My chance to persuade you into believing abortion is wrong. This is what I wrote for my speech class, and I recieved a 100% on it, and shocked stares from everyone after hearing the horrible truths about abortions, and life after abortions.
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Gray Area30% Voted for by YesterdaysFeelings, ennoia, Pleading Artichoke, ohsweetie2788, monsoon-dipi. (8 total)
First of all, I want to say that I am FOR abortion. The idea of abortion is not a black and white topic. There are so many gray areas. I do not agree with partial-birth abortion. I think that when a woman finds out she's pregnant, she should be allowed to abort it up to the first trimester, and if she does not take the responsibility of doing so, then she must carry it the full nine months with the option of giving it up for adoption. I do not support abortion as a method of birth control. Pregnancy is a risk we all know occurs when two people decide to have sex, but ruling it out, is also a bad idea. There are times when condoms break, birth control pills are defective, or the "tube tying" surgery does not work. If someone becomes pregnant after taking the neccessary, precautionary actions and they are in no position to be caring for or taking care of children, then I believe this is neccessary cause for abortion. An 18 year old drug addict, hiding from the law, living in alleyways and abandoned buildings is not going to take care of her baby while it's inside her womb, and she's not going to take care of it when it's born. Why do you think they find so many babies in dumpsters? I highly doubt you can coerce her into checking into a hospital (that costs money) and going through the adoption services where they'll find out whether or not she's a drug addict (and she probably fears jail). Chances are, she has no concept of responsibility. I think it's more kind to abort a child than to leave it in a dumpster to die. If you take away abortion rights, there isn't the possibility of having one unless it's illegal (and that's where most of the botched abortions happen). Or how about another scenario: A 12 year old girl is raped, and not only that; it's by her father. Her young body is most likely not going to be able to handle a pregnancy let alone one with birth defects beause her father's genes. There is no way anybody can convince me that forcing her to carry around, and give birth to this baby without the choice to abort is morally correct. Basically, there is no way to regulate abortion. As with any system, there will always be the ones to abuse it. However, taking it away entirely would keep the rape victims, medical patients, and those whose birth control failed from having one. I do believe abortion should be legal, but regulated enough to keep it available.
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Pro Choice26% Voted for by sinful-cinnamon, normality, ohsweetie2788, Lazarae, DreamMusicButterfly. (7 total)
I am neither for nor against abortion... I am pro choice. I believe that women should have the right to make their own decisions about whether or not to have an abortion. For all the reasons mentioned by Yesterdaysfeelings, I think it is very important for womrn to have to option of having an abortion, but I also think that, personally, I could never have an abortion, unless I found myself in a desperately tragic situation, such as being raped or something.
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Abortion = Murder11% Voted for by xVowsareSpoken, Beauty Sleeps, faithfullydedicated.
"My husband didnt' want me to have an abortion. I was stubborn and thought it owuld make life easier on everyone... I knew as soon as my uterus was violated I had participated in a murder... I cried every day for a year or more. Every time the vacuum cleaner was used, I thought about how my baby died," Said a woman who was recalling her regretful decision to abort her baby. No one wants to live their life crying each and every single day. Abortion should not be legal anywhere.
One of the most popular types of abortions are partial-birth abortions. It is performed on babies up to AND including 9-month-old unborns. Guided by the ultrasound, the abortionist grabs a leg using forceps, and pulls them through the birth canal. Then they deliver the baby's body, leaving the head in. The abortionist stabs a pair of scissors into the skull, opening they scissors to insert a larger hole. The scissors are removed and a suction tube is inserted, sucking out the brains. The head of the baby collapses on itself and the dead baby is removed, then thrown away.
Many women go into abortion clinics unaware of the risks and the aftermath of the abortion. After a 13 year long study in Finland, scientists and doctors explained that abortions have increased the risk of suicide for women who choose abortion. Sever depression is also a result of abortion. "Seven years later, I have a lot of grief, remorse, and guilt deep in my heart. I wonder what the baby felt while it was being murdered with its mother's consent." Said another anonomous owmen.
Throughout the US, and the entire world, there are many bothced abortions, where not only the baby is killed, but the mother is too. Pro-choice groups are not reacting to that, when they claim to be on the side of a woman. If they really are for women, they should help make abortion illegal because there is a high chance of her dying as well. But you usually don't hear about the women being murdered as well. Why, you ask? Because of the bias political groups that try to hide it.
Contrary to the claims of pro-abortion advocates, the fetus at the point of abortion is not just a "blob of tissue." Even in early abortions, the fetus has all the parts of a human being.
"I opened the sock up and I put it on the towel and there were parts in there of a person. There was an arm, and I saw some ribs and a chest, and I saw a little tiny head, and I saw a piece of a leg, and I saw a tiny hand... It was pretty awful..." said Dr. David Brewer, a former abortionist.
