Yes, definately. Abortion is a major right for a woman. If you don't think it should be tolerated, then why are you posting on the pro-choice forum?

once again someone who disagrees with abortion decides to boil all pregnancies down to a matter of inconvenience/convenience. Not all unintended pregnancies occur to young women. Not all unintended pregnancies occur to poor women, or any other category of woman who would choose to abort "for her future."

abortion must be tolerated out of respect for the individual woman and her ability to decide for herself what is best for her body, mind, spirit, and family. A woman knows herself best and knows her family best. She, alone, knows whether or not an unintended pregnancy can be carried to term and what will have to happen with the resulting child.

When we start boiling all women down into a very narrow and naive formula of who should obtain an abortion and who should not, we dismiss the notion that women are intelligent, sentient, moral agents in charge of their own destiny. We, instead, treat women like mindless, walking wombs who must be told what to do. This is supremely disrespectful to all women but is especially heinous for a woman who does not fit within the narrow formula of "acceptable" abortions.

Women have always sought and obtained abortions when they, for whatever reason, felt that they could not continue their pregnancies. Abortion has existed for thousands of years and only in the recent past of human history has this ever been a legal debate. For most of our collective history, this has been a medical debate. And for most of our history, women have obtained abortions whether they were safe or not, legal or not. This will continue as it does in areas of the world where abortion is currently illegal.

By keeping abortion legal, it is legally accessible to all women, not just the wealthy who have always been able to obtain abortions, and it allows women the right to safely choose whether they will remain pregnant or not based on their own beliefs, health status, and personal family situation. It also keeps the government out of personal health care decisions and thus, out of our most personal, private lives. I don't know about you but I rather prefer that our government not take over my personal health care or decisions about it.

Oh... Oh... Oh... Maybe you misinterpreted me. I'm pro-choice that's why I posted in here, the reason why I asked that is because i’m quite aware with the things that are going on. It is ok to have abortion for those who have definite reasons but I can't accept the young teenager under 18. I've read somewhere that there are condoms now for sale for guys (13 yrs old). Is it ok with you?

Personally I couldn't care less what age the woman has an abortion, provided it's her choice (if she's young then as long as she understands the procedure etc...). I don't think it's right to say that "abortion is ok in x x x situation but not in x x" if you get what I mean? If it's ok for a 20year old why not a 17year old, provided it's the right decision for her?

Also, I don't personally agree with underage sex (16 is the legal age here) but I don't think the problem is with the availability of condoms I think it's down to lack of edcation, sex education is truely terrible but if it's illegal for 13year olds to have sex then they shouldn't be able to buy them (free clinics are another option and if people are going to have sex at that age it's better they use protection)

would you want someone that young to be having children? Think about it.

We all agree that teen pregnancy is a negative event in our society. It has negative impacts for the young woman, the resulting child, possibly the sperm donor/father, and all of their families. We all agree on this because we have all seen it to one degree or another. Younger people are not yet equipped with the education, training, or maturity to handle a pregnancy let alone raise a child by themselves (not all of them fit into this, I am of course generalizing). Nearly all of them require some assistance and we, as a society, are very stingy with that kind of assistance.

Young women are not stupid just like older women are not stupid. They know what kind of assistance they are likely to get and from who they are likely to receive it from. So, for some young women, they may realize that the assistance they may receive will not be enough for them to support a child. They may, at that time, decide to have an abortion due to lack of support. I happen to believe that this is a very responsible decision because it will allow the young woman to hopefully continue with her life until she is able to support herself and her future family.

Also, with young women, there is an increased chance for permanent damage done to their bodies during the pregnancy as well as an increased chance of low body weight for their infants. This can cause health problems that they are not equipped to pay for so once again, they will have to rely on others for assistance.

When people who do not have an education, training, or enough life experience become parents, we all inevitably end up supporting them for long periods of time. I think it is far better for a young woman to put off her child bearing until she is able to support herself and her children.

condoms are for sale for anyone at any age. However, getting people to use them, and use them correctly, has always been the problem. Young people, especially young men, are unlikely to use consistent contraception. This occurs because we, unlike other industrialized nations, do not take the time to educate our young people and then we do all we can to deny them access to contraception until they reach 18 even though not having a condom never stopped anyone from having sex, it only made the sex riskier.

teenagers are going to have sex. End of story. Teenagers have always had sex, in every generation, in every time period throughout history. Earlier in our collective history, people got married as teenagers and thus, started having sex. Now, marriage is being put off longer and longer as people try to gain educations to support themselves.

Still, the same hormones that made ancient teenagers run off and get married so they could have sex are the same hormones that occur with our current teenagers. And our teenagers experience them, experiment with them, and develop sexual behaviors just as they always have.

What we need to stress is not locking them all into small padded rooms alone until they turn 18 (which would be the only way to keep them from having sex), but to teach them how to protect themselves. We don't do that.

Yes; it's even more important for abortion to be available to the young women, including teens, since they are the ones most often unable to properly care for the child, and those are the family situations we are trying to avoid.

The next episode of 30 days on fx is about abortion. For sure there will be a lot of different opinions about it. There are certain issues that has to be discussed thoroughly especially the here says of different persons.

