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Pro Life Pro Choice
Debate Score:33
Arguments:34
Total Votes:33
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 Pro Life (6)
 
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Should abortions be legal within the United States of America?

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Pro Life

Side Score: 7
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Pro Choice

Side Score: 26
2 points

in my opinion i feel like it takes innocent lives and punishes innocent people a abortion can harm women in many ways such as mental emotional relational and physical ways.no matter how hard you try you can not erase what abortion does kills babies that could become something important in life.women were born to have kids i feel like if you don't want the kid don't do things that you know will cause a baby. Killing a child is not good at all.if you need help to raise a child you can ask family,friends and more.

Side: Pro Life
1 point

i agree with what your saying but have you thought about how if they were born that they would feel unloved or unwanted once they got here because they didnt want them and theres no where to go.

Side: Pro Life
tykeyaallen(5) Disputed
1 point

I disagree because it's not murder if it's in a certain amount of weeks. And there are many people, many innocent people who are murdered every day. Having an abortion is a right that a woman should be able to have. It's their own body, and nobody should be able to tell them what to do with their body.

Side: Pro Choice
1 point

I am against abortion, because its wrong to kill babies no matter how they were conceived, women are still killing innocent children, You can give the child to someone who cant have children or someone whom really gonna take care of the child,if you abort the child you can be missing out on the best gift god gave you. By getting abortions it can lead to premature births, it can lead to death of a baby during birth, and complications of during delivery.

Supporting Evidence: Science daily (www.sciencedaily.com)
Side: Pro Life
JailaAnders(3) Disputed
1 point

I disagree because if the woman doesn't want the child and decide to give the baby away. The baby is most likely going to be in foster homes their whole life. there are nearly 443,000 children in foster care in the United States. Abortion is not murder before a certain amount of weeks .

Side: Pro Choice
fisherk(2) Clarified
1 point

and overall i don't really think it's about the murder aspect. i don't think anybody on either side of this debate thinks that abortion is some great thing, nobody likes the idea of the child dying, but either way, women should always have the choice because it is their body.

Side: Pro Life
1 point

Abortion should be illegal in the United States even if you think it should be legal you have to realize even though you not going to jail you still killing a human being I understand some people just don't want the baby at all in that case you can give the baby to the orphanage. Killing a baby is wrong in you would have to live with that for the rest of your life. Four in every five Americans begin having intercourse before age 20. Many of the youngest women in this group 70% of those age 13 or under report having had sex forced on them. By the time they turn 20, about 40% of American women have been pregnant at least once. Many of these young women have little understanding of their bodies and have begun having sexual intercourse before knowing about ways to prevent pregnancy

because teens in other developed countries receive more education about sexuality and have more access to contraception and family planning services, they have much lower rates of pregnancy and abortion. But at the end of the it's my opinion women are going to make there own choices I just think it's wrong.

Side: Pro Life
1 point

in that case you can give the baby to the orphanage

And what happens when 350 million people begin swapping condoms for the notion that they can just drop kids off at the orphanage, dopey?

Side: Pro Choice
2 points

I believe abortions should be legal within the US, because of the simple fact that some abortions are needed because of women being raped or"not ready for a child". But I am really for both sides, because in some cases it could be considered murder, if the fetus has a heartbeat. In my eyes everything deserves to live, and that child that is being aborted should have a shot at life.

Side: Pro Choice
2 points

I agree that abortions should be legal in the US, and also that a child should have a chance at life. But in some cases I think it should be a woman choice.

Side: Pro Choice
Cortez(2) Disputed
1 point

Would it be better for the child to live in a foster home than dying without even living their lives

Side: Pro Life
CoachHelms(27) Clarified
1 point

Is an unborn child a living being? Do you have proof or facts that prove this? Or disproves it?

Side: Pro Life
2 points

As a woman, I believe that having an abortion is 100�hoice. In some states, there are some laws set that protects the fetus from being aborted at a certain stage. For example, in the state of Mississippi abortions are legal up to 15 weeks of pregnancy. Everyone has a choice to make in their lifetime and having a child could be a major decision for some. Not allowing someone to make a choice on their own would be like taking their freedom away.

Side: Pro Choice
CoachHelms(27) Clarified
1 point

What about the man? Does he have a say in it? Is it only the woman's choice?

Side: Pro Life
bmbarnes(3) Clarified
1 point

The man should have a input into whether a woman should have an abortion or not. Maybe his input could persuade the woman to keep the baby or not.

Side: Pro Life
1 point

I also agree with what you said, because a woman owns her body and she should have the choice to do whatever she wants to do.

Side: Pro Choice
1 point

I'm pro choice because I think women should do whatever they feel with their body. Anything could have happened, She could have got raped, the baby could have something wrong with it, which could cause the baby to die at birth, or the health of the mother she might could die if she delivers the baby. Or some people aren't ready mentally, physically, or financially to have a child.

Side: Pro Choice
1 point

Abortions should be legal in the United States of America, because women should have the choice to abort their baby or not. Reproductive freedom means having affordable access to health care options, such as birth control and abortion care. In Roe v. Wade, this case was protecting women's liberty to choose to have an abortion without excessive government restriction. If women didn't have the right to have an abortion, they might take extreme measures and go another route to not have their baby.

Side: Pro Choice
1 point

I agree with what you are saying. The last thing I want is for a young lady to take extreme measures.

