ABORTION....

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personally i don't think i could do it and don't really agree with it unless the child was concieved due to rape or something. i think as soon as it's heart starts beating, it's alive and i'm bad enough with killing flies and things! i can't do it! i'm far to maternal to have an abortion anyway

Getting an abortion if better then having this people who dont want kids so they decide once the baby is born they leave it somewhere by itself.Like a couple months back where i live. Where my uncle works they found a baby wrapped in a trash bag that some idiot who didnt want the baby dumped right after she was born.

you're right star. but abortion is a sad thing and people can say what they want IMO KEYWORDS IN MY OPINION lol I consider it murder or a possible human life. to each their own. people get mad cranky on here. take a chill pill guys...

"When I got back from England (abortion is severely restricted in Ireland now, and was totally illegal at that time, 1992) the overwhelming feeling was one of relief, there wasnt a whiff of guilt at first, believe me. It took a couple of years for the guilt to kick in."At least you felt the guilt, starfish...the ones I'm worried about are the ones who never do. I wonder about them big time. I think abortion should be limited to those who understand what they're doing...killing somebody.

A close friend of mine had an abortion very recently. Knowing that I'd had one she wanted to talk to me about the experience and what to expect. She said that she'd heard she would have to have a scan (no part of my experience, I dont know if this goes on anywhere) and she was near hysterical at the thoughts of having to look at the feotus on screen (she was about ten weeks gone)I told her that that hadnt happened to me, but that since it had been so many years possibly some parts of the procedure were different now, so I couldnt be sure. She was literally going off her head over the idea of having to look at the baby. I said "If it's that hard for you why dont you just not look at the screen"?, she responded "I dont think I'd be able not to look either if it was there on a screen".What I take out of this is that the idea of an abortion was possible for her only as long as she didnt accept the fact that there actually was a baby growing inside her, and that looking at the baby on a monitor would force her to accept that, and that somewhere in her she knew that and that was why it was so hard for her to imagine having to look at that screen.Feeling remorse for taking a human life (or fledgling human life, in the case of abortion) is a natural response and IMO the only people who dont feel it are either; A - psychopaths or; B - sane people who are deluding themselves. Since I think it's fair to say that most women who have abortions are not psychopaths, they've got to be deluding themselves as to the true nature of their actions.Again, I'll add, I'm not trying to dictate to women how they should deal with an unplanned pregnancy. If anyone had tried to dictate to me I'd have told them where to go in a very big hurry. I'm simply saying that women need to get real with themselves about what abortion actually entails.

Pro choice all the way for me.

Yeah, I'm pro-choice. If it were up to me I would put a strike-out restriction on it tho. 3 abortions and you're neutered!

I'm Pro-choice, too...even though abortion is killing somebody, you can't legislate morality. People either have to get real with themselves or bury their heads in the sand forever.

Great, thanks for telling us twice.

There is a HUGE difference between a partial birth abortion and one done within the 1st month of pregnancy.For some people, there's no (moral) difference between killing an adult and killing a fertilized egg by not allowing it to implant in the uterus. The question that is always begged is, given the advances in cloning, it will be possible (if it's not already) to create a human from an arbitrary cell, or at least from the genetic material contained in the cell. Cells scraped from the inside your cheek will contain human life just as a fertilized egg does.> the SteveA jibe I wont even dignify, lol.I guess there's no quota on such things that don't involve four-letter words. LOL indeed.

steve's back Personally I cry whenever I think of abortion. Ever since I saw that stupid video it's just hard to believe that someone could be as cruel to destroy a life like that. The description was just.... ugh. I'm all for making choices but honestly... I'd rather go through birth that have something like that happen. I think I get over sensitive about it because when I hear about abortions I think of my nephew or some cute child. I just wish people could make a smart decision before and after. Dreaming again... I know

But if people made smart decisions all the time, then I wouldn't be here! I was a drunken accident and I'm damn proud of it!

lol well then good thing they didn't abort you. what do you have beer every birthday that comes around lol

• "I just wish people could make a smart decision before and after"Hmmm, that's the thing honey; if people made the smart decision before (using contraception, in this case) they wouldn’t need to re-evaluate the situation after. Stupidity is a character flaw common to us all from time to time, unfortunately.

I spoke to someone today, someone who seems to be a very responsible person, who became pregnant with both of her kids while on the birth control pill. Angel had a similar experience. It's very unlikely, but "very unlikely" means "sometimes happens".

just wanted to thank everyone for saying their opinions on this topic!!!!!!!

Well, that is true of course. I was on the pill myself when I got pregnant the second time, though not using it correctly as I've said. It only takes one forgotten or regurgitated pill to mess up the whole month. And a minority of women are unlucky enough to take it correctly and get pregnant anyway, no contraception is infallible.What I'm referring to here in using the term 'stupidity' is the depressing amount of women who do not want children yet still don’t bother using contraception at all, and are then 'surprised' and horrified when they fall pregnant, and head straight out for an abortion. It's mind boggling stupidity really and I just cannot understand it. I don’t accept youth as an excuse either; I had an IUD fitted as soon as possible after my son was born, and he was born just three weeks past my eighteenth birthday. I have had it changed every five years since. I haven’t had even one pregnancy scare in all that time, almost thirteen years. There really is, in the vast majority of cases, no need to be pregnant if you don’t want to be.