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  • Jul 28, 2007, 09:28 PM
    yaleoxford2nd
    I think abortion should be illegal.
    Unless u were raped
  • Jul 28, 2007, 09:28 PM
    JoeCanada76
    I agree, there is one part of canada that it is still illegal by law.

    Edit:::::

    I believe it is murder to kill an unborn baby. Strong statement but I have always made that statement. It is a true, and all life is precious.

    I would also like to add, that a rape victim becoming pregnant. Should the baby die because of the fathers sin, the answer. No.
  • Jul 28, 2007, 09:30 PM
    nauticalstar420
    I believe that adoption should be considered first, but some women cannot give up a baby they've carried for 9 months, so then they go on to try and take care of a baby when they financially, physically, or mentally cannot.

    If you do not feel that you could give up a baby for adoption, I think it would be best to have an abortion. I am totally pro-life, but I also would rather a baby be aborted early on than have it not being taken care of the way it should. :)
  • Jul 28, 2007, 09:42 PM
    J_9
    Wow, you really have some issues. First you are curious about whether you have a STD, then you say you are a lesbian who wants to marry a man, you want to marry your girl who wants to marry her man, you want to have a baby with your lesbian girlfriend with a man and want to know how using a turkey baster, then you come in with cutting yourself and you low self esteem.

    Understand that in reality you need some help. PROFESSIONAL help. We can't help you here in the depth that you need it.

    Or are you just playing us?
  • Jul 28, 2007, 10:20 PM
    J_9
    See here

    https://www.askmehelpdesk.com/marria...me-113491.html

    And

    https://www.askmehelpdesk.com/mental...ow-114452.html

    And here

    https://www.askmehelpdesk.com/adult-...td-114145.html

    So, can you please explain what is up so that we can help you? Or, please stop messing around.
  • Jul 29, 2007, 12:12 AM
    rockerchick_682
    It's always a personal decision, pro choice. It's so hard to pick a side
  • Jul 29, 2007, 12:57 AM
    cal823
    Best method of abortion-prevention
  • Jul 29, 2007, 01:47 AM
    firmbeliever
    Abortion is an issue which needs serious consideration.

    Abortion should be allowed in cases where carrying the baby to term will be considered dangerous/life threatening to the health of the mother...

    In cases like rape, it must be hard to keep a baby of the rapist,but isn't it also the mothers own flesh and blood?

    Just my opinion...
    -----------------------------
    http://www.motherhelp.info/rape_pregnancy.htm
    "Pregnancy Resulting from Rape - consequences, what to think about.
    If you have been raped, yet you plan to give birth then you may be interested to know that many mothers have loved a child conceived in rape. And many natural mothers whose child was conceived in rape, then adopted-out grieve the loss of their son or daughter for a life-time."

    http://www.secasa.com.au/index.php/survivors/4/151

    Hope these links provide something more than opinion... HOPE! :)
  • Jul 29, 2007, 09:30 AM
    Fr_Chuck
    Yes abortion is murder, and a growing industry with millions of dollars of backing. I do believe over time we will see further restrictions in its use.

    I will agree with J9, as to your issues of posting
  • Jul 29, 2007, 09:36 AM
    SnaveLeber
    No not unless you were raped! Was it the little child's fault that some horrible man did that to you? NO just as much as it was not your fault. Have the baby and give them up for adoption. THE LOGIC OF THIS NATION SICKENS ME.
    Ok... lets ask, why then do you think it should be illegal? Because its murder possibly? But no, if a rapists sperm fertilized your egg then its not human. So no murder right?
    Are you mentally handicapped?

