Do You Think Abortion Is Wrong?
Question by : Do You Think Abortion Is Wrong?
Do you think it is wrong and why or why not? Firstly if you think about it in a way, it is murder. The reason I think this is, is because an abortion can still be carried out late into the pregnancy. Now many of you probably think that it isn’t alive, so whats the problem. Well lets take a fetus, and compare it to any other baby……. is the heart beating? does it have a brain? How can you say it isn’t alive? What about premature babies, are they just a bunch of cells? Cells are living by the way. A baby is alive from the first second it’s heart starts beating. Thats why it can suck it’s thumb and kick and move and think while it’s still in the womb. So if you want to tell me that “it isn’t living”, whats your proof? I read somewhere that once, a docter performed an abortion late in a pregnancy and he found the baby sucking it’s thumb. He killed the baby anyway. Was that baby “a bunch of cells” or “not living”. Please tell me what you think.
In the aspect of a woman getting raped and becoming pregnant, she could still go through with the pregnancy and give the baby up for adoption. Many amazing and great people have been adopted in this way. And it is better than killing them before they even have a chance at life.
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Answer by Zen禅Maiden :ジェダイ
no.
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March 20th, 2011 at 12:45 pm
I think it should be a choice. It’s not for me to judge until I’ve walked in their shoes, and even then, I’m not sure that I would judge them.
March 20th, 2011 at 1:35 pm
I think abortion is wrong for me. I do not profess to know what is right or wrong for someone else, though. That’s their decision.
March 20th, 2011 at 2:08 pm
If it’s a lib baby, it’s ok
March 20th, 2011 at 2:13 pm
yes theyre tiny humans!!
March 20th, 2011 at 2:18 pm
abortion is not wrong,it is not murder.
March 20th, 2011 at 2:57 pm
abortion is NOT wrong
every woman should have a right to choose whether to have a baby or not
March 20th, 2011 at 3:10 pm
Personally I think it is wrong. However it would be wrong for me to have the right to decide what other women do with their lives.
March 20th, 2011 at 3:26 pm
Yeah it is murder but then again would you rather get rid of it before it gets too big or would you rather have the kid, struggle throughout ur whole life and then the kid always be hurtin with problems?? thats the main reason people get abortions today because they know that they wont be able to take care of their kids!!! Why do you think there are so many orphans and homeless kids today?!
March 20th, 2011 at 4:14 pm
It is murder. It is the genocide of a particular group of people, the unborn, who can’t defend their selves.
There are millions of people who would love to adopt and raise up these children.
It is not a choice, it is a child.
People who have abortions should be charged with murder and sent to prison just like any other murderer.
There are also thousands of women who die every year from having a abortion and thousands more who are maimed from it.
March 20th, 2011 at 4:28 pm
It still amazes me that if I shoot a preganat woman in the belly and her “fetus’ dies that it is murder, but if you don’t want to take resposibility for the life you created it is “just cells”.
Logical or self-justification?
March 20th, 2011 at 4:43 pm
No its a womans choice, living or not.
March 20th, 2011 at 5:34 pm
If it cannot survive on it’s own then it is a parasite. If it were surgically removed it would still not live. The woman has a choice whether or not she want’s to carry it. An abortion just makes the suffering end faster.
March 20th, 2011 at 5:43 pm
Its up to the individual to decide whether to have an abortion or not.
What do I think……I don’t think its wrong, but then I also think the Death penalty is a good punishment for some people. Atleast I’m consistant.
March 20th, 2011 at 6:18 pm
i’ m a man so when do I get to choose the fate of some person not wanted ?
March 20th, 2011 at 7:05 pm
I can honestly see that there are time where it would be necessary. However since science defines the begining of life as being when two cells divide and cell division has already taken place in aspect to a fetus then yes it is alive.
However if we like the term abortion for ending a life before birth why not change death row to belated abortion row. You know for people that should’ve been aborted but well we forgot! Better late then never!
Make Charles Manson number ONE!
March 20th, 2011 at 7:16 pm
i agree with you.
March 20th, 2011 at 8:02 pm
no, before we had abortions people regularily smothered, drowned, or killed their unwanted babies by leaving them outside to die of exposure–Y’all didn’t have much problem with that, now did you? it was strongly encouraged by the church in cases of adultery and fornication–Your problem with it stems from the fact that it is the woman making the choice, and not the church or her husband or father
March 20th, 2011 at 8:14 pm
You’ve evidently made up your mind whether is is right or wrong, so why ask? It is a waste of 5 points. But thank you for my 2.
