of negates that one.  Otherwise, all I can say is that no one ever said life was fair.
435055
I agree. I find it interesting that it is okay to abort a fetus while it is in the womb but not when it is out of the womb. This makes no sense to me. It seems to me that if it is  to be legal then parents should be allowed to have an abortion up until the fetus is 18 years old.
990079
that is because people dont think that baby should have the right to live cuz they cant speak their opion and we cant see them so its not lilke there even there so wat does the mother care.. because she might be too igornant to the bible and have sex before marrige and not want the child so here is the way out... but the death penalty those ppl can speak there opion so they can get out of death cuz we can see them and see their "sorrow" or watever-----------this world is messed up
246628
I would never, ever have an abortion, but I don't have the right to make that decision for other women.  \n\nIf you believe abortion is murder, it's your right not to have one.  It is not, however, your right to force any women or girl to play host to a fetus for nine months.\n\nDo you really think a child is better off being born only to be tied up in a plastic bag and thrown in a dumpster?
225383
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!
824462
I agree with you that abortions are wrong. I strongly believe that it is cruel and takes away the life of a child. Everyone should have the right to live and I believe it is selfish of someone to take away a child's entire life because they don't want 9 months of suffering. If they can't take care of the child there is always adoption. To those who say that a women should have the right to chose, what about the unborn child, shouldn't he have some rights or at the very least the right to live. Now this is also disapproved by religion as it goes against the 10 commandments as so forth but it is more then that, its a matter of love and selflessness, its morality and common sense. Abortion is murder and murder is wrong.
127922
My answer is no although I know there are many people out there who would disagree with me. The whole thing about choice is a bunch of crap. I mean, it's just saying that you are putting YOUR wants ahead of anything else. It was your CHOICE to have sex, therefore, it's your CHOICE to have a baby because you know that that is what sex could produce. I believe that no matter what you want to call the thing in your uterus (zygote, egg, whatever) it is still a human child. It has a right to live.
718450
All it proves is that they have enough people that want to see it on the ballot. That doesn't prove that the majority wants it to be legal. In fact, polls consistently show that Americans hold pro-life viewpoints in most pregnancy cases, and that viewpoint continues to grow. Remember, Roe v. Wade wasn't voted on by the people, either. It was the result of action be liberal, activist Supreme Court justices.
311004
I am against it 'because we have no right to kill people. It is unethical for any doctor to declare that a patient is going to die or can't survive for long. Doctors keep on struggling to see a patient alive.So how can any one end somebodies life prematurely.It is UNETHICAL.
319455
Right to Die is probably going to be a big zero with so many Catholics on the Court.\nRemember in the U.S. you do NOT have a right to something (positive right), rather you have protection from government interference because the government is restrained by the Constitution (negative right).  The government has been found to have an interest in preventing suicides, and as long as rich people need miserable poor people to cut their grass that's unlikely to change.
694624
Are you trying to open a can of worms here? LOL Seriously I personally don't like the thought of abortion. I think too many women use it as a from of birth control. BUT...I think every woman should have the right to choose! Its her body and that child would be her responsibility forever. I suppose she could give it up for adoption, but some women aren't strong enough to live with that decision. It all boils down to a persons rights. We should all be able to make our own choices! And a partial birth abortion is entirely different in my opinion of one at 9-10 weeks...all have their own opinion though..
809936
Abortion is killing a person at a very tender age.  It is stoppage of life at its earliest stage.
489474
I used to be strongly against abortion because it was killing life. And I thought that if the girl had got herself into it(unless it's rape), she shouldn't kill her baby just to make life easier for her. But after a lot of thinking, I decided that it should be legal. And while I am still against killing life, I realized that if a woman did not get an abortion, so many bad things could happen to the baby after it was born. The woman could kill it by dumping it somewhere. Even if she kept the baby, she could ignore it and not really take care of the baby, which is basically killing it anyway. There are so many factors like that, so now I believe that the woman should have a right to choose even though the baby does not have the right to choose.
828760
Abortions are legal in all 50 states, to varying degrees. That's because the right to choose is constitutionally protected.\n\nStates can set various limits, such as parental notification for minors, informed consent, short waiting periods, etc. But states cannot outlaw something that is protected by the US constitution.
1027900
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)