    Actually never mind. I do believe in abortion in the case of rape.
    But abort that rapist not the innocent little child growing in your womb.
  • Jul 29, 2007, 07:45 PM
    bekah876
    I had my first ultrasound at 8 weeks and the doctor labeled it baby. Because yes, it is a baby even though it is less than an inch big and weighs about the size of a paper clip. It is a baby. I am against abortion. I think there are so many other options out there besides having an abortion.
  • Jul 29, 2007, 08:03 PM
    J_9
    Yup, and before Roe vs Wade my brother-in-laws birth mother tried an at-home abortion, because it was illegal. He was born, adopted by my in-laws and at the age of 6 found out that he was mentally challenged. Why you ask? Because abortion was against the law, she tried an at-home coat hanger abortion and now he and his adoptive family suffer the consequences.
  • Jul 29, 2007, 08:35 PM
    nauticalstar420
    I am pro-birth control. If you don't think you can handle a child, use some sort of birth control.
  • Jul 29, 2007, 09:03 PM
    inthebox
    Illegal.

    Only exception would be mother's life as unanimously determined by 3 obstetricians with no vested interest in the case.




    Grace and Peace
  • Jul 29, 2007, 09:16 PM
    bushg
    Call me nuts, but I think if a soul wants to enter this world it will find a way. I would rather a woman have an abortion legally than in some back alley, have the baby and toss it, or abuse it all of its life.
  • Jul 29, 2007, 09:19 PM
    nauticalstar420
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by bushg
    Call me nuts, but I think if a soul wants to enter this world it will find a way. I would rather a woman have an abortion legally than in some back alley, have the baby and toss it, or abuse it all of its life.


    Exactly. That is what I was trying to get at in my earlier post. A woman dumped a baby in a dumpster here in Jacksonville just last week. Stuff like that makes me sick. We have "surrender sites" here where you can just take your baby and drop it off, no questions asked. Luckily, that baby in last week's incident lived. There are a large number that aren't that lucky.
  • Jul 29, 2007, 09:24 PM
    bushg
    We had some teenagersin Ohio put one in the garbage, it died. The garbage man found it in a black garbage bag.(foot sticking out) I would have rather seen it aborted than for it to have been tortured to death at full term. Any way you go about it is sad but... I think some people will always be irresponsible.
  • Jul 29, 2007, 09:26 PM
    nauticalstar420
    Stuff like that actually makes me cry. I didn't used to be so sensitive to subjects like this, but now that I have children of my own it opened my eyes up a whole lot. I even wish they would leave an unwanted baby on someone's doorstep, like you see in the movies. I mean at least SOMEONE would be able to help that poor child.
  • Jul 29, 2007, 09:53 PM
    firmbeliever
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by nauticalstar420
    Exactly. Luckily, that baby in last week's incident lived. There are a large number that arent that lucky.

    I too hate it when people try to take lives of innocent children just because of their/others mistakes... but I do sometimes wonder if the baby is lucky to be alive rather than dead as death will be peaceful for the innocent souls when they return to the Almighty and being alive amongst such cruelity...
  • Jul 29, 2007, 10:00 PM
    nauticalstar420
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by firmbeliever
    I too hate it when people try to take lives of innocent children just because of their/others mistakes...but I do sometimes wonder if the baby is lucky to be alive rather than dead as death will be peaceful for the innocent souls when they return to the Almighty and being alive amongst such cruelity.....

    I totally agree with you. But its just the WAY the parents go about doing things is what makes me so upset. There are so many other alternatives to throwing them in the dumpster.

    When I was in high school I remember an incident from another town where a girl had her baby in a public bathroom that was in a park, and left it in the toilet to die. How could anyone be so cruel and heartless?
  • Jul 30, 2007, 12:19 AM
    firmbeliever
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by nauticalstar420
    I totally agree with you. But its just the WAY the parents go about doing things is what makes me so upset. There are so many other alternatives to throwing them in the dumpster.

    When I was in high school I remember an incident from another town where a girl had her baby in a public bathroom that was in a park, and left it in the toilet to die. How could anyone be so cruel and heartless?

