Why is abortion legal?

The abortion industry is in America and England. Two doctors have to agree to let a lady have an abortion in England. It is not getting a solution but depression and guilt. No amount of wishing will make a baby come back from being aborted. The clock can't be turned back.

I think that it origins from the burden of poorness and overpopulation. If you give birth to a child, but you can't afford to breed them. What happens? The worst is that he/she will starve or he/she will be uneducated person. A life of him/her will be destroy at the time he/she was born. So I think it is better for abortion than giving birth but parents are unable to breed and educate their children

Parents "breed" their children. You talk about these people as if they are dogs or horses or other animals that we "breed" for the best traits. I don't know about you, but I know I'm no horse or dog or other animal and my parents sure as hell don't "breed" me. I don't know about you, but I'm pretty sure my parents "raise" me.

Abortion is a choice and it is a mistake. Depression can follow and the clock can't be turned back. People are encouraged to conform to society. In my home country we have elections.

Yes it is a choice but then it is up to the individual to determine of if was a mistake or not on reflection. That IS the problem, people are encouraged to conform to society, sadly most do We have elections here too on most issues, although most people vote the wrong way Giving up the the choice!

If a woman does not want to carry a baby she should then make sure not to get pregnant! I could understand if that happened 40 or 50 years ago! but today there is not excuse.

How about the fact that no form of birth control is 100% effective. Women regularly get pregnant even when taking precautions. Sounds like a good excuse to me.

precisely.. I dont understand why people dont realize that its the last step that any woman wants to take.. No one does this because they love to.. No woman thinks that abortion is an alternative to contraception..

I am also not going to judge ladies that have an abortion. I just feel so sorry for the baby each time. Every day of pregnancy is a special journey and an abortion is a sick way to die. Every baby deserves a chance and adoption is available. When a lady is told she is expecting a disabled baby the hospital speak in a negative way. With support a lady with a disabled baby can be happy. Once born there is lots of assistance is available

"The answer is adoption and it can be international." Only in a perfect world and this world is far from perfect. Right now the world does not need more people; there are already too many people here now. There are already places where the population has strained resources to the breaking point and with the climate changes that are already taking place it will become more and more difficult to support the people we have right now, without adding more and more babies. Also, in most places, giving a child up for adoption is a very negative thing and can have severe repercussions for the person giving the child up. Very few women are willing to admit that they would not be "good mothers" because of the social stigma and pressure from friends and family. In some places you are not permitted to give your children up. Even in the US there have been cases where a parent tried to give up their children; but, they were forced to keep them instead. And this doesn't include the cases where children have been removed from abusive homes only to be given back to their abusers a few months later. For pregnant women it becomes even more complicated is the father is in any way involved. Maybe they would be a good mother; but, the father is the one who is abusive. (Getting out of an abusive relationship is not as easy as many people think and what if the abusive father gained even partial custody!) Throughout the centuries - even in very restrictive societies - women have sought to terminate unwanted pregnancies by any means possible. Legal or illegal; safe or dangerous. Making abortion illegal will not stop abortion. So, in my opinion, it is better to make abortion a legal option (with certain restrictions) than have women return to unsafe, unsanitary, illegal abortions.

The answer is adoption and it can be international. When a lady is pregnant she is carrying a baby for the world and he or she might be a very special person. Aborted babies are the missing people of the world.

Now if they hadn't drank & had the money for the medical expenses do you suppose they'd be needing the abortion in the first place? Please chose from one of our 210 million orphans worldwide (recent UNICEF report ) who were from less than proper beginnings instead.

Hi faith 210. I am delighted to see you back on-line. I am really well, thanks. I am glad that abortion is illegal in your home country. Back street abortions can be very unclean and dangerous.

you are right about that my friend, back street abortions are very unclean and dangerous but still many are still doing it. hopefully these things will stop.

In my home country abortion is allowed for a pregnant lady that is up to 24 weeks pregnant. We have the National Health Scheme which provides free abortions and ladies have free care at the birth if the baby is allowed to be born. The poor in my home country can get benefit from the government. It is a shame that poverty happens to some pregnant ladies.

I perfectly understand what you are talking about. We have the same problem in bulgaria. We stil have many orphan children who will never know what the word mother truly means. I realy don't like abortion, but sometimes it is the better choice. We even have cases of mother killing her own new born baby because she didn't have money for abortion and she doesn't want it,

If a lady is attacked in my home country she could take the morning after pill the next day. Then she would be able to have a high degree of chance she didn't get pregnant from that terrible experience. Teenagers need to learn about the importance of using birth control. They also should find out that it is not 100% effective. I wonder what happens if there is an exceptional case in Chile then does the lady cross an international border? I know abortion is illegal in Ireland so some ladies come over to clinics in England.

It is shocking what Dr Kermit Gosnell and his employees did in the clinic. I read a book written by a lady that was born in an abortion clinic when the lady was 7 months pregnant. Luckily the nurse sent her to hospital and they gave her medical help. No form of birth control is 100% effective.

If the women were educated about all forms of contraceptive methods, they could use them properly. But, many of women take the birth control pill only when they remember and there are girls that use everyday, but sometimes they take in differents times, so, it's not going to be 100% effective too. For me, education is the best way to handle with this matter, but, of course, I think that we never going to achieve this, at least in my country. If the government don't give education to the low-income women, the least thing that they could offer would be a financial support to the mother or safe clinics to the women that decides that she can't affort the minimum conditions necessary to a children.

One of my friends is a foster carer and some of the children she cares for are then adopted. She once had a little baby from a teenager and it was so lovely that teen let her baby girl be born. The little baby ended up with a loving and caring couple.

I'm glad that the little one was placed in a good family. :-) Is there a chance that the mother will keep in touch with the adoptive parents?