I think abortion services should be provided for free for teenagers and college students. I know pregnant teens get scared, embarrassed, and ashamed to tell their parents about their pregnancies, and this leads them to do nothing about it until they're six months gone and then a termination is out of the question. Teens should be able to get free abortion services without having their parents know about it. Maybe it's just me, but I have yet to meet a teen or a student who had seven hundred extra dollars just lying around for an abortion.

I've said it before and i'll say it again - kids have no business having kids. If you need further proof, go read all the trainwrecks in the teen pregnancy forum. But then again, those are the girls who think being pregnant makes them cool, or they need a way to keep their babydaddies with them.

I also agree that not all unplanned pregnancies begin with teens, dropouts, etc. There are adult women of all ages who suffer accidental pregnancies, just like there are two-watt teens who try to have babies. But we all know teens get the least respect for their decisions because quite often they are too young to work or need to drop out to vaguely resemble a decent parent. Yeah I know, i'm really bashing teen parents, but I have yet to see a responsible one, so I have no respect for them.

Sorry if I went off on a tangent...Or two. I'm in a ranty mood today.

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That cambion, i'm sick of this teens are no good crap...



First off I had my daughter in my teen years and yes I was more than finicially stable, no I didnt live with mommy/daddy I moved out of their home at 17 got myself a good paying job, got married and got a house.


Never ever judge teens, some of then are in the same sitiuation and are doing awesome(pats on back) you have no right to judge

you say your prochoice so abortion should be open for everyone and no abortion is not for on social class will you guys stop berating social classes

Some teens do well...

And most do not; we simply want to avoid babies having babies. We don't think it's fair to the infant or the teen. It's nice you did well, but honestly, most girls do not, period. It is always the girl's choice; we simply want to make it as easy to have an abortion as it is to sit around and do nothing, freaking out.

it all depends. I grew up in a rather wealthy neighborhood and money was everywhere. I had a job and had to pay for nothing but my car so I routinely had about $400 a month to spend on myself. I could have easily scraped together seven hundred or even more if I needed to. But, I realize that I was in a very, very small minority of teens so I understand what you're saying and I agree.

congratulations and good for you! You are a statistical outlier. This means that your experience and situation is rare and unusual for teens who become pregnant and keep the pregnancy.

I am sorry if you feel like we are bashing teen parents. However, the statistical evidence is that the overwhelming majority of young women who have a child in their teens require support and assistance for many years afterward. The most telling statistic that I have ever read stated that of all of the teenage women who give birth before they are 18, less than 2% seek out any kind of further education or job training. Without an education or job training, they are relying on someone else to support them or they are living in poverty with their child(ren).

My problem with the person who started this thread was that they seem to believe that abortion should only be available to those over the age of 18, that young women under 18 should be punished with pregnancy for having sex. That attitude and sentiment I do not agree with and I gave my reasons why. I feel that young women under 18, possibly more than anyone else, need the option of abortion open to them because the majority of them are not prepared to have or raise children.

I hate seeing women, of any age, dependent on other people (especially men). That kind of lifestyle is more like a prison than anything else and i, for one, am sick of seeing imprisoned women. I want to see strong, educated, independent, capable women standing on their own two feet so that they aren't someone elses slave, doormat, or punching bag. The one way that we can do that is through controlling our fertility until we have the education and training that we need to obtain sustainable jobs. Young women do not yet have the education, training, or even life experience to do that and most of them cannot.

Have you already seen the video trailer of 30 days on fx channel? I think the pro-choice will be making lots of mental reasoning when it comes to bringing out their opinions while the pro-life is more focused on the religious aspect. What do you think?

Well atleast all these babies that die before birth go straight to heaven! Thats the good thing about it, right?

are you pro-choice?
Firsly, the "good thing" about abortion is that it allows women the freedom to make their own decisions on whether or not to continue a pregnancy, for whatever reason.
Secondly, I don't enter into religious debate so whether the z/e/f's go to heaven or not is rather irrelevant. As far as i'm concerned all that matters are the facts/feelings of the individual circumstance

I was wondering when the religious crap would come into play. Has there ever been an abortion debate here that didn't involve at least one person spouting off catholic garbage? I don't know about anyone else here who isn't a religious zealot, but I don't believe zygotes have souls that can go to heaven in the first place. But if you want to tell yourselves that, then fine - zygote souls will go to heaven along with the souls of my trimmed toenails and the souls of the dead hairs in my brush.

No I am pro life, im sorry I was in the wrong place at the wrong time, im new to this ehealth. Although this is the only "good thing" I see from abortian, I dont want my sarcastic remark to cause any females out there to go ahead and get one, I dont want to jusify homicide, once again, im sorry, I wont be back!God forgive me!

By the way im not catholic, its a sin to worship mary!

Look, I hope you've realised you're not supposed to be posting on this forum, this is for pro-choice people only.

Never judge a book by it's cover. Their are some teens that do make good mothers, true, I do not like to see 13 or 14 y/o kids that end up pregnant and look at some of these pre-teens, 11 and 12 y/o kids that end up pregnant, that is what scares me but their are also some 20 y/o that are horrible parents too but like I have said before you can talk to your kids and they can get sex-ed in school and a lot of them will not listen or they will say or think that getting pregnant will not happen to them. It is scarry raising children nowadays, even though mine are grown, it is still scarry! All the diseases, sending them off to war. Even though my daughter has a good b/f she could still be raped, my son will be going back to iraq for the 3rd time soon.
At least thsir is a choice!
All the best to you!