abortion: good or bad?

do you think abortion is right? is it wrong?

i think it sucks, personally.

you know it does somewhat sucks but then it when comes down to wether its good or bad thing its the woman who decides if she wants one. it isn't for other people to get involved. thats how i feel.

I don't think it is fair for somebody to decide whether a baby is born, but it seems that is the way it is 🙁

I think it's abortion is a sad thing. I mean you're ending a life before it even begins. But then again what if the person does have a baby and then it's abused and god knows what else. Is that worse then having had an abortion off the bat? I'm for it, but I don't like the idea of it. Until we have a process of making sure unwanted babies can be cared for completely and perfectly, abortion will always be an option

i think that there is nothing wrong with abortion

their are many sides to abortion but most are only opinions

Woah, you are touching on a sore subject 😱 My personal opinion is that whether or not it can possibly be justified is based upon circumstance. A couple of possible scenarios where it could be justified (though certainly not a pleasant option) are

1) Where the infant has been conceived by an act of rape.
2) Where there is solid evidence that proves the foetus to be severely deformed.

However, it is NEVER a happy circumstance 🙁

I would say though that making it completely illegal would be unwise, because (as with the drug issue) if it were illegal then it would still be carried out, but in dangerous and unsanitary conditions by bad/unqualified doctors. As it is legal (this isn't much comfort) it can be ensured that it is relatively safe.

yea ok, i can see why abortion could be an "acceptable" option, but what if that baby that was killed couldve grown up to cure cancer or something? just look at how much we're missing... abortion is like murder, without a trial.

Woman should be allowed to choose if shes to keep the child or not. Its not up to government or pressure groups or what not, its up to her.

There are any factors, as shaber said, like the cases of rape, the cases of sevirely deformed children, children whith incurable diseases, parnets who are unable to support a child, woman who doesnt want another chld, woman whos life might be in danger if she has one...etc, the list goes on.

If the woman decides and agrees on abortion, it should be perfectly fine.

Originally posted by lil bitchiness
Woman should be allowed to choose if shes to keep the child or not. Its not up to government or pressure groups or what not, its up to her.

^thats what people need to understand

I have no problem with abortion.

I am firmly against abortion as a firm of birth conrol. A woman should not go out, have sex, be stupid enough to get pregnant, and then get an abortion. That's wrong. However, If a woman or teen is raped, and becomes pregnant, I think abortion should be allowed in that case, especially if she is raped by a family member. It would not be fair to force the woman to go through the trauma of giving birth to a child that could ultimately belong to a rapist, her brother, her uncle, her father, etc.

there is nothing wrong with abortion

as long as it isn't used as a method of birth control, I think it's a bit too drastic and -I dunno maybe- a bit too dangerous for that

I have no problem with abortion as long is it aint used as a form for birth control

if there are good reasons, yes (rape and such)
if it's like fire said, you had a night out, had sex and later found out you got pregnant : no, not by a long shot, you should have thought about safe sex first 😠

think almost everybody feels that way

yup...true

I don't like the idea of abortion at all. If you're not ready for the responsibility, don't have sex. If you get pregnant, face the consequences. Hell, at least give it up for adoption. Their is so many couples who can't have a kid of their own that would love to take in the fetus that you want to kill. I for one would never let somebody abort my child. Only in extreme situations should their be an abortion: its a rape baby, the birth could harm the mother, etc. I don't really wanted to interfere with "a woman's choice" because this is my opinion and they are allowed to have theirs, but only stupid people put themselves in positions where an abortion is "needed" as they say. And by need, I mean they want an abortion.

I think the debate should probably be narrowed to abortion on demand, rather than abortion in general- I think nearly all will agree that abortion is fine if there is a compelling medical reason for it. And when I say 'demand', I think common sense should also point out that there are both good and bad reasons for demanding it.

So, with regards to that- well, then I think it comes down to one simple factor. At what point is a foetus really alive? No-one is really sure. But at the point where it is alive onwards, no-one has the right to take its life away- that includes the Mother, and that is regardless if she was raped or not. Because that would simply be murder, and two wrongs do not make a right.

That is the tricky question then, isn't it? When IS it alive? I am sure none of us accept the Chinese method of 'acceptable' abortion which includes the technique of partial-birthing a seven month term baby, clearly recognisable as human, puncturing its skull and vacuuming its brains out.

So you have to take it back and back until you try and define the point where it is ok. So don't get TOO mad at the religious types who try and yell at you for aborting at all- they may be wrong, but their reason for doing so is because they are convinved it is life from conception onwards, and so they think it is always murder.