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You're probably all tired of seeing a topic on abortion. And, possibly even hearing about it. I know, it's been a huge debate in the past and it still is today.

But, I want to pitch my two cents about it.

First of all, why do we call those who are FOR abortion, PRO-CHOICE? We call people against abortion, ANTI-ABORTIONISTS. So why not call people for it PRO-ABORTIONISTS?

This answer is simple: Abortion is UNNATURAL. Mothers aren't supposed to WANT to KILL their babies. Yes, abortion is MURDER. If a mother doesn't want her baby, something is wrong with that individual. I would say that the equivalence of abortion is throwing an infant off a bridge into a freeway. There's no difference, except the process in which they do it.

I wrote an essay on this in school. I had to look up the facts, the methods of abortion. Some of them are the most gruesome things you'll ever see, hear, etc. I won't expound on this as this is an open board.

I think that people need to THINK before they act. These days, more and more, teenage pregnancies are a huge thing. It's sad to say the least, but my highschool is ranked as the highest count of teen pregnancy rate in my state. I've already heard rumors of a Hispanic girl that's going to carry out with an abortion.

Everyday, somewhere around the world, a mother is making the choice wether she will kill her baby, or let another human being live.

I totally agree with you. And since many Anti-Abortionists are called Prp-Life, why not call Pro-Abortionists Pro-Death?
Also, people say that abortion is a woman's right, and so a 13 year old girl can get one without even telling her parents! And that's looked upon as a cool thing in a lot of communities!
Like you said, abortion is nothing but legal murder.

It's really sad. I also think that another big factor in a lot of abortions made by younger woman, is peer pressure. You can't avoid it, that's never NOT going to happen.

And while we're at it, why don't we call anti-abortionists pro-sticking-their-nose-into-others-business?

It's called Pro-Choice because women should have a choice. We're not all out there wanting everyone to 'kill their babies." In a perfect world, there would be no need for abortion. Young girls with no alternative would not get pregnant, there would be no rape, women would not have life threatening conditions that would end in death for themselves or the child if they stayed pregnant. But the fact is- we need that option, we need to have the choice.

I totally agree BRad. It clearly says in the bible that we shouldn't kill. How is that any different now? People believe that just because something is totally developed they can say they can kill it. Abortion was never meant to be. People just use it as an excuse to get rid of their ungodly and bad decisions and choices. I am with you on this one. I will continue to follow this. Thanks,
-Wild20

Because it's about women being allowed to choose whether they want to have the child or whether they want to abort their pregnancy. Pro-Abortionist would mean as much as aborting pregnancies should become the rule while keeping the child would become an exception. Anti-Abortionists, however, are not necessarily Pro-Life since in some cases the mother's life is endangered due to pregnancy.



This is not true, an abortion in late weeks of pregnancy would rather be like giving an infant a lethal injection; throwing it off a bridge on a freeway would not only be followed by a charge of murder but also by a charge of dangerously disturbing traffic (well, at least in Germany throwing things off bridges on freeways is considered disturbing traffic).
In early weeks of pregnancy however, an embryo is nothing like an infant - organs and limbs are not really formed until the infant in spe is a couple of weeks old; I'm not sure when there is something like detectable brain activity. In this phase of pregnancy, an abortion would rather equal a scientist destroying a culture of cells he's been researching on than a fully-formed (though not grown up yet) human being being killed.
(I'm not going to declare a point at which the heap of cells ends and when a child begins since I haven't dealt with this topic in a long time ... but I'll stick to my opinion that there is a difference between early and late pregnancy...)



wait until you have to deal with Female Genital Mutilation as practiced in some central african tribes (just one hint 'cause I don't want this debate to be led off topic: getting a new, clean razor blade is something most females being subject to this can consider themselves lucky...).
There is, however, no way destroying/killing something/someone can not be gruesome.



And people need to act when they have thought things through.



I'd say it's rather a legal killing than a legal murder, though it might be murder under those circumstances which make the difference between a killing and a murder. Abortion to protect the mother's life, for example, would not be murder - or would you call a cop who kills someone to prevent this person from killing others a murderer?

well, the short form of this post has already been posted by brandice (though a world without rape/life threatening conditions is not necessarily a perfect world ... but it's closer to perfect than a world in which people tend to think black and white only or prefer not to think at all...)

Abortion will never enter my mind ever. I cannot think of any women that would want to abort or murder their own children. it so bad init Every one has the right to live why not just give birth to the kid and if you still feel the same put them up for adoption its much better than killing them

We all know that it is most of these killers are the teenager mums init because they dont want their parents to know and hate them but the fing is that they will hate you now for aborting the baby.

Just know...
THINK BEFORE YOU ACT

I'm for abortion beca