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Originally Posted by Deva";p="
I am completely pro-choice, and pro-abortion. Here's why.
I am a young teenage female who's sexually active. I take precautions, obviously; I'm on the birth control pill and I use condoms. But I know that there have been circumstances where pregnancy perhaps was an uncomfortably large possibility. The simple fact is, people have sex. People aren't always going to have safe sex, due to certain conditions (intoxication, lack of responsibility, etc.) or lack of transportation to a proper clinic, etc. (I can especially vouch for that one, being a high school student).
I can't deny that abortion is killing a human being. I mean, come on folks, it's a fetus...but it's not going to turn out to be a dog, or a snake, or a chicken. It's a human being.
HOWEVER, I personally think that abortion is a means of accomodating women for an unfair and submissive sexual nature. The simple fact that pregnancy is an issue for them and NOT for men puts us at a severe disadvantage regarding sexual activity. Why should women be forced to "pay" for a mistake, when men don't have to? We have the technology to promote a kind of "sexual equality."
My real reason for being pro-choice is because I think it's completely archaic, a "medieval medical theory" if you will, to place the survival/life of a fetus before the happiness and opportunities of an adult female. From a completely biological perspective, the fetus is 100% subordinate. It cannot survive without the full dependency of its mother, so why shouldn't SHE be the one to decide her plight? After all, it's HER body that is sustaining its life, shouldn't she have the right to choose to an abortion?
Plus, folks, you gotta remember....most women don't go through with abortions unless they TRULY believe that it's necessary. Abortion isn't a nice thing. It's often a troubling and traumatic experience which can result in further medical complications. So I repeat: the women who get them NEED them. There really aren't THAT many abortions! Thanks to education about contraception, the message is getting across to people like me, an abortion isn't even something I worry about. However, there will always be women who will be in need of an abortion, and I think it would be disgusting to enslave them to an unwanted fetus which they are cultivating.
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Hmm... Good point. But you don't exactly have to be sexually active. And people should learn to take a bit of responsibility in the area...
However, I believe there's a good middle ground on all of this. We can allow abortion to those where pregnancy would be harmful to the mother, the child is sure to be a still born, or the mother is just not able to take care of the child.
But, on the other hand, I see abortion as definite murder. And the moral implication on this shouldn't be lessened, so that going out and having sex irresponsibly isn't encouraged.
Frankly, as I see it, the problem sort of stems from people being careless, people not being strong enough to say no, and people pressuring others into having sex.