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Pro-Choice Anti-Choice
Debate Score:28
Arguments:36
Total Votes:31
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 Pro-Choice (14)
 
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Are you for or against a woman to be able to choose what happens to her body? (Abortion)

What are your thoughts on abortion, what about in the instance of rape, Underage, to poor?

Pro-Choice

Side Score: 17
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Anti-Choice

Side Score: 11

Its better than creating a child who will live in miserable poverty and not do much with his life. Anyway, Christians believe the baby will go to heave so.... everybody wins! Hooray!

Side: Pro-Choice

Anyway, Christians believe the baby will go to heave so.... everybody wins! Hooray!

Some Christians do. Other do not. Others believe absolutely nothing will happen and the child will merely have not existed. Some believe that the child was still born into sin and thus must be punished for it's sinful nature.

Side: Pro-Choice
pakicetus(1455) Disputed
1 point

Let's just kill all the people in misery or poverty then. Hurrah!

Side: Anti-Choice
1 point

I think it is totally a woman's choice to what happens to her body.

Side: Pro-Choice
FromWithin(8241) Disputed
0 points

So you are delusional to only care for the mother and not also care for the child. Why does she have the choice to determine what happens to that Baby's body. It's truly sickening the depravity that Liberalism has ushered into this nation.

Side: Anti-Choice
Cuaroc(8829) Clarified
1 point

so something that won't contribute to society for 18+ years takes priority over someone that is currently contributing to society?

Side: Pro-Choice
1 point

I believe it should ultimately be the choice of the woman as to what happens to her body. BUT, I do believe that if she is pregnant and she unilaterally chooses to keep the child (her body her right), then the father should not be financially responsible for the baby. I believe this because if the mother chooses to abort the child the father has no say. If he can't stop the mother from aborting a child he should not have the responsibility of bringing the child up.

Side: Pro-Choice
1 point

I agree completely. The woman has a choice if she does not want to go into financial ruin but the father doesn't. That is a double standard if I ever saw one. This is one reason why I don't mind at all that men make more money than women in the same job. It helps even out the playing field.

Side: Pro-Choice
1 point

By the implications above, I'd be "pro-choice"... But I don't espouse having more "choices" for the sake of doing so, and I highly doubt that people who (I believe misguidedly) oppose abortion do it because limiting the choices of women gives them a raging hard on.

Side: Pro-Choice

It's a woman's decision. No man has a right to tell a woman what she can do to her body.

Side: Pro-Choice
1 point

Well, let's just look at it this way. If you're religious, (which I am) chances are you are already against abortion. So let's focus on the atheists. If you are atheist, you don't believe in the afterlife. So when you die, it's like you never existed...like you were aborted. So, if you are for abortion, you must be ok with killing children after they have been born... Unless you believe in God... in which case most would agree that abortion is wrong.

Side: Anti-Choice
JustIgnoreMe(4290) Clarified
4 points

First, religious doesn't always mean Christian.

Second, the Bible (conspicuously) doesn't actually say anything about voluntary abortions.

Third, abortion is much more complicated than pro-life/pro-abortion:

When should it be legal vs when is it moral?

Should it be legal when done to protect the life of the mother?

Should it be legal when done to protect the woman from severe health problems?

Should it be legal when done to protect the woman's mental health?

Should it be legal if the pregnancy was the result of incest?

Should it be legal if the woman was raped?

Should it be legal if the woman is in a coma (raped while in coma, or pregnant and then coma)?

Should it be legal if the woman is under age (like < 14 etc.)?

Should it be legal to improve the conditions for a twin/triplet?

Should it be legal if the baby has a terminal and likely painful deformation?

What penalties, if any, should be imposed on the woman and the doctor?

How are the above questions influenced by fetal stage (heartbeat, pain, viability, etc)?

Should stem-cell research be banned?

Should in-vitro fertilization be banned?

Does making it illegal actually prevent it or just make the procedure less safe?

Should the government investigate all miscarriages to determine if they were actually abortions?

If a woman doesn't do everything possible to have a healthy baby, can she be charged with abuse, negligent homicide, etc.?

etc., etc. ...

Side: Pro-Choice
2 points

That does not make any sense, what so ever.

Because one doesn't believe in the after life, they therefore must be okay with murdering living humans? How do you reach that conclusion?

Side: Pro-Choice
zico20(345) Clarified
2 points

An atheist is nothing more than a bunch of carbon based cells no different than a lion or a monkey. With no belief in an after life, (God) why would they not be okay with murder. No other animal is concerned with killing, why would a human with nothing to look forward to after death.

Now, if you say it is because we have a conscience, why do we. It should seem obvious that God gave it to us to know right from wrong.

And yes, if I was an atheist I would kill someone if they had something I wanted and I knew I could get away with it. The person is nothing more than any other animal.

Side: Pro-Choice
Madeline9545(9) Clarified
1 point

The difference between an abortion and killing a child, is that a fetus is still dependent on the mother and only the mother till birth (AKA the moment by law they become a human) So technically the fetus is a parasite till birth.

Side: Pro-Choice
Stickers(1037) Clarified
1 point

That depends on what definition of "parasite" you're using.

Some sources state that it has to be of a different species in order to be a parasite, and some state that as long as it's consuming what someone or something else has (the definition that I assume that you're referring to), it's a parasite.

The term is derived from the greek parasitos, meaning roughly:

"a thing (the implied subject) which (an implied subordinating conjunction) eats at another's (I'm guessing that "another's" is implied by a genitive case, I'm a latin not a greek guy) table (part of the context of the term)"

The term even at it's roots has an almost euphemistic connotation to it, so the modern word "parasite" probably should not be regarded as having a technical definition.

Side: Pro-Choice

I am pro-life. Anti-choice seems to be a harsh sounding version. I would prefer a woman to have a baby than to kill it off before it can live. I will say that certain circumstances warrant special consideration.

Side: Anti-Choice
1 point

Loaded questions are fun, aren't they?

For the record, I don't have any opinion on this matter, but I'm voting here because i don't appreciate the use of emotionally charged language in what should be a rational debate.

Side: Anti-Choice
1 point

I think that giving the women the choice to birth/abort a baby will result in a society of physically/mentally halted people. By leaving the choice of birth/abortion in the hands of doctors, scientists, and the government, we can allow society to progress physically and mentally. For example, if clinics forced mothers to abort babies with physical and mental impairments such as down syndrome or cerebral palsies, our future generations will have lower percentages of these diseases and healthier people in general.

Side: Anti-Choice
chris85(2) Disputed
1 point

Your argument to leave the choice of birth or abortion in the hands of doctors, scientists and the government doesn't make sense to me. How does it allow society to progress as you say? It is setting women back fifty years and taking away her rights. Whenever the government is involved, it's never easy.

Side: Pro-Choice
0 points

I'm against any feminists or Democrats who have no problem with what a woman does to that child's body even for late term abortions on demand. Can you even grasp the utter double standard, the inhumanity and lunacy of that statement? There are TWO bodies there!

If you even spew the life of mother excuses(that no one is against), it's time for ignore.

Side: Anti-Choice
1 point

It's a miracle! You finally mention something other than Democrats!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Side: Pro-Choice
FromWithin(8241) Disputed
1 point

read again! It is the Democrat party that stops the GOP from making abortions past 5 months for any reason, illegal.

Side: Anti-Choice