Look at it this way: should a human life suffer because of the mistakes of their parents? I mean, you're saying a human shouldn't suffer death because the parents conceived the child against their wills. My issue is, a) a fetus isn't a human and I have a hard time with people comparing fetus's to a newborn with a brain. b) The consequences of those parens having a child when they can't even afford to take care of it, not just financially, but probably mentally and emotionally, only leads for that child, with feelings, and a current life, to suffer. I think they're two totally different things: fetus vs child. I understand the empathatic thoughts of abortion, but I believe it hurts a hell of a lot more seeing kids abused and abandoned than it does to see a fetus aborted.

Abortion is murder no matter when a person believes life becomes official. This controversy will remain for centuries, however the fact that a potential life has ended before given a chance remains evidence enough for most people to understand why a person should never have a choice of whether a baby lives or dies. There are many reasons abortion should be illegal including the descriptive and disturbing stories about how aborted babies sometime scream as they come out and the looks of pain on their faces. These facts alone should convince anyone to eliminate the idea of pregnancy termination out of their mind.

The health threat to the mother after going through with the procedure as well as the lifelong health risks that remain should be good enough reasons abortion should be illegal. With the rising healthcare costs and instance of disease greater than the medical ability to solve the problems, continued health remains important to all people. Self induced problems such as voluntary termination of pregnancy leads to complications for future pregnancies, reproductive disease, and depression. Understanding that abortion is murder aids a woman in making healthy decisions for baby and mother. Though a mother may not want her baby, health for both remains and adoption remains a viable option. God chooses many couples to be available for adopting these children by way of impotence by one or both people. Bottom line, was sex made for reproduction? Yes. Can you say abortion is natural? No

No they aren't. A gamete will not develop into a living human being on its own. It needs to meet another gamete and only then can two gametes create life. A sperm cell on its own will die unless preserved in some way, like frozen.

Personally, I don't think abortion should be allowed anywhere. Abortion is a cruel way to get rid of a child. The mother always has choices readily available to them, and many hospitals have programs that give unwanted babies to good homes. I think that for those who consider an abortion, they shouldn't have opened their legs in the first place, whether the guy was wearing a glove or not. Unless there was a life-or-death situation where the mother could die with a c-section or die having a baby. then it's appropriate.

I am a prolife democrat, Abortion should not be legal for the simple reason that the baby that they are killing, is a person, how would you feel if you were aborted, and dont say fetuses dont have feelings, if you were aborted, you wouldent be here right now!

Do you have a informed conscious mind? Where you once a fetus? I am going to assume that both of those answers is yes, thus it matters little whether a fetus is conscious, merely that if allowed to grow and develop it will have a conscious mind, but if an abortion is carried out that life will never be given a chance to develop. Just imagine what this world would be like if Jonas Salk, or Sir Isaac Newton, or Albert Einstein, or Abraham Lincoln, or George Washington, or Thomas Jefferson had been aborted as children. It's hard to imagine what the world would be like.

Unborn babies are living things and when you kill them, it is the same thing as killing an adult or a child. God is the creator of life and when you kill unborn babies you are destroying his creations. In the beginning God created Adam by breathing the breath of life into his nostrils. “For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb.” Psalm 139:13.

Abortion is when you kill an unborn baby, and the people who do this are selfish because they don't want to spend money on the baby, confused because they don't want to be pregnant, and evil because they kill children, they also don't trust god and what he provides. If somebody did this they would be breaking the fifth commandment: You shall not murder. He or she is also breaking the first commandment : You shall have no other gods. You should help everyone stay healthy and alive.

I have four sisters and I am glad none of us have been aborted.

Abortion could distroy everything including mankind!!! Than we would all be dead!! DEAD!!! DEAD!! DEAD!!! DEAD!!!

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If a lack of an informed conscious means you can't make decisions for yourself, then Terry Schiavo's husband was right in starving her to death. She never made a formal living will so there is no statement on file as to what her wishes were.

If your method of reasoning fails, any person who falls into a coma unexpectedly would be at the mercy of whoever has to take care of them. If you don't say you want to live, anyone can kill you?

By the way, the 'church' tax breaks also extend to organized atheists; in case you wanted to file an amended return.

It is a known fact that the human brain is not fully developed until after the age of 18. Therefore, anyone under the age of 18 should not be held entirely responsible for actions such as unintended pregnancy.

if you keep abortion legal than you should make murder legal. if you can chose you don't want you baby alive than you should chose that you don't want someone else to be alive and kill them. it is all the same and what kind of world would this be if murder was legal.

