Women have every right in the world to decide what is best for them. If a woman feels that having a child will make her life way more difficult, or that the environment around is not right for having a baby, or whatever reason for that matter, she has the right to have an abortion. And please don't serve us the "assuming your decisions" or "murdering a baby" speech. What about "wrecking a woman's and her unwanted child's life?"

Let's not forget that it's men's sperm that actually makes babies, and women have to live with the result of guys not taking their responsibilities more often than not.

This debate should be titled "should guys take their responsibilities and put on condoms and talk about sex with their partners in an open way and not just "do it"".

I'm a male, by the way.

But I believe it is a human being, and wether you like it or not, it is killing human beings.

Classic contradiction.

but I think in rare cases like women who're raped, and then get pregnant, I fully respect and understand their decission on removing the baby.

You respect their decision to, in your words, murder a baby? What makes a baby's life less important than the mother? I mean, because you said that it is killing.

Would you shoot a newborn in the head if the only way the mother would live was if the baby was dead? (let's say she's being held hostage and she doesn't really care for the baby and tells you to do it.)

Exactly. You can't say that it's murder and be for abortion in some circumstances, because to you, the termination of a pregnancy is murder, and even if the mother was raped, it's still the murder of a child (to you).

(I'm pro-choice, by the way.)

We're not born 9 months old. You inherit your rights as a human and not a parasitic leech the moment you can sustain yourself outside of the host relationship you have with your mother. Before that, you're more on par with a period clot.

I think we shouldn't have abortion. Its still killing of a baby and all humans have a right to live. Every baby is precious when it comes into this life. There is no need to abort a baby. If you don't want the baby don't abort it take it to a foster home or put it up for adoption.

I go back and forth on the morality of abortion. While it seems wrong at times, at other times I really don't care.

It is a living thing, no doubt. It has individual DNA, of course. But is it really a person that must be protected by the law when it's inside the mother? I don't think so.

Even if I end up finding abortion to be "wrong," I will not ask for the government to regulate what women can do with a thing inside of their own bodies. This is between the woman, the fetus, the doctor, and their conscious.

A government policing our bodies is a far worse injustice than a woman aborting her fetus.

Abortion is absolutely okay when a woman has medical complications. That is not questionable, and I can't see what counterarguments someone could possibly have for that.

Abortion in the case of rape is also mostly okay. While I understand the argument that the baby didn't do anything and that giving a baby up for adoption is a possibility, it's also important to keep in mind that rape is very disempowering, and forcing a woman to carry a baby is even more so. Also, it's possible that the mother may not just lack the resources to care for a baby, but also the resources to handle a pregnancy.

Like I said, adoption is an acceptable possibility, but it's also not always a simple process. I admit that teenagers who were just being careless shouldn't just be able to use abortion as a means of escaping what they did wrong, but the truth is that it's a hdd decision for anyone, and hopefully the person will still come out of the situation understanding the consequences of her actions.

In the previous time I was not against of abortion, because there are so many unwanted children! They live in the streets, beg and rob. Or they are used as a donor for organ transplantation.

But now I understand that abortion it is not the solution of the problem, abortion is killing! I think that nobody have this right! Every child has a Chance to appear in this world! The future life of this child will be depend on destiny and his own decisions.

I'm very much for abortion, and I have no doubt in my mind that if I were to find out I'm pregnant tomorrow I'd go have one. Because I'm careful, I take birth control on time everyday. So if I'm being responsible why should I be forced to take care of a child that I'm not ready for. Or give up my child to someone else.

The only time that abortion should be stopped is if the woman is being completely irresponsible and gets multiple ones. And I hate to put it all the woman... But it's her body kind of thing.

Well, i don't think abortions should be allowed. If a woman has managed to get pregnant, then the child is her responsibility. It doesn't matter if it co-insides with your career. That is no excuse, no one should put their job before their baby. Of course if a woman is raped, and ends up pregnant, or there are complications (great pain, or too young), an abortion can be initiated. But if a 20+ average woman is going to have a baby, then she should keep it.

I believe abortion is a completely gray topic that too many people make black and white.

Very simply, the question over abortion is the question of where humanity starts.

Objectively, the qualities of a person that makes a person human is our consciousness and emotional reasoning of our environment.

Since this is what makes us human, having a genuine consciousness, what some call a 'soul', should be the point of measurement.

Which brings me to my argument against pro-life: If it doesn't have a consciousness, it's not human.

Is my arm a human being if severed from my body? No, it has no consciousness. Therefore, there is no reason to assume a clump of cells without brainwaves is a human being. Is it made of human cells? Sure, but there is no measure of a consciousness, or 'soul' other then brain waves. If you believe a soul exists within a brainless fetus without proof, then your opinion has no objective place in this topic.

And this also brings me towards my neutrality.

There is a point in fetal development in which the fetus develops a brain and active brainwaves. Since we can measure it's brainwaves, we have proof that is has a consciousness after this point. If it has a consciousness, we can definitively presume it has a 'soul' and is human.

Which brings me to my point against pro-choice: if it has a consciousness, it's a human being. Killing a human being is murder.

Aborting a fetus after the point it has developed a consciousness is therefore murder. The choice over your own body is invalid if it involves the choice over another human being's body. Who are you to choose if a human being lives or dies? It has a consciousness. If it was aware, you can be completely sure that it would object to the choice to kill it, no matter it's intelligence.

To sum it all up, therefore, I believe that aborting a fetus before it develops a brain is completely okay and there should be no issue with it, but the abortion of a fetus after it has developed a consciousness is essentially the killing of a human being and should be considered such.

Believing pro-choice or pro-life, in my opinion, is completely silly. Both sides when taking 'humanity' into consideration are silly. The only real answer I can see is a middle ground. Thus, I believe in a middle opinion on abortion.

Well, I believe, personally, that abortion is totally legal and not morally incorrect if a woman chooses to do so. Even in the scenario of a teenager getting pregnant, abortion could still be permitted, even though others may say "she made the baby, now she has to live with it." John Locke, an English philosopher, states that everyone has a right to life, liberty, and PROPERTY. Yes the baby is still a living human; however, I still consider the baby PROPERTY under the woman since it is in her body and a part of her. It's a woman's right to do so.

I don't know what's wrong with the world?! When the murder became an ordinal thing in our life? Even me, not in so deep extent religious person, it's really cruel and it's really crime! Women who justify themselves doing abortion like those babies don't have even bodies yet. But they already have a soul! Wake up, people! I haven't anything against women who have no possibility to upbring children because of health or real financial problems. But what about those women who don't think about the consequences before the pregnancy or just haven't desire to have the children? Is it a reason? If we are going to recognize this, nobody will take care about our future generation and its morality.