Abortion: Your Views...

[L Lawliet]

Some months ago abortion was legalized where I live, before it could only legally happen if the mother was in a life threatening pregnancy. The problem with this is that some younger people might start thinking that abortion is just another form of not having babies just like condoms and pills. I know this might sound a bit absurd but unfortunatly there are people who could think that and do it not even thinking in how it would affect them.
IMO it should only be allow if: the mother's life was in danger; the girl was too young (any age below 17); if she had been raped.

[Walter Sobchak]

if she had been raped.

Why? If a fetus is a living thing, being a product of rape does not change this. It is a way of pandering to this imaginary idea that there is moral and immoral abortion.

I am much more worried about the existence of the already living. People are starving, innocent people are being executed, and terrorism continues unfettered. But we need to save unborn babies from families that don't want them in the first place?

I am all for abortion. I would like to see young people be more knowledgeable about condom use, but with abstinence-only education, we don't have it. Forcing a baby to be born to a poor single mother doesn't help anyone. It doesn't help the mother, who has to work multiple jobs to support it, or the baby, who is either put in a foster home or is allowed to walk the streets and be absorbed by a criminal element.

On the other hand, I do personally feel a fetus is "alive". However, the purpose of life isn't to put my beliefs on other people. I leave that for everyone else.

By the way, even though I disagree with all three of you, it is nice to see new blood in ID.

[L Lawliet]

Why? If a fetus is a living thing, being a product of rape does not change this. It is a way of pandering to this imaginary idea that there is moral and immoral abortion...

Actually I think that there are times when it's completly wrong to abort and others where it should be allowes, moral and immoral abortion like you said.
What I meant in my first post is that IMO abortion shouldn't be allowed just because the mother wants to (when I said that people might start seeing aborting just like using condoms). Well, if she was raped then she didn't even have a choice. It's the same as someone pointing a gun at your head and make you raise a child, you didn't ask for it.

[Rainbow4vr]

i belive there are times where is ok and there are times when it is wrong. If your a teenage whore i think it should not happen. Its not a form of birthcontrol and they need to learn that. Now if a woman/girl gets raped then it should be an option, or if there is a medical emergency where the mother wont live then ok. I know there is no way to regulate why women are doing it, if you offer it to one you have to offer it to all. I just wish we can raise our children in the future to be smarter and to use protection.