Abortion proponents claim that every child should be wanted. However, being wanted is not a condition of the child, but of the adult. Is it fair to kill a child bcause of the attitude of an adult? Couples who are unable to conceive children of their own must often wait for years to adopt, since abortion has drastically reduced the number of adoptable children.
Another argument that abortion advocates say is that a fetus is not a human because it lacks certain personality traits which would remove it from personhood. Well there are currently people in the world who fit under the "non personhood" definition;
Those who are in a coma; Elderly with degenerative disorders; Metally deficient people.
Is it okay to consider these human beings as non-person? Is it okay to get rid of them as well because some of them are unwanted? No, it's not okay, and neither is abortion.
When doctors first began invading the sanctuary of the womb, they did not know that the unborn would react to pain in the same fashion as a child would. But they soon learned that he would. At four weeks, the sensory nerve of the face is present. By the ninth and tenth week, brain activity is detectable, and as early as eight to ten weeks, the unborn baby begins to feel organic pain.
Abortions are unsage for the unborn baby and for the mother as well. When you are against abortion, you are caring for the woman, who might commit suicide weeks later. Unborn babies are able to feel pain, just as a child would. So why would you want to commit murder and live your life regretting your decision? You wouldn't. That is why abortion should be illegal everywhere.
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How do you know?7% Voted for by IvoryRose, Kei-Aira.
Alright I must admit I am against partial births. I only believe in first trimester abortions. Before the baby has any actual brain waves. And I call it a baby, however many people don't believe it is anything more than a clump of cells. Many of these abortions are actually done by intake of two pills, much like the morning after pill, but much stronger. To the people that believe that the child is not a child until the later in the pregnancy this 'baby' is nothing more than the potential for a human being, just as a sperm or egg is the potential for a human being. Would you tell every man to care for every sperm that's ever emitted, during sex, during masturbation, heck even during night emmissions. Or tell a woman that she's a murderer for having her period and not using every egg for a child? The opinions differ because people's ideas differ on when a child is a child. And honestly can you really prove that a child is a living being and not more than a clump of cells in the first trimester?
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.......Voted for by ElisaRose.
Look at these pictures and see if you are still pro-choice. http://www.abortionno.org/Resources/pictures.html
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Abortion and religionVoted for by Millyphilly.
I am a religious girl, But i agree with the fact that there is more grey then black and white when it comes to abortion. I no it is a sin...But is it not a sin to bring a child intoo this life with an unfit parent who does drugs, and dosn't have anything to offer the baby other then to keep some guy around, or to justfy why they should be alive?? I dont agree with just ANYONE having an abortion, I mean lets be real if your old enough to have unprotected sex, then your oviously old enough to have a baby right? But what about women who get rapped and get pregnent, Or thoose who has a desies who cant use birthcontrol, who find out after they get pregnent that they have this problem...I am not justifying it, and im not all about it, but i am not agaist it either... God will not judge me because i didn't stop abortion, TO EACH HIS OWN i say it alot!!
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It's morally wrong.Voted for by looking4realtruth.
By committing an abortion you're killing a genetically unique individual capable of growing into a human being.
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Moral issue?Voted for by IiYiIiIzage.
Until we can further the definition of the Moral law we shouldnt consider anything to be a "Moral Issue". Instead we should make our decision based on what will benefit the society in which we exist.
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GODVoted for by jackgillespie.
There isn't anything moraly wrong with abortion. God sees no sanctity in human life. He killed all of the first born sons of egypt. If that isn't late term abortion, I don't know what is.
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the truth hurtsWhile I fully understand what everyone here is trying to say, let me open your eyes a bit. The truth is, whether you want it or not, abortions are going to happen. You can shut down all the clinics, kill off all the doctors, and they're still going to occur. Women will go to great extremes and endanger their lives to do what they want with their bodies. Although I don't fully agree with the act, I faced the fact a long time ago that it's going to happen no matter what, so we might as well allow to be done safely and minimize the chance of problems. And while I also agree that late-term abortions are terrible, we can't stop them either. Human Beings have free will, folks. No laws or limitations are going to be effective enough to stop that completely.Voted for by Morrison Miller.
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March 8, 2006
abortion is simply wrong
okay, well 1st let me establish why abortion is wrong. 1) It is killing a human life. it's that simple. There is a human life inside of the womb. The being inside of the woman is alive and living. Killing this life is against the commandments. (if you want to get into "its not human, its just a being, Ive got a great answer for that too just email me) 2) there are soo many alternatives to having the child killed. Okay tell me that you believe that if the teenager were to sit the baby on the alter of a church that somebody would not take care of it? Tell me you've never heard of plan parenthood, the organazation where you can walk in the door, put the baby on the counter and walk out, no questions asked? Even many hospitals are adopting this "drop and leave" tactic. Abortion is black and white. You are either killing, or your not. If you kill, you have committed a mortal sin, there's no denying that, its a commandment.June 24, 2007
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Then god said, kill someone.
