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Pro Life Pro Choice
Debate Score:26
Arguments:22
Total Votes:32
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 Pro Life (9)
 
 Pro Choice (13)

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Should abortions be legal within the United States of Americ?

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Pro Life

Side Score: 9
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Pro Choice

Side Score: 17
1 point

I am all for life, I believe every human, Unborn or born has a right to life. I feel people that say that A woman should have a choice to her own body, and should have the right to abort the child. What people do not understand that you are stopping production, that child was given to you by God, if the child was not meant to be here it wouldn't be. Abortion just goes against everything the church believes in, life is precious and shouldn't be taken away by heartless people.

Side: Pro Life
1 point

Once the baby has a heart beat, it is officially a human so if you get an abortion technically you are murdering your baby

Side: Pro Life
1 point

I personally believe that abortions shouldn't be allowed ,because A study showed that nearly 200,000 American women found that in the eight years following their abortion, they had a 154% higher rate of suicide than women who carried to term.(https://www.nrlc.org/)

Side: Pro Life
1 point

I feel that you should have your child if it was your decision to be laid up with somebody and do what you did, even if you can't take care of the baby you can always give it up for an adoption. Although, giving up your baby isn't right, killing it isn't no better. At times I feel that there should be exceptions of abortions.

Side: Pro Life
AjaB(2) Disputed
1 point

In some cases, it is not the woman's decision to get pregnant, therefore it should be her decision to get rid of the unexpected child. Also, sometimes the female may not be capable to give birth to the baby.

Side: Pro Choice
1 point

I feel the same way, people should not even been doing what they was doing with out protection there are ways to prevent children.

Side: Pro Life
1 point

Abortion should be legal because you never know what a family going through. When a child gone into adoption you never know how they would be treated. The kid may stay in there they whole life without a family that cares for them. Or even the fact that some people have health problems that may kill them. A woman may choose herself over that kid with she could die.

Side: Pro Life
1 point

Abortion is murder. A fetus is a person upon conception, when someone were to get an abortion they would be killing a human being.

Side: Pro Life
3 points

I feel like restrictions should be made because of situations that women might not have control of. A women could get rape and she shouldn't have to be force to live knowing she was fertilized by a rapist.

Side: Pro Choice
1 point

i think that its both ok and not ok to have an abortion. i think that if you dont like abortions dont have an abortion and just let the people who want one get one. i think that everyone should have there own choice as to do with there own child because she might have not had a choice to have that kid because of rape.

Side: Pro Choice
CoachHelms(27) Disputed
0 points

Do you believe murder is okay? Does it have a heartbeat? According to religion and our countries laws, murder is wrong and should never be justified.

Side: Pro Life
AjaB(2) Disputed
1 point

In some cases, murder is okay, such as when the child is not born yet. The child has a heart beat already but is not fully developed yet. I understand where you are coming from, but everyone in this country does not have the same religions or beliefs.

Side: Pro Choice
Marcellp(4) Disputed
1 point

Exactly what I am saying Coach, people have to understand that there is a baby in you before it is aborted, you are taking an innocent human life because of your mistakes. Your basically killing a baby. You could at least have the child and give it up for adoption, there is no reason to kill it when there is people in the world not allowed or can not have kids at all. They would love to take care or let your child be apart of their lives.

Side: Pro Choice
1 point

I feel like people should be able to have an abortion according to the situation because you never know how a person would handle being a parent if they weren't ready.

Side: Pro Choice
Marcellp(4) Disputed
1 point

You have to realize that the child, that has not even been born yet, has a right to live just like you. If you did not want the child you should have wore protection, or be on birth control to prevent stuff like this. According to the page, "bbc.co" they talk about abortions, and why they are bad because you are taking an innocent human life.

Side: Pro Life
1 point

yes because some people just aren't ready to have kids and sometimes its just a mistake and everybody deserves a second chance because having a baby changes your whole life.

Side: Pro Choice
1 point

Some people are not financially stable. I feel like people should have a certain extent to have an abortion because according to sources only 28% of Americans are financially stable.

Side: Pro Choice
1 point

I believe that when a woman is carrying that , that is an extension of her body and it is her choice to do what she pleases until about 3 months in after that it is cutting it a little bit close in my opinion. Also, why is it that the government gets to chose what women do with there bodies because that is none of their business to be honest and i believe that taking that away is infringing on human rights in a way but that may just be me.

Side: Pro Choice
1 point

I feel like women should have the choice to decide whether they want to keep a child or not. You have to think of things like young teens having kids when they're only 16 or 17, imagine if it was you pregnant at 17 and you had to decide if you wanted to keep this child and raise it while still trying to grow and go to high school or not. According to "prochoice.org", "Women deserve the autonomy and dignity to act in accordance with their personal convictions, and to decide what is best for their own lives and families." Some women aren't in the right place at the time they're pregnant and they won't be able to support themselves or the child that they're having. Also you have to think of women that are raped and sexually assaulted, maybe they don't want to have the child of someone that raped them and used them. Also some people say abortion isn't a safe procedure and it puts the woman at risk. According to "prochoice.org", "since the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, abortion has become one of the safest medical procedures in the country. By keeping abortion legal, we help protect the lives and safety of women facing unplanned pregnancies. I just feel like women should have the choice to decide what they want to do for themselves and their family and not be forced or influenced by other people to make that decision.

Side: Pro Choice
1 point

I feel like you shouldn't force a women to have a kid because you don't know what costed it what if that she had been rapped or anything now she is with a child she doesn't want to have. I feel like the women should choice if they want to keep the baby or not and maybe it wasn't planned and it do happen and you got a child you wasn't ready for.

Side: Pro Choice
1 point

Abortions should only be legal in American if you get raped, if you get pregnant and try to abort the child they should deny you all over the country because that is life endangerment to the infant.

Side: Pro Choice
1 point

I think its pro choice because say you didn't mean to get pregnant or you didn't have a choice meaning getting rapped. Religion is a choice so if they decide they want to abort then they gone have to live with that so if they want to go to hell then they going to hell.

Side: Pro Choice