March 20th, 2011 at 8:27 pm
Dear, just because an abortion CAN be done during late stages of preganancy does not mean that they are OFTEN performed in that fashion… In fact, they rarely are…
As for your other “proofs” – they are a matter of perspective. You might find a clump of cells that do not yet possess a brain or spinal column as “living”, but I do not – it is not self aware, it cannot experience pain – so it is not alive.
Do I think abortion is wrong? As a form of birth control, yes. However, do you not think that an overpopulated world, full of unwanted and uncared for people will do any of us any good??
March 20th, 2011 at 8:47 pm
I do agree that a fetus is a baby and that when you perform an abortion it is killing it.
I believe that their are other choices, such as abstinence or if not that then you could give the child up for adoption.
Where I find the line a bit “blurry” is when a women is raped, but I know that if reported then they often give the women a “day after pill” which I think is a much better option in that situation.
Addition: people have said abortion is better then overpopulation, or smothering etc etc..and that these children are unwanted…..well does it not stand to reason then.. why are these children being conceived? and go ahead and say well birth control is not 100% but I would guess that most “unwanted” pregnancies are not because of failed birth control.
As for these babies being unwanted…as a Mother who was once told she could have no children of her own, and was looking to adopt, believe me they are NOt unwanted.
March 20th, 2011 at 9:30 pm
Yes, it is wrong to take the life of another individual to suit your needs or wants.
And as a correction to someoneelse’s post: People still smother, drown and kill their babies–abortion hasn’t helped that, just added to the death toll.
March 20th, 2011 at 10:25 pm
I’m pro choice, but at the same time anti abortion. I don’t agree with abortions, but I think the woman should have the right to choose. I don’t agree with late term abortions at all, unless of course there is a medical emergency and that is the only chance for survival.
The first 3 months of a pregnancy the fetus could not survive outside the womb, so yes it’s heart might be beating, or it might have a brain, but it could not live without the mother, so in my mind the fetus is not quite human yet.
March 20th, 2011 at 11:14 pm
I read a testimony recently about a cheerful 17 year old girl who survived a botched saline abortion attempt. One of her arms was also severed in the botched abortion.
She thinks abortion is wrong.
March 20th, 2011 at 11:32 pm
Abortion itself i think is wrong. I do think there is one instance when abortion is not wrong. That one instance is when continuing the pregnancy would cost the lives of both the mother and the child. If there is a medical reason and there is absolutely no other option, yes, abort the child. Otherwise, it is against my moral code.
Having said that, however, it is not my place to tell you what you should be doing with your body and your baby. I am not the one that will have to live with the consequences of your decision. I also believe in karma and the law of three. If a person chooses to end the life of their child, that is their choice and I have no right to interfere. But that person will have to live with that for the rest of their lives and that’s something i don’t think most women understand about doing this.
March 21st, 2011 at 12:22 am
abortion is definitely wrong. you are killing an innocent life. and like you said,there are people who would gladly adopt any of these unwanted children. as for it being a personal choice…i think if a person makes that choice she should be set in front of a television and shown the tape of what happens to the child when it is being aborted.
March 21st, 2011 at 1:08 am
That is very long. But I’ll answer your primary question.
In some instances, I think it’s wrong. In some instances, I think it’s right. However, I’m not the kind of person that believes everyone should reproduce regardless of their ability to raise a child. I’m also not the kind of person that believes everyone living is a valuable human being. Some people, I believe, would be better off dead. Some people’s deaths, I believe, would benefit society.
So I can’t say if abortion is wrong unless I know the circumstances.
March 21st, 2011 at 1:25 am
Many believe abortion is wrong and that it is murder. Others do not. I believe that if the purpose of the deliberate cessation of life and of growth is to preserve another, or to preserve a greater good, out of love and self-sacrifice and not out of fear or selfishness, then it is right and it is not murder. But when is killing someone or something murder? Is killing cancerous cells murder? I do not believe so, because to do that would preserve life in something that God created to be of the greatest good. (A human being). Cancer is not a good thing and for the most part, I do not think it can be. God never meant it to exist. (mankind fell, sin entered the world) God can bring about good things because of it, but in and of itself it is not a good thing. I believe it to be one of the effects of sin upon nature. It is harmful, not normal and not what God desires to be within us.
Just about everyone of us I think, wants goodness in our lives and for those around us. We are all part of a whole… sometimes it takes sacrifice to see the greatest good flourish.
