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Originally Posted by sherie
While I didn't want to get into any debate on the subject, just let me clear a few things up for ya.
1) It is not a child that one is aborting. It's an embryo/fetus.
2) Keeping unwanted children does not exactly make for a happy house. Most people do not abort on a whim. Rape, drug addicted babies, mental illness et al., financial and the list goes on.........
3) It's unfortunate that there are people out there that can not have children. However, that is not a reason that others should remain pregnant and have a child.
4) Orphanage's have a shameful amount of children that will NEVER get adopted. Sometimes life is much worse going through the system.
Either way, it's a choice and the government should NOT dictate what one should be doing to their bodies.
Bah, everyone is entitled to their opinion of course, but if things were that easy...
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I suppose it's something that can never be legislated or enforced with any great success, so I'm pro-choice. Because of that and the fact that the embryo cannot think or feel pain - even though this is clearly a stage in human development and not just some random potential that exists.
Sherie, do you think abortion at any stage during a pregnancy is ok?
I've been to a couple of sites about abortion and they suggest that 93% of abortions are done for what we would call a whim - not due to rape, incest, drugs, etc. but simply people who use it as birth control - they made a mistake and want to get rid of it. But admittedly these sites may be biased.
In an ideal society ppl would take proper precautions and accept responsibility for "accidents", but that's just not the reality. So that's that I guess.