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I'm pro-life because I think that one of the most horrible crimes one can commit is infanticide, and I see an unborn child as no less of a human as a newborn.

I've considered myself pro-choice in the past, but this did not reflect my beliefs. I believed that in some cases, such as the rape of a young girl who would have permanent physical and mental damage from giving birth, or in the case that the mother and/or the baby would die in childbirth, abortion would be an option - granted, the last one. But, even in rape, it's the unborn child being punished for the rapist's actions. In short, I believed that if the mother (and possibly the child) would become permanently damaged or killed in the process of childbirth, then abortion would be an option.

However, this is in no way a pro-choice opinion. Pro-choice supports women who having willingly had sex, protected and unprotected alike, who become pregnant having the option of abortion. How can anyone support that? If you have sex, you are taking the known risk of pregnancy. No form of birth control is 100% effective, so although the risk is usually effectively reduced, the chance is still there. Only when one understands that the risk is there and that they must be responsible for the possible resulting human life are they ready to have sex.

However, there are still the horror stories you hear about women abandoning their newborns and allowing them to slowly die in dumpsters and bushes. So, obviously, there are some people who can't handle the responsibility.

I think the best thing we can do, for now, is help provide mothers considering abortion information about alternatives, such as giving the baby up for adoption. It goes even further, though. People need to accknowledge that sex in any situation can lead to pregnancy, and that if you choose to have sex, you choose to accept any of the possible resulting consequinces. Rape victims need more support, and they need to be able to see the baby not as a b*****d child, but as their child. Education, support and lots of love to pregnant mothers can do a lot for both the babies, and themselves.

Exactly .. I think some women get so overwhelmed by the panic or shame of having a pregnancy or a baby that they make horrible and quick decisions regarding themselves and the child. This applies to most situations regarding abortion .. if you look at the accounts of women who have had abortions and are emotionally destroyed by it, you'll find that many say that they were told abortion was the "quick-fix" way to solve the "problem." What they were never told was the guilt and depression they would feel after, and the regret for that decision.

I think that no woman should be alone through pregnancy and childbirth. Communities need to reach out to women with unwanted pregnancies and let them know that they always have options and support. Honestly, so few women actually have hate for the child within them, but they just want to be released from the situation. If every one of them had a better understanding of their options and had love from family and friends regardless of their pregnancy, I think we'd see a lot fewer abortions.

It's not about taking a choice away. It's about helping loved ones make a choice they won't have to regret, while protecting unborn children.

I'm prolife because I'm strongly disagree against the abortion of innocent unborn babies.

I think it is utterly unfair, how a innocent person's life is ended, because of the irresponsibility of a couple who had sex, and didn't use protection. I find it disgusting how some teenage girls just keep getting pregnant because they don't have protection, then keep aborting their child, as if it was some kind of a sick game. Those who placed themselves in the motherhood situation must pay for the consequences, just as the baby has to pay for their actions.

And as someone else said, even if a person got raped etc, the child is being punished for the rapist's actions, not the rapist. There should be tougher laws on charging rapists.

UNLESS, both the baby, or mother is in life threatening danger is abortion necessary, otherwise, NO GO. Perhaps they should place a law on abortion. I mean, I know I'm being a bit harsh, but it IS utterly unfair.

I'm not pro-life. I'm just anti-babykilling. I'm pro-military and pro-death penalty. I believe every child, including unborn ones, are blessings from God, and that marriage is the only situation in which anybody should be having sex. Supporting abortion is the destruction of the most innocent of human life, as well as the rejection of blessings. Additionally, I oppose promiscuity, which abortion basically promotes. They had their choice already when they got laid.

lol....that's the only one I agree with you on.

I'm pretty hypocritical by saying I'm pro-life, considering I'm pro-war (when necessary) and pro-death penalty (also when necessary) and pro-animal eating (again....when necessary, don't much like meat). I do, however, trap bugs and set them free outside, even spiders, instead of squishing them. Well, ticks and mosquitos I kill but I have a right, they're trying to kill me. And I used to have funerals if I found a dead field mouse or bird. But I'm pretty pro-survival, so war and death-penalty and even meat-eating are pretty big on my list in order to keep myself and other humans alive. I place much more value on human life than any other life because, well, I"m selfish like that...I love my animals and do believe they have souls and all, but if it's saving the dog or saving a person, I know which one I'd drag out of the burning building. Unless that person was someone who I really didn't like...jk.

I do too. but I think sometimes death is necessary in cases where a murderer keeps harming people in jail and things. Sometimes I just feel like, if someone is a danger to society and there is no way around it...of course these occassions would be rare, but....I'm extremely against unnecessary death. I'm okay with hunting if you eat what you kill, or the animal was diseased and a danger to spreading it to people or your pets, like an animal with rabies or something. Rabies is nasty.... I would never condone killing something for the fun of it and not using it to survive. I guess I have limits, like, not hunting babies or mothers even for food. but i'm pretty death-ish. War is sometimes necessary, I believe, in order to save more humans....I mean, if no one had stopped Hitler, the deaths would've far surpassed 13 million. I guess my view is sometimes sacrifices must be made and it's never moral, but it can be ethical.

I'm weird with abortion. I feel babies. No, I'm serious, I feel two distinct sets of emotions when I talk to a pregnant woman. sometimes they're similar, sometimes they're not. Never feel anything like that from anyone else though. I've got strong feelings about killing the innocent, too. It's unexcuseable to me.

Semi vegan? Is that possible? = If the answer's yes, I want to join too. sweatdrop