Generally, it seems that so many people are very confused on when life begins. Well, the fact is that anything that grows is alive and has the ability to act, even if on a very rudimentary level. Whether or not to kill or stop the growth of that which is alive is a matter of choice. So this poses a decision. Is it right to kill (for example) a plant or a chicken so that you can eat it? Sure. I think a lot of people would say yes, at least to the plant being killed. The fact is that one must eat to survive. It is about life! To those that say that life does not begin at conception, I would say; (hoping that the reader is not a vegetarian) “Would you eat a chicken egg, which when you cracked it open, revealed that it had accidentally been fertilized? Marked by a bloody yolk and the early beginnings of a chick within? If not, then why? The chick was not even anywhere near formed enough to survive outside the egg. So it should not be considered a chick or even part of a chick, right? Just an egg…would you buy that? I sure wouldn’t, and I wouldn’t eat it. (This is not an issue of weather or not eating a dead chick is right, this was illustrated to show when life begins).
Then one might ask: o.k. how about a rape case or a pregnancy that took place in a fallopian tube? (Which is a spot where the baby cannot grow and can be fatal for both mother and child) To the second scenario I would say, nothing as far as I know, can be done to save the baby. And abortion may be necessary. Maybe a surgery or something could be done, which would be very risky for the mother and the child both, and may not be wise… although dangerous surgeries have been performed for much more shallow reasons. Yet, if the intention is literally to save at least one life, then that is the right thing to do. Rape on the other hand is something that is so much more traumatic and yet also carries a choice: whether to abort baby or to save him/her. There are many things in life that seem out of our hands, outside of our control and even against our will. But even of this, so much good can arise and sometimes strangely enough, only by that. We live in a world that seems to take, take, take and very little give. This makes us feel threatened, sometimes fearful too and so we try to take more, things that we believe that we deserve and take back what we can, even though it seems like no matter what we do, we cannot get enough or get much back. It’s like spilling a bucket of fresh water accidentally into the sea and trying to get the fresh water back again. In other words, personal problems in someone’s life cannot be fixed by having an abortion, (quite the contrary) and therefore it is generally not the right thing to do.
March 21st, 2011 at 2:08 am
I think abortion is none of your business, or mine, or anybody else besides the woman and her doctor. And I definitely don’t think its the business of any religious fanatic who says its murder simply because their preacher says so. And you might want toget your stats figured out before you go on about late term abortions. Those are very few, and usually done for medical reasons,not convenience. but are always brought up as reason to not have any abortions.
March 21st, 2011 at 2:27 am
“The reason I think this is, is because an abortion can still be carried out late into the pregnancy.”
this rarely happens. in my country abortion is legal but you REALLY REALLY have to have a good reason. I’m not comfortable with it.
But in general, a blastocyst is not a human baby. Nor is something that doesn’t have a nervous system, or a working brain.
And women who want an abortion with almost no exception have damned good reasons for wanting one. It’s not a picnic you know?
And ask yourself, will this unwanted kid (for social, economic or whatever reasons) will have a happy life to look forward to?
Your emotional ‘scare’ stories are not helping you look at the matter objectively by the way.
But all this is moot as a woman deciding to have an abortion is minding HER business, which is none of YOUR business.
And you know abortions are going to happen anyway. Wouldn’t you rather they happened in safe, controlled and hygienic circumstances? See also Haydn’s comment which was on the mark.
March 21st, 2011 at 2:41 am
Even the littlest ‘Who’ is a ‘Who’. One of the biggest lies around is that the littlest ‘Who” isn’t a ‘Who’ at all. But all us ‘Whos’ should shout from the roof tops that the littlest ‘Who’ is important too.
March 21st, 2011 at 2:53 am
Any way I think of it,
Abortion is Murder.
Who is looking out for the rights of the most innocent in our world?
Peace and God Bless!
March 21st, 2011 at 3:13 am
Not if it’s done properly.
March 21st, 2011 at 3:44 am
I do not think its right but the last thing in the world a woman needs if shes even thought of the idea is some stranger pushing their views off on her
March 21st, 2011 at 4:02 am
What I find interesting is a society so against abortions, but at the same time having little problem with the death penalty for convicted killers.
Death is death.
Then you get the anti-abortion fanatic that ends up killing a Doctor at the Abortion Clinic. Yah I know not everyone is a fanatic.
If the baby is qualified as alive then why not treat it as a actual person and have social security numbers given out at time of life. I mean you can hold off on the birth certificate. If the fetus ends up dying in the womb, then a death certificate should be warranted. You should be able to use the child in the womb as a tax deduction.
