2,502 deviants said I support it in certain situations ( incest, rape, medical problems, etc)
2,158 deviants said I support it ( your body, your right )
664 deviants said I only support it for medical problems ( the baby isn't viable or the mother is at great risk)
588 deviants said I am against it completely. ( it is murder )
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Devious Comments
I don't want to say anything so much as "they get what they ask for," because I have to pay for it too through taxes, but instead that things have a way of working themselves out.
In my opinion, it's not really a baby until its heart starts beating and it becomes an independent system. Until then, it's just a piece of the girl's body that grows with the rest of it. And, I mean, it's certainly not like it's sentient. Before then, what makes it separate? What distinguishes a fetus as "a life" from other organs and limbs? It seems to me that, until it becomes separate, it's a part of the girl's body, and it should be her choice whether or not she wants it removed.
On top of that, if the girl doesn't want it, how is it any more moral to bring an unwanted child into the world than to stop it from being born? It seems to me that if the options are miserable child or no child, no child would be ethical choice.
Anyway, I really believe that a girl should be able to choose what she thinks is right for herself and her unborn child, which is why I don't think abortion should be illegal. Because, even if you must look at the fetus as it's own entity, a child belongs to it's mother, and if the mother truly believes that what is best for the child is for it not to be born, then that should be her decision to make.
Now, given in DIRE situations as those listed above like Medical complications or BiZARRE & CRUEL circumstances than I support it as an alternative choice.
But if the woman is strong enough to with-dure the pregnancy than I would hope that she would consider carrying the baby full-term & then give it for adoption to loving & grateful parents if it won't harm her or the baby.
I also believe that abortion would be largely unnecessary if women were properly educated on safe and protected sex. If all women were given the education they deserve on prevention, many of these babies wouldn't have to be put up for adoption or aborted. I have witnessed the different misconceptions many young women have of sex and not getting pregnant (such as proper lubrication, ie. no petroleum based; being on top prevents you from getting pregnant; and other misconceptions). This problem alone could be solved if people would stop turning a blind eye towards premarital sex and sex with young people and actually allow sex education in schools (which is banned in many states). There is also a lack of availability to contraceptives, which causes people to have sexual relations that could cause an increase risk in pregnancy and sexual disease.
The other main reason for me choosing to be Pro Choice is that even when women choose adoption to abortion or keeping a child, they often haven't looked at the adoption situation in many places in the country. Many states have extremely flawed foster care systems that just shuffle children from one place to another, giving them many social problems. They also tend to be underfunded and misguided without the proper resources to take care of the children in their care.
Once these problems are fixed , I believe and hope that people will one day not have to choose between having the child and raising it in deplorable conditions (ie. poverty, unloving family, etc.), giving up the child for adoption in a system that is so screwed they will likely end up with problems later in life, or having an abortion and suffering the guilt women often feel as a result.