thoughts on abortion?

I think it's an individual right to choose what's best for them. I don't think there's anything worse than an unwanted child. Luckily the lawmakers here don't believe it's murder, and either do I. Take away a woman's reproductive choice and you step onto a slippery slope. If the government can force a woman to continue a pregnancy, what about forcing a woman to use contraception or undergo sterilization?

I feel it should be the choice of the woman. It is her body and she is the one that has to live with whatever she does. I would much rather see the baby put up for adoption because there are a lot of wonderful people in this world that would love to have a child and cannot. But I can also understand having an abortion if there is a medical concern or life threatening situation. In the end, it doesn't matter how much we debate the subject. It is the choice of the woman and no one should make her feel bad for the choice she makes.

I am against abortion. We adopted and our two sons's birth mother was raped and they never turned out to be criminals. Aborting because of rape is assuming the infant will turn out to be like his father or be wild if it is a girl. Also it may be that the rapist might be brought to justice and the children would be considered victims and could sue for financial recompensation. As for incest, it is not the baby's fault and if there was something critically wrong, the baby would die anyway. The only case I would be is in an ectopic pregnancy when if the infant develops me, the mother will be killed.

Well, personally I feel that it is the woman's choice. Nobody wakes up one day and thinks... "what a nice sunny day, let me have an abortion!" No woman takes that decision lightly. But the ones who do, have their own reasons and it is not my business to judge it. Abortion is not birth control. But most every woman knows that. Creating laws to prevent abortion will not prevent it and opens a whole new can of worms as another person responded in this discussion. Mainly, it's important that people stop trying to determine what others should do in this subject. Only the person going trough it has that right. We all can have our opinions, for or against, but they are our opinions. We have control over our life and what we decide doing. We should not take it upon ourselves to control other people's lives.

To me, abortion is murder. I am not one of those wacko people who will go on a tangent against those who think it is a choice, but I am very strong in my beliefs :)

I am 100% pro-life. I feel that no one has a right to destroy a life that isn't their own. If you don't want the child give it to a family that does want it and will love and care for it. I think abortion should be outlawed. I understand that there are rape victims that become pregnant and it wasn't her choice to become pregnant but it shouldn't be her choice to deny that child a life of it's own. Abortion is selfish because when a woman has an abortion the only person she is thinking about is herself. Hypathetically, what if that child was the one person that was going to grow up and create the cure for cancer; that woman just killed millions of other people with a terminal illness that could have been cured if she would have just given that baby up for adoption. I got pregnant at 19 and could have had an abortion but I kept my child and now I can't image my life without her. Most pregnancies are not planned so why should you get to choose when you have a child. Because you don't think you're ready you get to murder an innocent child that can't even say I want to live. If an unborn child could talk people would have a completely different view. If a woman could tell her unborn child, I'm not ready for you, so I'm going to kill you, and have that child respond, I'm sure that baby would beg for it's life. Murder is illegal in all of the states, so why is abortion ok? It's killing a living, breathing, human life...I would define that as murder. So in my opinion abortion is WRONG!

abortion is a BIG NO for me.... if u dont want to have a baby, dont get an abortion, instead, choose adoption. Have you seen the movie, Juno? thats one great film for young teens getting pregnant. Instead of having her baby killed, she chose to look for a couple who loves to have a baby but just can't have their own. After nine months, she had her baby adopted by this mommy-wanna-be.

for me, it should not be tolerated. i mean, having a child is a blessing, and being pregnant is a result of your own doing. if you think you are not ready for any responsibilities that big, then you should not do something irresponsible. being pregnant is just a result of your own actions, so you should face the consequences of what you did.. i was born and raised as a catholic and in our religion, abortion is a sin, in our country it's also illegal. and i think it is just right or anybody who is not ready of the responsibility can just get rid of it that easily.

this is a very touchy subject and will probably bring in a lot of negative opinions, but i'm against abortions, and I'll just leave it at that.