are you pro choice or pro life? why?
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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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I think should be a CHOICE.  I am not for using abortion as birth control, but if there are other factors involved I think it should be up to the woman.
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So what your looking for is opinions and personal experiences on abortion. Right?
224044
I'm a pro-choicer, but only because I feel a woman has a right to choose what she does with her body.  I do, however, think it's a disgusting practice when women wait till the baby is fully developed and they have to deliver the baby half-way and suck the brain out.  There should be a time limit.  If you haven't decided before the baby has a heart beat, I think you waited too long.  Even if they enact laws banning abortion, women will find ways of terminating the embryo or fetus without a doctor, so you might as well let abortion be legal.  Besides, why have one more person come into this world unloved and unwanted.
1100200
Pro Child, Pro Woman, PRO CHOICE. Let a woman decide what is best for her in her own situation,
854774
Pro-choice - I don't care what any woman's beliefs are, they are\nher own & a group of men shouldn't be making laws for\nwomen. We are not second class citizens.
62714
pro choice.\n\nwith 6.2 Billion people on the planet, don't you think it's about time we start thinking about population control?\n\nNow if only the rest of the planet would start thinking this way
1101171
I am not anti-choice but, I really don't like abortion either. The decision should be the women's and whoever she slept with (If he is around) - not the government, churches, president or some televangelist scam artist. There is a reason a fetus is not called a baby; Babies are born. A fetus is a potential life and no more  alive than a tumor. We don't give the death penalty to doctors for removing tumors. (Thank god)\n\nMy answer is: NO
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I am against abortion too. But I agree with what the others said, that you have to accept the people you love, even if you don't agree with the choices they make.\n\nAnd I am in a perfect situation to talk about this because I have been in your situation once. Two years ago, when I was 23 years old, my then-14-year old sister got pregnant (by a 25-year old guy). I didn't know that she was pregnant until 2 months after she had the abortion. I live away from home so I never knew. Nobody in our family knew.\n\nWhen she told me all about it, you could probably imagine how I felt. Words fail to describe it, but let me try... Initially, I was upset. My sister was 14!! How could she get pregnant at that age?! She was a minor! And that guy is even older than I am. And then I thought about the abortion. I find abortion despicable. Sick. And I was depressed at the idea that my sister had to go through that -- at such a young age at that... Then again, would I have wanted her to go through the pregnancy and have that baby? We are barely middle class in a third world country (Philippines) and life is hard as it is. Another mouth to feed is simply unthinkable.\n\nSo you see, I did not approve of my sister's decision, and until now, I still think of the "what ifs." What if she didn't get the abortion? What if she never got pregnant? What if she never met that guy? But I wouldn't know if I would approve otherwise. And I guess I am a bit relieved that I didn't have to make the decision myself. Because if I were her, I wouldn't know what to do.\n\nSo, you see, there are really some lose-lose situations where you simply have to choose. \n\nUntil now, I'm still anti-abortion. I wouldn't want to get an abortion. But I guess we really can't say, unless we're in that situation ourselves... I keep thinking, what if I am abused and I get pregnant, will I want the baby? What if I get pregnant and I know that there'll be a good chance that the baby will be deformed (maybe because I got exposed to toxic chemicals, for instance) and will therefore have a difficult life? Will I still want the baby? So many questions. I still don't have the answer.\n\nRight now, my sister is living with me. She has learned a lesson -- the hard way -- and so have I. \n\nI will not ask you to you to tolerate what your sister did. What she did may or may not be a mistake. But please try to communicate with your sister. It may not have been an easy decision for her and she may need your moral support. Please give what you can... If not, then she may be a hardened person who isn't, in any way, affected by what she did... But I don't think she is, knowing that she has a sister like you.\n\nI am against abortion, but I also believe in choices. And I also believe that one mistake cannot be corrected by another mistake. And condemning her may yet be another mistake. Your sister may have done a BIG mistake, but we really cannot judge because we were never in her position.\n\nTake care and God bless.
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PRO-LIFE!! and let me tell you everyone who is pro-choice... you all have the blood of inocent babies on your hands!!! MURDERERS!!!
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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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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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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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At one point, I was an ovo-vegan (the only animal product I ate was free-range eggs), and I still eat a mostly vegetarian diet now.  I am also a pro-life activist and do sidewalk counseling outside abortions mills.  I have a sidewalk counseling friend who is a total vegan.  \n\nHowever, I would agree that MOST vegans/vegetarians tend to be pro-aborts.  I think that if those with open minds would just take some time to learn about pain perception in the unborn, they may reconsider their position.  I'm afraid that azzparagus's contention that abortions are "humane" is completely false.  The babies are not given anethesia as they are suctioned apart, ripped apart, or burned to death, regardless of where or how the abortions are committed.  An ultrasound of a first trimester abortion shows the unborn baby struggling violently in an effort to escape the abortionist's instrument, while her hearbeat doubles and her mouth opens wide.  \n\nFor information on prenatal pain perception, see:\n\nhttp://www.advocatesfortheinnocent.com/fetalpain.html\n\nFor well-documented information on all aspects of abortion, see http://Abort73.com\n\nAnd I just found this list of pro-life, pro-animal rights groups:\n\nhttp://www.gargaro.com/vegan.html
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I get your joke!  If there is a 14 month waiting list, then the baby would already be born!  Good one!  (I had to explain that for the rest of the peeps out there)\n\n  I am a pro-lifer too~\n\nI like how you took a serious subject and put a little humor in it!\nGood show!
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annie red\nI am unsure about religion and I am a woman.  I have yet to hear a logical reason why abortion should be allowed at any time for any reason other than to save the Mother's life.  Partial birth abortion is not only murder.  It is murder by torture.  Stop stereotyping members of the pro-life movement.\n\nBy the way.  Why do liberals assume that conservatives have been brainwashed into their beliefs?  Has it never occured to you that the asker has already looked at all sides of the issue?\n\nPro-choice doctors are just as biased as pro-life doctors.
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PRO-LIFE. IN ORDER TO AVOID THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF UNWANTED PREGNANCY THINK A HUNDRED TIMES BEFORE JUMPING INTO SOMEONE'S BED.