If we call the baby/fetus alive before birth then you have to treat it as such. You can’t have it both ways. Should you be able to go in the 2 person commuter lanes?
March 21st, 2011 at 4:47 am
Abortion is a legal choice as is keeping a child or giving one up for adoption. I’m for any of these three choices to be used. It is not my place to tell another that they are restricted in that choice as I do not walk in their shoes.
I wonder how many rape victims would be able to psychologically handle bringing a pregnancy created by a rapist to term. I doubt very many. How could anyone ask a woman to relive for nine months the terror she went through. That would be damaging to the womans psyche and to put anyone through such psychological stress is barbaric.
March 21st, 2011 at 5:45 am
I have two children. If you have had kids you know that as they are growing inside you they are alive real people. At six weeks the heart starts beating, at 20 weeks, the sex is decided, body parts are forming together, at 24 weeks (6 months) a child can live with assistance outside of the womb, at 28 weeks they have a better chance. Most abortions are done well after they should be and late term abortion is the worst. Abortion is murder, there is no way around it. You started a life, you end it by injecting poison or cut it up inside the womb, it dies and comes out. If you left a pregnancy to go through the normal process a living breathing child would be the end result. Life is life. I cannot understand how we as a society condone abortion as a justifiable source of birth control. Which is what it has become.
How is abortion not murder? I would like to hear the answers from those who believe that it is not. Not just that it isn’t murder.
March 21st, 2011 at 6:21 am
If it ain’t got a brain, it ain’t human yet and aborting that is a woman’s choice. It’s it’s got a brain I think it’s wrong to abort
March 21st, 2011 at 7:11 am
Whether abortion is wrong for you personally, or whether you’ve “walked a mile in someone’s shoes” is irrelevant. What matters is that a life is ended. Shouldn’t civilized people agree not to take innocent life? I think so. Murder is wrong, period.
March 21st, 2011 at 8:09 am
Yes — I think it is wrong. But that doesn’t mean I think it should be illegal. Some people think that life begins at conception and others think that it begins when the fetus becomes viable. It is a topic on which reasonable men do not agree.
Most late term abortions are illegal — so you may have some bad information here.
The way to stop abortion is through education, not legislation. Unfortunately, the very people who think that abortion should be illegal also want to keep oung women from learning how to keep from getting pregnant.
March 21st, 2011 at 8:56 am
I believe it is morally wrong.
Since the Bible states that God knew us before we were born and that he knitted us in our mothers womb. I think there is a double standard in the law when they say a person who kills a pregnant mother is guilty of two murders but a doctor who ‘aborts’ a ‘fetus’ (come on that is a baby not a fetus!!!) is simply performing a medical procedure. By saying a killer is guilty of two murders our judicial system is recognizing the unborn child as a single entity and not an appendage.
Guess what I am trying to say is that we should simply recognize the unborn babies as individuals being separate from their mothers bodies and that the mother is simply ‘renting out’ her womb…
March 21st, 2011 at 9:29 am
What is God the great Life-giver’s viewpoint?
Does God value an embryo?
Ps. 139:13-16: “You [Jehovah] kept me screened off in the belly of my mother. . . . Your eyes saw even the embryo of me, and in your book all its parts were down in writing.”
Has God ever stated that a person would be called to account for injury to an unborn child?
Ex. 21:22, 23: “In case men should struggle with each other and they really hurt a pregnant woman and her children do come out but no fatal accident occurs, he is to have damages imposed upon him without fail according to what the owner of the woman may lay upon him; and he must give it through the justices. But if a fatal accident should occur, then you must give soul for soul.” (Some translations make it appear that in this law to Israel the crucial matter was what happened to the mother, not to the fetus. The original Hebrew text, however, refers to a fatal accident to either mother or child.)
Is abortion wrong?
Life begins at conception the willful taking of it is tantamount to murder. It is absolutely wrong!
Did you know there is an estimated 40-50 million abortions each year? That means that by far more life is taken through abortion in three years than was taken in war in the hundred years of mankinds bloodiest century, the 20th century.
regards
Ousboui
(I’m one of Jehovah’s Witnesses)
March 21st, 2011 at 9:59 am
I think its wrong, when I look at my children and think to myself how wonderful they are, and what if they diddnt have the chane to be here. no pregnancy is a mistake, even unplaned ones. theres a reason why . what if Albert Einstien, or ben franklins mother got an abortion. the world wouldnt be the same. and look at how many people want children, but cant have them. what a wonderful gift youll be giving them if you opt to put your baby up for addoption rather than end a life. Im sorry to all of the free choice people out there, but I still think its wrong. there are many more reasons not to do it.
ok abey if the baby is going to die anyway. or if the mothers life was in danger, but thats the only good reason.
