What  is your opinion on abortions &  the people who have them?
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For every person that answers this question, the answers will be guided strictly to the left or to the right, or down the middle.  As a health care provider who has worked in pediatrics for a number of years, I have witnessed some devasting interruption of life to both child and mother.  I have seen cases that I felt that abortion should have been an option--when a child of 10 or 11 gives birth--many times resulting in premature birth with mental and physical retardation of the baby.  In one particular case the mother was 12 when she gave birth, the child died at birth and was resuscitated.  The baby ended up living to 6 months of age, with a feeding tube, and contracted (the whole body was stiff as a board and could not be moved), and severe brain damage.  The mother's mother tried to "help", she was alcohol and drug dependent, and unintentionally kept yanking out the feeding tube.  She would call our local hospital, who would call the doctor and we would meet her at the office and replace the tube.  The baby died of pneumonia in the hospital with the mother and myself there and she allowed me to hold him as he struggled to die as he had stuggled to live.  I felt blessed to see and hold his tiny body give up the spirit of life and find God's blessing in death.  His mother at that time had just turned 13 and was 4 months pregnant.  \nAs a woman who is infertile who prayed and begged for a child for 15 years (I'm 44 now), through pregnancy or adoption, I also become emotionally upset at the thought of terminating a pregnany unless medically needed.\nSo, to sum how I feel up:  each person must answer and live with the decision they make (or has been made for them).  However, I very much BELIEVE that anyone should be forgiven for a mistake in a first pregnancy, but after conception the first time, there is no mistake to end up pregnant.  It's time to grow up irregarless of age.
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It is a good question that I too have. Some of the answers have clarified the matter somewhat.\n\nI am also pro choice. I believe in choice of action and deed, choice of religion and choice to decide how your body is used.  As a biologist I have no issues with abortions for medical, genetic or psychological reasons. I think that if by the first trimester you have not figured out what you want, then it is too late. Except for medical reasons, this is a touchy area. I disagree with the statement that your destiny is prechoosen. That an aborted baby could have cured HIV. That same baby could have just as easily turned into an oppressive dictator. It is a moot argument as it has no basis in fact. I may cure AIDS next month, but it has little to do with my parents choices years ago.\nI used to have strong feelings that I would not only support a womens right to choose, that I would sleep soundly after the procedure was done on someone I cared for. Unless for genetic or medical reasons, I now feel it is not an appropriate form of birth control except in cases of rape, or medical reasons.\n\nAs for capital punishment. I fear our justice system is not sound. While I think that murder should be dealt with swiftly and with equal justice, I feel that too many innocent people are railroaded by the system. Poor people, minorities, lesser educated are often singled out and targeted and end up convicted. Mistaken identy for a crime is scary as I can attest. If it had been a more serious offense, the unreliability someone typing data into a computer could have ruined my life. That said, for those where guilt can be proven 100% (i.e. you rob a bank in LA on live tv and shoot someone- kinda hard to not be guilty of that) then you should be executed without years on death row.\n\nSo in the end, I guess I belive in moderated killing of fetus' and moderated killing of adults.
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This is your opinion.\nNot held by a few, I might add, especially considering that just about 50 percent of "people who are against abortion" are males and a good percentage of the remainding 50 percent are married women or children.\nSo poltitics and religion aside, you are probably correct in your assesment.
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I hope no body who has an abortion regrets - as that is one thing that can not be reversed - make up your mind before you do it - some are done for very good reasons - it should not be used as a birth control but if that's what it's come to than so be it- guys(mine) view
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Hi are you talking about abortion as in getting rid of a baby? well if you are coming from someone who has had 2 it has it's pro's and con's it is helpfull if you are too young and not at all ready for a child but it can also have some very bad emotional effects and cause depression that is what happened to me. There is also the factor that it can cause infertility if you get a very bad infection which is highly possible if the instruments are not clean. At the end of the day it is a personal decission but i wouldn't reccommend it to anyone. Hope this helps
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Good question, good thinking.  I certainly don't like the idea of abortion, but the alternative possibility of the outcome is scary. \n\nFirst all more ignorant women will bring their babies to term and discard them or  kill them.  \n\nReopening of Orphanages and the financial burden in society. Would you like to spend your childhood parentless wondering why mom and dad didn't want you?   Pro Lifers say oh, people will adopt the babies, but the truth is, the majority of the people who are adopt are white.  The majority of the babies put up for adoption are black or hispanic.  The majority of white couples do not want to adopt any child other than white because people know that their children were adopted.  The other problem is that couples do not want to adopt in the United states because it is too easy for the birth mother to reclaim her child after she has given up rights.  You cannot imagine the mental horror.  \n\nSo - what I am saying, we SHOULD NOT punish or outlaw abortions.  To do so is inhumane.  Unfortunatly and contrary to popular belief, Not all life is meant to be.\n\nKnowing what I know now, I would rather be humanly killed than left in an orphanage to rot, or being pulled between different gaurdians.  \n\nWe need to promote birth control and the morning after pill so that a fertilized egg does not have time to develop into a fetus. \n\nLook at it this way:  Just because you have and mix all the ingredients to make a cake, if you don't bake it, it's still not a cake.
