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Abortion Should Be Banned.
Abortion is not acceptable under any circumstance because it kills life. Any life is innocent and we should keep them ongoing.
 hitomi  28 Nov 2007 15:19
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Abortions should be banned because those were your decisions. You can't just take a life so yours won't become better. Your decisions our actions your consequences all a baby needs is love from its mother, someone's life shouldn't end because you decided to have sex.
 
 Claudia  22 May 2013 10:45
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Nobody deserves to be made but then not having a chance at life. The kid could have been the next Bill Gates or Michael Jordan. If you're going to get pregnant and have a child, just send them to a foster home instead of taking their life.
 
 _naiharris  16 May 2013 19:58
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No matter how old he or she is, a human is a person and deserves life especially if it is too young to stand up for itself.
 
 AJ  25 Apr 2013 23:43
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Yes. Abortion is absolutely murder.
We all agree that it is wrong and murder to kill for example a 3 month old baby (at least all of us taht are sane). Why is it wrong? Because that baby is a human. Most people have no problem with killing a 3 month old bug, but think killing a human is wrong.

There are 2 ways to go about this issue: Scientifically and philisophically

Scientifically, at the moment of conception, that cell is human. It is also Whole, Distinct, and Living--scientific fact.

Philisophically, The only differences between the unborn baby and a newborn baby are: [1] Size, [2] Level of Development, [3] Environment, and [4] Degree of Dependence.
1. Size: A newborn baby is usually bigger than an unborn baby. It is wrong to kill an newborn baby (we all agree on that). We don't kill short people or tall people just because of their size; it is wrong. Therefore, that is not a valid reason for abortion.
2. Level of Developement: A newborn baby is usually more developed than an unborn baby. Think of your life on a timeline

in Womb 5yrs 30yrs 70yrs
Say you are 30yrs old. You are the same person as when you were 10yrs. Your cells are different, but you are the same person. You will be the same person when you are 70 (assuming you live till then) your cells are different, but you are the same person. You were the same person when you were 5yrs. Your cells were different, but you are the same person. When you were in your mothers womb, you were the same person. Your cell(s) were different, but you were still you. Level of Developement does not change who the person is. They are still the same person. A person's level of developement does not change who they are so a person' level of developement does not justify abortion.
3. Environment: A baby out of the womb cannot be killed, but a baby in the womb can be, Why? I dont know. Say you were bron in California, but moved to North Carolina. Just because you moved environments doesn't change your value. It is not suddenly fine to kill you because you moved. Why is it that way for babies? Environment does not change the baby or its worth. So, Environment is not a valid reason for abortion.
4. Degree of Dependence: The unborn baby is totally dependent on his/her mother. Say you have an 11 yr. Old daughter who is becoming independent. She can cook and take care of herself; however, she is diagnosed with type 1 diabetese and needs 3+ shots of insulin a day and has to check her blood sugar 7+ times a day. She becomes very dependent on her parents again. Does that make it okay to kill her? NO! Of course not! But for some strange, unknown reason it is okay to do that with babies. Degree of dependency is not a valid excuse for abortion.

Some people may say, "What about cases of rape?!"
Rape is a special case that should be dealt with differently. Of abortions in the U.S. Rape+incest make up less than 2% of abortions. However, say you dont have an abortion, and every time you look at your daughter who is here because you were raped, you think about that moment. The worst moment of your life! Would you say that it is okay to kill that toddler, no. Than why would you kill that innocent baby?

Some people who are against animal testing are for abortion. Talk about defending the helpless. An animal can at least howl, bite and fight. An unborn baby can do nothing but squirm around. Why don't we defend them?
 
 tgibs9  18 Apr 2013 18:58
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We understand if a woman was raped being as if it was by a stranger, someone she knew, a family member.... There is a life within her, they did not ask to be here not saying she wanted to get pregnant but any of the aboved named people, she have other options outside of abortions. What if your mom was raped but instead of aborting you she kept you because u was a GIFT from god. If a woman do not want to keep a baby she can always GIVE IT UP FOR ADOPTION.... I THINK THIS GENERATION NEEDS TO GET IT TOGETHER BECAUSE THE THINGS THAT IS ALLOWD TO HAPPEN IS NOT RIGHT.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
 Brianna93  02 Apr 2013 18:31
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Yes it should be! EXCEPT for rape victims? Maybe? Idk its still a life ud be killng
 
 TeenActor  22 Mar 2013 07:54
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I just think it should.
 
