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How do you feel about abortion?

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I don't think anyone gets "knocked up for the fun of it". Yeah, a lot of us have sex because it feels good, and so long as we've had a decent education on sex and protection (which is unfortunately NOT guaranteed in this country), we're careful and use at least two forms of protection, but I have yet to meet a person that gets pregnant just for the thrill of it and then wants to abort past the 22-week threshold

And then again, I may take back my opinion because it clearly was out of place. Go fig. I still think some people may use it as an excuse to not be responsible and try to wuss their way out of taking care of a child, but whatever. I don't agree with abortion.
 
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People are free to do whatever they want regarding abortion as far as I'm concerned. I mean, I'd never again date someone who has had one and would leave them if they did, but that's just my take on it.
 

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People are free to do whatever they want regarding abortion as far as I'm concerned. I mean, I'd never again date someone who has had one and would leave them if they did, but that's just my take on it.
That sounds like an arbitrary distinction to me. It's like someone saying he or she wouldn't be with someone who has successfully pulled out before.
 
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And then again, I may take back my opinion because it clearly was out of place. Go fig. I still think some people may use it as an excuse to not be responsible and try to wuss their way out of taking care of a child, but whatever. I don't agree with abortion.
Come on, dude, you're always so quick to back out of an argument if someone presents something even resembling a disagreement :P try either defending your opinion or critically thinking about the alternative, rather than using the "grenade" approach
 

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Come on, dude, you're always so quick to back out of an argument if someone presents something even resembling a disagreement :P try either defending your opinion or critically thinking about the alternative, rather than using the "grenade" approach

Well, abortion is a very sensitive topic, to me, and I just don't see any real point to it. There'a adoption, there are people who can help the people raise the child, there are lots of ways of dealing with rape, and to me, I see abortion as an easy way out. Yes, rape is a serious issue, don't get me wrong, but denying a chance for another human to live by aborting a fetus, to me, just seems wrong. There, that's my two cents, and if people are gonna crap on me for saying abortion is wrong, fine, that's their thing I guess. *sigh*.
 

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Well, abortion is a very sensitive topic, to me, and I just don't see any real point to it. There'a adoption, there are people who can help the people raise the child, there are lots of ways of dealing with rape, and to me, I see abortion as an easy way out.
You're ignoring the physical and emotional burdens of a pregnancy. If you can't use adoption as a reason against the use of birth control, then you can't use it as a reason against abortion.

Yes, rape is a serious issue, don't get me wrong, but denying a chance for another human to live by aborting a fetus, to me, just seems wrong.
Condoms and other types of birth control do just as much, if not more, to deny a chance for another human to live. Are you against these things too?

There, that's my two cents, and if people are gonna crap on me for saying abortion is wrong, fine, that's their thing I guess. *sigh*.
You have as much a right to your vocal opinion as others have to their vocal rebuttals. If you don't like conflict, don't post. Regardless, don't act like a victim.
 
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Well, abortion is a very sensitive topic, to me, and I just don't see any real point to it. There'a adoption, there are people who can help the people raise the child, there are lots of ways of dealing with rape, and to me, I see abortion as an easy way out. Yes, rape is a serious issue, don't get me wrong, but denying a chance for another human to live by aborting a fetus, to me, just seems wrong. There, that's my two cents, and if people are gonna crap on me for saying abortion is wrong, fine, that's their thing I guess. *sigh*.
Basically what Lacius said in his first two responses :b plus, I hardly seem why abortion being an "easy way out" would be a bad thing, even if it were an easy choice in today's political climate
 

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Basically what Lacius said in his first two responses :b plus, I hardly seem why abortion being an "easy way out" would be a bad thing, even if it were an easy choice in today's political climate
What's it going to take to get people to agree to disagree? And I didn't see what he said because I have him blocked.
 

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Well, abortion is a very sensitive topic, to me, and I just don't see any real point to it. There'a adoption, there are people who can help the people raise the child, there are lots of ways of dealing with rape, and to me, I see abortion as an easy way out. Yes, rape is a serious issue, don't get me wrong, but denying a chance for another human to live by aborting a fetus, to me, just seems wrong. There, that's my two cents, and if people are gonna crap on me for saying abortion is wrong, fine, that's their thing I guess. *sigh*.
Try looking at it as a blessing. I'm not going to go into the whole rape angle which may actually be a justifiable excuse, but it represents such an infintesimal percentage of abortions. That's simply not why most people choose to have it done. Generally speaking, most who choose to have an abortion are low grade, selfish, morally defunct monsters who lack the instincts necessary for parenthood. It is a shame for the unborn child, but perhaps they are doing society a favor by preventing one more poorly raised future criminal.
 

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Try looking at it as a blessing. I'm not going to go into the whole rape angle which may actually be a justifiable excuse, but it represents such an infintesimal percentage of abortions. That's simply not why most people choose to have it done. Generally speaking, most who choose to have an abortion are low grade, selfish, morally defunct monsters who lack the instincts necessary for parenthood. It is a shame for the unborn child, but perhaps they are doing society a favor by preventing one more poorly raised future criminal.
A majority of people (61%) who have abortions are already mothers.
 