March 21st, 2011 at 10:26 am
Yes it’s wrong..why? because life begins at conception and to take away that life is murder.
March 21st, 2011 at 11:03 am
I was given up for adoption,myself..
I also love very much a beautiful 11 year old girl,whose mother,I convinced to avoid having an abortion 12 years ago..and visit with her and her family almost every day and helped provide for both her mother and she for these years…Though I have children of my own…I can not imagine life without her…she is just like my own child….
To believe that a living fetus is no more than a collections of cells…an insignificant , discardable mass of tissue, to be tossed in the garbage with egg shells and coffee grounds is highly representative of the insensitivity,selffishness,ignorance and depravity that is the mind of this present world.
March 21st, 2011 at 11:34 am
I do believe that abortion is ‘wrong’ … I’m a Catholic, and I also don’t believe in the ‘death penalty’ for a convicted felon … but I do believe that we NEED to have ‘legal access to medical abortions at OUR will’ and that there will always be some people who believe that ‘killing’ is ‘right’ in both abortion and the death penalty. I am ‘one person’ and I ‘believe’ in what I do because I have thought ‘long and hard’ over this problem and have ‘some experience’ with abortion and ‘the death penalty’ … but what I believe in MOST is that EACH INDIVIDUAL has the ‘right’ to make the ‘choices’ based on what they ‘think is right’ ONLY as long as their choices do not ‘infringe’ in any way on the right of ALL OTHER INDIVIDUALS to make choices on their own, with no ‘propaganda’ and no ‘protests’ to ‘force other people away from their choices.’
March 21st, 2011 at 12:33 pm
Speaking as a former fetus, I am totally against abortion.
I believe that someone has to speak out for the babies. The murder of the unborn, is EVERYONE”s business, it is not about what the woman chooses to do with her body, it is ALL about what she is choosing to do to the child’s body.
I have counseled too many women who have had abortions not to know what it does to them. It is not an easy decision, I know, and most of the women who are in an abortion clinic at any given time feel forced into their decision. Nobody told them about the risks involved, and many don’t find out until it is too late.
March 21st, 2011 at 12:45 pm
When a baby is conceived it is a human in of story . Now is it wrong I believe it is wrong in fact I know it is wrong. We are so use to doing what ever we want until we just don,t chose believe it,s wrong. Women I know this is tuff for you and I know that a lot of you have had abortion and I know you feel bad about what you did and I am not judging you I feel sorry for you because there are a lot of men who went through the same thing you did. I don,t have the answer for it just because our government says it,s OK to have them does not make it right love kids and I cry for them I think of all the Martin Luther Kings Jr. and the John F. Kennedy’s and Michael Jordan’s we will never get to know because of abortions what a waste
March 21st, 2011 at 1:37 pm
Hi Cutie:
Abortion is wrong no matter where you look at it.
It terminates the life of a human being, that although doesn’t posess full growth already is one in essence.
To terminate a pregnancy at any stage is murder. And is not a matter of choice to terminate it once is present, of course if you come down to it, even murder of an adult is a matter of free choice too. isn’t it?
However the individual freedom of choice was asserted in the moment that parent had intercourse.
If the pregnancy results from rape. Is not the child’s fault what the parents did and has a right to life.
An embryo is a human being, science knows and confirms this, so does philosophy asd well as our inner common sense.
may God have mercy on us, because this societty murders millions of innocents just to have recourse to a dissolute lifestyle, in which nobody wants to be made guilty, nobody wants to be told that what they are oing is wrong, is not “politically correct”
Abortions is wrong, and those who do it, perform it or aid in it, are guilty.
However, God is mercy you know, repent and God will forgive you, no matter how ugly your sin, he is love and mercy foremost.
God bless
March 21st, 2011 at 1:52 pm
Well, yes. Murdering babies would be wrong in my book. And realistically, technology has come far enough to transplant a fetus into someone who wants the baby. There’s no logical reason I can see to go through an abortion.
And I see nothing wrong with expecting someone who helps create life to actually look after and care for the baby. And if they can’t, adoption is a perfectly good road to pursue. I find it sad that many humans don’t err on the side of life, just because they have a “choice”. I wish I could believe mankind was better than that.