 isaiahx  21 Mar 2013 03:24
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Agreed. We have a modern-day holocaust and society turns their head, just like Germany in WWII.
 
 letsgo25  27 Feb 2013 17:45
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 By that same logic, masturbation is also genocide, bet you never w@nk3d, eh?
by  sam-samuel
 01 Mar 2013 10:50
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So first of all, Abortion is a form of murder and demeans the value of human life.Anyway abortions would increase if it were made illegal, leading to increased risk of young women dying or becoming sterile.It should nanned for several reasons like :1)Abortion eliminates legal rights of the unborn child.2)Abortion exposes women to various health risks and the danger of losing fertility.If it will be baned or ligalazied futurre mother would think about it carefully and would'nt face to problems with their health .3)Abortion is against doctors' Hippocratic Oath.Also we can see that nowadays a lot of domcotrs can do every thing for money, even it may run a risk of human life
 
 AizhanBB  07 Feb 2013 10:09
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Abortion should be banned, of course. Most of women do it because they think that they could not feed children because of poverty. But it's not true, if God gives you such kind of mercy, you should accept it, even it is very hard. If God gives you a baby, it means that He also will give you livelihood. It is wisdom!

But, of course, if pregnance and childbirth are dangerous for woman's life and there is no any chance to change the situation, it is better to make an abortion in order to save the life of woman.
 
 eriyenkar  31 Jan 2013 21:59
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All abortion shouldn't be banned. However in most cases I think it should. Only if the mother is in server mental or physical distress, and this is stated by a medical professional, then the child should be aborted.
 
 Mattthepap  26 Jan 2013 05:29
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Life is sacred. The moment a baby is conceived it is a living, precious human being with a future. Calling them fetuses and making scientific rationalizations about how they can't feel pain and other such clinical arguments dehumanizes them and makes it possible for people to justify abortion to themselves. The reality is that they are a small, growing, real human being. Being inside the womb does not determine their humanity. Who are you to say that one minute it is a fetus and abortion is fine, and the next moment it's born and to kill it would be murder? Killing for convenience is not an option. Renaming things doesn't change what they truly are.
 
 morganfm  26 Nov 2012 19:56
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 You can't kill things that aren't alive.
by  Anarchy101
 10 Dec 2012 13:27
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Abortion decreases infant morality and lessens the price of life, abortion is the same as murder so why dont those mothers who abort their child go to jail?!?!?!
 
 kuleg  22 Nov 2012 04:29
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 Life is already cheap, it's only in peoples head that life is this oh so wonderful thing, its cheap and meaningless, and it's not up to you how someone else lives their life.
by  sam-samuel
 07 Feb 2013 09:37
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Abortion is killing a life, an obviously alive life, separate from the mother. A fetus has nerves, and can feel pain. Also, just because a baby is young, doesn't mean it is OK to kill it. A fetus is a human in the stages of development, like a toddler or adolescent. It has no say in what happens, so we shouldn't decide for it and just kill it. It is innocent life.
 
 AJKA  13 Nov 2012 22:27
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 But you're ok with forcing a woman into something she doesn't want? Where are her rights in your 'big book of morals'?
by  sam-samuel
 07 Feb 2013 09:35
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By aborting an embryo, you can accidentally kill the potential genius. For instance : Among 1000 aborted there are 4 or 5 are talented who can change our word dramatically. Maybe they are the only one who can invent the time machine or the perpetual motion machine or some kind of other devices that we are not able even to imagine!

Also if Thomas Edison , Bill Gates,brother Wrights and other famous inventors were aborted, we wouldn't live on the same conveniences life!
 
 oybek1995  09 Nov 2012 07:57
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 There are a lot of "ifs" in life.

However, that does not and should not weigh on the right of people to make their own medical and health decisions.
by  sythan
 12 Nov 2012 01:35
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Abortion is murder. Nothing more and nothing less. It's taking away a child's chances to live, to be themselves when the time come. Just because the fetus is not a "human" yet, does not mean it isn't murder.
 
 Stephanie2  02 Nov 2012 11:05
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 Rape, incest...
by  illini527
 02 Nov 2012 12:30
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Abortion IS MURDER!!! To say that a fetus isn't a human is INSANE!! Doctors have taken x-rays of pregnant mothers and WITHIN THE FIRST TRIMESTER you can already see the babies features forming and his heart begins to beat within that time. Numerous studies have been done on this. No one should ever dought it again now. For those of you who think it's ok to kill a being inside the womb think of it this way.... It is the same thing as if you birthed the baby and then you just took a knife and slit his/her throat. That's a little more graphic, but it's the same thing. You just don't want to think about it because you like having "choice" that violates another HUMAN BEING's life!!
 
