Opinions on abortion? - HELP!

Hay to all who care to nose! :)
Your opinion - PLEASE STATE!

Just wondering what your opinions are on abortion.
Do circumstances change your opinion, or do you just think it's wrong all together, or do you agree with abortion ?
Just need to know, if anyone cares to reply.

Thanks guys x
Much love________Jady Lauren x

Come on ppl!!!

Come on guys, i need ur advise! x

Rape, being underage, incest, cases where it would be harmful to the mother/child's health to go through with pregnancy..beyond 'possibility of mental illnesses.' I mean, that's not the ideal, but, I wouldn't use it as a reason to allow an abortion. Some doctors would disagree, I hear. Their argument: "The child will never be able to have a normal life", my response: "Define normal?"

Thanks for that ^ you covered alot of questions for me and made a good point with the 'Define normal' part. Thankyou x

Keep them coming.....

I think its wrong unless it is life threatening.. even if you got raped.. still that child is not the eprson who raped you... they may have soem of the same genes but you should give the child a chance you could always give the child up for adoption... so unless its life threatening i dont think people should ever have an abortion

I wouldn't look down on any woman that chose to have an abortion after rape, because even if you opt for adoption, you have to go through the pregnancy, which can be just as hard if you've ever been in that position.

Granted, I'll applaud any woman who is a victim of rape and doesn't abort, no contest.

Oh, and it should NEVER EVER EVER be illegalized. That just leads to blackmarket, coat-hangers, unsanitary conditions...more bad than good...

I dont think that there should be abortion.. Unless its a case where having the baby could kill the mother. Any other case i think they should have the baby.. thats just my views..

You don't want to have a child that you are going to regret and blame your whole life; even if you don't say it, the child will get it.

I say it's your body, and the heart doesn't beat until it's four or five weeks old. That's when things get more debateable in my opinion. I don't look down upon anybody who chooses to abort. I would do it myself, I think, at this point in my life.

It's just a personal choice- whatever you believe in.

My opinion stands strongly with the first reply. It depends on the situation =/

Im mostly against it. unless its a situation where the mother or child would be seriously hamred/death. (diseases of some sort, or just other problems).

Jason pretty much said it all for me.

I do not really approve of it. I mean the way I see it you're giving up something that should be cherished and if you don't want to cherish it then others will.

I Think That Abortion Is So Wrong, I Feel That If Any Woman Chooses To Abort That She Should Have a Legit Reason To Do So...Such As Health Reasons Or Shes Been Raped And Just Happened To Conceive....I Truly Believe That Babies Are Just As Human As Adults Are...Their Just Not As Fully Developed As We Are...But I Feel That Its Murder....

And That It Should Be Totally Up To a Woman To Decide

xoxo-Nikki-xoxo

Abortion is a touchy subject and the more people you ask the more different reasons you are going to hear, everyone has there own opinion of what they think is right or wrong. The soul decision comes down to the person who is having the baby. Can she afford it? Does she have the support? What medical risks are involved? All in all its HER decision and she is the only one that can make it.

Thank-you guys for all your help, keep them coming......your views are really helping me.

My opinion-
this topic has been covered. a gazillion times!

its called the 'search forums' button.. try it.

Super lol , Jade x

Im just curious... why are you so interested in this topic?

Nvm i went and read a poem and i understand now.

NO ABORTION!!! EVERYONE DESERVES TO LIVE!!! ESPECIALLY CUTE LIL THINGS. We have no right to kill innocents coz Its not their fault in any way whatever the circumstances were.

Keep itand give it up for adoption?

I dont believe in abortion.
i have a pin actually that i put on my purse.
but of course [like everything in the world] there are times when it is necessary.
if a child [ages under 11ish] is empregenated it would be necessary for health reasons.
but if a teenager is willingly to have sex and gets pregnant, then aborition is totally uncalled for.
if someone is raped, i think the baby should still be able to live. it happened for a reason.
if there are life threatining reasons or health issues and you could die yourself, i think abortion is called for.
i think life, should be able to live.. but who am i to say. just a nobody girl from the states.

^
though its not a human being, it has the chance of life. and even if 20% end up miscarrying anyways, it doesnt make it right to not give that one fetus the chance of life.
its a touchy subject, and i dont wanna come off as a betch or anything. [which i sure i am].
its just my friend, had gotten pregnant and just decided she didnt want it.
to go through that with her, it made me realize its not right. what if that one fetus could of stopped world hunger or ended war. the possibility of that is low, but still there is the possibility...
we are all entitled to our own beliefs. if one does believe in abortion, then i respect there decision. i have my own opinion and i hope people can respect that too.

They have the chance.
and to say, i volunteer at the homeless shelter 3times a week.
my mom volunteers at planned parenthood.
when your around things like that it makes you think different.
i am doing something about this.
the dying people in africa never chose that way of life and neither did an unborn fetus.

