Pros and Cons of Abortion

Personally I am pro-life and so I wouldn't ever have an abortion. For me it would be morally wrong. If I didn't want to keep my baby I would have him or her adopted. Then I wouldn't be killing my baby but give an adoptive couple that chance to have my baby. I think of aborted babies as being the missing people of the world and maybe some great ones are amongst those. In my home country abortion is allowed up to 24 weeks pregnancy. For pro-choice ladies that pro is that an abortion can be done up to 9 weeks pregnancy with a pill. That is called a medical abortion. A con is a later abortion must be done surgically. A con is the baby will be in considerable pain whilst he or she is being killed. Number one is the head and it is a con that it must be crushed. In most other European countries the abortion time limit is 12 weeks but in the UK 24 weeks is terrible cruel. In some countries where abortion is illegal back street abortions do take place which is awful.

I really dont want to reply to this as I will probably get rated negatively but I am willing to take this risk (just about). I personally dont agree with abortion for social purposes, for example a woman is too busy to have a baby or doesnt want to lose her figure. I agree with it in some cases though for example if a woman gets raped and falls pregnant, if you know your baby is that badly disabled it will have a very poor quality of life and reasons like that. At the end of the day I have friends that have had abortions for social reasons and even though they are still my friends I make it clear to them that I dont agree with what they have done. Yes it may be a cluster of cells but that cluster of cells is a tiny little life growing in your body. You created that life and you are going to take it away because you dont want to get fat.

as a child i was raised that abortion was wrong. you would be sent straight to hell if you ever got an abortion. i was told all the negative outcomes. i was also told if you get pregnant before you're married or if it's out of wedlock then it's also wrong. when i was 19 years old i got pregnant. it was stupid and irresponsible. i came to realize how my life would change. my boyfriends mom said i had to "take care of it" and if i told my parents i would cease to have a home or a family. it tore me up inside and i was so stressed. at first i couldnt even tell my boyfriend. eventually i told him and he wanted to keep the baby and so did i. when we told his mom she said i would have to "take care of it" because she wouldnt help us and i knew my family wouldnt either. even if they didnt kick me out, they would never let my boyfriend see the baby. i eventually got an abortion and it was the hardest thing i ever did. but i didnt want to raise my baby homeless and alone. after i did i went straight to my preist and confessed. i felt horrible. in my heart i know it was wrong and i knew people would say that i was evil and a murderer. that what i had done was unethical and it hurt so bad. i was in tears the whole time and was so afraid of what he might say. he told me to live my life as christ-like as i could. i had confessed my sins and he said that was the first step to forgiveness. i know what you will all think. and i want to say that i dont care. but i do. i now talk to my preist every week about how im doing and am actually working on getting a degree so i can start a family. im sorry that you all think so badly of me. but i feel like my baby had a better chance with God than with an irresponsible mother like myself.

Well nowadays there are also the pills available for aborting a baby but it is not good for a woman as she may not be able to give birth to the child again if she has aborted the baby many times. If a woman gets pregnant before marriage then how will she face the society? If abortion has to be banned then the man has to marry the woman if he has raped her or made her pregnant for a woman does not get pregnant by herself else he should be convicted. Many women fear to file a case on that man who deceived her or raped her for they have to think twice before doing that! She has to be daring to take such a step. Women are treated as underdogs. If abortion has to be banned then even eve-teasing has to be banned and women should be encouraged to lodge a complaint if she comes across that.

As you mentioned before, it is not easy for women to make this decision. They can undergo psychological trauma and guilt in the future. With so many consequences why would anyone wanna make it legal?

You can further discuss about it but the most reason that people do abortion is because they wanted to escape the fact about unwanted pregnancy. But the bad thing about it is not only you break the law of mankind but you also break the law of god as well ... "Thy shall not kill"

i think it was cosmo mag this month in australia, had a thing on abortion. about a couple getting the pill from overseas, or something and they are both now facing potential jail time from it. i'm not for it, unless there is a medical reason or rape. i know i couldn't have gone through with it when i found i was preg with my son. this debate will go on for yrs, and it will come back to the persons choice on what they do.

Besides, abortion can be detrimental to health also ranging from sepsis, infection, rare but even deaths and risk of recurring miscarriages. All these have to be taken into account before a government makes it legal right?

Well, most women with unplanned pregnancies, if they choose to give birth anyway, will decide to keep it. So I see it as a form of murder anyway. A growing embryo is considered human once it has a heartbeat. this happens usually by the 21st day.

I think that it is irresponsible for one to end up in a situation where she shas to decide if she has to kill an unwanted pregnancy or not. I know it is a tough decision but what landed her in that situation in the first place?