 Stash10  10 Oct 2012 16:59
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 A fetus isn't human, read scientific journal and papers relating to fetuses and scientific stance of abortion. Stop being so dramatic and think. Don't use religion or the Bible, use science and reason.
by  sythan
 11 Oct 2012 03:13
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Abortion is pure murder the government should arrest abortion doctors and women who get them
 
 BiblicanB  29 Sep 2012 18:34
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It should be because the concept of abortion is basically killing a child.
 
 oathenox  27 Sep 2012 20:00
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Nobody here would support abortion If you could hear your grandmother in tears pleading for her daughter to cancel the scheduled abortion.
 
 Arcangel7  13 Sep 2012 20:22
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Yes it should be banned but even if it is it will always still be happening
 
 awesomeguy  13 Sep 2012 08:17
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I agree it is murder

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 Lodibug  13 Aug 2012 08:53
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I think it shuld b banned cuz its wrong to kill a person. Thise babies r people not choices. How wuld u like it if ur mom aborted u?? Wat about those babies who will never c the world all becuz their mom wuz cruel enough to kill her own child. If u dont want the baby just PUT IT UP FOR ADOPTION!! Gosh, r the peopl in this society stupid?!?
 
 Anonymous7  06 Aug 2012 15:14
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 But see, they're not babies. They're fetuses. It's like seeds as opposed to flowers, one becomes the other but in different stages they're not equal in value.
by  Atha
 21 Aug 2012 01:02
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Abortion is wrong. As a Christian, I believe God created humans to be different from other animals. One of the Ten Commandments is "thou shalt not kill", and Jeremiah 1:5 says "Before you were in the womb, I knew you, before you were born I set you apart." Therefore, when killing a foetus, you are killing a human being. People who are "pro-choice" will not call it a baby, they will call it a fetus to dehumanize it. According to "pro-choice" stances, a person a second before being born is a "fetus", but a person a second after being born is a human.
 
 canaan9801  02 Aug 2012 13:16
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 There's no defining second between birth and not-birth, so no, they wouldn't and don't. You claim in your paragraph that pro-choice groups call the fetus (what it actually is, it isn't a baby yet) to dehumanise it. Well, what you're doing in this paragraph, with the final sentence, and perhaps with the Bible verses too, is demonising pro-choicers. This does not facilitate productive discussion.
by  limyaael
 03 Aug 2012 05:27
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How is it right to kill a living thing? Some people have one if they are told the child is going to be disabled which is wrong and lazy. If you was told your child could never walk again would you kill it? No well its the same thing ass killing the child before its born because to be able to see the child is disabled it must be at a late stage in the pregnancy.
 
 Sheeps  20 Jul 2012 18:36
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 I agree with you there. Abortion for the sake of less stress in the future is never a good thing. God never gives us more than we can handle.
by  mscoxie
 22 Aug 2012 21:22
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Noone has the right to destroy a life!
 
 benio6  24 Jun 2012 22:34
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Because of humman rights
 
 jokerharry  10 Jun 2012 05:43
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 At the time of an abortion it is not yet a human.
by  limyaael
 03 Aug 2012 05:28
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Yes, it is a immoral act that destroys life for one's selfish acts and for convenience. It is MURDER whether anyone wants to admit it or not.


All medical doctors have their own opinion on the matter for this is mostly a debate on morals. Medically it was "ok" to many doctors to remove part of a person's brain for "function" at mental hospitals from the 1970's and under, including also using shock therapy. Why does this matter, because you want to quote doctors but I could also quote from doctors that will negate what your doctors are saying. This a debate on morals....do "YOU" think it is right..yes you do..now convince me a reason why supporting it is good.

-Here I will refute many statements pro-choicers make

1. "IT'S A WOMAN'S RIIGHT TO MAKE THIS DECISION. ABORTION IS A CIVIL ISSUE"-average pro-choicer

-All of our RIGHTS ARE LIMITED by the extent to which we infringe on the rights of others. My right to swing my arm end when my fist reaches your nose. Freedom of speech does not grant the right to false advertising or libel. A woman does have the right to choose whether or not to invite or risk pregnancy by participating in sexual activity, but does not have the right to decide whether another person should live or die.

