Please stop making appeals to emotion.

The frightening thing about the abortion debate in this country is that not enough attention is brought to the fact that white men often have the strongest opinion on the matter.

While I am in NO way religious, I understand that some people are religious, and that abortion goes against their beliefs. Why is it, then, that these people do not respect my views (or lack thereof) and are ffighting (sometimes violently) to make abortion illegal.

Leave it up to the WOMEN who should have teh right to chose, on a completely individual basis.

I'm not saying that we should abort babies because one of them might become like Hitler or Stalin or someone else bad, i'm just saying that if you are gonna use the argument that not aborting a baby might produce a genius then you have to take into account that not aborting that baby could also produce a very evil person. It goes both ways. of course i'm not saying my reasoning would require that every baby be killed, i believe the woman has the final choice so i couldn't decide if the baby is aborted or not i could just suggest.

"If it is ok to abort, why do those who do so end up so destroyed for the rest of their lives?"

They don't. Not if they do it for the right reasons. There is always the "what if" factor. But millions of women have had abortions and are living perfectly healthy, happy, successful lives. About half of women in the US who have had an abortion already have children, so they know the joys and stresses of children. They make the decision for the greater good--the family and society.

No, it's not.

(How's it feel to read a terrible argument?)

If I was a little unicellular embryo, I wouldn't be physically able to make that vote. I understand what you're saying, but I wouldn't have noticed it if my mom had decided to abort me.

So in response to your question, my answer is this: it wouldn't matter.

Since CreateDebate won't let me close my account, I will delete my posts.

The constitution does not provide rights or personhood to a fetus. You cannot murder a non-person. Also note, you cannot provide personhood to a fetus and the mother, since only one body can be a person. (unless you're conjoined twins)

Exactly how would you enforce such a law? Would you set up gov't intervention to pregnancy test ALL eligible females monthly? What would be the cost? Will it be a federal program or a state program? What if a woman has a miscarriage? How will they prove that. What you're all asking for is a police state in a woman's uterus. You're basically calling it Government Property. When you do these things, you violate a woman's civil rights. Once you take away a woman's civil rights, then the gov't will just move on and take everyone's away. Then you can just relax in your ChristoFascist America.

Abortion is not killing a human child. When you have your abortion, the fetus has probably not even opened its eyes yet. It isn't a formed child! It is a FETUS. Is it a mistake of the girl if her drink was roofied at a party and she was raped because of it? Only if she dropped the pill into the drink.

Abortion doesn't kill a baby because it's not a baby. It's an inviable parasite. It cannot eat or breathe on its own without the host (woman) so it is not its own entity. Therefore abortion removes an unwanted growth. If the fetus were a person than every miscarriage would be a murder and Mother Nature causes miscarriages in 20-45 percent of pregnancies. Are you going to accuse Mother Nature of killing babies? Or the host (woman)? I think not. It's not a baby. It's a bunch of cells.

Intelligence and desire to have sex are two entirely different parts of the brain. One can be very stupid and have no sex drive. As can one be very smart, very horny and take all reasonable precautions (pill, condom, etc) and STILL end up pregnant. Sex is more than procreation. Other primates (and many other species) have sex for the pleasure alone. Humans have those same desires--smart or not.

Well think about it... women already have abortions whey they are impregnated against their will. Isn't that the point--that they didn't intend to become pregnant?

If it isn't a human, what is it?

If it isn't alive, how can you kill it?

But if it is a human, than it has rights.

If it is alive, than killing it is murder.

Last I checked, murder is illegal (unless you happen to be an unborn baby, in which case you just don't count).

Agreed. And these homemade abortions are not always successful and thus do not harm just the mothers but also the children.

This is obviously a difficult decision to make, and one I have thought out carefully prior to coming to an opinion.

I think, to paraphrase Obama, that expectant mothers are the best people to make the choices about whether or not they are financially and emotionally stable enough to care for a child.

The world is overpopulated as it is. Humans continue to grow at a rate that is unsustainable, and at some point nature will regulate us through some mass disaster/disease. Until then, however, abortion at least offers a little self regulation of population growth.

The number of people who want to adopt a child, does not equate to the number of people who can.

There are thousands of children dying to be adopted. Abortion lowers that number.

however it is terrible to say abortion should be legal . if it is made illegal than women will do unsafe things to themselves not to have a kid . such as get a friend to push her down the stairs

yes, but you should have to take some sort of test saying why you want to.

i have known people who got abortions bc they "didnt want to get fat"

that is not a good reason.

needless to say, i dont talk to that person now.

Why make this a legal debate, its a womans choice, not a congresional descussion. Why make it illegal then make women be forced into back alley abortions or worse bathtub abortions.

Early-term abortions should undoubtedly be legal.

I have one question for all of those who claim that abortion should be illegal because it is taking a life: If abortion becomes illegal, and a woman has an illegal abortion, what should her punishment be? Technically what she has done is murder; thus, under current laws, capital punishment would be a common solution. So, does a woman who has an abortion deserve the death penalty?

