Pro-Life, Pro-Choice, or Both?

[Ave Maria]

Are you pro-life, pro-choice, or both? I am both. I am pro-life in that I think that most abortions should not happen. I am pro-choice in that I think that abortion should remain as a legal right for women at least in the cases of rape, incest, molestation, or when the mother's health or life is in danger.

 

[happyfreak14]

that would depend what you meant by each of them, particularely "both."

 

[ALiberalTeen]

Pro-life

 

[NDNgirl4ever]

I am pro choice.

 

[jad123]

I am BOTH!

I am pro-life in that all children should have the right to live.
I am pro-choice in that I choose not to murder children.

 

[happyfreak14]

somehow I get the feeling that wasn't what she meant...

 

[StTherese]

I am BOTH!

I am pro-life in that all children should have the right to live.
I am pro-choice in that I choose not to murder children.

 

[Ohioprof]

I believe this is a choice that should be up to the individual woman. The decision about what to do with her body should not be up to the state. I think the Supreme Court was right in Roe v. Wade in saying that up to a certain in her pregnancy, the choice is up to an individual woman, and it's her private decision to make. I think the choice of abortion is and should remain an individual right. People who do not approve of having an abortion can choose not to have one.

 

[Calliso]

I believe this is a choice that should be up to the individual woman. The decision about what to do with her body should not be up to the state. I think the Supreme Court was right in Roe v. Wade in saying that up to a certain in her pregnancy, the choice is up to an individual woman, and it's her private decision to make. I think the choice of abortion is and should remain an individual right. People who do not approve of having an abortion can choose not to have one.

Well said!

 

[Ave Maria]

I am BOTH!

I am pro-life in that all children should have the right to live.
I am pro-choice in that I choose not to murder children.

That's not exactly what I meant by the poll options but ok.

 

[Ave Maria]

I think I'd have to change my vote to pro-life. Abortion should not be legal except for when the mother's life is danger. Abortion is murder and it is only acceptable when continuing the pregnancy would result in the death of both the mother and child.

 

[David Brider]

Are you pro-life, pro-choice, or both? I am both. I am pro-life in that I think that most abortions should not happen. I am pro-choice in that I think that abortion should remain as a legal right for women at least in the cases of rape, incest, molestation, or when the mother's health or life is in danger.

I went for "Both". In an ideal world, abortion wouldn't be necessary, but the reality is that sometimes it is. And frankly, even when it's not necessary (and I'd include situations such as rape or medical reasons as necessary), even if it's just a situation of a pregnant woman choosing for her own reasons to terminate a pregnancy, I can't think of a single good reason why I or anyone else should start pointing the finger at her and telling her she's wrong for her decision. Chances are that she's gone through a heck of a lot to reach that decision, and that once she's made that decision she'll be going through a heck of a lot more in terms of emotional pain. She probably needs comfort and support rather than accusations.

David.

 

[Droppo]

I'm pro-choice all the way.

A fetus isn't a person- it's tissue. It's a live in the same way my foot is alive. I can quibble over trimesters and the development of the brain and whatnot (I'm still working on my stance when it comes to that), but I don't consider murder because it isn't human (leaving out the trimester issue for simplicity's sake).

There are millions of children in the world starving to death because overpopulation has stretched resources too thin. I would much rather see a fetus aborted that can't feel pain or comprehend it's own mortality than watch living children slowly die in agony. Abortion has made huge contributions to decreasing populations in places like Japan. I'd love to see the population (gradually) fall all over the world until we're back at a sane number, and abortion can help. (Nothing replaces good old birth control, but sometimes things happen.)

 

[StTherese]

I'm pro-choice all the way.

A fetus isn't a person- it's tissue. It's a live in the same way my foot is alive. I can quibble over trimesters and the development of the brain and whatnot (I'm still working on my stance when it comes to that), but I don't consider murder because it isn't human (leaving out the trimester issue for simplicity's sake).