2. "But it's just a blob of tissue. It's obviously not a person with rights! It's only a potential person"-average pro-choicer

-The fact that life begins at conception is a fact of Biology. However, we all have a mental image of what a "person" is supposed to look like, based on the mature people we have seen. Preborns do not match that image. But one might also have a mental image of a "tree" as something large and well developed, which does not match newly planted, 'stick' trees. But 'stick' trees really are trees, just young and undeveloped. Similarly, preborns really are people, just young and undeveloped.
-Preborns are not "potential people" but people with potential. The word potential has two different meanings. A lottery ticket and a check are both mere pieces of paper with the potential for being exchanged for a large sum of money. But while the lottery ticket has only a "possibility" for such an exchange, and is worth little, the check has the "capability" of that exchange and has the same value as the cash itself. Eggs and sperm are like lottery tickets with the possibility of joining with one another to form a new person, but a preborn human is like the check-possessing the same value as the adult he or she will eventually grow to becom, later in the continuum of his or her life.

3. "The supreme court has said that abortion is a fundamental right in our country"

-The supreme court has been wrong before. The dred scott decision in 1857 said that slaves were property and could never be citizens, and that the federal government had no right to prohibit slavery in the territories. Pre-born children are not the property of their parents, but separate, "human" individuals. Many legal experts criticize Roe v. Wade as a bad decision-based on the so-called right to privacy somehow vaguely "found" in either the 14th or the 9th amendment-but never explicitly mentioned anywhere in the constitution.

4. "The child has no rights until birth, when it becomes independent of the mother."

-Newborns are still completely dependent on other for care, as are many handicapped individuals. Dependency does not take away the fact that the individual is a person with rights. Infants in later pregnancy can in fact, be helped to survive outside the womb, but abortion is still legal up through the entire nine months of pregnancy.

-While birth is a major milestone in development, the process of emerging from the womb does not change the essential nature of the child. Does it make sense that the child has no rights one day before birth, but suddenly acquires rights the next day when they are born? What about two days? A week? A month? There is no significant transformation in the nature of the child at any point after conception itself.
 
 RTN1994  06 Jun 2012 22:23
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 1) If it's in her body, it's her choice what to do with it.

2) Life does NOT begin at conception. That is not a scientific fact, nor a biological one.

3) I agree that the Supreme Court can be wrong (And has been with the conservative majority).

4) A fetus has no rights. If it isn't conscious, or sentient, or alive for that matter, it doesn't deserve legal rights. My sperm is like a fetus, just at an earlier stage, are you against male ejaculation?
by  sythan
 12 Nov 2012 01:32
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I believe so as well. Abortion is taking an innocent life away and can be compared to systematic murder. The only time abortion should ever be an option is when the baby poses a life threatening medical threat towards the mother bearing the baby.
 
 tohin  08 May 2012 14:50
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It's not the baby's fault the parents weren't safe.
 
 WIgirl17  03 Apr 2012 13:05
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Its taking away life. End of story. And anyone who is prochoice is saying that i would be ok with my parents killing me.
 
 voss  29 Mar 2012 21:41
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Abortion should definitely be banned for a number of reason's. Here in the UK there was uproar & outrage that some people from some countries were using abortion to select gender particularly that of girls, yet apparently is fine to get rid of a baby if you dont know the sex, pro abortionist just make themselves sound stupid when they say things like that.
Also here in the UK, despite numerous ways to prevent pregnancy & more information available than ever before, over 200,000 abortions happen each year,up from 175,000 the year before.
Also there are 2 main reason's they call the unborn baby a foetus, firstly it's so it doesnt interfear with a Doctor's theocratic oath to save lives & not take them, & secondly so the women having it doesnt feel so bad as calling it a foetus takes away some of its humanity.
Also why is it the pro choice people are quoting pro choice for the women but not for the farther or the unborn baby, how hypercritical is that.
Also all you pro choice people, next time you watch the news or read an article about child abuse & how the abuser should pay badly for what they have done, dont bother as your a hypercrit with no freedom of speech to say that as your in favour of baby killing.
Also as someone else said, the only freedom abortion has given women is to be just or more promiscuous as men supposedly were
hence a massive increase in more upwanted prenancy's, & more sexualy transmitted diseases than ever before, well done moralless society,what an achievement, you must be so proud.

I would say one more thing, the bible shows what God thinks about abortion in an illustration of 2 men fighting in a room with a pregnant women, if the women was hurt but the baby was fine they had to pay compensation, however if the baby dies, both men were to be put to death.

