the Good Things About Pro-choice

Hmmm...the choice is there for anyone to make. Be it keeping the baby, adoption, or abortion, the choice is still there. Pro-choice enables those who need the abortion done for medical, financial or other reasons, to do so without the fear of prosecution, without the risks of "diy abortions", without the risk of death, and to do so in a safe and sterile environment. If we take away this choice, we don't just "save lives of potential future babies"...we actually ruin lives, kill. Women will once again resort to "diy" and either die from complications, infections, trauma, or be left sterile by the same. We remove the right to choice...what's next...taking away the right to abort because a woman was raped? Taking away the right to abort because the fetus has some anomaly that will hinder it alive for but a few mere minutes after birth? Taking away the right to abort because the woman's life is in jeopardy and to carry the fetus to term would certainly kill her? Taking away the right to abortion in the cases of incest? Taking away the right to abort when birth control failed? Taking away the right to abort when a woman is mentally incapable of raising a child? Taking away the right to abort when a woman cannot afford another child or a child and adoption is too emotionally stressing? I mean, how much power are we going to allow someone else over our lives, our bodies?

1. Pro-choice saves lives! If abortion is illegal, it's
back to square one, unwanted pregnancy results in desperate women who are not ready to be pregnant, having illegal and highly dangerous back street abortions, by people who are inexperienced, which could potentially kill them, all because some other people feel they have the right to dictate what someone they do not know should do with their uterus. Pro-life laws would save the lives of embryos but cost the lives of women.

2. The fact my parents are both pro-choice brings me much comfort, I was unplanned, but I know that my mum kept me because she truly wanted and loved me, and was ready, not just because she didn't believe in abortion.

I think that abortion is a terrable idea. DONT DO IT!!

Because women are not walking incubators. Women are human beings with the freedom to choose what is right for their life and their body. Because making abortions illegal is basically saying to half the population we don't care about your health or well-being we just want to control you and make you feel powerless so that we can feel more powerful.

Because women are not walking incubators. Women are human beings with the freedom to choose what is right for their life and their body. Because making abortions illegal is basically saying to half the population we don't care about your health or well-being we just want to control you and make you feel powerless so that we can feel more powerful.

If the fetus us part of your life and body then
Does the woman lose part of her body at birth?
Does she become handicapped after the fetus leaves her body at birth?
Why wasnt she born with it?
Wouldnt this make abortion self mutilation?
Why does it take a man to to put it there?

As for the world not caring statement, I believe it is quiet opposite. You are taking that potential life, as many would call the baby, and say even though you are human I am more powerful and I dont care. The Bureau of Vital Statics of the U.S. Public Health Department reported that in 1968, only a few years before abortion was legalized, 130 women died from illegal abortions. Yet between 1972 and 1985, when abortion was legal, 193 woman died from illegal abortions.

Adele - I'm confused. Are you speaking in favour of legalising abortion or against it?