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Post by Dick van Arsdale on Apr 6, 2009 11:32:24 GMT
What is your view on the highly controversial topic of abortion? Are you pro life, pro choice or somewhere in between?
My personal opinion is that abortion should only be used in cases of rape. In my opinion anyone who says abortion is not acceptable after rape due to moral reasons is quite frankly a lunatic. Why should someone have to go through the added pressure of having a child after an event she would prefer to forget.
I don't think it should be used in other cases though. It's someone's responsibility that if they don't want to get pregnant, they should use adequate protection, or, for the want of a better phrase, keep their legs shut.
Whats your view?
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Post by CathoraGal on Apr 13, 2009 18:11:26 GMT
Ah, abortion. This has started so many arguments at my school it isn't even funny. I'm very pro choice on the issue, here are a few reasons for this: It's their life.I tend to start a whole bunch of my debates with this. The way I see it, people can do whatever they want with their lives as long as I can do what I want with mine. I don't think their choices really concern me, so I shouldn't judge based on that. It could have resulted from rape.I pretty much have the same reasoning as you mentioned before. If it was something the person wanted to forget, why should they have the baby for it? It just doesn't seem right to me to force it on them when they've already suffered so much emotional and physical trauma. The parent is not prepared for it. Accidents happen, and sometimes you get pregnant. The way I see it, you shouldn't even be sexually active if you're not prepared to have a baby in case it happens, but this isn't always the case. What if a young teenager gets pregnant? Granted, it is a result of their own stupidity that they are pregnant at that age, but if they are not prepared mentally, emotionally, physically and financially, they shouldn't have a baby. For a child, growing up in that sort of environment wouldn't end well. Of course, there is always adoption for those that don't want a child but aren't for abortion, but that's a whole different debate.
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Post by Dick van Arsdale on Apr 13, 2009 19:16:43 GMT
I can sort of see where you're coming from with your third point, but I completely disagree with your first. There has to be some moral conventions - one of these should be that people need to take responsibility for their actions. It's no good committing an act of any kind then saying 'Well, it's my choice, it doesn't affect you, so stay out of it'. People have to take responsibility for other actions they take, so why shouldn't the same hold true for abortion?
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Post by b`ek. on Apr 15, 2009 13:10:17 GMT
Taking responsibility for their actions by thrusting an unwanted child upon them is neither humane nor healthy for both the child and the parents. Obviously there would need to be consequences for their 'actions' but frankly, allowing a child to grow up in a household where they could be subject to neglect and no care would not be the way to go about it.
I am very, very much Pro-Choice. The only person who can make that descision is the one having the baby, until that time you can never really understand the motive behind the reasoning. Those who don't agree with this usually have the reasoning that once a child in conceived it is living. I disagree (and shoot me for saying this, if you will) and think that until the actual birth, that baby is not alive.
I once started an argument with my religiono teacher at school as he was all but yelling at the females in my class that abortion is wrong. To be frank, abortion is an issue that will never be resolved. But it should be two-sided, unless you are open to the views of someone on the 'other' side debates such as this could get very nasty.
oh yeah, maybe you should make this board only visible to members? y'know, just in case. =P i don't want guests yelling at me if i can't yell back.
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Post by Dick van Arsdale on Jan 30, 2010 22:03:20 GMT
Bizarrely, after some thought my views on this subject have changed, and I have become more liberal on the issue of abortion. This is mainly down to the fact that it's difficult to draw out differences between cases if that makes sense. For example, I would certainly have disagreed with women who would consistantly use abortion as a form of contraception. However my understanding now is that nobody benefits from the decision of a woman not to have an abortion if she is physically/financially/emotionally unable to support a child.
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