So all pro choice people should prey God dosnt exist as if he does then your all screwed.

One message to Antares, most of your argument lies on the bases of you saying the early stages of a babies development is a mass of cells. Problem is dude all life is a mass of cells including you & I so whats the difference, other than they havent yet been born yet.

One last point why do all the person's who keep stating it's a personal choice keep completly dismissing the farthers or the unborn babies choice, I wonder if in case of the women it's to hide their personal guilt & in the male's supporters case, to get rid of an unwanted problem due to cheating on their partner, or the other biggy "I'm not ready to be a dad yet, I'm young I still wanna have my fun".The problem with that attitude is sex has become like playing a video game or watching a movie, something you do for a bit of fun without worrying about the consequences.
 
 Morgoth  28 Mar 2012 22:15
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Teens who get pregnant & seem to see the term abortion as a solution to everything. A mindset of such where pregnancy is totally fine because a solution is provided. And soon that solution becomes a commodity people will misuse.
 
 CoconuTree  26 Mar 2012 09:55
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Yes!
It's practically murder !
You're killing a little baby.
If you didn't want it, then use a condom or birth control !
And plus, that child could become famous, could change the world, and if you murder the baby, it will never have a chance to live or see the world.
 
 kaytlynxo  18 Mar 2012 18:59
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You created a child, do not kill it, Abbortion is basically murder, i dont think anyone would like to have been aborted.
If you didnt want the baby, you should have used a condom in the first place people!
 
 floreos  16 Mar 2012 22:02
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I think you also need to take into consideration why the woman wants an abortion. For example: If you were a victim of a rape or you're 15 and won't be able to care for the child. I can assure you when a woman has an abortion the baby doesn't care (it isn't developed enough to know what's going on). In the majority of cases when a woman gets an abortion she is doing the baby a favor, and if not, so what, the baby doesn't care. (Oh and btw, I'd be fine if we discouraged abortion much more if we made birth control much more readily available)
 
 tatrafan77  22 May 2013 20:14
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Abortion is the choice of a woman since it is her body. If she has a 99% risk of dying while giving birth then she should have the right to abort the baby. Although it would be hard think about it would you want your kid to take his or hers first steps without you and have another person ti call mommy. Also abortion can be an advantage to the un-born baby sometimes such as the situation of the baby having very severe medical conditions. No one would want their kid to be born and live a suffer in life. However I do not support abortion if it is "oh , oops ". People should own up to their mistakes and take care of their child in that case or if they are too young or have financial difficulties adopt their kid out to a loving family that they trust.
 
 Gerbil13  18 May 2013 21:59
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A baby is nothing more than a parasite. Some want to keep it and some don't. If its not your body you have no right to say what someone can or can not do.
 
 godsgeew  16 May 2013 21:48
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You cannot value a POTENTIAL life over an actual life - if the mother was endangered, there would be no justice in allowing her to have the baby, which could essentially kill both the mother and child.
 
 shelbym  20 Mar 2013 17:40
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 Of course, most pro-lifers accept that it is not a good idea to endanger the life of the mother for the sake of the child. We evaluate the fetus as a life, that doesn't mean we give it supreme value.

The original question was obviously worded poorly, as I don't think anyone with reasonable knowledge would hold that abortion was impermissible under any circumstances. One need only consider a scenario in which the mother is endangered and the child has hardly any chance of surviving to see this.
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And if they were raped? Or they are a young teen?
 
 Relic  27 Feb 2013 18:38
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What about all the billions of combinations of lives that are possible for every egg a woman doesn't fertilize with every sperm of every male on the planet? That is a HUGE number of lives that will never ever ever exist because you did not get pregnant in the first place. What is one more combination? One egg plus one sperm? Why does that person deserve to live when all the others don't?
 
 Dadmad6  17 Feb 2013 17:26
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Of course not. Each person is free and can do whatever they want. For instance the girl was raped and so it turned out that she became pregnant what should she do in such situation? Or doctor said that the baby is not normal, so what's the reason to bring this poor child to this world? Abortion can't be banned.
 
 20123828  03 Feb 2013 11:19
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How about if the woman is raped, her life is on the line, she's a teen who is pregnant, or her baby isn't going to make it anyway, what about those?

