i am pro choice. i believe in my right to make decisions about my body.
Posted by laudipop
I'm so impressed with everyone's ability to be calm and not judgmental on this thread. The abortion debate usually gets so nasty, so quickly. The way I see it, it's a divide in our society that simply has no solution. On the one side, you have people fighting passionately to prevent Big Brother from declaring that women can be forced to reproduce when they don't want to. That's a noble cause. But on the other hand, you have people who truly believe that innocent infants are being murdered, and they're fighting to save them. That's also a noble cause.
The problem is, the pro-choice folks and the pro-life folks are fighting two different wars. One is about women's rights. The other is about infanticide. They're never going to agree, because they're not even fighting about the same thing.
I think whoever said that most pro-choice women aren't really in favor of abortion is right. I've never met anyone who thinks abortion is a swell idea. But most women are aware (as I think men are not) that sometimes abortion is a necessary evil.
Posted by DLWDLG
ETA: Pro-choice is NOT NECESSARILY PRO-ABORTION. I'm just saying that I think I should have the right to choose what happens with my body.
Posted by cocoa
no matter if it is legal or not, it is still going to exist...so the choice comes down to this: keep it safe, private and personal or leave her to her own resources which are dirty, horrendous and dangerous...if it were your daughter, which would you want for her? personally, if i had a daughter and it was her only option, then i would want it to be safe and performed by someone who wouldn't leave her to die. just my opinion.
I am definitly pro-choice.
Posted by FLaCaTaCa
Kudos from me as well for being adults on such a controversial issue.
It is about time!!!![]()
I am 100% Pro-Life. I just have never had any question in my head that abortion is a good thing. I can't find myself agreeing with the Pro-Choice arguments....I have researched, studies and talked on abortion and I just can't seem to justify any Pro-Choice arguments. JMO
In my own opinion, and please don't hate me. I think it selfish to worry about your own rights, what about the baby? That is all I could think about when I read Pro-Choice stuff. To each is own and I live by that truly but I feel that with abortion, it involves more than just the woman and her body.
At first, I was not even going to post but everyone posted their opinions and this is just mine.![]()
Posted by oct.2004bride
Posted by FLaCaTaCa
Kudos from me as well for being adults on such a controversial issue.
It is about time!!!![]()
I am 100% Pro-Life. I just have never had any question in my head that abortion is a good thing. I can't find myself agreeing with the Pro-Choice arguments....I have researched, studies and talked on abortion and I just can't seem to justify any Pro-Choice arguments. JMO
In my own opinion, and please don't hate me. I think it selfish to worry about your own rights, what about the baby? That is all I could think about when I read Pro-Choice stuff. To each is own and I live by that truly but I feel that with abortion, it involves more than just the woman and her body.
At first, I was not even going to post but everyone posted their opinions and this is just mine.![]()
I am glad you posted your opinion. And i agree with some of the things you have said. It is just i don't my opinons should be forced on someone else...is where we differ..If i thought it was wrong to abaort a child ..well good, then i have made that decision for myself. But i don't think that every woman in america should have to follow my line of thought and action.
Posted by FLaCaTaCa
I am 100% Pro-Life. I just have never had any question in my head that abortion is a good thing. I can't find myself agreeing with the Pro-Choice arguments....I have researched, studies and talked on abortion and I just can't seem to justify any Pro-Choice arguments. JMO
In my own opinion, and please don't hate me. I think it selfish to worry about your own rights, what about the baby? That is all I could think about when I read Pro-Choice stuff. To each is own and I live by that truly but I feel that with abortion, it involves more than just the woman and her body.
At first, I was not even going to post but everyone posted their opinions and this is just mine.![]()
i think that it is a womans right to choose to do what she wished with her own body. i do think that you not take the right for granted and use it as a form of birth control though. i was heavily involved with clinic defense for years and think that woman should be able to have a safe clean place where they can have the procedure done if the choose. i think making it illegal will only make the back alley clinics come back and thousands of woman will die or will become sterile from an unsafe procedure. i dont think a 60 year old congress man has a right to tell me or any other woman what to do with there bodies. some people are so quick to judge and say that abortion is wrong but oddly there the same people that are against walfare and any other asistance one would need if they have a child they may not be ready for. thats just my opinion
I agree with what many others have said already. I am pro-choice. I would never have an abortion myself - if I was not ready to raise a child I would give it up for adoption...or if I wasn't ready to raise a child, I wouldn't be having sex in the first place! However, I do not agree with legislation that makes abortion illegal. They are going to happen no matter what, and I'd rather it happen where it's clean and relatively safe then in some secret, dirty, unsanitary manner.
