Cut the crap. All the superfulous crap that people include to answer the same question. Right or Wrong??? That simple.
Discuss.
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Torie
Abortion is wrong, except when the life of the mother is at stake, or in cases of rape. In my view.
However, just because I think something is wrong doesn’t mean I should call my legislator and try to get it made illegal.
It’s not as wrong as the alternative.
And what is there to “discuss” if you want to limit responses to “right” or “wrong”?
Back to Debating 101, torie.
Abortion is right. Abortion is always right.
Um, do I win?
Abortion should be avoided, except when the alternative is worse.
I BELIEVE IN ABORTION, FOR THE PURE, SIMPLE REASON THAT I HAVE NO RIGHT, NOR DOES ANY ONE ELSE, TO MAKE THAT DECISION FOR ANOTHER PERSON. I FEEL WE MUST TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR OUR BELIEFS, AND OPINIONS. SO TO ALL THE RIGHT TO LIFE PEOPLE, ARE YOU A FOSTER PARENT, ADOPTIVE PARENT, VOLUNTEER IN A YOUTH PROGRAM, OR DO YOU VOLUNTEER AT YOUR LOCAL HOSPITAL TO ROCK AND SOOTHE DRUG AFFECTED BABIES. WELL IF NOT YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO YOUR OPINION, BECAUSE IT IS EASY TO RUN YOUR MOUTH AND PROTEST BUT ARE YOU GOING TO TAKE RESPONSIBILTY IN SOME WAY TO HELP THESE UNWANTED CHILDREN THAT YOU ARE NOW FORCING THE MOTHERS TO BEAR. I THINK NOT !!! I AM A PRESCHOOL TEACHER AND I HAVE WORKED WITH TO MANY UNWANTED, DRUG AND ALCOHOL AFFECTED, ABUSED, AND NEGLECTED CHILDREN, MY BELIEF IS QUALITY OF LIFE, NOT LIFE ITSELF SHOULD BE THE ISSUE HERE. AND NOW TO REALLY PISS PEOPLE OFF I THINK IF THE WOMEN IS UNABLE TO PAY IT SHOULD BE FREE !!! NOW WATCH THE CASE LOADS AT CHILDRENS SERVICES MAKE A DRAMATIC DECLINE, AND THINK OF THE MONEY WE WOULD SAVE ON FOSTER CARE, JUVENILE DELINQUENCY, AND ADULT CRIMINAL HOUSING AND REHABILITATION. I THINK FREE ABORTIONS WOULD MORE THAN PAY FOR THEMSELVES. SO THE NEXT TIME YOU SEE A PROTEST OUTSIDE OF AN ABORTION CLINIC TAKE THE TIME TO ASK THE PROTESTERS HOW THEY WILL HELP THESE CHILDREN WHO ARE UNWANTED, WHAT IS THEIR CONTRIBUTION. I KNOW THE ANSWER BECAUSE I HAVE ASK, BUT I WOULD BE INTERESTED IN HEARING ANY ANSWERS OR THOUGHTS YOU HAVE ON MY OPINION. MADENA
No. No government funding of abortion. While I support the right of women to have an abortion, I think the issue is so emotional for many people that they should never be forced to pay for it. The price of abortion would also skyrocket in short order just like anything else paid for by third parties, placing an even more noticeable burden on taxpayers.
There are more than enough pro-choicers to fund a charity, if there isn’t one already, dedicated to providing free abortions for those who cannot pay for them. Their energies would be better spent towards that end than trying to petition the government to force everyone to pay for their cause.
Thank you for demonstrating your caps lock, Madena. I realize you’re a preschool teacher, but I should point out that unlike your students, the people here are for the most part familiar with the differences between the big letters and the small letters.
As for the government funding issue, it’s likely cheaper to subsidize abortion than pay for social services for overburdened familes.
In my opinion, abortion is like divorce – always morally wrong, but sometimes the best of a bunch of bad alternatives. I’d like to emphasize that, sometimes there is no right thing to do, only least wrong. The best thing to do is to try to make sure you don’t get into a position where either one becomes a necessity or even a likely possibility.
I am, however, firmly politically pro-choice and I don’t want to see abortion made illegal any more than I want to see divorce made illegal. I would also consider having an abortion if I found myself pregnant and in a situation where carrying a child to term was impractical. That would have applied last winter when I was unemployed, with no health insurance, little money, and unemployment running out.
I don’t like abortion, and I’d love to see a time when no one has one. Until that time if such an age of miracles ever comes, I’d like to see abortion, in the words of one pro-choice group, “safe, legal, and rare.”
Respectfully,
CJ
I understand it’s not a decision one enters into lightly, nor is it something one ought to make a regular habit of, but why would an abortion be considered a “bad” thing?
**As for the government funding issue, it’s likely cheaper to subsidize abortion than pay for social services for overburdened familes.
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A price that most pro-lifers are more than willing to pay if the alternative is funding abortion.
**I understand it’s not a decision one enters into lightly, nor is it something one ought to make a regular habit of, but why would an abortion be considered a “bad” thing?
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Because it ends a life. Whether or not a fetus is a person is a matter of debate, but there is no doubt at all that it is a living thing, and that an abortion kills it. At best, it is a necessary evil.
-All life eventually ends. We must end lives by the countless hundreds simply to survive from week to week. Why is the death of a particular zygote any more or less relevant than any other death?
The manner in which it ends. Purposefully destroyed by the hand of man.
Well, you did say zygote, and I have to admit I don’t particularly worry much about zygotes. The further along into development it gets though, the more the idea of killing it makes me queasy. That’s why I’m a big supporter of the recent decision to make the morning after pill over the counter.
I’d love to put the abortion mills out of business, and the pill does more to make abortion a truly private matter than anything else.
-Again, why is that any different than any other death? A cow slaughtered for beef, a chicken for it’s meat, a lab rat to see if the medicine worked, that duck for its liver?
I don’t want to limit responses to “right” or “wrong”. You can be as wordy as you want. I knew someone would say something in his or her response that would kickstart a debate.
I chose to word the OP in that manner because I see all kinds of odd threads with ridiculous premeses because the OP wants to discuss religion. Or abortion. Or Bush. And every one of these threads end up boiling down to something just like we have here.
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Torie
Not to hijack this thread or anything, but how is divorce always morally wrong? For instance, if your choices are between staying with someone who is physically abusive and divorce, then the divorce is morally right, and remaining in the marriage is morally wrong (especially if you have children who are being abused, and who you could remove from the abusive situation via divorce).
Likewise, I feel that there are times when abortion is morally wrong, and times when it’s morally right. It depends on the situation.
wrong according to God
not wrong according to the law
Its something no one ever WANTS to happen.
Sometimes it does.
Its unfortunate.
I await the day when science will be able to take embryos out of women who don’t want them and implant them in women who do.
Problem solved then.
The OP is asking a bogus question. It’s set up specifically to bait those who are pro-choice into essentially stating that abortion is “good,” which is not the position of most pro-choicers.
If I don’t think something is “wrong” that does not mean that I must think it’s “right.” I think abortion is a morally neutral act. It’s simply a termination of pregnancy before it produces a child. It has no greater moral significance to me than any other surgery.
What is wrong is any attempt to control women’s bodies and make those choices for them.
Bush is wrong.
What is even wronger is for people who have no stake in the matter trying to arrange how others should live their lives.
And don’t give me that baloney about the “moral degradation of the society.”
According to those who trumpet the propaganda about such degradation, society has always been “in decline” and requires a supernatural savior.