If an Abortion really is Cruel and Painful to the Baby then why do we allow it?
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There is no evidence that the fetus feels anything.  Most studies are to the contrary, that the fetus feels nothing.\n\nIt's allowed because what a person chooses to do medically is a decision protected by the privacy of the doctor/patient relationship.
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It is an interesting dichotomy wherein pro-choicers want abortions on demand, and they question/argue about when a fetus is considered a human being.\n\nHowever, if a pregnant woman is attacked in some manner by someone, and the fetus dies, then the pro-choicers want the attacker charged with murder for killing the fetus they are all too willing to kill in the first place.  \nThe difference?...they'll state that the woman wanted to keep the baby, now they call it a baby because it's wanted, but unwanted, they'll call it a fetus.  Interesting
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Abortion is murder. \nIf you would only observe a few you would be against it after you watched a few little arm and legs writhe and wiggle in pain as they are butchered. They can't scream you know, all they can do is to twitch and shake as they are ripped apart. If they could cry you could hear it.
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Why did that guy above me have to be mean?  I read much dumber stuff on here!  \nI don't think abortion should be used as birth control.  But take a minute and think, please.  There are many, many people who CAN'T read this, and abortion had nothing to do with it.\nThe body ALSO aborts, but on its own.  We don't punish the body for miscarriages, do we?  I have to say I am not so righteous to believe I have all the facts and all the knowledge about abortion and the people who have them.  Not my business, it's theirs.  And I know people who have had abortions - it was NOT an easy decision, but best for everyone involved, including the unborn.\nThere are so many unwanted already.
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I think abortion is bad! It is a terrible and cruel thing to do, i don't know how some people have the heart to do that! I would never be able to do that to a poor tiny baby who did nothing wrong! \n\nThe only time i feel abortion is okay is like you have said when there is rape.  Then i can understand and it must take real guts to get rid of a baby.  That must be difficult and i sympathise for the people who have to go through with that.  \n\nThe government should make it illegal to have an abortion under certain circumstances.
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People can..and do ..go outside and kill whoever they want(they call it murder),they also get abortions(i think to worry about someone elses baby while it's still in that person,is just plain nosey.)It's still attacted to the mother,her body,her choice.This choice is essential for multiple reasons,the more they are restricted the harder it is to get them,meaning the more dangerious it is for those seaking one,you someday in your life may need the very abortion your so apposed to,would'nt it be nice to have a clinic that offered this procedure in a sanitary and non bias envoriment?If you think i have no right,i was almost an abortion,choice is the word here,people should have it.but if somone is'nt ready for one reason or another to be a parent they should be able to make that choice without the judgment of others.
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A fetus is alive since the minute it is conceived. There for for it is a life at an early stage.  It is not a woman's choice to kill but it is a woman's choice to give that child to a couple who does not have to blessing of conceiving there on child. It is not the fetus(childs)fault so he/she should not pay for this. Now is certain situations where the mother was abused there are many other options for that baby. Every baby has the right to live and no one but God can make that choice.
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They're selfish.  Most would reconsider if they saw what happens to the baby in an abortion.\n\nI'm saddened by the "Pro Abortion" mantra "Don't tell me what to do with my body".  What about all those baby girls who will never have a 'choice' because the life was sucked out of their little bodies?\n\nKathy Ireland, Supermodel \n"I was once pro-choice. And the thing that changed my mind was, I read my husband's biology books, medical books and what I learned is simply what it states - this isn't even morally -- this is pure biology.  At the moment of conception, a life starts. And this life has its own unique set of DNA, which contains a blueprint for the whole genetic being.  The sex isdetermined.  Now people ask the question, well, is it a human being?  We know there's a life because it's growing and changing." \nFrom ABC's television weeknight show, "Politically Incorrect", May 1, 1998 \n-----------------------------------------------------------\nCountry singer Naomi Judd appeared on the Sally Jesse Raphael show on March 6, 1998 She explained that when she became pregnant as an unwed teenager, abortion was "not an option for me." \nShe went on to say that she has "worked as a labor and delivery nurse...I've seen ultrasounds...you know that those babies are real." She reminded the audience that if she had had an abortion, the world would have been deprived of the great singing talent of her daughter and fellow performer Winona Judd.  \n-----------------------------------------------------------\nDolores O'Riordan: Lead Vocalist, The Cranberries: "I am in no position to judge other women, you know. But I mean, why did she get pregnant? It's not good for women to go through the procedure [abortion] and have something living sucked out of their bodies. It belittles women. Even though some women say, 'Oh, I don't mind to have one,' every time a woman has an abortion, it just crushes her self-esteem smaller and smaller and smaller." (Source: You! June/July 1996) \n\nDisclaimer:\nAnswerer holds no responsibility to the accuracy of the answer, nor is liable in anyway shape or form to the conduct of the reader of the aforementioned answer, or suggests it be acted upon at any time.