I say banning abortion is wrong because in those cases where it is best to have an abortion the woman will NOT be allowed to decide to get that abortion and chances are will be denied.
 
 deathnote9  15 Jan 2013 22:24
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It's up to the woman since it is her body. However I am against it once the fetus has developed the ability to feel pain.
 
 Sydney  18 Dec 2012 16:15
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I think 7 billion people is plenty
 
 Buzzkill84  10 Dec 2012 01:29
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I would be died then
 
 ruebro2  03 Dec 2012 12:06
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Women have the right to decide what they do with their bodies, especially when their bodies are being used as incubators to supply housing and nutrients.
 
 Morticia  19 Nov 2012 04:49
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Stop pretending to be "pro-life", because what you really are is anti-choice. A study by Dr Stuart Derbyshire of the University of Birmingham has shown that foetuses cannot feel pain as it "requires mental development that only occurs outside the womb" (more information:http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4905892.stm). This directly contradicts false claims made by anti-choice activists that foetuses can respond to stimuli from 20 weeks. Who do you trust: A recognised medical doctor or a slurry of evangelical loudmouths? It's the woman's body, let her choose!

Is abortion really "always evil" as you say? What if the mother has been raped, and what about if the mouth's life is in danger, such as in the case of an ectopic pregnancy? For those unaware of this, an ectopic pregnancy is one in which the baby gorws outside the utrine cavity.It is potentially life-threatening to the mother due to the risk of haemorrhage and occurs in up to 1% of pregnancies. Isn't the life of a living person more important than that of an embryonic one?

Furthur information:http://apps.who.int/classifications/icd10/browse/2010/en#/O00
 
 Anarchy101  05 Nov 2012 06:37
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It should be up to the women what she chooses to do to her body in this case.
 
 eb00089  12 Oct 2012 17:02
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A fetus isn't alive, so it's not murder. Killing cells isn't murder, otherwise ejaculation would be genocide, and I don't see many "pro-life" people campaigning to stop male masturbation.

Learn some science people, it's depressing to think people actually believe the religious bullshit.
 
 sythan  09 Oct 2012 21:04
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 How is a fetus not alive? It is a small, growing, developing, unique life that has a future. Our bodies are made of cells, so by your reasoning murder is just "killing cells". You contradict yourself.
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Uh, no. Who wants to keep the child of someone who raped them? A crazy person at that. Sure it is life, but it is not such a good idea to keep that baby, as it is a constant reminder that you were raped. What if teens were having sex with their boyfriends, got pregnant, and baby-day hopped up and said "Time to go!" I think that if women want to get abortions than they can and they should. I only disagree with getting an abortion because you hate kids.
 
 DayDreamer  04 Oct 2012 07:45
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 Regardless of how that baby was conceived. It's still a baby, and it was given to you for a reason. To destroy it is to tell God that you think you know better than he does.
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 10 Oct 2012 16:48
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Says the man who ate chicken wings for dinner last night. Nice try, buddy, but if you don't have a vagina and you're not pregnant you can't make the decisions.
 
 Atha  21 Aug 2012 00:59
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 If the "chicken wings" happen to be the former upper extremities of a prior living person, and it was simply convenient to sacrifice another human person for the "appetites" of another, I would think whether or not one has a vagina is quite irrelevant.
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 04 Sep 2012 00:04
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I'm a religous person but I have to say that what about if a woman got raped by a stranger or something, it's her body, she has the right to choose if she wants to keep the child, she didn't ask to become pregnant did she? She has her own life to live e.g. College, job, relationship, family. You can't ruin a person's life by getting them pregnant or by saying "no don't abort it that's inhumane", If she wants to go on with the pregnancy it's her choice, if she doesn't it's because she dosen't have the time or resources for the child and the fact that it was unplanned. I would say if an abortion is necessary, do it early on.
 
 z_ulabdeen  09 Aug 2012 12:49
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 Being a religious person I would think it's a contradictory position.

First of all, she can give the baby in adoption.
Second, she's killing for personal gain. To get college job, etc... what's the difference between that and killing someone because it's part of a job? A hitman?
You can't ruin a person's life by saying I want to live my life, f@ck everything else. A baby is a person.

Besides, if there's a God, that means her being raped was contemplated by God, isn't it?

Anyways, abortion is a selfish solution. Even if it's rape, you're doing it not because it's "the right thing to do", but rather, because you want to live your life, even if it means killing another one
by  sismetic
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Something could be wrong with the baby, like it's deadly sick and can;t be rescued
 
 yoyogirl12  06 Aug 2012 23:30
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Should not be banned but doesnt mean its justified.
Its a choice. Everyone deserves to have a choice.