Side: Pro Choice
1 point

overall i think that the only people that should have a say in the abortion should be the two people that are having to make the decision, not the government. i think that the only man that should have any kind of say in the decision is the potential father, but all in all i think that the women who have actually deal with these decisions should have the final say. i get why some people say that its murder but the point of being pro choice isn't because people just love being able to have an abortion, in my opinion its because it is their bodies, their business, and it should be there choice and neither the state nor government should be able to deny them the right to that decision. there are a lot of instances where the woman has been raped or the two just aren't fit to have and raise a child. so if they don't feel that bringing a child into this world would be best because they wouldn't be able to give them the life that they would potentially want to provide then anyone should always have the option to do what they feel is right.

Side: Pro Choice
bmbarnes(3) Clarified
1 point

Agreed 100%, the two people involved should be the ones who have to make the decision.

Side: Pro Life
1 point

I feel as though women should choose whether or whether not what they want to do with there body because you could never know their situation or what there stable an/or ready for. while researching i found that they're about 17.8 % of teenagers getting abortion and with abortions not being legal will lead them to do it a unsafely way if there were no legal option to choose from. And it also states that personhood began after a fetus becomes viable after birth not a conception so i'm for the pro-choice.

Side: Pro Choice
1 point

I feel like The united states should have abortion legal because there are a lot of reasons why the women shoudnt have the kid. Reasons are if they are raped, if they arent old enough, if they dont have the life style or money to have a kid, many many reasons. you could always put them in foster care but i wouldnt wish that type of life on any child. 32,101 pregnancies result from rape each year.

Side: Pro Choice
1 point

I agree with what you are saying, because if the woman is raped she wouldn't want to keep their baby because it might remind them of their past. And if she didn't have a good lifestyle she wouldn't want to bring a child into that type of life.

Side: Pro Choice
1 point

i believe that every woman has the right to abortion it is not our place to tell others what to do with their bodies if we all stayed in out lanes and minded our business we would not have to debate the topic. i also believe that we should care for the lives that we already have the lives of the parents the women that are going to lose their lives,their bodies and their spunk and if you force a 16 year old to have a baby as a punishment your not just punishing the 16 year old your punishing the child as well people who do not want to something will either do a bad job so were just gonna end up with a group pf physco paths and unloved children.

Side: Pro Choice
1 point

I can support that the couple in the relationship have to have an understanding wither or not to have the baby. i support this do to rape victims females tend to abort the baby because of traumatic experience. while its not done vise-versa if men getting raped by females will have to pay for child support having not choice in the matter. Its consent, "A young Mormon missionary named Kirk Anderson went missing in 1977, in Ewell, Surrey, after being abducted from the steps of a church meetinghouse. A few days later, Anderson made a report to the police that he had been abducted and imprisoned against his will. He said that while he was chained to a bed, Joyce Bernann McKinney attempted to seduce him, and then raped him." I feel like if a women does want kids but the husband doesn't the government should pay for vasectomy before the women get pregnant which would increase the adoption rate. and vise-versa were man wants the kids but females don't want kids, being able to have kids and adopting kids that have been struggling from the start. Any non-lawful way for fornication, should be the choice of the victim for the traumatic. event

Side: Pro Choice
1 point

If a women is raped by a man they have pro choice but a women rapes a man he has no choice but to pro life

Side: Pro Choice
1 point

a women rapes a man

Does that happen often where you're from?

Side: Pro Life
1 point

I think abortions should be legal because there are women or couples who can't afford to feed or clothe their children. So if they picked the choice to have a child they would be label as bad parents, and if they were to put them into a foster home or give them up for adoption they would still be labeled. According to most abortions , you never know what someone reason is for example if someone were to get raped they wouldn't want to be reminded of what happened. At the end of the day it's their choice :)

Side: Pro Choice
1 point

As I grew up, I started understanding why abortion was an OK thing. I used to believe abortion was wrong and just cruel. I believe that society has this built mindset that this is such a wrong thing that a woman could ever do, but I believe that the woman should have the choice of what they want to do with whatever goes on with their bodies, we all don't know what's behind their choice, what story there is, what trauma they've been through. families, religions, incest, rape, child abuse, not a stable home, money problems, could be the reason behind this big decision. I believe that the only person with a say should be the woman going through this. Abortions are OK.

Side: Pro Choice
1 point

I think women should be able to choose if they want to terminate their pregnancy,and men have no say at all (only because they obviously don't have the facilities to make that decision for the woman who is the one who will actually give birth to said child). Each woman has their own reasons for wanting to do so. Even if abortion were made legal, women are still going to go get abortions but then it'll be illegal. According to an article I read, the main reasons women decide to get abortions are not being able to afford to take care of them, their belief that the child will interfere with work, school, or the ability to take care of dependents, or that they don't want to be a single parent. There are refusal laws in some states that allow individuals and institutions to refuse to provide medical treatment, including abortion, simply because they don't think its right which is obviously not okay because that's clearly not their decision to make and they're not the ones paying for the operation. If the woman is denied the right to abortion, you're taking away her right to make basic decisions for herself.

Side: Pro Choice
1 point

I believe that getting an abortion is their choice because you never know why that woman is getting an abortion. It could be for numerous of reasons such as being raped or maybe they just aren't ready for a child yet. I'm pretty sure a woman doesn't want to give birth or even carry a child by somebody she they were raped by. Yes, its wrong to kill a child, but then again it's wrong to rape a woman and impregnate them with a child they don't want.

Side: Pro Choice

Of course they should be legal. If they are not legal you are going to have a pretty major population problem within one or two generations, mostly among the poorer classes.

And when that happens, these idiots who claim to be "pro-life" will happily vote to stop you getting any support from the government and leave you taking care of five kids with no money.

Side: Pro Choice