There are millions of children in the world starving to death because overpopulation has stretched resources too thin. I would much rather see a fetus aborted that can't feel pain or comprehend it's own mortality than watch living children slowly die in agony. Abortion has made huge contributions to decreasing populations in places like Japan. I'd love to see the population (gradually) fall all over the world until we're back at a sane number, and abortion can help. (Nothing replaces good old birth control, but sometimes things happen.)

This overpopulation issue is a myth.

And, how can you compare a fetus to a foot when it has one of those of its own...as well as the DNA that makes it a whole person? The fact that it is a separate life from the mother and the father tells us that it is not merely tissue belonging to either one, but is made up of tissue in the same way that you and I are. Just because it is defenseless doesn't give us the right to kill it...would you push a blind man over a cliff just because he couldn't see where he was going?

As humans we go through life in stages that begins with conception.

 

[BreadAlone]

Just because something doesn't have a brain doesn't mean it doesn't have a soul. God gives the baby the "breath of life" that is an everlasting soul..that is unfortunately tarnished with the disease of sin because of Adam and Eve.

If the baby doesn't have faith in Jesus when it is aborted, then it goes to hell.

How can you condone damning babies to hell? I pray that the Holy Spirit is able to work faith in their hearts before they are murdered..

 

[StTherese]

If the baby doesn't have faith in Jesus when it is aborted, then it goes to hell.

How can you condone damning babies to hell? I pray that the Holy Spirit is able to work faith in their hearts before they are murdered..

God is merciful and we should never assume to know the fate of anyone. I believe God is capapble of saving them just as I believe that just because someone has never heard the name Jesus doesn't automatically mean they will go to hell.

 

[BreadAlone]

In the first chapter of Romans God lists the reasons why even those who have never heard the gospel are without excuse.

He also says:

9There will be trouble and distress for every human being who does evil: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile; 10but glory, honor and peace for everyone who does good: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile. 11For God does not show favoritism.
12All who sin apart from the law will also perish apart from the law, and all who sin under the law will be judged by the law. 13For it is not those who hear the law who are righteous in God's sight, but it is those who obey the law who will be declared righteous. 14(Indeed, when Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature things required by the law, they are a law for themselves, even though they do not have the law, 15since they show that the requirements of the law are written on their hearts, their consciences also bearing witness, and their thoughts now accusing, now even defending them.) 16This will take place on the day when God will judge men's secrets through Jesus Christ, as my gospel declares.

 

[StTherese]

In the first chapter of Romans God lists the reasons why even those who have never heard the gospel are without excuse.

He also says:

9There will be trouble and distress for every human being who does evil: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile; 10but glory, honor and peace for everyone who does good: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile. 11For God does not show favoritism.
12All who sin apart from the law will also perish apart from the law, and all who sin under the law will be judged by the law. 13For it is not those who hear the law who are righteous in God's sight, but it is those who obey the law who will be declared righteous. 14(Indeed, when Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature things required by the law, they are a law for themselves, even though they do not have the law, 15since they show that the requirements of the law are written on their hearts, their consciences also bearing witness, and their thoughts now accusing, now even defending them.) 16This will take place on the day when God will judge men's secrets through Jesus Christ, as my gospel declares.

How can an unborn fetus turn from the law when it has no knowledge of it? Can a fetus willfully reject God? I think not!

 

[Droppo]

If the baby doesn't have faith in Jesus when it is aborted, then it goes to hell.

How can you condone damning babies to hell? I pray that the Holy Spirit is able to work faith in their hearts before they are murdered..

If that's the case then God himself must absolutely love sending babies to hell, considering over 25% of pregnancies end with miscarriage.

 

[Calliso]

If that's the case then God himself must absolutely love sending babies to hell, considering over 25% of pregnancies end with miscarriage.

Exactly and like another poster just said..an unborn child can;t willfully reject God. Heck a born baby doesn;t have the mental capablity when it is born to willfully reject a concept such as God! I guess it must really suck as well for all those young children that have died throughout history before they were at the age when they could even comprehend God...