All in all, I agree with what most said. Abortion is acceptable as long as it has to do with medical reasons or a rape. And probably when the family cannot afford to raise another child, and so on. In no means though is it acceptable just because a couple (or whatever) is just too bored of taking precautions 🙄 I'm ok with it being legal and such. Sometimes it's necassery.
well about when a baby is considered to be alive, I KNOW THIS MIGHT CHANGE ONCE STORM OR (AND THIS ISN'T GOING TOO HAPPEN EASILY) MY GIRLFRIEND GETS PREGNANT, For me it is fairly simple, the thing is alive once it is been born no sooner no later, like the belgian law says you become a person once you are born and can live for a few seconds without being connected to your mother.
Re: abortion: good or bad?
Originally posted by citadel
do you think abortion is right? is it wrong?i think it sucks, personally.
i think if a woman is too young, cant afford a child, cant look after a child, doesnt want a child, was raped etc etc
then she should be able to choose not to have a child.
'pro-life' people make me sick.
abortion is a good thing when a)the child will have a medical problem--Down's syndrome, any of the various "trisomy" diseases (all of which, except Down's syndrome, result in a stillborn child or one that dies within a few days), etc, or b) if it was an accidental pregnancy, especially if the woman can't take care of a child. I don't believe that it is EVER "murder"--at the stage where an embryo can be successfully aborted, it is no more than a lump of cells. It is not a concious being. What I find interesting is how many "pro-life" people are in favor of the death penalty. That is murder.
In medical law, if the pregnancy puts the mother's life in danger, mother comes first, even if that means baby dies.
Even though a preganancy cannot be aborted after 24weeks (because it is a full baby but depends on mother in next few months) a foetus actually develops organs and a functioning brain in 10weeks of pregnancy.
Its an ethical question, but when is a foetus a baby? If it is morally wrong to kill human beings, is it wrong to kill foetuses?
I think a women should have the right to choose whether she goes through with a pregnancy or not, especially if she wasn't planning the pregnancy. Hoever, having recently learned exactly how abortions are carried out, I dont think I could go through with one myself. I couldnt live with knowing I'd done that to my baby. But really it depends on the individual.