I am researching Family Values for a documentary film. I will be posting several threads that explore this subject. It would be helpful if you contribute to this research with your views on abortion. If you could preface your view with a Y or an N to signify that you have personal experience, that would be even more helpful.
Yes, a female I … well, she decided upon an abortion.
For myself, abortion is wrong, life is life.
For legislation: Seeing as I am not a female, and don’t have to carry a child to term, it’s summarily none of my business, and the legislation should reflect that issue.
I dont’t have any personal experience with abortion and I’m male so my opinion may not go too far.
However, my opinion is this:
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there is only room for one organism with full human rights within a mother’s body. If we give the fetus the same standing as a infant then we can compel pregnant women to do all sorts of things. I think that no matter what, the mother’s right to control her own body is paramount and we have right to invade that or control it.
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As far as abortion being legal, I think it needs to be legal because abortions happen whether or not they’re legal, and we owe it to women to provide them at least a safe place to get an abortion. Not an alley with a coat hanger.
cheers,
gemty
I am a male to, And dont have any experance with it, except reseaching it when I thought I might had made a accident. Anyway I believe that abortion is wrong except for a few exception, I believe that if your married, and are perfectly able to take care of a baby and you decide to abort it I think its completly and utterly wrong.The only time I will disagree with that statement is if that married women is raped, then I believe it would be too stressful to bring that baby into the world, that the mother did not want, not mention if that raped victem did happen to bring the baby into the world and keep it that child could be subject to child abuse as a way for the mother to release her anger. But, in the case of teens, I believe it is acceptable, because a teen is not ready to have a child usually, or are not finacially fit to bring a child into this world and give it a good life, also for this day and age, a teen having a baby almost compltly hinders that girls school education and any possible chance of a sucessful future, not to mention that girl might not be a good parent because she has not faced that much of life yet.
I know adoption is an alternative, but it is much easier on thhe teens mind if she never had the child at all, because if she has the child she will have emotional ties to the baby (at least in most cases) which could send her into depression.
I also believe that in cases of incest a child should also be aborted. Because that child already knows shes been sexually molested, and having a problem added to that such as a child could bring about teen suicide or just plain depression for the rest of her life. Since most of these incest cases happen in a girls teen or even sometimes the preteens. They are not even ready (some physically and almost all mentally) to have children, And ii believe in incest cases, adoption is almost utterly out of the question.
And rape, Well I beliebe in all rape cases, a child should be aborted, I mean how would you like it your mother or adopted parents told you were hte child of a rape victim? I think that would leave a small hole in your happiness…Since almost every child wants to at least have a happy childhood, for a happy childhood almost always leads to a good life, that especailly true roe teens and young adults, and children.
I will elaborate if needed, or will clarify my statements if it is needed.
Also that is another valid point…A VERY valid point…
To bad most of the republicans who are men cant see this…
G.
The decision to have an abortion is a very personal one.
I do agree that the mother’s rights and control over her body should come first. I do not believe that a fetus is a baby, but then again I do not define a baby and a person as the same thing.
I have a friend who had abortions at 14 and 17 and a baby at just 19. He is nearly 2 and she is a great mother (and started her undergraduate maths degree last sept). And now she knows the value of contraception, if only she could have realised sooner. I dont agree with her willfull disregard for contraception, but I do believe in her right to choose not to have children at that time. Of course it would have been preferable if she had attempted to make that choice through the use of contraception.
I have been with my boyfriend for 3 1/2 years and we are both almost 21. If I got pregnant now it would be an accident as I am using contraception, but since we do want children one day I would probably keep it, as I think we could make ends meet, though it wouldn’t be the prefered order of doing things. However if I had gotten pregnant in the middle of my degree or while not in a relationship I would not have hesitated to have an abortion.
While abortion after 3 months is distasteful, I feel that it is a mistake to associate the physical mass of the fetus with any mental capacity. While the brain may have started to form, the ‘mind’ does not exist at that point IMO. I don’t believe in a soul and I don’t believe in God.
I think it comes down to responsibility. Abortion should not be used as a form of contraception, but it is not a pregnant woman’s responsibility take her pregnancy to full term. However, as a final point I do believe that if a woman does plan to take a pregnancy to term she should care for her body as though she were caring for a baby; no smoking, drinking or otherwise harmful activities. This is because, as far as the woman is concerned, the fetus will become a baby and eventually a person and it would be damaging.
Bravo to the sane and sensible on this thread. If you do not believe in abortion do not have one. Again, and scyth and I are in total disagreement on this issue, it is my body, my ass, and 9 months to 18 years or more of my life to have a child, which is a huge psychological, economic and emotional investment for any man or woman.
With regards,
aspacia