    Not to sound like I am a religious fanatic, but for us muslims the rules/regulations regarding fornication/adultery is very strict and incidents like the one you mentioned makes my belief stronger in that the Almighty sent down strict laws as He alone knows how cruel humans could be to unwanted babies.
    For us illegitimate sex (sex outiside of marriage is a Sin (though many disobey this rule too)), and I guess this rule is a prevention of such incidents happening and saving mothers(fathers too sometimes are involved and some family member/friend) from taking such rash decisions to kill a life and/or abondan helpless babies into a life of rejection/retardation.
  • Jul 30, 2007, 07:40 PM
    Lucas Ammons
    Abortion is infant murder. There are millions of families that would like to have a kid but can't for various reasons, they would love to have a kid to abopt.

    Sorry if I offended anyone dealing with the holy trinity and catholics.
  • Aug 1, 2007, 10:28 PM
    Synnen
    I say that abortion should remain legal.

    PROVING rape or incest takes longer than the 9 months a woman is pregnant, as a general rule. Making abortion legal in those cases only would create a HUGE level of falsely accused rapists.

    Mother's life in danger? So... only if her PHSYICAL life is in danger, not her emotional well-being, or her mental capacity to deal with a child? We allow women to go to shelters if someone is committing any kind of abuse on the, and emotional and mental abuse are as valid as physical abuse. Why is taking her physical capability into effect the only way that counts?

    As for those of you pushing adoption instead of abortion---I hope someone in your family chooses adoption instead of abortion, and deprives you from seeing a child you care about for the rest of that child's life, and see how it affects you. Your daughter, your sister, your best friend. Blithely offering adoption as a way to fix things because "some poor couple out there could love and take care of your child" is stupid. There are plenty of valid reasons out there for choosing adoption. One should not be pressured because someone they don't even know wants a BABY instead of an older child.

    As far as raising a child one doesn't want at all, but can't bring to place for adoption---would YOU want to be the child that has a mother that resents it for the rest of her life for taking away her youth, her time to have fun, chances at so many things? Yes, I know that the mother makes that choice when she chooses to have the child--but I know a few people that wish they would have not been born because of the kind of parents they had.

    My solution to the abortion problem? Automatic birth control required by the state at age 13 for both boys and girls, removed only when a basic test of parenting skills and common sense is passed. Take away the RIGHT to have a baby, and make it a PRIVILEGE.
  • Aug 1, 2007, 10:49 PM
    SnaveLeber
    Comment on Synnen's post
    Addressing your statement that its good for the baby to be killed in the womb rather than having to live with an unloving mother... then you must also believe that if someone wants to kill themselves, let them?
  • Aug 2, 2007, 10:19 AM
    ajhudgins
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by Jesushelper76
    I agree, there is one part of canada that it is still illegal by law.

    Edit:::::

    I believe it is murder to kill an unborn baby. Strong statement but I have always made that statement. It is a true, and all life is precious.

    I would also like to add, that a rape victim becoming pregnant. Should the baby die because of the fathers sin, the answer. No.




    I agree with you and God is the one who decides when it's our time to go and how dare we take babies into our own hands and kill them!! God prepares these babies in our womb for a reason and we know it is NOT to kill them!!

    IF YOU ARE PREGNANT... IT'S A BABY!!
  • Aug 2, 2007, 10:33 AM
    inthebox
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by Synnen
    I say that abortion should remain legal.

    PROVING rape or incest takes longer than the 9 months a woman is pregnant, as a general rule. Making abortion legal in those cases only would create a HUGE level of falsely accused rapists.

    Mother's life in danger? So....only if her PHSYICAL life is in danger, not her emotional well-being, or her mental capacity to deal with a child? We allow women to go to shelters if someone is committing any kind of abuse on the, and emotional and mental abuse are as valid as physical abuse. Why is taking her physical capability into effect the only way that counts?

    As for those of you pushing adoption instead of abortion---I hope someone in your family chooses adoption instead of abortion, and deprives you from seeing a child you care about for the rest of that child's life, and see how it affects you. Your daughter, your sister, your best friend. Blithely offering adoption as a way to fix things because "some poor couple out there could love and take care of your child" is stupid. There are plenty of valid reasons out there for choosing adoption. One should not be pressured because someone they dont' even know wants a BABY instead of an older child.

