What are your views on Abortion?

That may be your belief which you are entitled to but some do think it is murder. ending a life before it even has a chance is murder in my books. I am not sugar coating anything for anyone especially not a pro-choice decision.

Do you take the necessary steps to make sure that you do not get pregnant then? Have you had a hysterectomy? To me, one that is so adamant on not wanting them, not wanting to put up with them and refusing to "endure" pregnancy, should take the precautions of not letting it happen in the first place that way no life is lost by having to murder it inside of your womb. You reguard a human life growing inside of a woman like it is cruel punishment. How is adoption not a solution to an unwanted pregnancy? You think murder would be a solution? You are basically making the decision for an unborn baby that their life is ending just because you don't want to "endure" a pregnancy. Oh boo-hoo. I would much rather go through pregnancy then have someone stick a forcep looking device and basically crush the baby to peices and then suck it out of me. What a way to die.

Well Doctor Gloomcookie, a few doctors (actually many doctors) seem to disagree with you and say by 9 week gestation the fetus is making movement. But I suppose you would pass that off as just muscle spasms huh? How do you think muscle's are controled? do you think that muscle's have a brain of their own and aren't controled by the big thing ontop your head? And according to you, they have no nervous system so wouldn't nerves be sending impulses to not only the brain but to the muscles as well to make them just randomly move? I am no way a doctor nor do I claim to be one but I remember when I took science way back in the days (I am surprised that you don't remember this seeing as you probably just graduated last year, right?). But from what I recall, the brain sends impulses along a nerve cell (which would be part of the "nervous system" that you claim to not be there) which are called "motor neurons" that tell the muscle to contract. What is your explanation of this? I know for a fact that movements of my son at 10 weeks was not just muscle spasms and "ultrasound jerkyness". I was under special care by both my OB and perinatal doctors which had the latest and greatest when it came to equipment. If it was just a muscle spasm it would have been a "jerk" like movement. But what I saw was my son actually making rolling like movements. You're right, the growing life inside of a woman can not reason and can not make decisions on their own. But neither could my son when he was outside of my womb. He couldn't reason. He can make alot of decisions on his own now. But did that make him less of a human just because he couldn't do any of that at birth? Nope. He was still just as human as he was in my tummy. He relies soley on his parents for food, comfort, well being just like he did when he was in my tummy.

Well, let's see here. A hystorectomy is a discuting thing to suggest. Such a procedure is only implimented of the uterus is cause health effect. Such a procedure is not only dangerous but extremely unhealthy. That's like suggesting you remove a kidney just it case you might get cancer. It's dangerous and pointless. Also, not everyone believes that the precise moment of conception is the precise moment of viable life. I happen to be one of them. A first trimester fetus has very few organs, no nervous system and no brain activity whatsoever. It cannot think or feel nor is it sentient or aware. It's not a person and it has no right to be in my uterus against my will. And I would like you to explain to me how adoption solves an unwanted pregnancy? Or are you not aware of the difference between pregnancy and parenthood? Unwanted pregnancy means you don't want to carry a fetus to term. Unwanted parenthood means you can't or aren't willing to *raise* a child that is born. How does carrying a pregnancy solve not wanting to be pregnant in the first place? Also, contraceptives fail. So while I am on birth control (mainly for hormone therapy, but also *for* avoiding conception) I still have the possibility of becoming pregnant. Should that occur, I have no qualms with procuring an abortion(except maybe with the pricetag). I'm sorry, but it's really not my problem that you take issue with my decision as it is just that. My decision.

Well put!

so why play russian ruelette and risk getting pregnant in the first place? I mean there are ways to avoid it. It's not like it's cancer where you can't avoid getting it.

The problem is, there are already too many kids in the foster system waiting to be adopted, and not enough parents to take them all. Subjecting a child to lonliness and a miserable life for the sake of having life isn't the answer either.

Exactly. A lot of parents aren't willing to adopt older children because they want a child from birth. Which is fine, I suppose, for those infants who are adopted right away. But the ones who grow up in the orphanages and foster care system, once they've reached a certain age they're pretty much unadoptable. And I would hate to condemn a child to that kind of life. There is no waiting list, unfortunately, and too many kids are waiting to be adopted. If every mother who would ordinarily have an abortions suddenly decided to place the child up for adoption, there would be no room for all of them and no funding to adequately care for them. They'd be living in third-world country conditions in a short time.