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What's it going to take to get people to agree to disagree? And I didn't see what he said because I have him blocked.
I fail to see why me stating my opinion in response to yours is in some way more egregious and/or anxiety-inducing than you posting yours in the first place... but, again, in response, so long as people decide that protesting abortion clinics by doing everything from throwing paint at people entering them to bombing them is a viable option, I honestly don't think there's much room for agreeing to disagree, at least on the pro-choice end

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A majority of people (61%) who have abortions are already mothers.
He does definitely have a point, though, even if his way of stating it was incredibly misguided
 

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He does definitely have a point, though, even if his way of stating it was incredibly misguided
Yes, he does have a point that crime plummeted a couple of decades after Roe v. Wade because a lot of women from low socioeconomic backgrounds were no longer mandated to have kids they couldn't take care of. However, that's neither a reason for nor against legal abortion.
 
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Yes, he does have a point that crime plummeted a couple of decades after Roe v. Wade because a lot of women from low socioeconomic backgrounds were no longer mandated to have kids they couldn't take care of. However, that's neither a reason for nor against legal abortion.
I'd say it's a great case for keeping abortion legal. It just can't be mandatory. Again, it's all about choice
 

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What's it going to take to get people to agree to disagree? And I didn't see what he said because I have him blocked.


This:

You're ignoring the physical and emotional burdens of a pregnancy. If you can't use adoption as a reason against the use of birth control, then you can't use it as a reason against abortion.


Condoms and other types of birth control do just as much, if not more, to deny a chance for another human to live. Are you against these things too?


You have as much a right to your vocal opinion as others have to their vocal rebuttals. If you don't like conflict, don't post. Regardless, don't act like a victim.
 

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If you block people you can't see quotes, either. He's going to have to just click the "show ignored content" button
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Lacius said:

You're ignoring the physical and emotional burdens of a pregnancy. If you can't use adoption as a reason against the use of birth control, then you can't use it as a reason against abortion.


Condoms and other types of birth control do just as much, if not more, to deny a chance for another human to live. Are you against these things too?


You have as much a right to your vocal opinion as others have to their vocal rebuttals. If you don't like conflict, don't post. Regardless, don't act like a victim.
 

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Okay, But it's a life. When you Fuck, you know you are going to have a baby, it's the point of Sex. Sex is so you have a baby, so in their action, they know what's going to happen, and it disgusts me, that "Oh, we'll just have an abortion" like it's nothing.
When you have sex, without anything in the middle, you know what is going to happen, it's not like "I put my weenie in your hole, and your having a baby!?!?".

On raping(Or incest), It's still the same life, "Don''t make the child pay for the Father's sin" works here. it's not the Child's fault he/she got brought into the world by rape, it's not, we shouldn't pin the punishment of death on the Child. But I do think that Rape victims and the like should have Financial, and emotional support(if they need it), If they really don't want the child, I hate to say it, but Orphanage.

Well, in your example though, you pass a miserable fact (the sin of the father for example) to the mother carrying it. How would YOU carry a child knowing it is NOT wanted the way it came? How would you be able to separate yourself emotionally from a born child, even if you don't love it at first and it came as a result of rape? Mothers are not machines to make children. They are people and it is VERY handy for somebody who is not involved to make decisions for others, that do not affect them. It is not YOUR life that will be damaged irreparably but the life of the mother and the child. You essentially pass a bad event down the line. With an abortion, the mother might still feel bad about it but it will cut the 'series of bad events' right at the beginning, where in your suggestion, the mother will always have in her mind that there is a person somewhere that grew up in horrible conditions, without a family and all that BECAUSE of a religious view of the sanctity of life?

I agree with you that abortions should not be used like lollipops or instead of preventative measures (condoms, other forms of protection etc) BUT sex in 2018 is NOT just to make children. Yes, biologically speaking it is. But biologically speaking, we are not supposed to cook food, we are not supposed to shave or cut our hair and we are not supposed to be bathed, cleaned or wear clothes. Not supposed to drive cars or take medicine. All these things happened to make our lives better by giving us *choices*. Abortions are a choice. Not a nice choice at all and don't worry about it, women who abort DO carry it on their mind forever and it is not a decision they take lightly, even if it seems so. But to offset this with an even bigger burden, just because they happen to have a vagina and not a penis and because they crossed the street with a stranger who wants to have non consensual fun, or to bring a child to life only to live off state support in an orphanage, sorry, it is really the wrong thing. You do not correct a bad thing by making 2 new ones, simply because a man or woman in the sky said so.

In the same sense like you say, don't make the woman or the child pay for the sins of the father. Growing up in an institute is no joke. Bringing a child to life that will not be loved in a family or losing its tracks forever is no joke either. When you think of abortions, you have to put the mother in focus first (as she is the victim here), then the child (which is a secondary victim). Any decision that brings more burden and hardships is an unrealistic one and only as good as ostriches putting their head in the sand thinking everything is ok.

If aborting is murder, how come it is not murder to send troops to be killed and how come it is not murder to use the death penalty? Surely if it is murder and a sin, it is an equal murder and sin if you kill a grown up man or a woman. Funny thing is that most pro-life (whose life though - this is what matters) people are strong supporters of gun use and possession, army and trigger happy people and supporters of the death penalty, go figure. Most pro-choice people do not openly advise getting abortions or allowing abortions up to the last minute, but suggest that it is a choice that is carefully allowed within limits for when there are reasons, be it health, support wise or even of a personal choice. Not allowing them at all is one end of the extreme, why go there? We are not advocating going to the other either, just the middle ground where it is right now.

Conservative governments are the ones usually speaking about outlawing abortions but they are the first to cut child support, benefits and other social structures needed to keep this child to life in case we are talking about an abortion because of not being able to afford it (ie single parent, no family, poor etc). If they keep a consistent stance, then we can speak about it. At the moment it is just cherry picking policies to align to party supporters.
 
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