Lack of intention doesn't imply it was against their will. It just means they aren't the brightest fish in the tank.

Will is want, and if you are stupid enough to have sex when you don't intend for a baby to be born you are acting against your own will.

Sex is a means of procreation. If you don't want to create, then why risk it?

Okay, so how about we only allow women who are raped or impregnated against their will to have abortions?

Since they are the group you seem to care so much about.

Killing a human is murder. Murder is illegal. Therefore, because abortion is killing a human, abortion should be illegal.

Abortion should NOT be legal. There are countless women in this world that can't have children or are struggling to concieve...women should deliver the babies - and allow the child to live a life. Just because 2 adults are not ready to care for a child doesn't mean that abortion is the only option.

As a mother, I know how much joy my son has brought me...and believe me - if there is a woman out there that doesn't want their child - there are equally as many women out there that are dying to have one. Allow your child to be loved if not by you, then by another family.

It seems to me that both sides of this topic tend to be unreasonable. Many pro-lifers go so far as to assert that the morning after pill is murder, which is ludicrous. On the other hand, some pro-choice groups don't want any restrictions on abortion, which is equally ludicrous.

I am trying to have an open mind, so my question for the pro-choice group is, should there be any restrictions on abortion at all? Should we (the people) allow a woman to decide she doesn't want her child as it is coming down the birth canal at 9 months?

Abosolutely no, abortion is also killing and i don't think it should be made legal.

Even though it is used for some reason, a life is at stake.

When abortion occurs for no reason, it is considered as murder.

But if the foetus or baby implicate the mother's life, it''s up to the mother and father decision.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fetal_pain

"Why is it proven? Ah, b/c science says so."

Science relies on logical parsimony. Science does not say it, logic does. Faith is by definition contrary to proof, and thus reliability. Though both prove themselves in a way, Faith does so syllogistically.

"And science doesn't prove that the natural is the only thing, it only can speak about the natural."

There is only one true version of the natural world, however. Any version of the supernatural is speculative and one of many. The right religion could just as well be Scientology as Christianity.

"Besides, every law isn't based on a "proven theory". I'm not allowed to steal from you. What does that have to do w/science?"

The consolidation of public concensus on acceptable behavior is a science. Exegesis is not.

By the way, fetuses can't feel pain until 12 weeks old. EEG FTW

This is not a legal argument. It's a values debate. "Should abortion be legal?"

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I agree that intelligence and desire are two different things but...

Sex is pleasurable, but it is still procreation.

If you are smart, you will know that birth control fails. If you are intelligent and want to have sex, but don't want a child, you will re-think the sex.

What child deserves to die simply because his 'genius' mom doesn't think he should inconvenience her? It was her mistake that created him, not his. Why should he lose his life, which is his own, because he depends on her for survival but she doesn't feel like taking care of him?

I heard someone argue that this technically makes the child the same organism as the mother; birth is more like mitosis than birth. I forget the specific justification. But it's nice to think that we're all part of the same organism.

Abortion should be illegal. It is taking the life of another human being. It is a known FACT that human life begins at fertilization. Let’s take a trip back to biology class; the male sperm unites with a female gamete to form a single cell called a zygote. So basically when the sperm and egg unite they then create a unique DNA of a human being.

Only a small percentage of abortions are done due to rape and medical circumstances. A recent studied showed that women who were raped and had an abortion had a harder time healing than those who chose to have their babies. Since when is it expectable to punish a child for their father’s crimes?

Just because you may be adopted does not mean you’ll have a miserable unsuccessful life. Did you know that Faith Hill, Jamie Foxx, and Babe Ruth were adopted?

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.

I am not pro-life because of my religious beliefs; I’m pro-life because it makes logical sense that abortion is killing the life of innocent child.

Abortion is the killing of a child. No one should be willfully killed, be it at 1 week or 100 years. When I had my first ultrasound with my son, I was 5 weeks pregnant, which means I had become pregnant 3 weeks prior. My son had a heartbeat. How can anyone anyone anyone stop a beating heart on purpose? Your decision should happen BEFORE you find yourself in this position. If it is ok to abort, why do those who do so end up so destroyed for the rest of their lives? It's because they know they killed a human and that will rest on their hearts for life. If only their child had such an opportunity. For those of you who wrote that there is no God, and were angered by such a defense, I will pray for you. Because without faith, you really have nothing.

If you take that view, then we should abort every baby because one in a billion might have the charisma, insanity and happen to be in a desperate country whose economic power has been crippled through exploitation by the "free world." By your reasoning none of us should have been born because of the "chance" we might turn out bad.