Im weird.
Yes, but the alternative (forcing women to bear children they don’t want) is worse, so I’ll change my answer to “no”.
Insufficent data. Next time include whether or not woman in question wants an abortion or not. And pie.
The evidence isn’t conflicted, it doesn’t exist. There is no proven connection between abortion and breast cancer. Period.
BTW, there are far more health complications associated with carrying a pregnancy to term than there are with abortion…not that it matters - it’s every woman’s choice to make decisions that affect her own health.
No.
Nomadic_One: are you interested in debate or did you just want to poll people without actually debating the issue? It seems odd to place a poll in GD.
Short answer: yes it’s wrong
long answer: People should have the right to be wrong if they choose, as long as it hurts no one else.
Abortion does, arguably hurt someone else, namely the unborn, which is kind of a life and kind of not. It’s the beginning stages of a little human being, but still not able to sufficiently survive on it’s own (as though a human ever does), so the mother does have more ownership of the little life than the little life itself does.
Realizing this should key everyone into the gravity of procreation. It’s a huge, huge thing.
My official position: It’s a good thing the option is there, but heaven (or whatever) help the person who takes that option. In summary, freedom, good; killing a child, bad.
Y
insufficient data for a meaningful answer
Again, not true. You are confusing evidence with proof. There might not be proof, but that doesn’t mean there’s no evidence.
As I said, check out dutchboy208’s link. It argues against the breast cancer connection, and yet it candidly states,
In other words, a link has been found, even it is inconclusive.
There are numerous studies which suggest a link between abortion and breast cancer. The fact that other studies came to a different conclusion does not mean that there is no evidence. Therein lies the difference between evidence and proof.
Yes (but less than a year ago I would have said no)
No, not immoral.
though I’m sure that you can construct a situation in which I’d have doubts about it, the alternative of forced pregnancies is always the greater evil.
I think they are alright. If you don’t like them, don’t have one.
Nope (But I did protest outside the operating room when my brother had his appendix removed).
Don’t agree with Tramp, though. If you don’t like 'em, I’ll make you have one. No. No, wait, I won’t touch you.
Abortions for some, miniature American flags for others.
No. If somebody doesn’t want to have one, they shouldn’t. Nobody is forcing them to (and if anybody does try to force them, that is wrong.)
Irrelevent. I only deal with real world consequences world and don’t deal with abstractions.
I once believed that abortion was moral. Now I am uncertain - and shall remain so until one side or the other convinces me. (You’re both doing a piss poor job of not preaching to the faithful, by the way.) So, to stay on the side of caution, I say yes.
This thread has no business in Great Debates. It’s not a debate, it’s a popularity contest on a controversial issue.
My anseer: Not being afemal of childbearing age and not having been asked for advice by one, it’s none of my business.
I think the OP offers a decidedly loaded question. Take a look.
It repeatedly emphasized a healthy baby, a healthy parental relationship, and claims that there is no health risk associated with abortion (a very inaccurate claim, BTW) – and then asks for a YES or NO reply. It even attempts to squelch further discussion by saying “If you can’t do it with a yes or no, then please don’t post.”
As I said, clearly a loaded question.
Moreover, I think it’s guilty of false premises. It postulates that there is no medical risk in conducting an abortion, which simply isn’t so. It also implicitly assumes that health is the only relevant consideration in deciding matters of right or wrong, which throws the concept of intrinsic human rights out the window.
Although some debate may result as a result of some claims made in the thread…the OP, as stated. is most certainly NOT a debate but a poll.
What exactly is the point of the OP anyway…what exactly is Nomadic_One hoping to debate or discover through debate?
Basically, the OP is asking how many people find the use of abortion in what are politically referred to as the “easy cases” (as opposed to the politically “hard cases” of rape, incest…life of mother) to be moral.
(note: I am not making claims about how “easy” an abortion is or isn’t, I’m using the political vernacular of “easy” and “hard” cases that is often used in polling and political debate).
If you really want to examine polling on this…try Gallup or any of the other dozens of polling organizations.
Summary: Americans have conflicted opinions about abortion. At least half of the respondents would label abortion as “murder”…yet if you phrase the debate as “Would you want to overturn Roe v Wade?” or something similar…more than half would oppose the sort of measure.
About 50-55% of Americans favor allowing abortion “in certain circumstances”…while about 25% favor allowing it “in all circumstances”. The “certain circumstances” usually mentioned in that 50-55% group are the so-called “hard cases” mentioned above. (which FWIW, make up about 5% of all reported abortion reasons)
IOW, at most… 25% of Americans would favor allowing abortion in the scenario you proposed, according to Gallup.
If you’re interested in labels. 48% self identify as “pro choice” while 42% self identify as “pro life”.
Does this answer the question of the OP?