I mean, if someone cant afford to have a kid and then gets pregnant, better for the kid to be aborted if they are gonna suffer a lot. But then thats also a choice.
 
 melody95  31 Jul 2012 04:04
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 Killing and raping is also a choice. And what about the baby's choice?
by  sismetic
 01 Aug 2012 16:46
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A fetus is about as alive as a tree
 
 LiberalCPD  22 Jul 2012 22:19
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 Prove it
by  sismetic
 01 Aug 2012 16:47
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What is wrong with destroying a few parasitic cells?

Modern western democracies are founded upon the ideals of liberty - and you propose to take away the rights and freedoms of the mother, in favour of the *possibility* of a child?
 
 limyaael  21 Jul 2012 11:58
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 A baby is not a parasite by any means. A high possibility of a child, even maybe a fact. Why should the mother's(that in most cases got knocked up by their own choice) rights be above a child's?
by  sismetic
 01 Aug 2012 16:48
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Well, i feel that it is the woman's choice...
 
 somya  19 Jul 2012 07:44
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 Unfortunately, "feelings" don't really count for much in the debate. After all, most murderers say, "My feelings controlled my actions, and, therefore, I committed murderer.
by  charlee
 04 Sep 2012 00:09
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I don't agree. Expecting mothers could be totally unfit for motherhood. They could be too young (14, 15, 16?), and usually I would say that they should have the baby, but only if they had support. If they don't have support from other people they are NOT ready to be a parent.
They could be faced with a HUGE, life-altering decision. There are tests to show whether your babies will have problems, and some families can not afford to care for a baby with, say, autism or down's. Some families can't cope with the emotional damage and stress that's bound to come along with it at some points.
Therefore, I do not agree.
 
 niomilynn  18 Jul 2012 01:40
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 so someone said it 'your child will have downs' O JUST KILL IT. That is your child and if it is disabled that should not matter you should love and care for your child no matter what. o and you can't test for autism in the womb in fact it can take years to get digonse with it. i should know that. If you think its right to rid a child of its life based on the fact its disabled you are wrong in the head disabled people are lovely people and enjoy live even if they do need round the clock care.
by  Sheeps
 20 Jul 2012 18:42
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No abortion doesn't kill life, it gets rid of a bunch of cell from the woman's uterus.
 
 raya  16 Jun 2012 14:49
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 Abortion can be done at any stage of the pregnancy therefore the child will have all limbs and organs and that. Im trying to sound clever but i cant spell some of the words.
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 20 Jul 2012 18:38
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What if you cant afford to have the baby and raise it? And you dont want the baby going into the foster care system to be victemized? What if you have a history of mental illness and could kill your own baby anyway a few wks after its born or you have a history of diseases in your family that almost guarantee you pass one to your baby and you got pregnant by accident and dont want the baby to suffer all its life? So many factors to this. If its banned everywhere then women will not only kill the fetus but themselves performing abortions on themselves and each other in order to prevent a possible miserable life for themselves and the babies. 15% or more of all conceptions are naturally aborted from womens bodies and usually you dont ever know your pregnant. Your body does it all the time own its own and you dont usually fight for that baby!
 
 ajknorr  15 Jun 2012 15:46
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 All that is irrelevant, a life is a life and you don't have a right to freely end it. Besides, most cases aren't because somebody has a mental illness, is just because a girl got drunk, didn't take care of themselves and ended up pregnant. Now on the exceptional cases, it's still a life, you don't know what will happen to it, so you can't just say screw it, you're gonna die anyways, or... you're gonna live a bad life you should die, if the baby ends up having a bad life he should have the right to decide what to do with it, not you.

The argument that abortions should be legal because women will still find a way and do it illegaly, being it an unsafe abortion is weak.

The percent of miscarriages is between 10-15%...so what? 10-15% is not "all the time", if it happened all the time, we weren't be alive now :D. And it's not "on its own", is by unnatural circumstances.

