Abortions Should be Legal
by Opinions on abortions vary widely. Here’s my opinion and justification behind it.
Everyone has an opinion on abortion. Some are pro-abortion, others are anti-abortion. Like any major issue, arguments between both sides of the debate can be fierce, but people rarely change their opinion on the issue based on the arguments. When it comes to abortion, one’s opinion is generally very ingrained, and people are very stubborn when it comes to viewing abortion in a new light.
Personally, I’m pro-abortion. I feel that if someone wants to have an abortion, they should have the right to. I don’t feel that there shouldn’t be any controls on abortions, but fundamentally I believe abortions are neccesary. I don’t advocate abortions after 24 weeks of a pregnancy, but I do feel that abortions are ok with 1-2 months of conception. The fact is, that nobody ever really plans in advance that they want an abortion. It’s not some sort of fashion item or something that makes you “cool”, but it is something that is neccesary. Nobody wants to have to have an abortion, but there are times when they need to be had. If a woman is raped, one can’t expect her to have to support the child, particularly if she is in a poor economic state. Also, she might harbour “grudges” against the child, viewing it as the “father’s son”, which would not be good for the child. Also consider some individuals/couples simply aren’t capable of caring for a child. The life of the child would be ruined by parents who might be abusive or unable to care for them.
Ignoring the ethics side of the argument, the fact is that abortions carry on in all countries, whether or not they are legal. As long as they are legal, women can receive proper, healthy, safe abortions. When they are illegal, women often have to attend back-alley abortionists, where they risk all sorts of health problems and even death. Sometimes these abortions are also unsuccessful, and the child can be left permanently disabled, either physically or mentally. The fact is that abortions will take place anyway, but the only way to keep them safe for women is to have them legalised. Both ways, anti-abortion advocates can win. If it’s completely outlawed, they don’t get abortions. If abortions are allowed, anti-abortion people simply don’t ever have to get them. Just because they are legal doesn’t mean you have to get them. If you’re against abortions, you don’t have abortions. Why should one group get everything their way, and affect the lives on others, when allowing abortions won’t change the lives on people who are against abortions, but they will give those who need an abortion the choice of having one?
I’ll bring this article to an end on this note, and hopefully others can give their opinions in the comments below.
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Post Commentclay Hurtubise
On November 20, 2008 at 6:42 pm
I agree, if you don’t want abortions, don’t have one. Men, wear condoms or shut your trap. Personally I’m against abortions, but for the right for the woman to make the decision. Government already dictates it’s ‘morality’, while it send our lovers, friends, and family to war for oil.
Armywriter
On January 17, 2009 at 2:43 pm
By saying that you are pro-abortion then you are siding with the upcoming FOCA that will legalize abortions after the 24 week gestation.
http://www.newsflavor.com/Opinions/Obama-and-the-Freedom-of-Choice-Act-How-This-Controversy-Will-Affect-You.459907
And Clay I’ve been to war all over the Middle East multiple times and never once for oil. You are either uninformed or an idiot.
Greyian Storm
On January 17, 2009 at 7:46 pm
“I don’t advocate abortions after 24 weeks of a pregnancy, but I do feel that abortions are ok within 1-2 months of conception.”
Armywriter, did you even read the article? I clearly said that I did not support abortions after 24 weeks, yet you claim that I do.
“you are siding with the upcoming FOCA that will legalize abortions after the 24 week gestation.”
Since when does American policy dictate the definition of a word, or laws all around the rest of the world. I’m from Ireland, so you can’t tell me that I have to agree with your way of thinking.
Also, people who say that the current war on “terror” isn’t about oil are clearly lying to themselves or they have been so brainwashed by the Bush administration that they should be neutered.
Wow!
On March 17, 2009 at 11:20 am
It dosen’t matter if you think it’s *okay*. Like it or not, everyperson alive was at this stage. You have no right to shoot someone, but you think you have the right to choose what’s in your body. Women, DO have the right to control what goes in their body. If you don’t have sex, you can’t just have a baby. But then its ANOTHER BODY within yours!
Ralph Brandt
On March 27, 2009 at 2:05 pm
Maybe it would have been good if your mom had canceled your ticket….
Athlyn Green
On August 7, 2009 at 7:57 pm
People always argue for a woman’s right to choose. She can choose to have unprotected sex but, if she becomes pregnant, does she have to right to choose another’s death? While an unwanted pregnancy isn’t ideal, killing an unborn child has to be one hundred times more unideal.
What does it say about us as a society that we support killing when circumstances aren’t convenient? Will the handicapped and elderly be next because people feel too inconvenienced to care for them?
All the reasons for abortion remind me of the genocide carried out against undesirables in WWII and how nice-sounding words sanitized the killing taking place. Just because something is deemed necessary or for the common good does not make it right.
Doctors rarely if ever tell pregnant mothers that their babies, will be dismembered while still alive, that they’ll bleed and feel pain and in later-term abortions struggle valiantly, trying to survive. Doctors don’t tell women what takes place during abortion because in some places abortion is very lucrative. a few kills and the doctor makes a couple of hundred.
If you doubt that abortion propaganda hasn’t been effective, picture this scenario: someone takes a pre-born kitten or puppy and slices its limbs off while it’s still alive. The kitten or puppy struggles, whimpers and convulses before dying a horribly painful death. Sounds awful, doesn’t it? Who would be so cruel? We do the same thing to unborn babies every day and try to convince ourselves that it’s merely fetal tissue or it isn’t really life because it can’t live outside of the womb, etc. etc.– rhetoric designed to sooth consciences.
It’s too bad society didn’t embrace non-harmful problem resolution instead of the easy fix.
Final word: mothers should have to watch an actual abortion so they really see what goes on before undergoing a pregnancy termination . . . or, let’s call a spade a spade . . . a human termination.