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Don't have an abortion.\n\nIt will cause you much more pain than even the tremendous task of carrying the baby to term and caring for it.\n\nIf you don't have the means to care for the child, just give it up for adoption, maybe even to someone in your own family that wants to have a kid, or better yet, if you have a very supportive family especially grandparents, allow them to care for the baby.\n\nPray to God that he will give you the courage and the wisdom to treat your baby as a valuable human being and not a problem to be solved by killing it.
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If something goes wrong with the procedure your parents will have to know.  Are you sure that you want an abortion?   You will be left with a lot of emotional scars and may not be able to have other children.  Couldn't you carry your child to term and then put him/her up for adoption?  Maybe your parents would want to help you raise your baby.
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Do you mean do I think a person should have the right to a choice?  Yes, I do.\n\nThe biggest reason - in the case of rape.  Why should a woman who was raped be forced to carry the monster baby for 9 months, have to put up with questions from well-meaning people who do not know the whole story (are you excited?  what does the daddy think?  what are you hoping for? etc) and then, after giving the baby up for adoption, have to spend the rest of her life wondering if she will one day have a "blast from the past", the child, now an adult, tracking her down, not caring what horrible memories they are digging up, just because they are "curious".\n\nThen, there's the factor - who would take care of all the unwanted babies?  Would the taxpayers have to foot the bill for them?  \n\nThen there would be the ones that keep the child even though they never wanted them, and then proceed to abuse and/or neglect them their entire lives.
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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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It really depends on the situation. If its a choice of life or death for you by having or aborting the fetus, then it should be up to the persons involved.\nBut if its just because you don't want the baby then thats just wrong. In this case just have the baby and give him/her up for adoption.
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it is not a sin to have an abortion.  im for womens rights i personlly would not have one but under circumstances like that i would consider it.  why bring a child into this world that you are not going to be able to love and have a reminder of what happend this is not fair for the child in any way and god will happly take the baby back up to heaven.  the baby is not sinful it isnt the baby fault that happened and children are born inocent
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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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Wow!!  Either you're really brave, or a pot stirrer!!!  I like that! ;) I think you really opened a can of worms, though.  \nI believe in the right to choose, and also that the soul enters whenever it is ready... I lost a baby between my two kids, and it broke my heart. And, no, I didn't abort it, it miscarried.  I guess that the soul who would have used that vehicle chose not to come into this world at that time.  The whole idea that the body is the whole of a person, that the death of a body equals death of a soul, is absurd.  We come here to learn whatever lessons our soul has charted out, and sometimes we aren't quite ready when the body, or embryo, that we thought would provide us with the best opportunity for learning those lessons is ready for us.  At that point there is either a spontaneous death, or, sometimes, the mother's soul and the incoming soul have agreed that an abortion is part of the experience for each. If a soul is meant to be incarnated at a given point in time, there will be a vehicle ready to facilitate that incarnation.  No soul has to go without just because someone decided that she wasn't, for whatever reason, able to play the role of mother at that time.  \nThose who judge others should be very careful that they don't set themselves up to prove that they would truly do a "more virtuous" job with the same set of circumstances.  I get so sick of people who say, "well, if I were you, I'd do it differently."  Wow, don't quite realize the absurdity of that, do you?  If you were me, you'd have all my past experiences, and all my reasons, and you'd make  precisely the same choice I did, because you would then cease to be you.   \n  And just a word  or two to the man who feels that "such a woman" shouldn't be allowed to ever be a mother.....you aren't ever going to be allowed to be a mother, either...maybe that's because you're no more qualified than those you are judging.  And maybe next time you come back here to learn lessons, you'll decide to experience for yourself what it feels like to be faced with such a hideous decision.  Have you ever held the hand of a heartbroken woman who feels that she has no other choice, and felt your own heart break because you couldn't help her come to some sort of peace with the gut-wrenching guilt, and self-loathing that followed?  Have you ever thought about how horribly difficult such a decision must be, and what awful straits a person would have to be in, to even consider that as an option?  \nThe Cherokee say that a man should not judge until he has walked a thousand miles in another's mocassins.  Do you qualify?  I think not, or you would have learned compassion.  And if you are a Christian, do you really think Jesus would be as beligerant and vicious as you are showing yourself to be?  I thought the goal of christianity was for people to emulate Jesus, and that includes having the same loving, compassionate, non-judging attitudes he has.  All of you who judge should re-think the place where you are standing.  If you were utterly without sin, then you would be utterly compassionate.  If He isn't judging, how can you justify doing it in His place?
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You are right, they should actually show them what happens to the child before they chose to go on with the abortion. It's a gruesome procedure and I couldn't bare to see that done on a dog, lot less on a human being... I think a lot of women would reconsider, if they would actually have all the facts about what's going to happen to their child. \nPersonally, I believe there are times when an abortion is the best choice (for example, for a 13 years old girl that has been raped), but I am really sad that a lot of women use it as contraception (they probably don't know pregnancy is just one possible outcome of unprotected sex, there's AIDS out there and other diseases).