Pro Life = ALL life?

What I don't understand is why quantity always overrides quality. A woman who does not want to carry a pregnancy will have a greatly depleted quality of life if she is forced to do so. With all of the crap that goes along with the pregnancy itself as well as all of the permanent side effects, there is no way she will have the same life she had before. And what about the child's quality of life? Living with a woman it calls mother who never wanted it and will probably treat it as such? Or throwing it into an orphanage where it may or may not be adopted and even if it does, the family may or may not be a good home. That's too many uncertainties for my taste. Sure, you can say, "Suzie next door didn't want it, but we changed her mind and now she loves her baby" or "Jan gave it up for adoption and it's new parents are soo nice and really rich". I can almost gaurentee that for every one of those picture perfect sucess stories, there are a dozen other women who hurt themselves, hurt their babies, the baby never got adopted, or got adopted by nasty people, they were both miserable for the rest of their lives. From what I see, there are very few favourable outcomes for forcing a woman to carry a truly unwanted pregnancy. And might I remind you that there *is* a difference between and unwanted pregnancy and unwanted parenthood. I would like to know how many of you have seen the film The Cider House Rules? What do you think of that?

I would think in cases like that it would be whatever the mothers choice was going into the hospital. Most hospitals now a days ask you should something like this come up what would you want us to do? If you aren't able to make that choice for you who do you want to be able to make it? And generally the mother would discuss those things with that person before going in. javascript:__doPostBack('ctl00$cphMainContent$lbStart','') post response But I'm not 100% sure where Pro Life people stand on that issue. I AM pro choice. I don't feel anybody other than myself should have the right to decide whats good for me and my body. BUT I also have common sense and I know right from wrong and I don't use abortion as a form of birth control. It's a very touchy subject all around. These are just MY OPINIONS! :]

Well I am pro-choice and for reasons like this. I think it has to be on a case by case situation and of course which the mother wants to do. Let's face it if you are talking about a woman who is terminally ill with cancer and that the chances are she's going to die either way then she might choose to have the baby and let herself be put at risk. The situation you mentioned with the mugging in the one post I could see the mother aborting so that way her two other children would not be left without any parent. Until we are in the situation I don't think any of us can really say what we'd do and I don't think we should judge others for the choices they make because of it.

I can't speak for any other P.L's out there but my stance would be to leave it up to God. He will be the one deciding which one goes first. After all, there is a 50/50 chance right? So you go about the procedure and pray for the Lord's will. I can't tell you who's life is more precious. I know I value both my life and my son's life. If it would have come down to his life or mine, I would have voted for his life. I know that from a medical stance, doctors would save the mother before they would save the child.

Well, when it comes down to it, most doctors will say, "the mother is my patient. therefore I will do everything I can to save her." However, there are hospitals, I know of one in my area, that is a catholic hospital that chooses to save the baby over the mother. So, It is all in the choice of the person, I can see where you are going with this, and I wonder, I am prolife, but I really dont believe in abortion, even to save the life of the mother, so in this case, I'd have to say, whoever God wants to make it will make it =) Good topic though, Gives us something to think about !

Raven in the example that you have given the woman’s physician would do everything they could to save both lives. In my opinion it is morally wrong to kill the baby to save the mother, just as it is morally wrong to kill the mother to save the baby.

im certainly pro choice, i feel it is up to the woman concerned what choice she makes. If or if not to have an abortion is a very personal decision, a decision that is up to the woman concerned and no one else, its about time the god botherers butted out blessed be

I am just going to reply real quick and will come back to this later. If the situation arose where I got pregnant again right now and it turned into one where carrying the baby would put me at risk of dying - I would probably terminate. This would be for the sake of my hubby and my 3 children.

I am pro life and not a pro choice but I think not all pro choice is a pro abortion. Abortion is an absolutely wrong and it is a crime of murder. And absolutely I am not favor for this. And I think the fetus have life and like us she/he have a right to see this wonderful world.

I've heard of pro life campaigners blowing up abortion clinics full of people killing everyone inside. That's probably one of the most illogical things I've ever heard, how can they be pro life if they would indiscriminately kill hundreds of people in a hospital? If a woman would die carrying a child then of course she should be able to have an abortion. People shouldn't lay into women who've had abortions for any reasons as no woman takes the decision lightly and has to live with what's happened for the rest of their lives.