Abortion: yay or nay?

You really think an eighteen year old would make an adequate parent? Would this not be to the detriment to the child?
You believe that a baby is a blessing - I agree. Doesn't abortion mean every child being brought into the world is consiously wanted? Therefore abortion is a good thing.

You may well have died along with your mother, on a brutal and barbaric backstreet abortionists' operating table. Legalising abortion saved lives.

If you knew that, why make a false statement? It doesn't matter how many are surviving, the fact of the matter is some are surviving. That vote was marginal. The current 24-week limit is an absolute joke tbh. Murder in all but name.

Oh, brother. Are you implying if she weren't "young and naive," and she realized that motherhood is hard, that would make abortion okay in her eyes? I can't even begin to express how sickening this is to hear. You know what else "isn't a walk in the park"? Caring for old people. Should we kill them, too? Sometimes teenagers are a pain in the ass, too. Should we kill them? How about mentally disabled people?

I agree with most reasonable people, that there are instances when abortion is acceptable (such as rape or danger to the life of the mother), but the argument that babies are inconvenient is truly disgusting.

Besides, there's always adoption.

Saved lives! Are you out of your mind. So you think that there would be as many babies being aborted if it were illegal. Having an abortion is just the easy way out, and the mother is just not facing up to her responsibilities.

Why is it murder?! They are foetuses who would have the most minimal chance of survival outside the womb!
I did not make a false statement; the fact remains that most foetuses could not survive independent of their mother at the current abortion time limit.

What about the father, his? Why should the mother have the burden of a shared responsibility?

I don't think there would be as many babies being aborted as when it was illegal - I do know that many women now have a safe and humane way of aborting their unborn child. Legalising abortion has saved lives because prior to its legalisation, thousands (if not millions) of women lost their lives to backstreet abortionists who operated unlicensed, with unsterilised equipment and inadequate training.

Foetuses aren't people. It's obvious from your post that you realise this on some level.

Lol. No.

Also, far more people carry out abortion now because they see it as an easy way out. That was not the original intention of the legislation.

Lives have been saved, many more have been lost.

What about the father, his? Why should the mother have the burden of a shared responsibility?

I don't think there would be as many babies being aborted as when it was illegal - I do know that many women now have a safe and humane way of aborting their unborn child. Legalising abortion has saved lives because prior to its legalisation, thousands (if not millions) of women lost their lives to backstreet abortionists who operated unlicensed, with unsterilised equipment and inadequate training.

yes, I realize this. I also believe that a baby is not a fetus the moment before it is born. What about a month before? What about two months before? I'm not sure, and I think it's playing with fire to invent some arbitrary line as to when a human being starts having rights. I'm certainly more against later-term abortions than early-term.

Ludicrous. You cannot deem foetuses lives in that sense.

Oh, brother. Are you implying if she weren't "young and naive," and she realized that motherhood is hard, that would make abortion okay in her eyes? I can't even begin to express how sickening this is to hear. You know what else "isn't a walk in the park"? Caring for old people. Should we kill them, too? Sometimes teenagers are a pain in the ass, too. Should we kill them? How about mentally disabled people?

I agree with most reasonable people, that there are instances when abortion is acceptable (such as rape or danger to the life of the mother), but the argument that babies are inconvenient is truly disgusting.

Besides, there's always adoption.

If you'd taken time to read my other post as well, you would have realised that I'm definitely not of the opinion that abortion is an easy way out, nor should it be taken 'lightly' but the fact of the matter is the girl was being a bit naive as to suggest that because she has A Levels and GCSEs she'd be able to support a child at 17. Unless she's extremely fortunate to have parents willing to support her or a man who's stuck around then she's basically ****** for life. Fair enough single mothers get their own homes and money given to them by tax payers, but is that really fair? Why should other people have to pay for the mistakes of someone who got knocked up at 17 and has no one else to turn to?

Fair enough there is the choice of adoption but I don't think any man, God or law has the right to say what a woman can and cannot do with HER body. It's not an easy decision to go through the pain of an abortion, just as it probably wouldn't be easy to live with the fact that you gave a child away - especially seen as the emotional connection with the child would have been greater than it would have been a few weeks into the pregnancy.

It's so easy for a man to say a woman should keep their child when if push comes to shove they can easily just say 'look it's not my problem, you deal with it' beacuse at the end of the day, any male can walk away a woman has to deal with it for the rest of her life: whether she has an abortion, puts her child up for adoption or keeps it. There is NO easy way out for a woman when it comes to something like this.

And as for your 'burden' speech, give me a ******* break. Over reaction much? There is a huge difference between me saying that a seventeen year old girl could not handle the hardships of motherhood and the fact that the elderly need taking care of and teenagers can be dicks. Seriously man.

Why not have birth as the arbitrary line?

I do. Deal with it.

Because that's crazy. There's nothing to distinguish a baby before its born from a baby after its born except that the baby after it's born has taken a breath. Who do we think we are, that we can say that's when a human has rights? And if we think that we have that power (which no one does or should), then what's to stop us from making other arbitrary distinctions, like a "human" is only someone with an IQ over 70, for example? I'm not saying that that's likely, I'm just saying it's every bit as arbitrary.