Are you pro life or pro choice?

Zenya · February 2012

If you're not sure pick the one you're closest to.[Poll]

Kapalua · February 2012

pro-choice, pro-life, anti-legislating what should be a personal medical decision

penguingrrl · February 2012

fredalina:
I hate it and I wish no one were ever in the situation to make that decision but it's not the government's place to make it illegal. That = Pro Choice, right?

Yes, that is pro choice. Pro choice does NOT mean that you would choose an abortion for yourself or that you like the choice, just that you recognize that it's a decision that's between a woman and her doctor and the government has no place in it. I'm strongly pro choice, but in my ideal world people would be well educated in contraceptive options and have easy access to them so that abortion was a rarely used procedure.

I have an aunt who is very Catholic, but worked as an ER nurse prior to Roe. She feels that legal and safe abortion is necessary because of the number of botched abortions turned deadly she saw. It doesn't mean she likes abortion or would be terribly supportive if someone close to her made that choice, but she saw the reality of it being illegal and realizes that it did not reduce the numbers of abortions performed, just increased the overall deaths associated with them

CBKMRB · February 2012

I was faced with this choice when I was 17 and pregnant with Kevin. I myself would not have an abortion but I think people should have the choice to make their own decision.

femmegem · February 2012

No doubt, pro-choice. I don't think I could ever have an abortion, but the thought that the option wouldn't be there pisses me off.

mlm1128 · February 2012

I don't think I could ever choose to have an abortion, but I damn well think I should have the option. God forbid dd ever ended up pregnant at 15, I would like her to have that option as well. You never know what will happen in the future, it's not just about myself.

mlm1128 · February 2012

Yes, teaching about birth control would help. But again, god forbid, a woman is raped and ends up pregnant. There are some cases where the pregnancy is not just accidental.

sunandsand · February 2012

100% pro choice, no question. I work in an obgyn office and see patients all the time who need to end their pregnancy for medical reasons. I cannot imagine them not having this option.

AggieCouple · February 2012

I'll speak up and be politically incorrect, but I don't want to get into a debate about it. I am pro-life. I strongly believe it's a human life, the life of a person, that is being taken, and it equates to killing any other human. We have laws to protect people from being killed, and I think that should extend to unborn people. I believe if someone causes a woman to have a miscarriage through violence, they should be prosecuted for murder/manslaughter. It pains me that we live in world/country where people can be jailed for cruelty to animals, but not for taking the life of a human.

Mominator · February 2012

I clicked Pro Choice, but it's not really that black and white for me. I'll just say that it's not a decision that I ever want to have to make and at the same time, I don't think that it is my place or the place of the government to make that decision for someone else.

warriormomerin · February 2012

I've always been pro-choice and I firmly believe that pro-choice does not mean pro-abortion. I personally wouldn't have one and I know people who have used abortion as a form of birth control and it disgusts me.

When DD was raped, it cemented my stance on being pro-choice. I just kept thinking how devastating it would have been if DD had been older (12, 13, etc) and had gotten pregnant. Add the incest factor into it, and would have been an even more horrific situation.

I had the same thoughts when we were in group therapy with other sexual abuse families. I kept looking at the teenage girls in our group and thinking that they had suffered enough and that no one has the right to tell them they should have to go through with a pregnancy like that. There's always going to be those extreme cases and I don't understand how pro-life people are able to justify that. I'd love for someone to explain it to me.

veloelle · February 2012

Pro choice. I can not imagine forcing a woman to endure PG without her consent. Talk about abuse. I was always pro choice, but after going through PG, I'm way firm in my beliefs.

StJess88 · February 2012

Pro-choice. I've had an abortion, and it's not something I would wish on my worst enemy, or would ever do again, but I'm glad the choice was there.

mlm1128 · February 2012

cmeon_the_water:
mlm1128:
Yes, teaching about birth control would help. But again, god forbid, a woman is raped and ends up pregnant. There are some cases where the pregnancy is not just accidental.

I'm not sure who you are directing this at- I don't see a post that implies all abortions are the result of unintended pregnancies, or that birth control alone would prevent abortions from being necessary.

Not at ny one. I personally feel that those are just a couple of things we be better spending that money on that goes to fight legalized abortion. There are many,many other things as well.

Jodi&Joe · February 2012

"There's always going to be those extreme cases and I don't understand how pro-life people are able to justify that. I'd love for someone to explain it to me."

Well, you could always just put the baby up for adoption. Duh!

(Come on - you know that's what they thing. Just have the baby and put them up for adoption. It is really THAT easy!)

ENI36 · February 2012

AggieCouple:
I'll speak up and be politically incorrect, but I don't want to get into a debate about it. I am pro-life. I strongly believe it's a human life, the life of a person, that is being taken, and it equates to killing any other human. We have laws to protect people from being killed, and I think that should extend to unborn people. I believe if someone causes a woman to have a miscarriage through violence, they should be persecuted for murder/manslaughter. It pains me that we live in world/country where people can be jailed for cruelty to animals, but not for taking the life of a human.

Don't they have laws that prosecute people for murdering a fetus? I am obviously talking about in situations other than abortions. I thought they did but maybe I am mistaken. Anyways, I agree with everything you said.

warriormomerin · February 2012

Jodi&Joe:
"There's always going to be those extreme cases and I don't understand how pro-life people are able to justify that. I'd love for someone to explain it to me."

Well, you could always just put the baby up for adoption. Duh!

(Come on - you know that's what they thing. Just have the baby and put them up for adoption. It is really THAT easy!)

