Why are you pro-choice?
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I'm not.  I can't see any reason to justify abortion.....none.....not even rape, or to "save" the mother.\n\nAnd to all the people saying, "I have no right to tell you what you can or can't do, and you have no right to tell me"  \n        If this is the case, why obey the law?
1126957
I'm pro-choice. A woman's rights come before that of the clump of cells and tissues that have invaded her uterus.
1126765
Pro=choice.\n\nAs a male, I don't feel I have any right to dictate to someone else to have a child. \n\nMany children are not wanted! Many children are born addicted to cocaine! We have throw away children, many who are prostitutes and drug abusers at 15. Many come from broken homes. Many drop out of school, Many are physically and sexually abused, and most of the children who end up on Medicaid or some other assistance program, which are meager anyway, have to hear from the other side about how terrible they are. \n\nMany unwanted children have children because they want someone to love them! They are the victims in this country who  are blamed for our failure to live up to OUR part. Many want to force women to have children, and when they do,  they do not want to provide the help they need. They breed a cycle of mothers who are children, but they do nothing except cast stones and blame THEM for OUR failure..\n\nAnd we breed a cycle of children with attachment disorders, behavioral issues and mental issues. We don't want to help them either!\n\nI feel that until those who want to place their moral judgment, not Gods, on women by forcing them to have children should pay for those kids until they graduate from college. Until they can do that, their judgmental attitudes are underwhelming!\n\nWomen, especially young, were not intended to become baby factories for the wealthy. One reason i heard a woman say the reason she wanted to adopt was she didn't want to mess up "her" body. The reality is most women who carry a child to term do not give up their child for adoption.\n\nStone throwing Christians make me sick! The moral police I have no words that I can type that would tell you the true depths of my feelingsof them.
1082566
why would anyone want an abortion you know you are actually killing a human being ok a human being its just like shooting someone i don't know how anybody can live with themselves if they kill someone i know someone who had an abortion many years ago and she said she has always regretted it just don't get an abortion there's a little thing called adoption just think about it there is some people out there who really really want a baby and are not able to conceive and yet someone would just kill theirs and give up one of Gods most precious miracles! i cant believe it just think about adoption who ever this answer is intended for!!\noh and also a womans right to choose nd its my life actually its not your live it is your babys life they have their own mind their own DNA its their choice and personally my choice would be not to die so just think adoption
875169
That's the main confusion most "pro life" people make. Being pro-choice does not mean that I am pro-abortion. It means I am for the rights of the people. Nobody is for abortion. Nobody wants it to happen. The facts are though, if you allow the government to strip you of your rights, no matter what they are, you will never get them back. And it makes it easier for them to take away more and more rights. I am pro-choice because the Supreme Court ruled that the Constitution gives a woman the right to decide what she will and will not do with her body, and I am pro-constitution, and pro-peoples rights, and pro-choice. Besides, no matter how you feel, in the end it's none of your business what a woman does choose to do with her body. If if offends you, then don't do it. If you choose to teach this to your children, right on. But if you want to take away more of my rights, then you can stick it up your............
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You raise a perfectly valid point, and one with which I happen to agree. That's why I tend to avoid answering abortion questions. When I do weigh in, however, it is always on the side of choice, simply because the alternative contradicts my fundamental philosophy regarding the rights of the individual in society. It makes not one iota of difference what I personally think of abortion, unless I am directly involved in some way (i.e., I'm the potential father). \n\nMore to the point, however, I don't believe this issue is ANYONE else's business but those parties directly involved. In other words, it NEVER should have become a political or moral issue in the first place. It is an entirely personal and (very) private issue. So, when male politicians and religious leaders jump in with both feet, that's when I get really angry. It could not be any LESS their business, and no amount of sanctimonious moralizing is ever going to change that fact.\n\nOne final point. I think every abortion is a tragedy, but not for the reasons the pro-life zealots say it is. The tragedy is that a young woman is going through personal hell and is making a choice that may well haunt her for the rest of her life. She may be having the abortion for any number of reasons (rape, incest, health dangers, personal choice, whatever) and she will doubtless suffer for whatever decision she makes. That sad fate is plenty bad enough without having perfect bloody strangers blundering in to voice their disapproval on top of all else. \n\nThe bottom line is that this is rightly her decision to make in the end. Sure, if there is a father present who actually wants this child, he should have a say in the outcome. And doctors clearly have some role to play here, too. But how did such a deeply painful and personal choice ever become fodder for hypocritical politicians and pious religious leaders (whose primary responsibility is to preach tolerance, surely)? It is madness, pure madness...