And when Davie slew Goliath at the command of God? When whats-his-face broke the chains of the stadium he was to be slain in despite being seduced in bed the night before and getting his hair cut, the same hair that he believed had the power of god? And when Moses killed all the Egyptians first born children, what if some of God's people didn't put lambs blood on their doors, oops! Oh well, point I'm trying to make here is that if you're going to use commandments and bible references, at least make sure that you cover all the bases. While abortion really is kinda black and white, I try to say, what happens when you leave it up to adoption? Is the parent gonna be good? How often do you know children that get adopted into pedophile rings? Not often cause they're concealed. How many times do the children get good care at orphan home? Not to mention, on the topic of mortal sin. Mortal sins are fake, they were a topic of medievel discussion 7 mortal sins were gluttony, sloth, lust, envy, etc. But if you do want to talk about bible and abortion look into the book of end times/ apocolypse/revalations.EDIT::And when I mean the books of apocolypse I don't mean Left Behind, Tribulation Force.::END EDIT
March 9, 2006
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Let's define "Murder"
You say that abortion is a "sin" because it's taking a human life. Tell me then, why is it legal to sentence people to the death penalty. Is that not "human life" regardless of the cause? There are innocent people who get the electric chair all the time, we just find out about it after it's too late and have the technology to do the forensics. How is that not murder? How is it not murder that our soldiers go to war and kill people whether it's for a "good" cause or not and who justifies what's right and wrong? Soldiers in Vietnam sometimes killed innocent women and children in huts because they could potentially be harboring a grenade or a bomb and it was too risky. Is this not murder? If the mother will die unless there's an abortion, and the baby has no chance for survival (as in the case of my grandmother who didn't believe in abortion but had one to save her life) how can you force someone to go through with it? How about in the case of incest? Rape? A 13 year old girl gets raped by an uncle. Babies of incest do NOT turn out normal. A 13 year old who has that choice made for them does not deserve to live with the consequences...I don't care what holy book you try to throw at me. Contrary to your naive, close-minded belief, abortion is NOT black and white. There are so many variations with clearly no completely just answer.April 6, 2006
Indeed
No one is saying that soldiers or the justice system is not committing murders. But that has nothing to do with the topic of abortion. like faithfullydedicated said, abortion is, ultimately, a choice between killing a person or not. (albiet a small person) There must be a right or a wrong answer to this debate. The fact of murder is not a relative term, to debated on. If the fact of abortion is wrong in one case...it has to be wrong in all cases. (I am not saying that people cannot justify it for themselves in some cases) There may be enough reason to have an abortion, such as your grandmother or the 13 year old girl you mentioned. But even in those cases, does that make it the right thing? Both times the abortion would be caused be selfish motives, and for the bettering of the person who was carrying the baby. There must be a solid answer. Black and White does not fade to gray in any situation. Relative truth by definition is impossible. And that goes for this topic. "A greater love has no one than this; that he would lay down his life for a friend." (this can go for an unborn baby, a stranger, whoever.) hope that gives you something to think about :)April 6, 2006
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Relentless
I realize this debate could continue endlessly, but I disagree. Was it selfish for my grandmother to get an abortion when the baby would have died either way? She was having brain surgery. The doctors did not believe her body would keep the child with the kind of recovery that was expected (she had to completely relearn how to walk, talk and communicate), and her life was at stake. When both your options are that the baby's going to die, how is it selfish to abort it than to experience the miscarriage or stillbirth? How is it selfish for a 13 year old girl to abort a baby in her womb that was so selfishly put there by a rapist? Why should she have to sacrifice that much for what abuse she'd already endured? This is why I disagree. I don't believe a rape victim should be forced to continually be a victim over and over again. People say, "You're baby could have been the one to cure cancer!" Yes, it could also have been worse than Hitler or Hussein. There are some success stories where rape victims have had their children and they manage to do ok. There are others who don't where both mother and child have had shitty lives. This whole argument about all are wrong or all are right is weak. In that same case, there's no such thing as first, second, third degree murder or manslaughter. It's either all murder or it's not. Your position wouldn't hold well in a judicial court, sorry.Xelgaroth
July 12, 2007
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March 20
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Tricky.
You've hit on the exact issue that's causing so many disagreements. We're being asked to choose between the innocent and the innocent. At least in situations like this.March 20
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Tricky.
You've hit on the exact issue that's causing so many disagreements. We're being asked to choose between the innocent and the innocent. At least in situations like this.March 20
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Tricky.
You've hit on the exact issue that's causing so many disagreements. We're being asked to choose between the innocent and the innocent. At least in situations like this.Please register or login to comment! It's totally free