Hay too all !
Thanks for sharing ur opinions , i diidnt realise that so many people were against abortions.
I know it's frowned upon but so is a young mum with a baby. I was practising save sex and the condom snapped so it wasnt that i was being careless. I myself am against abortions, but knowone knows how it feels until it's you. At this point in my life i am half way through a cpourse in Performing Arts and next year was planning on spending the summer in Butlins as a red coat and becoming something in the spotlight. At the moment am not with the father of whom i had dated for 3 and a half years. The result was a complete suprise, and a shock of which i have had to have long discussions and deep thought with both the father of my unborn child and my family. I am at this moment around 8 weeks pregnant and so lost, i dont know whether to keep the child or abort it. I wish i wasnt in this position and didnt have to choose. My sister is 18 and i am 17 , my sister has an 18 month old son to whom we all love , but im not the type of person who can like her sit in the house all day with a screaming child and watch Jeremy Kyle. I love babies and would one day wish for one of my own. Me and the baby's father are not getting on well at the moment , he's 21 has no job or money and i am an ambitious, outgoing person, after nearly four years with this person i realised that we didnt work and ended the relationship only to find out i was carrying his first child, he wants the baby but then again he's the type of person who isnt going anywhere and does'nt want anything out of life.
Im also in love with someone else who knows nothing about the baby and wants a relationship. My friends say i shouldnt keep the baby at this point in my life, whereas my family will stand by me whatever and i myself dont know.
Know you all know why i posted this topic and am in desprete need of advise.

Thanks everyone.
Much Love________Jady Lauren x

To my unborn child .

It's a tough decision, one that i can only make.

There will be no going back, the outcome i will take.

This is the hardest thing I've ever done, I'm not the only one.

But my life feels so much different with this added bump.

Is it far to keep my baby, to whom i can't properly provide, when daddy's gone and mummy's scared and that i cannot hide.

You're eight weeks know and growing, getting bigger everyday, will i take you're chance away to have you're first birthday.

I'm only seventeen, and that is no excuse, for when i done the deed, i didn't expect the news.

I know you cannot hear me, but i explain to you why, why i cannot keep you and have to say goodbye.

I'm so sorry baby, I love you x

A zygote, embryo or baby is living inside you from the moment you consive. I think it wrong to kill something that is living even if its just the size of a finger nail.

Like i said i am compleatly against abortion of any kind unless the mother is in danger.

Abortion is wrong. (period) no matter how it happens and if you are too young then give up it up for adoption because many ppl would love to have children and lots of ppl cant and once he child is born you will have a love noone could ever take away from you nothing!!

I don't feel that a mother should abort her child. If you are worried about YOUR life, there is adoption. At least give the child a chance. Think of all the things you would have missed out on life if your own mother chose that option. There is potential for this child to grow up and have a wonderful life. Even if it's without you.

I totally agree with Hey Italy.

I'm pro and anti.

ANTI if, all the stupid little 14 year old UK girls going around having sex etc etc etc, all the 15-20 year olds going to DISCUSSION BOARDS to ask if they should keep it or not depending on people's opinions on abortion; theirs is irrelevant, it's your life not theirs, but anyhow, all these women moaning and complaining their pregnancy test came back positive because their boyfriend's 'stupid condom' ripped. THE MOST WONDERFUL THING YOU CAN DO IS CREATE A BABY INSIDE OF YOU. The most CLEVER thing you can do is make a child. Your body is in the process of doing the most beautiful thing you can ever do in your life. IT'S MAKING A NEW ONE. And just to quickly pop off to get it killed inside you, when you could give it up afterwards. And sure it takes 9 months of no alcohol, and then hours worth of painful labour, but some people are so desperate for that baby; and if you don't even want it, how could you be so selfish?

PRO if, your life is at risk to give birth, you have been raped, you're like, THIRTEEN or under.

I'm all against it. i think you're killing that baby. it may not be a "human being" to your standards but it can live, it does have a chance. it's wrong to play god, to decide who lives and who dies.

how dare you deny that child it's life. you were important to someone apparently, what if you were a decided abortion? would it make it all right if you were terminated before birth?

It still winds me up when people say who are you to play God, because really all it is is sperm from someone, into the ovary of somebody else. It's not playing God to kill it, it's killing something you invented, and although against it, I still thnk it's a nerve for somebody else to tell you what to do and what not to do with a baby that you made/are making.

You have to have an abortion before the 3 months i believe, because after that its consider a human and before that just an embryo. i think that its your body and your "child" if you want to have an abortion you should be able to, unless you sleep around alot and constantly have abortions.

I am not against abortion...I mean who the hell am I to tell someone whether or not they can or cannot have an abortion.

I think all those who are against abortion, you need to get on and try and get a life...Please!

