Several months ago a sweet young lady who sounded pretty called me on the telephone. She identified herself as a member of an organization whose name I forget, and asked, "Would you say that you are pro choice or pro life?'

I responded, "Thank you for your call. This is an important topic. I cannot really say that I am pro choice because I believe that those who are biologically inferior should be sterilized."

Unfortunately before I had the opportunity to explain that I am not pro life either, she hung up on me.

 

I am both, I think that women should be able to decide if they want a baby or not but not as a birth control option.

 

If I fell pregnant now (very unlikely as I have the coil) I would not hesitate to abort it in very early stages. I had my first son and lost 4 pints of blood and flat lined, I had my daughter again I lost 4 pints and flat lined and she passed away at 2 days old, my youngest son again I lost 4 pints and my two boys are my world and my job is to make sure they become the best they can so I will not risk dying for bringing another life in to the world as they need me.

 

I picked pro choice because everyone should have a choice. Most women I know would never use abortion as birth control, because basically, we're smarter than that. But no one has the right to force a woman to carry a child to term. I am terrified of some states whose laws don't allow for abortion, even in instances of rape. Who's being penalized then? The woman.

 

Pro choice in first trimester. Do what you want.

Second trimester is very gray, especially toward the end of it.
Need to determine when the fetus can live on it's own or survive with little side effects.
That is my cutoff.

Third trimester is murder!

 

Pro-choice. Until it can survive outside the womb, it's basically a tumor.

 

Pro-life for my own life, pro-choice as the rule of law. And if you think that is hypocritical, just ask yourself, who are we to make choices for others?

 

How does one sound pretty? I once thought I could tell how pretty a woman was over the phone until I met one about 20 years ago. I don't make that assumption anymore.

 

Both, they are not mutually exclusive. But I do not agree in forcing women to give birth. Being a male, it is none of my business anyway.

 

Pro choice...if a person isnt ready to have a child then they shouldnt be having it. Then the child could end up being unloved, neglected, etc.. could become societies burden not only financially and socially, it doesnt always end up on the family. The other side is, if they arent ready to have a child then they shouldnt be having sex at all. I mean, there are multiple sides to everything. I am a republican/conservative in a lot of ways, but i am absolutely pro choice. I mean there was a situation personally right before my first marriage (yes, divorced) that a girl i had not talked to in 5 years, came forward 2 months before my wedding and said i might be the father. And i was honestly so pissed because i thought i missed all that time with my daughter. Turns out the little girl wasnt mine. There are a ton of different sides to a lot of issues especially when dealing with emotions and human bodies that arent always black and white. So, yes, pro choice.

 

I'm pro life however I do not believe in stipping a woman of her freedom to do so in certain circumstances such as rape or health.

If you just had sex then you need to take responsibility no excuses, not with all the birth control options out there.

 

That's one smart lady....

Just like her when I read........ "those who are biologically inferior should be sterilized".... I can hear her muttering to herself... ""Fucking arsehole, this one isn't worth my time".

doggo you really are a nasty piece of work.

 

I've always been pro choice.

 

I believe people should mind their own business about what other people do with their body. That's a conversation that the only opinions matter are the woman and the potential father. I mean really, you have to be a special kinda jackass to say "U have that baby or your a murderer" or your this or that. Take your big bad opinion and stick it in your ass and rotate till it feels good. Pro choice. Too many lil bastards running around in the 1st damn place sucking up tax dollars and space. And if we really being honest the world would be a lot better if a whole bunch of people were aborted or swallowed

 

I’m pro-choice & here is my main argument for it, mostly because it addresses the biggest arguments against it. I have many, many well thoughtout arguments in favor of pro-choice, but this is my favorite.

Calling a blastocyst or zygote a human life is semantics. It is human in nature (obviously) and the cells have been alive since before even conception. One could argue that the zygote becomes a person when the heart starts beating. While it is true that a living person cannot survive without a beating heart, a beating heart can live without being in a person. Scientists are able to 3D print beating heart cells. These heart cells are both human & alive. Not a person.

A fully grown human that experiences brain death is still alive. So long as the brain stem remains in tact the heart still beats, the lungs continue to breathe, all involuntary bodily functions continue —they can even be brought to orgasm. They are quite clearly still human & still alive, at least at the cellular level. The thing that made that human a *person* is gone. Everything that constitutes a personality, the source of all thought, reason, & emotion, is gone. One could argue that the brain makes one a person & the fetal brain is fully functional at 7 months. But we don't need a FULLY functional & perfectly formed brain to be a person. So I guess what we're looking for is sentience, which in law is defined as being “with the faculty of sensation and the power to perceive, reason, and think” but in the dictionary only defines it as the ability to perceive sensation. I think the distinction between being alive at a cellular level & being alive on a sentient level is the big important threshold. Even with the simpler definition, that sentience is what separates human beings from say, a plant or bacteria. The *earliest* one could argue sentience (dictionary definition) occurs in the womb would be at 17 weeks when the neural structures for experiencing pain are in tact, though it is still unknown if the fetal brain is actually capable of *processing* that sensation (the legal definition of sentience). The 1st trimester ends at 12 weeks so an abortion during that time runs no risk of terminating a sentient being, regardless of which definition you adhere to.

 

Explain this to me! Those countries that make abortion illegal have the highest abortion rates in the world so what exactly does pro life mean because outlawing abortion does not decrease the loss of life.

The Netherlands enjoys the lowest abortion rate in the world and this is achieved by a combination of comprehensive sex education and the contraceptive pill is freely available as part of the healthcare system!

IMHO most people who claim to be pro life are completely ignorant of this and they pay lip service to a pro life ethos but are not willing to make any effort in education or cost of contraception!

Thinskin

 

Those who claim to be "pro life" are usually opposed to government financed health care that would reduce the infant mortality rate of the infants of poor women.