The ending point is that a life is a life, and you nor I nor the mother have any right to decide over a baby's life and that the baby's life is as or even more valuable than the mother's
by  sismetic
 01 Aug 2012 17:01
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What if i get pregnant?!
 
 jennamarie  23 May 2012 03:07
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 Maybe you should just not have sex. That would solve it
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 24 Jun 2012 22:39
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I believe under exceptional circumstances such as rape, incest and the risk of the mother's life abortion should be an option. We need balance between the two extremes and banning abortion outright would cause more grief than is necessary.
 
 evangela  22 Apr 2012 13:28
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 Why should the mother's life be more valuable than a baby's one? They should have the same rights... and what's more, the right that's being discussed, is the baby's right to live vs a mother's right to not have a baby, obviously the right to live is superior to a right to have a baby.
by  sismetic
 01 Aug 2012 16:52
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I believe it should be up to the individual to decide, depending on what they believe in. You shouldn't force your beliefs on someone else who doesn't believe them.
 
 jleer  08 Apr 2012 00:32
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Only in cases of rape, incest, or where the mother or child may not survive the pregnancy.
 
 illini527  26 Mar 2012 10:03
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Abortion shouldn't be banned! I know that you say people are lots of families are willing to adopt but obviously that's not a very valid reason considering how many kids AREN'T adopted. Also you PROBABLY don't have a child yourself so you don't know how hard it would be to give up a child. Ask one of your parents if they would have been able to give you up. Plus what if like a drug addict got pregnant, its better she get an abortion then put her child through a life of misery. And children born to teenagers have a way higher chance of becoming a teen parent themselves and/or having a life of crime.
 
 Khamrie  10 Mar 2012 11:20
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 you really seem to be contradicting yourself by saying that its hard for a parnt to give up their child so they should just give up their child and not let it live at all
by  truitt
 13 Mar 2012 20:03
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If it wasn't legal women would go to drastic measuers to relieve themselfs of there "burden". Besides its purley s persons personal choice and something they will have to live with
 
 Jayfeather  02 Mar 2012 18:04
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 Your right they probably would, but one point most pro abortionist miss is, they tell alot of anti abortionist, "It's legal to do, so get over it!", but they miss the point that when it was illegal alot of women still broke the law & did it, so we would have been the ones saying "It's illegal so get over it!", & just because a Goverment says something is legal dos'nt make it right, as we have seen in many countrys over the years Nazi Germany for one, where is was legal to persecute jews & others they did'nt like & where they killed their disabled children & adults which some here were suggesting was a legitimate reason to terminate a baby, so are we becoming as calous as Nazi's now as a society.
by  Morgoth
 28 Mar 2012 23:50
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Abortion should not be banned. It is a personal choice of the woman considering it. You say "Any life is innocent." What does that mean? ANY life? So was Hitler innocent? Osama Bin Laden as well?
Killing cannot be avoided unfortunately. We must kill to eat. Even if you don't eat meat, all plants are life as well, therefore you are taking their life by eating them.
There does come a stage in pregnancy where abortion is no longer a suitable option, but that stage is quite late. Within the first few months of the pregnancy, the child is not developed enough to withstand life on its own. It is a parasite that must thrive off of its mother. If it is an unwanted parasite, then the mother should have the option of ridding herself of it before it is fully developed.
Stop forcing your morals on others. Abortion isn't murder. Many people who are most likely far more educated than you will agree.
 
 ria13  20 Feb 2012 12:52
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 So you dont think it's in anyway odd or hypercritical that in the same hospitals where thousands of abortions take place that people or goverments pay to give women who cant have children IVF treatment, to me it's pandering to womens needs above all else, there are simple ways to not get pregnant, dont have sex until your old enough & wise enough to use contraception, & you talk about the freedom it's given women,the only freedom it's given women is to be more irresponsible as the high abortion figures in the UK & US show & to say that abortion is'nt murder is just stupid as like it or not what is growing inside the womb is a human life, if you were to give birth to the baby & someone killed it they would be on a murder charge.
by  Morgoth
 28 Mar 2012 22:35
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Since you said it so absolute, I'm on this side. In cases of rape, incest, and if the life of the mother and/or baby are at risk, it's ok.
 
 yusaki  13 Feb 2012 13:58
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The baby won't even know. "ignorance is bliss". Also, it is a perfect chance for those cunts to make something out of their lives.
 
 greenking  13 Feb 2012 04:59
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 I'm afraid your wrong as it's been medicly proved that most babies feel pretty much as soon as the basic human shape is formed, & the way abortion works is it basicly rips the baby to bits to get it out of you, talk about a horror film, & those that refuse to accept the medical evidence,including some doctors do so on the bases of wanting abortions to still continue, for a start for stem cell research, despite that in some countries only just being made legal, we know it's been going on illegaly for year's, how do you think the conclusions for it to help people were first made to justify is legality.
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