    As far as raising a child one doesn't want at all, but can't bring to place for adoption---would YOU want to be the child that has a mother that resents it for the rest of her life for taking away her youth, her time to have fun, chances at so many things? Yes, I know that the mother makes that choice when she chooses to have the child--but I know a few people that wish they would have not been born because of the kind of parents they had.

    My solution to the abortion problem? Automatic birth control required by the state at age 13 for both boys and girls, removed only when a basic test of parenting skills and common sense is passed. Take away the RIGHT to have a baby, and make it a PRIVILEGE.



    First paragraph
    Agree

    Second paragraph
    Abortion is an invasive procedure and carries a finite physical risk
    There are emotional and psychological consequences to having an abortion

    Last paragraph
    Who would implement this? The government? They would not only be in our bedroom
    But in our reproductive organs?








    Grace and Peace
  • Aug 2, 2007, 10:38 AM
    NeedKarma
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by inthebox
    Last paragraph
    Who would implement this? The government? They would not only be in our bedroom
    but in our reproductive organs?

    Agreed, which is why it is perverse to make a law surrounding abortion.
  • Aug 2, 2007, 10:40 AM
    Canada_Sweety
    I agree very much. Heck, I'm pregnant right now, and everyone is telling me I should get one. They're lucky I'm pregnant or I would actually kick their a$$'s despite their friendships. It's honestly a little person no matter how you put it.
    Yes, rape is another thing but I (hate mentioning it but will for the sake of arguement) have been raped and I thought i was pregnant and I still would have kept it had I been pregnant.

    --of course I think that if you should be aloud one if you were raped of something like that... but as my point above shows, I strongly disagree with abortion.
  • Aug 2, 2007, 10:55 AM
    alkalineangel
    I personally would never make the choice to abort a child. I think it is wrong for me, but I am Pro-Choice

    I don't think that the government should have any say in whether that woman whould keep a child or not. It is her body. I agree with Synnen whole-heartedly, adoption is not any easier than abortion. Both options will haunt the mother for the rest of her life. You all say there are millions of parents out there who want a child... then why are there millions of children out there who want loving parents?? What you mean to say is don't waste a baby people want that, but they don't want the already living children who are wonderful creatures... that is wrong. Our orphanages are over populated as it is. Sure adoption is a lot more moral than abortion, but no one has the right to tell anyone else whether it is right for them.

    Now IM not talking partial birth abortion or anything, I agree that is so wrong, you should have made a decision by that point. That child, if born, could thrive outside the womb. But to say that a girl who made a difficult decision to abort a baby at 8 weeks along is killing something, I draw the line... the baby could never thrive on its own.

    People who feel so strongly about this, have probably never been in the situation of having to choose. If you were ever in that situation, you may think differently about your opinions. I don't believe in saying abortion is wrong EXCEPT in "insert situation here". Abortion has many faces, and there are many reasons people choose it, many we will never understand without being in that place, but we have no right to tell somewhat that what they do to their body is wrong, simply because it is not what we would do personally. The government definitely has no right telling us that.

    I don't mean to sound harsh here, This is just my opinion, I have thought long and hard about this subject, and this is the only way for me to view it..
  • Aug 2, 2007, 11:11 AM
    rankrank55
    Well said angel. That is exactly how I feel about abortion as well. Took the words from my mouth.
  • Aug 2, 2007, 11:24 AM
    jillianleab
    Quote:

    Now IM not talking partial birth abortion or anything, I agree that is so wrong, you should have made a decision by that point. That child, if born, could thrive outside the womb. But to say that a girl who made a difficult decision to abort a baby at 8 weeks along is killing something, I draw the line... the baby could never thrive on its own.
    Read this:

    Real Life: Why I Chose Abortion - Page1 -  MSN Lifestyle - Mind, Body & Soul

    And you might change your mind on partial-birth abortions, which is a disgusting name thought up by the people who got them banned. For those of you against abortion this article will make no difference, but maybe, just maybe, it will give you some perspective.

    Pro-choice - my body, my decision.