The only real advocacy for pro-life is the thought of killing a child. It's living tissue I'll give you that, but would you have a C-section at 2 months and call it a birth? No. Because it's not truly a being yet, is it?

And if you're going to make the argument that stopping a child from existing is murder, in that case, sex without procreation is murder, or for that matter, not deciding to have a child at any point is murder.

The only event horizon would be life at conception. That's purely a religious claim. A conscious human being cannot be contained within 2 cells.

"Everything happens for a reason"? So incest, pedophilia, rape, and abuse are results of reason?!? There is nothing reasonable about raising a constant reminder of a cruel crime. Those opposed to any type of induced abortion have no idea what its like for a child to carry the burden of being the offspring of abuse. It is a fact that unplanned/unwanted children are more likely to be subjected to abuse and neglect--continuing the cycle. Stopping that cycle of abuse is easy. It just takes one outpatient appointment.

An example of a post by someone who does not understand science.

THE FOETUS (UK SPELLING) IS NOT ALIVE, it cannot be asked on its rights and has no nervous system, there is a greater need in the social aspects and it is inane to suggest that there is murder in something which saves the money, time, and essentially life of the mother.

The mother keeps the rights, not the child.

Are men not taking human life when they please themselves?

It is a known FACT that human life begins at fertilization.

Life. Not consciousness. Taking life painlessly is justified in some situations.

Just because you may be adopted does not mean you’ll have a miserable unsuccessful life.

No one said this.

Did you know that Faith Hill, Jamie Foxx, and Babe Ruth were adopted?

Did you know one of the aborted children was going to be a mass murderer? Did you know one of them was a better baseball player than Babe Ruth? This is why your argument is nonsense. If all three of your examples were aborted, no one would feel their absence. Even the fetuses wouldn't.

Abortion is done for mere convenience. Many women don’t know the true facts of abortion until it is to late and often feel depression, guilt, isolation, insomnia or nightmares, and much more after it is done. Even Jane Roe (Norma McCorvey) is pro-life now.

Just as a side note, a lot of this could be said about giving birth. But it's right. This information should be publicized more, and made mandatory before going through with the procedure.

This is as polite as I can possibly say it: You do not belong on this site.

It's not impossible. Just unfathomably complex at our current level of technology.

They still haven't disproved your argument though. Review your statements and make sure they're on topic, guys.

Not only do I think that it is wrong for the government or any type of law to prevent a woman from having the choice, but I also don't think that it's really the same as murder per se to abort a fetus. They're really not the same thing at all.

A fetus is not yet a child. It is the product of the woman's body despite it

being viable future offspring. And although males have a stake in this

creation of life they are not the ones who have to take the risks of bearing

children. Pregnancy is a very risky situation for women and I think the

pro-life camp takes this very lightly. Women are responsible for bringing

life into this world, however that responsibility falls into each and everyone

of their hands. Every woman should have the right to decide what's best

for her health. After all it's her body and not yours.

Yes, abortion should be legal. First off, you'll never stop abortions, legal or not. If abortions are not legal, women and young girls will be having abortions in places such as motel rooms, back street alleys, etc., which are very unsanitary and dangerous. Also does anyone really think that the rich won't have abortions if they are made illegal? Of course they will, they'll pay top dollar to have an abortion. Lastly, it is really nobody's business what the female decides except her and her family. Pus you don't know the circumstances. Women have the right to choose, period.

Yes but we don't know if that unborn life could become somebody like Albert Einstein etc but it also could become a Hitler, osama bin laden and countless others. It's chance, we don't know who the unborn will become.

Government should not place restrictions on what a female can do with to her body, because of a chance. Many people die before they have a chance to become somebody like Albert Einstein yet the evidence of their path is there to see, but the government and others don't worry about trying to preserve their life, just the life of a chance which could go any number of ways.

I live in the United Kingdom and a 13 year old boy became a father, if he the pregnancy was aborted (his girlfriends) then he would have been spared the shame, worry, and financial difficulty.

Abortion should be legal regardless, I stand for that as does our PM

Forcible impregnation.

What? I thought it was funny. Fine, vote me down.

I wish more people were as mature as you.

frist of you can only have an abortion if the fetus is at least 28 days old in the stomic of course but its not takeing any human life it would braly have been growing outof the egg so yes it ahould be legal but only for 17 and below people

i believe that it is wrong but that i also think that it should be legal because some people don't have any control over getting pregnant because of rape. and they just are not ready to have a child because or age, finances or both. it also needs to be legal because women and or men will take it into their own hands and do it themselves therefore inflicting damage upon themselves as well possibly permanent damage. and maybe even death to the mother. abortions have to be legal or all hell will break loose and the death rate will increase substantially

That is a good point is the world not overpopulated already?