What are your views on abortion?

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I'm just curious to see where many in this forum stand on the abortion issue.


I define myself as 100% prochoice. I believe abortion should be legal at any time and for any reason. Nonetheless...I admit that i'm not 100% comfortable with my position and I still engage in some internal debate over it.

I personally will not defend my position here though. I have done so countless times and I have neither the time nor desire to defend it every single time someone asks me to.

Though it's not necessary, i'd also appreciate your reasoning as to why you're prochoice, prolife, or somewhere in between or beyond.

I'm pro-choice as well, but I could live with bans on late-term abortion as long as those bans provide exceptions, like if continuing the pregnancy would pose serious health risks for the mother.

One of the main reasons I am pro-choice is because I feel the life and well-being of a fully-grown woman takes precedence over that of an unborn fetus. Also, at the moment, most scientists agree that a fetus has to be at least 20 weeks old in order to perceive any pain.

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I'm pro-enforcement: Abortion should be mandatory for racists, rightwing extremists, leftie extremists and religious people who force their beliefs onto their children.

As usual with these kinds of polls, my position is a tough one to select a poll option for.

I wish that abortion were not permitted, but I am not sure using the legal system is the way to reduce or eliminate abortions. I think a two-pronged approach is best: to strongly discourage teen/out-of-wedlock pregnancy, and to encourage adoption and really hold the feet of social services/foster care systems to the fire. I think that if parents did not have to fear that their children would go through hell in the foster care system if they gave them up for adoption, there would be less reticence about carrying the child to term.

For my own case...I would not feel comfortable getting an abortion, even if I were raped or my life were in danger.

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I am prochoice, BUT would never allow the whole abortion thing to be outlawed. We need it, to get rid of some of the overpopulation we are experiencing.

I am pro-death. I don't expect many anti-choice people to be on here, but who knows?

I think there are practical concerns that require banning late abortions (with exceptions) as they are a lot more risky. I think late abortions should be allowed case-by case in court, I mean really.

I am anti-choice if the girl was rapped, an early abortion should be enforced by law in that case (what about pills?)

Otherwise, just let people have abortions. I think that even if they were murder, it is a much better answer than letting the amount of weddings increase. I don't want to go to weddings that could be easily prevented by an abortion really. I hate weddings, the inventor of weddings should go to hell.

Seriously: If abortion is banned, it only forces girls to go to clandestine doctors, this gives money to criminals and risks the pregnant women' lives. Forbidding abortion by law is not gonna stop abortion.

When two people marry out of an accident it dooms at least three people (the man, the woman and the child, into a life of missery). Marriages shouldn't happen unnaturally. Also, if a couple were so dumb to get pregnant, it is only bad for mankind to force them to reproduce, I mean, really.