Welcome to Gaia! ::

Abortion is wrong, I won't argue that. But should it be outlawed? Mmmm...no. I don't think it should be. In the world we live in, there really isn't something that is "just" wrong or something that is "just" right. There is always a circumstance in which the things that most people see as right are wrong, and the things that most people are seen as wrong are right.

Let's say a woman was raped. Should she go through with having the baby? Some say yes. I say no, unless she chooses to go through with it. But most people say that it'd be wrong for her to choose abortion...but let's try and put ourselves in the situation.

You're a young girl, barely sixteen. Being poor, you don't have the best shoes so you tend to walk slowly. It starts to get dark before you reach home on the "bad" side of town. You believe you hear someone following you...but you're not sure. You try to speed up, but someone catches you arm and pulls you into an alley. You scream, but no one comes.

The next morning you were found in that alley, obviously a victim of rape. You're taken to a hospital, where you regain conciousness a week later. You learn that you're pregnant. You know that if you have this child, not only will they not have a father, they will also grow up extremely poor and have basically a horrible childhood, and possibly life. On top of this, you are told that the one who raped you was a serial rapist, so you probably have STDs. Your friend, the daughter of a rich doctor, comes to comfort you. She also brings you some news. Her parents have agreed to provide the money, if needed, for you to get an abortion. Now, you are faced with a few options. You could have the child and raise it in a house as a teenaged single mother. The child will probably end up suffering mental damage from your abusive mother, and will probably never have a chance at not being poor. Plus the child could be born with numerous diseases that were contracted from the father. Another option would be to put a child up for adoption. But that isn't really all that good either. Better, yes, but not good. The child will have no parents from the time it's very young on. There's also a chance that the child could change houses often and suffer traumatic damage because of an unstable infancy. Studies have shown that children who are seperated from their parents at an early age, or don't have a stable early childhood often suffer from mental or emotional instabilities later in life. Or, you could have an abortion while the fetus is still very young. It won't even have a heartbeat until later, and will feel no pain. If you don't have the child, you could spare it a horribly abusive and unfortunate life. It's probably the most merciful thing you could do.

This scenario in no way actually justifies abortion, it is still wrong. But sometimes doing something wrong is needed to prevent an even greater wrong. If someone is just a "loose woman" and has an abortion because she doesn't feel like having a child at the moment, then that's unacceptable. But if a young woman knows that she can't take care of a child if she were to have one, I believe it's her choice to decide wether or not to have it. If she knows the child will suffer greatly and has virtually no chance at a properous life...then maybe then abortion is indeed the lesser of various evils.

There's always grey side to everything that seems black and white, so there's never a right or wrong answer. Thus...I think it should be, for the most part, up to the woman to decide.

thats not a bad fairytale. but there are a few other scenarios you forgot. for instance:
you are a fourteen-year-old girl and the realy cute guy fromt the basketball team asks you out. Sure he's a few years older but your well- off suburban parnets like him and they say it's all right with them for you to see each other. He treats you great, buys you gifts and takes you places.
Places like that partty. Up untill then you maybe got into a little "heavy petting",but you are still a virgin. A few beers and some "Baby I love you"'s later you wake up next to this guy, the man of our dreams, the man you loved enough to give yourself to and you feel his arm around you and know that you too will be together forever. You smile and drift back to sleep.

about a week later you notice yuo haven't had your period yet. You shrug it off. A few days later you realize that something is wrong so you get a pregnancy test. Guess what you got pregnant. After freaking out you call up trying to sound calm. You get him on his cell. You tell him the news. part of you is screaming "WHAT DO I DOOOOO!" but there is still hope that he will comfort you and say "Whatever happens i still love you" as soon as you tell him he hangs up the phone. He dosen't return your calls. You find out that he's started seeing someone else. You can't tell Mom and Dad for fear that they will do the same to you as the father. So you go to a free clinic and have an abortion.

she'd not realy a "loose woman" but still the kid has no chance at that great a life. especialy if teh grandparents dissown this poor girl for beeing a whore and from fear of "if the neighbours ever found out" i don't think reape is the only justifyable reason to have an abortion. i think any girl that is not ready to have a child(especialy when they aren't much more than children themselves) should be able to have an abortion. i don't think it's fair to ruin the lives of both mother and child when before a heartbeat is established and the fetus isn't actualy alive it can be removed without pain.

Oooooh. Good point.

Heres wat i think about abortion!


If you dont want the chance of having a baby then dont go off doing it!


Besides! Its a magor sin! If your a good christian then you shouldnt do that! In my eyes. You are killing a human being.You should go to jail. Im not going to go round killing older people and saying, o its ok. I just didnt want them any more so im just going to kill them! You did it, YOUR responsiblity!

Well said but i am kind of hazy on your use of the term procrastiantors. is this some refferance to putting off the killing until a later date. or did you just not write hypocrites fro soem other reason?

It is because of this truth that you can't really just say its good or bad. It leads me to believe that maybe it is the situation that determines it. On the other spectrum of events, a grown woman can be sexually promiscuous and get an abortion every time she gets pregnant just to avoid responsibility. Of course at the same time, should someone like that really be raising kids? Then you have issues like over population and the like and you start to wonder if it might actually be a good idea. The problem with that way of thinking though is that you diminish the value of life more and more thinking that way. Its a hard decision to make, either way you make sacrifices. Hooray for politics...... rolleyes

personaly it's not much of a choice for me. i consider the beginging of life to be the exit from the womb, anythign before that is totaly fair game.

Ouch! That bites. I'm sorry to hear that. Maybe you can just address a few issues for now?