    EDIT: This thread is going to get ugly.
  • Aug 2, 2007, 11:26 AM
    ajhudgins
    One of my friends is a rape baby and she is the best person ever now think if her mom would have had an abortion because she was raped!! IT IS NOT THE BABIES FAULT OR THE MOTHERS!!
  • Aug 2, 2007, 11:39 AM
    alkalineangel
    Good link Jillian. I agree those women should also have the choice. While I hate to think it would be legal to kill a healthy baby, I can't really have one and not the other, You have successfully moved me fully to the other side on the Partial birth topic.
  • Aug 2, 2007, 11:41 AM
    LearningAsIGo
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by yaleoxford2nd
    unless u were raped

    What's stopping a woman from claiming to be raped? Not all rapes are violent, so a physical exam wouldn't prove if she lied or not.
  • Aug 2, 2007, 11:42 AM
    NeedKarma
    Why on earth would a woman claim to be raped when she hasn't?
  • Aug 2, 2007, 11:43 AM
    LearningAsIGo
    Some might just be that desperate to end a pregnancy. Did we ever find out with the Duke Lacrosse team rape case... I know those guys were found innocent, but was she actually raped or not? Can't remember.

    Not saying I could ever do it myself. But a woman who wants to end her pregnancy will. Legal or not.

    My cousin is a product of rape. Thank God his mother didn't do it... I can't imagine life without him. To each their own, I guess.
  • Aug 2, 2007, 11:47 AM
    LearningAsIGo
    Quote:

    PROVING rape or incest takes longer than the 9 months a woman is pregnant, as a general rule. Making abortion legal in those cases only would create a HUGE level of falsely accused rapists.
    That's what I was meaning ;)
  • Aug 2, 2007, 11:58 AM
    jillianleab
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by alkalineangel
    good link Jillian. I agree those women should also have the choice. While I hate to think it would be legal to kill a healthy baby, I can't really have one and not the other, You have successfully moved me fully to the other side on the Partial birth topic.

    It changed my mind too. I never considered there would be a legitimate reason to terminate after the first trimester until I read that story. I saw it a few months ago and bookmarked it because I knew I would want to reference it one day. I felt so bad for the woman while reading it, it nearly drove me to tears. My sister-in-law was pregnant with her second child, and two of my best friends had recently found out they were pregnant. All I could think was, "What if this happens to one of them? What choice will they have?" Apparently, none.
  • Aug 2, 2007, 12:00 PM
    ScottGem
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by ajhudgins
    I agree with you and God is the one who decides when it's our time to go and how dare we take babies into our own hands and kill them!!!! God prepares these babies in our womb for a reason and we know it is NOT to kill them!!!!!

    IF YOU ARE PREGNANT......................IT'S A BABY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    If, as you say, God makes the decision, then how can you say that God hasn't made the decision in the case of an abortion? Maybe God has chosen that it's that child's time to go via the route of abortion!

    For those who say except in the case of rape or the health of the mother, you are on a slippery slope. If abortion is wrong then it should be wrong no matter what the justification. As soon as you make ANY exceptions, you put it back in the hands of the woman's choice.

    And that is where, In my opinion, it belongs. I, personally, do not agree with abortion. I would not counsel anyone to have one. But I don't believe that I can impose my personal beliefs on anyone else. If they make the decision then they should have the option. As others have mentioned, women will seek abortions whether its legal or not. I would prefer not to go back to the coat hanger days.

    And back to the OP. I agree with J_9, you have some serious issues that you need to work out.
  • Aug 2, 2007, 12:04 PM
    nauticalstar420
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by jillianleab
    Read this:

    Real Life: Why I Chose Abortion - Page1 -  MSN Lifestyle - Mind, Body & Soul

    And you might change your mind on partial-birth abortions, which is a disgusting name thought up by the people who got them banned. For those of you against abortion this article will make no difference, but maybe, just maybe, it will give you some perspective.

    Pro-choice - my body, my decision.

    EDIT: This thread is going to get ugly.

    Oh my gosh, that just made me cry :(

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