Abortion debate: who cares?

[Theif of Time]

Seriously, what is your opinions on this, pro life, pro choice or they're all douchebags?

(Gah I don't know where I picked up the word douchebag from... these forums twist your mind. Or maybe its southpark.)

[fLaReD]

pro-life

[Fit of Rage]

No, abortion is wrong and so is anyone who considers it. You're robbing the lives of millions of innocent babies! They could grow up to change the world!

--> psyche

[DoTheFandango]

Who gives a shit? It's a woman's right to do whatever the hell she wants with it.

[Kolar]

Who gives a shit? It's a woman's right to do whatever the hell she wants with it.

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[Subjugation]

I'm all for the freedom to choose what you want to do with your body and your future.

[Tone]

the fetus is property of the mother, the idea that a woman couldnt remove a parasite/anything from her own body is so strange that this issue shouldnt even be an issue. can you really imagine a law about how a mother couldnt remove a fetus from her own body? sounds outragous and makes no sense.

additionally, in many situations, abortion is often an ethical choice where choosing to have the child is pro-suffering. to be for a choice thats pro pain and suffering is unethical to say the least, dark and evil really

[za gophar]

i lean toward pro-life but do not feel strongly about the issue in general. it always depends on the circumstances.

[Kolar]

I'd have to agree with ZA, it will always depend on the situation. Woman should have the freedom to chose since it's their body yet at a certain stage in the pregnancy it shouldn't be done. I just don't want people to be using it as a method of birth control or deciding to do it based on their personal feelings about giving birth.. the pain of it or anything illrelivant and stupid (this is life we're talking about here...) when they're completely healthy and could easily find another family for the child.

[Jerome Scuggs]

does anyone remember that epid abortion thread i posted like infinity years ago

the one about abortions and the election and shit

holy shit was that awesome or what

[Bioture]

well a more interesting discussion would be: does the morning after pill count as abortion or contraceptive?

[Tone]

well a more interesting discussion would be: does the morning after pill count as abortion or contraceptive?

contraceptive is to prevent conception which has already occured. the morning after pill should be widely availible, though it may be quite a stress on some bodies

[Theif of Time]

This one Jerome?

Does anyone consider abortion murder?

Personally, I don't, unless its at a late stage (like, 7-8 months). Killing a potential person (fetus) is not the same as killing a person.
EDIT: and I consider the morning after pill a form of abortion, ie: it aborts the fertilized egg.

[Arikel]

Well this issue is not an easy thing to debate... i mean there are lots of diferent ways and reasons that take to abortion. Some of them are fairly obvious like when there is a potential risk to the mom's health, when there is a big risk to the child's physical and psychological health or when the mother has been victim of a rape, abortion in this cases should always be allowed.
On the other side if you are having a child of your's that you don't want i think you should be allowed to have an abortion unless your child is already considered to be "sentient" what i mean by sentient is that she already feels the world around and can even interact with it "like kicking the mommy's belly ^-^ ", if by some reason "probably the couple's lack of responsability" the mother decides to have an abortion after all those months i guess she shouldn't be allowed to do it but instead should have the baby and then if she didn't want her she could give her to an adoption center.

Morning after pill is a contraceptive way although it might have some undesired consequences... it should only be used as a last resource method to avoid pregnancy (sp). The only thing about abortion and it's legalisation is that it might have the undesired effect of having much more persons starting to use it as a contraceptive method, so it's legalization should be antecipated by an educational program by the health department and it should be accompanied and monitored to avoid excessive cases of women aborting because they didn't took the necessary precautions... although i still don't know how it could be done.

[Superted]

I consider avortion to be very situational.

Will the mother survive the pregnancy?
Does the mother have the mental stability to take care of a child?
If not, can somebody else look after it?

And if not then abortion should be allowed for the baby's sake. There's probably more questions involved but I feel the above 3 are the most important.