Abortion is this the answer to unplanned pregnancies?
Recently my young niece he came pregnant and she is not married. She is only 16 years old and it came to everybody as a great surprise. What followed next was a whirlwind of trouble and heated debate. The topic was on what to do with the baby.
Abortion was eventually brought up, and her rights to choose as a mother. Now my opinion on this is very clear I don't believe in abortion. My reason for this is due to the fact that I was adopted, and really when you think about it, if my natural mother wanted to she could have chosen abortion but chose not to. If she had chosen to do so I would not be here today nor would my four beautiful children that I have now.
Eventually she chose to have the baby and she ended up with a beautiful baby girl. But the debate still goes on within the family. Choice or pro-choice, what is your opinion?
I think it should be choice. that might have been the right thing for you, but that doesn't mean that it the right thing for everyone. just because you feel that way that does not mean that you have to force that on everyone.
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Abortion was eventually brought up, and her rights to choose as a mother. Now my opinion on this is very clear I don't believe in abortion. My reason for this is due to the fact that I was adopted, and really when you think about it, if my natural mother wanted to she could have chosen abortion but chose not to. If she had chosen to do so I would not be here today nor would my four beautiful children that I have now.
I think you have expressed an opinion extremely well in this post and if asked expressing it the same way to the family should be acceptable to them. If it isn't that is their loss.
What your mother did is a far harder course of action than the quick and easy abortion of today. You honor her with your beliefs. And IMO she deserves that honor.
Now just to make my own opinion clear to all, It is not a choice, it is a baby.
I think it should be choice. that might have been the right thing for you, but that doesn't mean that it the right thing for everyone. just because you feel that way that does not mean that you have to force that on everyone.
I don't think anybody should have the right to choose to murder another human.
I wish we could get ahead of these tough choices by giving young women enough self esteem to resist inappropriate advances by young men. And to instill a sense of responsibility in young men including respect for women.
In the meantime, I wish every woman would be advised that financial support is available and protected from pressure by the father to have an abortion so he can go on his merry way.
I wish we could get ahead of these tough choices by giving young women enough self esteem to resist inappropriate advances by young men. And to instill a sense of responsibility in young men including respect for women.
I think that is very much buying into the women-as-victims party-line. Women, just like men, enjoy sex and have very real sexual drives and needs. Painting girls as victims doesn't help promote responsibility.
This is really hard to decide, we are by-standers as we are not in their position to feel the kind of pressure. You have to imagine that she's only 16 years old!
No, in the US it's not a criminal act at all. It's perfectly legal. It may be regarded unethical, immoral etc, but it is not criminal.
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Originally Posted by coolguy27
They must be responsible for it 'coz they are the one who makes that choice to have that child....
Are you sure all pregnancies are a result of a choice a woman makes?
According to the National Women's Study, approximately 5% of adult female rape victims become pregnant as a result of their assault, leading to 32,100 pregnancies a year among women 18 years of age or older. Approximately 50% of pregnant rape victims had an abortion, 6% put the child up for adoption, and 33% kept the child (the remaining pregnancies resulted in miscarriage).
According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Uniform Crime Reports, there were 95,136 forcible rapes reported to United States law enforcement agencies in 2002.
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approximately 5% of adult female rape victims become pregnant as a result of their assault, leading to 32,100 pregnancies a year among women 18 years of age or older
My math may suck, but 5% of 95,136 is still 4,756.8 here in Japan.
The rape figures in the US in regard to abortion are always going to be extremely skewed. Planned Parenthood, the #1 provider of abortions, encourages women to claim that their pregnancy is the result of rape. I have gone to PP on more than one occasion with female friends (not my girlfriends, not my babies being aborted), and the anti-male atmosphere is pervasive, and in one case the woman did actually mark it as a rape, and when I asked why she said that she wasn't really in the mood and it ws her boyfriend who always wanted sex.
I think abortion is only legal if mother got some serious medical problems whose life is in danger if she choose to give birth. For example, serious heart problem, otherwise law does not allow people to choose abortion itself.
My math may suck, but 5% of 95,136 is still 4,756.8 here in Japan.
The rape figures in the US in regard to abortion are always going to be extremely skewed. Planned Parenthood, the #1 provider of abortions, encourages women to claim that their pregnancy is the result of rape. I have gone to PP on more than one occasion with female friends (not my girlfriends, not my babies being aborted), and the anti-male atmosphere is pervasive, and in one case the woman did actually mark it as a rape, and when I asked why she said that she wasn't really in the mood and it ws her boyfriend who always wanted sex.
If that is rape, then I am Abe Lincoln.
And come talk to me when you are one of the unlucky raped ones.
I am Prochoice and currently 8 months pregnant. And it is my choice -- Not some MAN in Congress who gets to determine what is best for ME
It's not a self-esteem issue.
hehe nothing wrong with that, lol better watch this subject LOL