950682
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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no one loves abortion, and the women who have them usually are making the right choice.lets talk republican shall we? your so focused on abortion, you are latting our country go broke. you dont want welfare? so let a bunch of people have kids they cant take care of. oh and while your out being conservitave your kids are out getting high on meth and getting impregnated by strangers.
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You can even take this one step further. Most of those same people who are for abortion are also for assisted suicide and euthenasia of terminally ill people, or people who are too old to care for themselves. Many people think that you have to have a certain quality of life in order to deserve to live. Unplanned babies, the sick, the old, and the dying fit into their ideas of those who don't or won't have a quality of life that's productive. Oh yeah, and that includes another group of people...those who are in a coma and are only hooked up to feeding tubes. They have their feeding tubes pulled out, leaving them to starve to death. Many live for several weeks before dying, with the family watching the whole proceedure, in the name of saving money, but claiming they are giving their "loved" one death with dignity. What's so dignified about starvation? They spout off grand speeches about how they can't bear to see them suffer so much. And that their quality of life doesn't exist anymore. Then, they'll turn around and picket in front of a jail, where a convicted killer is ready to get the needle, dying in peace, having just eaten the greatest meal they'd ever had. Go figure. Abortion is just as senseless, with hundreds of couples waiting for years to adopt a baby. I know a few gals who got abortions...not because they were raped...or because it was a health risk to her or the baby...but because it was inconvenient. They were in school. They didn't want their parents to find out (after all, we just know that their parents will KILL them if they find out, right?). It was just easy to think of their baby as a blob of material, with no identity. I've heard people say that the baby isn't really human until they're born. Really? What is that thing inside of a pregnant woman, a fish, a monkey, a figment of their imagination? Have they really seen the amazing pictures of a baby inside of the mom? Looks human to me. I still have the ultrasound of my daughter and she looks like a baby to me. I guess it all depends on what you believe in...whether you believe in defending the defenseless or supporting the evil. No one has ever explained sufficiently to me the up side of abortion. There is none. Everyone loses. What a huge waste of a human life. <*)))><
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Well, I consider myself a libertarian and I am Pro-life. If the girl who implied that being a Pro-life libertarian was being less than a full libertarian knew what she was talking about, she'd know that there is no consensus among libertarians or the Libertarian party about abortion except this: no government funds should  ever be used for any abortions.\n\nMost libertarians believe that one area the government should interfer with is when one person interfers with the life of another. Sounds like abortion to me.
914904
pro choice!\nits your decision not anyone else.
1166311
I'm pro-choice and was raised Roman Catholic.  There is diversity in the pro-choice group, so I assume there is diversity in the pro-life group as well.
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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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Do you support legislation supporting the teaching of a religious perspective in public schools? Do you support legal restrictions on people wishing to conduct same sex relationships? Do you support limits (or even stopping) a woman's right to choose abortion?\n\nIf so, then you are absolutely guilty of forcing your religion on others...and it is offensive.
129556
Most women are pro-choice but would not necessarily prefer an abortion for themselves. The breakdown is 70-30. Young men are pro-choice when they mess around and pro-life when they get old.
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Because some people want it and some people don't.  And none of the politicians who make laws want to get involved.  Too many factors involved.\n\nI'm anti abortion, but have no urge to blow anything up to make my point.