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The fetus might live and it would die and we were guilty of murder, but what makes life so valueable in the first place? Tht God created us? Are you still as sympathetic with criminals at the death row waiting to be executed? What if we could use modern technology to determine wether a fetus might become disabled, criminal, gay or something> Would it then be justified to kill it?

So, are you for or against the usage of contraceptives?

As for the answer "I'd be dead," it is simply a way for us to compare us not being here.

I wouldn't tell anybody to have an abortion. I would allow them their own choice; if I told them to have an abortion I'd be as bad as you.


Birth control fails.


Have some empathy and compassion, please.

Rape is a horrific, traumatising event. To have your bodily integrity violated sexually can change who you are forever, it can change your life forever. Women who have been raped often have flashbacks to the event, have nightmares, suffer with depression or post-traumatic stress syndrome. Forcing someone to continue with a pregnancy they don't want to continue, further violating their bodily integrity, is likely to add to the trauma they have already lived through.

To brush it off, as someone who has probably had no direct experience of rape or its effects, as "taking coal and making a diamond" is so lacking in compassion.

Like I said, I'm pro-choice because I put the health and well-being of the already born, inarguably posessed of personhood, woman above the health and well-being of the zygote, blastocyst, embryo, fetus living off her.

yeah, if you dont want kids, dont have sex. but i still think abortion should be there in case of rape. if the pregnancy from the rape is going to cause a lot of problems with your life, it might be better of dead.

I never said that you were a horrible person, but you are looking at the issue from a different perspective to me. To me, bodily integrity and being allowed to make decisions for yourself, being the only person who knows your own situation, is paramount and forcing or telling a woman to have an abortion is no different from that perspective as forcing or telling her to carry on with a pregnancy. I don't make decisions for other people.


My baby? I am not pregnant nor am I likely to become so in the near future, besides which, you don't even know whether or not I would abort a pregnancy, so please don't personalise the issue.

The adoption system has a lot of problems. The first problem is that there are already thousands, if not millions, of unwanted children sitting in the adoption system. What's wrong with them? They're too old or they aren't white or they have a disability. I would hate to put a baby into a system where it might deprive another child of a loving home or a system where it would grow up without parents and be left with no security at the age of eighteen. Choosing whether or not to have your child adopted can be agonising.

Before we get to adoption, though, a woman has to go through nine months of pregnancy; even wanted pregnancies can be trying. Forcing women to gestate unwanted pregnancies can be physically and mentally grueling, not to mention the ramifications it might have for her socially, economically and with respect to education. Only the woman herself should be allowed to decide whether it's worth it, especially if she plans to adopt the eventual baby out.

Which brings me to a point about semantics: 'baby' is an emotionally charged term. Most people do not think of a blastocyst, embryo or fetus when they hear the word 'baby', so please don't use it. It leads people to inaccurate conclusions regarding the stage of development the "Z/E/F" is in.


I don't do revenge, and I do not believe that aborting a rapist's 'baby' is any way of getting revenge on him. When a woman is raped she is made entirely helpless; being given the choice over whether or not she will keep the pregnancy and whether or not she will keep the resultant child empowers her, but forcing her to do what you think is best takes that power away from her, rendering her helpless again. Moreover, taking that choice away from women in general implies that they are incapable of making decisions of such gravity and must have them made for them.


As emotionally damaging as forcing her to gestate against her will? -- to see her body changing, to feel her body changing, and to have to live with that for nine months?

Have you ever been to imnotsorry.net? Most women do not regret their abortions.


More women die from pregnancy-related illness or childbirth than from abortion.


I never said that I didn't care for fetuses. I just care more about people who are already "great trees", people who are already bringing other people joy.

And yes, my mother gave me a chance at life, and she gave it freely. A mandatory gift is not a gift.

I was not being prejudice towards men. I know there are plenty of women who are rapist. Men are the first I would think of becuase they are the opposite sex.

I'm fully aware that birth control fails.

Nevermind, I'm not beating around the bush.

People need to admit that no matter how you look at abortion, there is a life lost in the situation. It shouldn't be debated whether babies are alive. They need food, blood, are air from you. Why should babies deserve life? Why shouldn't they? Have they done something so terribly wrong to want to live when they are conceived? Women don't regret abortion? All that says to me is that they are selfish. Why can't you go through nine months of pregnancy just to give something a chance to live? My mother almost died giving birth to my sister. The doctor even told her not to have anymore children, but she kept me and my brother. We are really poor, so they had trouble feeding us sometime. But we pulled through it and my mother is reaping the reward of her sacrifice. Nine months and something wonderful occurs.

I know adoption centers are full and the systems gone to hell. Why, instead of picking a child you think'll be perfect for you take a child that you look at and can immediatley see that it needs something. Adopt more kids than you originally wanted. Even if it stretches you a little, you are giving that kid a life. Everyone on this planet except for very young people are responsible for the adoption system being like it is. I wish I could just say things face to face because sometimes, words are just not enough. I want to express to you people how wonderful bringing a life into the world is. Have you ever asked someone who's had a baby just how wonderful it was to see what they had made? It is the most wonderful feeling in the world. I just want all babies to have an equal chance at life. Babies are people too.