Legally a foetus is not a baby...But when it takes in the first puff of air when coming out of it's mother. That's when it is considered a baby or infant.

Now get over yourselves....

Now would you enjoy killing lab rats? people do it all the time but does that mean its ok? its still stopping a beating heart too right? Babies have hearts... and you stop the heart if its aborted

"Abortion is nothing less than legalized murder, from the moment of conception there is a LIVING organism, to kill it means you have destroyed something alive, now I don't know about you but that's murder to me, and it's intentional......besides why should a child pay for your dumb ass mistakes, and who is to say the child you killed couldn't have been the next Ghandi, or Martin Luther King, or Mother Theresa...hmmmmm

and Ismail aren't you a practicing Muslim...I find your stance rather intriguing to say the least.....wow, I didn't know Allah or Muhammed taught abortion> Does the Islamic faith support abortion?"

Bob, once again you totally miss the whole point...Yes I am a muslim, but again I say who am I to say whether a "woman" wants to have an abortion or not.

Abortion is left to the person that allegedly carries the "infant"...And also Bob; I find it really funny that you would bring my religious slant to light seeing as "Islam" abhors "Abortion" yet it does not care about the different conflicts that come with it...

And Bob...Mother Theresa, Martin Luther King and Ghandi became who they are due to the societial conflict that arose in those times, plus I would take into consideration their moral reasoning and development using universal ethical principals in Kohlberg's Stages of Moral Development.

To summurize Bob, Abortion is left up to the individual not us...Now I know you're into the whole plight of the children bussiness...But this is taking it to the extreme.

And again this brings so many questions as: Should a fetus be considered a person? If it should, to what degree? If a fetus is deemed to have rights, how should those rights be considered in relation to the rights of the woman carrying the fetus and the man who impregnated her?

Lol...

Actually Bob, as I told Abby not so long ago, I follow Islam not because of what it stands for in today's society, but what it stood for, plus it's very logical in it's reasonings. Also it is a form of identity that I tend to stick with...

I can argue that a child becomes a child, when he puffs that first oxygen when coming out from its mother's womb 9 months on...

I find it funny that many would object to what other people decide to do with their own bodies, as though they are the standpoint of absolute morality. But then again, what are humans but oblivious creatures who'd rather control other people's lives than their own.

"In other words, if people keep their legs closed or use proper protection we wouldn't even be discussing this now would we"

Lol...Not everyone is as astute as you Bob, in evading the temptation of sexual pleasures...But then again sex was essentially a pro-creational device with added pleasure. Maybe if the men and or women actually had vesectomies (sp?) this issue as you said wouldn't be discussed.

No. Circumstances most probably won't change my mind. Abortion is the execution of an innocuous life. As ever, I agree solely with Sir Bobby's statement:

"In other words, if people keep their legs closed or use proper protection we wouldn't even be discussing this now would we".

*And to the original poster: use the 'Search Forums' before you post next time. There are perhaps 25 threads which are relative to this topic that have not been completed yet.

I just don't understand why there should be a need for someone to "Tell" another person what to do with their bodies.

Every abortion is made with some decision, and without a callous heart. From what I've seen here, many of you quickly judge a person as a "Murderer" without finding out the reasonings behind it.

I am sorry but you should really look at where your twisted form of morality truly stands...

Lol...Am I slipping, because I never noticed the floor wet...Lol.

I find it really funny that you twisted my words by using other examples of "murder"...

I mean technically the woman and the doctor are not killing a human child but they are killing a neurologically inactive foetus.

Neurologically inactive means that it lacks the cereberal cortex, an element which is needed in making the brain work...

And lets not forget, abortion actually does some postive good to society. If there was no abortion clinics, then an overpopulation would ensue...But ofcourse, the excess amount of orphanages and foster care homes will take care of that...Right.

Another good thing Abortion brings is that it gives a significant benefit for the "individual" woman. There are many risks of death or permanent disability would be greater for a woman who carries a fetus to term and bears a child, (prematurely or not) than for a woman who aborts before the third trimester of her pregnancy. And the social and economic ruin that can ensue from an untimely motherhood is a serious harm as well, such as they are unable to work as a consequence of their pregnancy.

Also, the potential physical harm from bearing a child simply cannot be alleviated.

But ofcourse Bob, to you, a man symbolizing the moral standpoint of society, would never care as long as children are involved.

Seriously Wake up and smell the coffee, children will always get hurt, rather than protect them with doomed shivelery, understand the situation from both sides, and try and alleivate the situation a bit better. rather than have an idealistic fairytale where all children frolic in choclate neverlands

Oh Bob you're sarcasms always entertains me...

But I don't think we need to look at the women's reflection on what they have done...They done it, it was their body to do so, and it was their choice to do it.

Again I say who are we to come into their lives and tell them what to do...I am reminded of a concept called "Free will"...