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What is the best way to abort a child?

Morning-after pill? Daily jumping jacks?

Another boring abortion debate...

  • uh...
    If you think its so boring why are you starting it?

    There is no best way. Its a horrible practice...Keep your legs closed and you wont have a problem.
    43%  Voted for by Stepherz804, Second, TeChNoWC, NeferMaatNetjer, bob2314. (10 total)
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  • The best way
    The best way to abort a child is any way as early as possible.
    17%  Voted for by ScorpioBlood, petethemeat, ExpensiveThinker, AlisonAcid.
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  • Give birth then abort yourself
    thats the only acceptable abortion
    8%  Voted for by Dwn, pwincessovfantasy.
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  • Best Way?
    Don't.
    8%  Voted for by A.Far.Cry, Dirty and Broken.
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  • New abortion study. . .
    An assistant professor at Bowling Green State University says even in the event of an unintended teen pregnancy, giving birth is better for teenagers than abortion. A study conducted by BGSU research psychologist Dr. Priscilla Coleman determined that abortion can cause severe mental health problems in young women.

    Coleman says she took data from a longitudinal survey of more than 1,000 women to find out the difference between teens who gave birth and teens who aborted an unexpected pregnancy. Her study, published in the Journal of Youth and Adolescence, evaluated adolescent girls with unintended pregnancies and found that those who aborted their babies were five times more likely to seek help for psychological and emotional problems afterward than those girls who carried their pregnancies to term.

    A teenage mother's bringing of a child into the world is undoubtedly an experience that will afford her some hardships, the researcher acknowledges. "But there are more psychological problems with abortions, even more than with delivering a baby," she asserts.

    The research "speaks pretty loudly," Coleman observes. "Specifically, we found that only one adolescent who delivered an unintended pregnancy, for every five adolescents who aborted, sought counseling for psychological problems," she says.

    Also, extensive studies indicate that, as compared with every one adolescent with a birth experience, "just slightly under every four adolescents with an abortion reported frequent sleep disturbances," the Bowling Green State psychologist points out. "And then finally," she adds, "the study found that only one adolescent with a birth -- in excess of every six adolescents who aborted -- reported more frequent marijuana use."

    The scientific evidence is now both "strong and compelling," Coleman contends, that abortion "poses more risks to women than giving birth." She says these findings really fly in the face of traditional pro-abortion thinking by supporting the idea that, although having a child as a teen creates definite difficulties, a teen is likely to encounter far more problems after an abortion.

    In her report, Coleman states that, for "women who feel forced into abortion by others or by life circumstances, negative post-abortion outcomes become more common." She goes on to note that adolescent girls, being generally far less prepared to assume the responsibilities of parenthood, are logically more vulnerable to being pressured to abort.

    Statistics from the Planned Parenthood-affiliated Alan Guttmacher Institute, which tracks U.S. abortion rates, would seem to bear this out. According to the Institute, every year nearly a quarter of all abortions in the U.S. are performed on girls less than 20 years old.

    But despite the excellent data supporting her study, Coleman complains that no mainstream news outlets have reported her findings. In fact, she says it took a while to get the Journal of Youth and Adolescence to publish her results.
    Voted for by Carpool.
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  • Don't end a life
    If you can't control you're sex drive but are also not ready for a child, then put it up for adoption instead of ending the child's life before it really gets a chance to live. And if you're raped, do the same thing. I know you may not want to, but do you really want to be worse than a rapist and become a murderer?
    Voted for by Wolf of Roses.
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  • The best way to abort a child!
    The best way to abort a child!
    I'm happy that it is called a child and not merely a thing. A child is not a toy or any other thing that one should neglect. Ask about child's abuse and all those acts which are contrary or against the life, survival and existence of children.
    As for me, the best way to abort a child is to give birth to the child. To close this chapter, let me ask you a question; assuming you were aborted, would you have been what you are today? If the presidents, and the people of the world, low and high were aborted, how do you think they would have become whatever they are or whatever they were as the case may be?

    Voted for by Ekenobi basil.
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  • Abortion is kind of necessary
    I personally don't like the idea of it. I mean, if I were a girl and pregnant, I don't think I could go through with it.

    BUT, sometimes abortions are necessary and that's why they need to stay legal. Some pregnancies can lead to serious complications for mothers. Before the modern age, 1 in 3 pregnant women died from some complication carrying the baby or giving birth.

    So if you're stuck in a situation where the mother might die from the pregnancy, abortion seems like the only thing left to do if all else fails. I mean, if the mother dies, the baby will also die, so if the baby is going to die anyway, why not just save the life you can?

    I am not anti-abortion but I understand where pro-lifers are coming from. The whole idea of it is a little unnerving but nonetheless, necessary to have legal. I think the problem most pro-lifers have is that people tend to abuse abortion: for example, people who just have sex willy nilly without using protection and when they get knocked up just abort the embryo/fetus and just move on unscathed.

    But I'm sure even the most adamant pro-lifer will concede their staunch position against abortion if it meant that they themselves or a loved one was going to die from a pregnancy complication.

    I know it's a rare situation, but nonetheless a plausible one that needs to be addressed.
    Voted for by cosmosis.
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  • Well thats a slightly loaded question...
    "best way?"

    Really?

    well.... i would say the best way to abort a pregnancy would be to cross your legs before it gets that far...
    if unable to do that... morning after pill, since that is not actually an abotion in any way, it simply stops the egg from implanting itself on the uterin wall...

    should better judgement be absent and those two options are not taken... then 1: try to go back to school to pass 9th grade health class. and then 2: weigh any and all options before commiting to keeping it, giving it away, selling it to the circus, and/or aborting it...

    however... once the baby is born, society generally frows upon abortion even more than usual.... and that is generally considered murder...

    so make up your mind quickly....
    Voted for by Crazyhead.
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