How stupid of me! Of course that's the answer. I'm sure it wouldn't be traumatizing to a young girl at all and a child fathered by its own grandfather is bound to be the picture of health. Problem solved.

juniper19 · February 2012

warriormomerin:
I kept looking at the teenage girls in our group and thinking that they had suffered enough and that no one has the right to tell them they should have to go through with a pregnancy like that. There's always going to be those extreme cases and I don't understand how pro-life people are able to justify that. I'd love for someone to explain it to me.

I'm pro choice but I actually understand the extremists who don't want exceptions for rape and incest more than people who think they should be allowed to terminate their pregnancies. If you sincerely believe that abortion is the murder of a life, than even a life brought around by horrific circumstances should be preserved. When people believe there should be exemptions for victims of rape and incest I feel there's an implication that the abortion is really about forcing 'sluts' to take responsibility for their behavior.

Jodi&Joe · February 2012

With so many warm and fuzzy liberals on this board I'm shocked to see that high of a percentage for pro-life!

Zenya · February 2012

Jodi&Joe:
With so many warm and fuzzy liberals on this board I'm shocked to see that high of a percentage for pro-life!

thus the poll!

libra31 · February 2012

ENI36:
Don't they have laws that prosecute people for murdering a fetus? I am obviously talking about in situations other than abortions. I thought they did but maybe I am mistaken. Anyways, I agree with everything you said.

I know it is in some states. Scott Peterson was convicted of a double homicide.

Sunflower7777 · February 2012

Pro-choice, and like many PP have stated, I don't think I could ever have one myself.

To pro-lifers, I say, it's wonderful you feel the way I do, and could never have an abortion. But I don't feel it's right for you to impose your beliefs on anyone else who walks in completely different shoes than you do.

EdithBouvierBeale · February 2012

I like to think of it as Pro choice, and Anti choice, because I consider myself VERY much prolife in general, but not in a political sense or even in regard to the abortion issue.

I think women should make the choice individually, and that doesn't mean I am prodeath or pro abortion.

penguingrrl · February 2012

EdithBouvierBeale:
I like to think of it as Pro choice, and Anti choice, because I consider myself VERY much prolife in general, but not in a political sense or even in regard to the abortion issue.

I think women should make the choice individually, and that doesn't mean I am prodeath or pro abortion.

Yes I hate the term "pro life." It implies that those of us who want women to have a choice are pro death. I also find it ironic since many "pro life" people I know protect the hell out of a fetus but simultaneously want to cut the social programs needed for a poor mother to avoid abortion (WIC, welfare, state sponsored health care, etc). You can't call yourself "pro life" if you think people can and should only ever have procreative sex with a middle class income while married.

hopanka · February 2012

AggieCouple:

I'll speak up and be politically incorrect, but I don't want to get into a debate about it. I am pro-life. I strongly believe it's a human life, the life of a person, that is being taken, and it equates to killing any other human. We have laws to protect people from being killed, and I think that should extend to unborn people. I believe if someone causes a woman to have a miscarriage through violence, they should be prosecuted for murder/manslaughter. It pains me that we live in world/country where people can be jailed for cruelty to animals, but not for taking the life of a human.

Yes

hopanka · February 2012

ENI36:

AggieCouple:
I'll speak up and be politically incorrect, but I don't want to get into a debate about it. I am pro-life. I strongly believe it's a human life, the life of a person, that is being taken, and it equates to killing any other human. We have laws to protect people from being killed, and I think that should extend to unborn people. I believe if someone causes a woman to have a miscarriage through violence, they should be persecuted for murder/manslaughter. It pains me that we live in world/country where people can be jailed for cruelty to animals, but not for taking the life of a human.

Don't they have laws that prosecute people for murdering a fetus? I am obviously talking about in situations other than abortions. I thought they did but maybe I am mistaken. Anyways, I agree with everything you said.

I believe George "Dubbya" signed that into a law. Once an unborn baby is far along to be able to survive outside of the womb and is killed, it is a homicide. In the Peterson case, she was 8 months pregnant when she was murdered with her baby. And Peterson was convicted of a double homicide.

Carol*Brady2 · February 2012

AggieCouple:
I'll speak up and be politically incorrect, but I don't want to get into a debate about it. I am pro-life. I strongly believe it's a human life, the life of a person, that is being taken, and it equates to killing any other human. We have laws to protect people from being killed, and I think that should extend to unborn people.

. Ditto

Dimplz · February 2012

Add another to the pro-choice column!

summerbrideDC · February 2012

Pro-choice. And I'm backing out of this post before I get all flame-worthy.

JenninMA · February 2012

Totally pro-choice.

cnybride2be · February 2012

pro choice always was, always will be. to the point where i won't tell you what i would personally do because it's not your concern.

summerbrideDC · February 2012

cnybride2be:
pro choice always was, always will be. to the point where i won't tell you what i would personally do because it's not your concern.

I love this response.

Goose51504 · February 2012

summerbrideDC:
cnybride2be:
pro choice always was, always will be. to the point where i won't tell you what i would personally do because it's not your concern.
I love this response.

I agree with this 100%. And, like SBDC, I will kindly back out of this post for before I say some extremely flameful things. Needless to say, this is one topic that both blows my mind and makes my blood boil.

BubblyToes · February 2012

Goose51504:
summerbrideDC:
cnybride2be:
pro choice always was, always will be. to the point where i won't tell you what i would personally do because it's not your concern.
I love this response.

I agree with this 100%. And, like SBDC, I will kindly back out of this post for before I say some extremely flameful things. Needless to say, this is one topic that both blows my mind and makes my blood boil.

Joining this crowd.

I will say thought that I loathe and despise the terms "pro-life" and "partial birth abortion".