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No matter whether you have a religion or not i was just wondering how many people are for abortion or against it. we're not talking the 5% due to "understandable" circumstances (rape, incest, etc.) we're talking about the 95% that use abortion as a means of "birth control" (too young, having a child will disrupt education or job, has relationship problem or partner does not want pregnancy, etc.)
if you dont mind, just post you religion at the beginning and whether you agree or disagree with abortion and why. you don't have to of course but it just keeps the thread easier to read. i was just wondering and wanted to see peoples thoughts
No matter whether you have a religion or not i was just wondering how many people are for abortion or against it. we're not talking the 5% due to "understandable" circumstances (rape, incest, etc.) we're talking about the 95% that use abortion as a means of "birth control" (too young, having a child will disrupt education or job, has relationship problem or partner does not want pregnancy, etc.)
if you dont mind, just post you religion at the beginning and whether you agree or disagree with abortion and why. you don't have to of course but it just keeps the thread easier to read. i was just wondering and wanted to see peoples thoughts
I'm not religious - but I think maybe your understanding of pro-choice is not necessarily the same as my understanding of pro-choice. I am pro-choice - but I don't think it should be used as a form of birth control. Or perhaps I just don't have the same understanding of "birth control" as you do. I do not consider a teenager or someone who is not ready to have a baby having one abortion over their entire lifetime as using it as a form of birth control. I think that if you have multiple abortions and continue to have unprotected sex - that is when you are using abortion as birth control. And I think that is awful.
I also don't agree with late term abortions - or abortions after the first trimester, really. And I'm definitely for more education and an increased availability of forms of birth control (condems, the pill, IUD, etc) to help reduce the number of abortions.
well im not really religious,although i have certain respect for many of them,im kinda of a closet devotee of Krishna though,a very poor one at that,but heres what i think....
i think it all depends on the situation,if a girl is raped and has to bear the rapists child then i think it would be o.k.,i know i wouldnt /if i were a woman that is/want the child of a dirty uol rapist.
second-----if it were a life or death situation and no matter what you and the child were goin to die.
however i do find it weird that women would go and kill their own babies before they were born,thgeir is a part of me that finds it disturbing,but i guess their are women who go through so many imotionalo troubles that they sometimes see no other choice,if its just because they idnt want the baby for some selfish reasons,like wantin to party for the rest of their lives then i think that is wrong,
all in all if their are crimes(sins)commited then karma will kick.maybe not this life but a life that you were never goin to have.
I can not vote for or against.... As a mother I hate abortion, but I understand that it is necessary sometimes.
It is not a black and white issue, there are many shades of gray and we are talking about a growing baby.
Abortion is sad!
I agree. Some of my friends have had them (in the past when they were younger) - and it is never an easy decision. It's awful. Being pregnant right now - I spend so much time worrying that the baby is okay and looking forward to meeting it. But I'm 34, married, and have a loving, stable household. We wanted this baby - so much! If I was a teenager or in my early 20's, scared, alone - being pregnant would take on a whole different meaning. If I was single and had no means of supporting myself much less a baby - I would be absolutely terrified. I just feel lucky that I was never in that situation so I never had to make that horrible decision. I just don't think you can force people to bring a life into this world if they aren't ready to do it. It's a huge responsibility - and some people honestly know they aren't able to do it.
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.. wandering agnostic here >>>>some abortions are just ,some are not... if it weren't for abortions the world would be even more overpopulated with unwanted children. plus overpopulation in general.. next year the pop is supposed to hit 7 billion, if all the embryos, fetuses that were aborted over the last 200 years had been born, the world could have like 9 billion people now..and we would be that much closer to our demise..
I agree. Some of my friends have had them (in the past when they were younger) - and it is never an easy decision. It's awful. Being pregnant right now - I spend so much time worrying that the baby is okay and looking forward to meeting it. But I'm 34, married, and have a loving, stable household. We wanted this baby - so much! If I was a teenager or in my early 20's, scared, alone - being pregnant would take on a whole different meaning. If I was single and had no means of supporting myself much less a baby - I would be absolutely terrified. I just feel lucky that I was never in that situation so I never had to make that horrible decision. I just don't think you can force people to bring a life into this world if they aren't ready to do it. It's a huge responsibility - and some people honestly know they aren't able to do it.
I do agree with you! I had my first when I was 35 and I remember worrying so much. But when I started to feel that life moving inside of me at about 16 weeks it was such a miracle!
I would have been a horrible mother at 20, I was so wild and still wanted to party all the time..... Definitely not mother material......
You're poll is misleading. Pro choice doesn't mean pro abortion. It means believing in elective abortion, which entails allowing someone the right to have an abortion. Most pro choicers aren't pro abortion. It's also a flawed claim that the majority of abortions are used as a form of birth control, when in fact that is not the case.
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