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1.) Not sure that they feel pain, if they did I would think it would kill them because they are so fragile \n2.)The child is alive when there is a heartbeat.\n3.)That is life, a heartbeat, we know that someone is dead if they have no pulse and are alive if they do right?.\n4.) I don't think it should be legal except in the case of rape (which by the way you should have gotten the morning after pill if you went to the doctor anyway) or if it will cause the mother to die. \n5-6.)Yes, murder is taking the life of someone else. If they have a heartbeat and you take it from them for your own personal gain then yes. it is murder. especially in the case of partial birth abortion. That is just brutal.\n 8.)The government does need a say because they need to make the law,\n7.) should men? That is a hard one. A lot of men want children so badly and the only way to have your own child is if a women carries it but should they be able to tell a woman not to have a child? Absolutely not. So since a woman has the right to say you are relinquished of all resposibilities to this child part of me says the father should have the same rights but it is the womans body unfortunatly.\n10.) I can't stand the idea of abortion because I love children so much and I see so many people using it as a form of birth control and saying that it is a womans choice... well they also had the choice to wear a condom, to take a form of birth control (both free at family planning) and also the choice to not have sex! This is where I justify rape victims as they didn't have a chance to choose but all the other already made thier choice. Now they want to choose death for thier child because they are too young!?! Well then maybe you are too young for sex too. \n\nHow it affects me? High blood pressure and tears on my pillow at night.\n\nDoes no one rember ADOPTION is a possibility!?! All this "well the child would be abused" crap or "I couldn't give it a good life because I was too young" is rediculous! There are women all over crying for a child every night...did you forget about them!?
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No one has the right to make a "choice" that kills another innocent human being.  It's amazing how completely ignorant most pro-aborts seem to be when it comes to prenatal development and pain perception:  \n\nhttp://www.advocatesfortheinnocent.com/fetalpain.html\nhttp://www.justthefacts.org/clar.asp\nhttp://www.abort73.com/HTML/I-A-2-prenatal.html\nhttp://www.studentsforlife.uct.ac.za/foetal%20dev%20photos.html\nhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/3847319.stm\nhttp://www.lifeissues.org/ultrasound/11weeks.htm\nhttp://www.cbrinfo.org/Resources/pictures.html\nhttp://www.abort73.com/HTML/I-A-4-video.html\n\nThe average age of an aborted baby in America is 10 weeks.  By that point, the child is fully formed and can even suck her thumb.  If her palm is pricked, she will pull her hand away and open her mouth.  In an ultrasound video of an abortion at 11 weeks, the child can be seen struggling violently to escape the suction instrument, while her heartrate doubles and she opens her mouth wide.  Unfeeling, unaware, and unformed?  Hardly!  However--even if the child was unaware and not fully developed, it would still be wrong to kill her.  Shooting a premature infant in her sleep is no less murderous than strangling a full-grown adult while he is awake.\n\nSince when does being "unwanted" make people less worthy to live than everyone else?  Should we kill homeless people and elderly people who are "unwanted," too?  Let's be honest, too--there is no such thing as an "unwanted" baby in the U.S. There are two million couples waiting to adopt right now, including couples who want to adopt children with health problems such as HIV, Down Syndrome, and spina bifida.  \n\nNewborn babies cannot survive without their mothers, either.  Left alone, they will die.  They are completely dependent.  Does that mean it's okay to kill them, too?\n\nWhere is the compassion?  Where is the logic?  Pro-aborts are completely twisted, yes.
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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?
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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)
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Here are my thoughts. Abortion is a great thing. There are a lot of young people who get pregnant (for whatever reason) and they should not have a baby. They are either too young, or don't have the money, or don't the the stability to be a good parent for tehir would-be-child. It would be better off for the mother to have an abortion in order to save her from ruining her life than it would for her to have the child and ruin both lives? I do not believe it is murder. When you become pregnant you have a fetus inside you which a lump of cells that are growing. That is why it is called a fetus and not a baby. \n\nI posted a question you might be interested in...http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Ak5wtwSGer6KbOR7E5Azqsrsy6IX?qid=20061105134759AAqPvKb
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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.
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I am not a believer in abortion.  It is an easy way out.  I am a single mother and even though it is hard to raise a child on my own, I would never have considered aborting my baby.  How many people out there have ever really seen what an abortion does to an unborn child?  It's positively horrifying, and no other word besides "murder" describes it.  It is not just about a woman's body, there is another life involved!  One that feels pain, has a heartbeat, and is completely defenseless and dependant on it's mother.  Yes, you are right.  Women SHOULD take care of their responsibilities.  Never is abortion ok, not when you consider that that baby can feel everything as it's being ripped apart.
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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..
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Pro-choice. If I was raped I might not want to have the baby. I probably would-because the baby didn't do anything, and I'd probably end up giving it up for adoption, but I still want to be able to choose. And why should anyone have the right to make that choice for other women? I'm also pro-choice because with abortion legal at least its quick, safe and doesn't kil the mother or simply deform the fetus. before legal abortions there were still abortions, they just were unsafe and killed many desperate young women, and those who didnt die faced criminal charges.
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I think a few people are against abortion because they think its murder..I think,along with the majority they are wrong..
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I think it is such a sensitive subject because babies are involved.  Children are something worth fighting for and I think that is where poeple become passionate.  I agree, we are all human and make mistakes.  I am against abortion completely, but God tells us to hate the sin, not the sinner.  Abortion is sad, and I would like to do away with it.  With that said, I think it is wrong to do just as much harm in attacking the people invloved.  I think this is a subject that is sensitive to not just Christians, but all people.  I think it is crazy to bomb an abortion clinic becuase you think abortion is wrong.  \nI have known people in my personal life that have had abortions, and while I do not agree with their actions, I would never try to judge them.  I believe that if I stand up for what I believe and try to get abortion taken out in a Godly way, God will reward that and do his work.  I think people in their attempt to fight for Gods will, bless their hearts, end up going to far and sometimes forget why and who they are fighting for.  \nOnce again, we are all human and fall short.