Comments on: Abortion debate. Should it be the mothers choice?

By: becky

becky — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 12:14:08 +0000

yehh the woman does have rights.. if this is so she has the right to take contraception to stop herself gettin pregnant in the 1st place.
think of all those poor people out ther who cant have kids. most people have abortions for selfish reasons such as they dont have “enough money” and lets be honest who really has enough money to care for a baby these days.
im only 17 and i kno my mother would want me to abort a child if i fell pregnant but it would be my choice nobody else could make you do anything!
ONLY IN EXTREME circumstances should it be allowed to happen such as rape, insest or if there is a high risk of the mother or babies health being critically damaged!

By: bjanna

bjanna — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 13:43:22 +0000

shane st. croix :The choice should be not to get pregnant .

Tell that to the 11 year old who is raped by her father.

By: shane st. croix

shane st. croix — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 14:28:58 +0000

Hey moon goat…the only blob appears to be between your ears…human sperm and human egg create human life…dah !

By: shane st. croix

shane st. croix — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 14:25:31 +0000

The choice should be not to get pregnant .

By: ruffneck

ruffneck — Tue, 26 May 2009 10:13:15 +0000

You and only yourself have the right to decide and control your own body.

By: MoonGoat

MoonGoat — Tue, 26 May 2009 00:03:00 +0000

Parents get to decide what happens - period. Hell I think they should have the right to abort their kid if he’s 12 and burning down the neighbour’s garage for kicks on the weekend.

Bottom line is IT’S NOT ALIVE - it’s tissue, a growth - a blob, if you will. If the blob is not wanted then they visit the clinic and the woman gets the blob taken out. No big deal.

Y’know, it’s the old saying, if men carried babies, we wouldn’t even be discussing this. IDK how chicks have put up with this nonsense for so long. Knock it off.

By: Nancy Bennett

Nancy Bennett — Mon, 25 May 2009 05:34:32 +0000

Yes it needs to be a mother’s choice. With correct medical knowledge she will make a wise decision and be able to live with it.
My Dad saved my life. My Mother was 3 months pregnanct when she found out she was carrying their fourth child. Right away my Grandfather told my Mother to get rid of it. My Dad knew about Grama’s abortions to get rid of siblings. She was forced to abort the others. There was just him & his sister. My Dad told Granddad, “There will be none of that in this house.” I am so thankful for my wonderful Dad. My parents had 2 more children after me. We are a loving family, and I can not imagine not having my 5 terrific siblings.
To the Men: Men, stand up and protect your wife and children. When you see women who are depressed, alcoholic, angry and suicidal,
it just may be she has been forced to have an abortion. She will suffer no matter if she was forced to make the choice or chose to make that choice herself to abort. She will likely still go through the post traumatic syndrome, unable to forgive herself. It is not easy for her. I was very upset when I learned I was 3 months pregnant. We were married just 3 months, and I wanted to work for 5 years. I phoned my husband and cried on the phone and said I’m pregnant. He said, it’s okay, everything will be okay, don’t worry about it.
I had been x-rayed for a kidney infection, and they saw the baby. For one month I did not want that baby. On the 4th month, everything changed. The baby moved. It was real to me.
Now I wanted that baby. I could hardly wait to see this baby and be a mother. Thank goodness I did not have a Dr. who rushed me in to get rid of it. How beautiful is my son, who is now a grown man with two little children of their own. I asked him if he had ever felt rejection from me. He said “No, Mom, on the contrary, I have always felt great love and care from you.” I told him why I had asked that. His wife said, “See ? A Lot of women feel that way, till the baby moves and changes our mind.” I am so glad, so relieved that I didn’t take the first instinct, thought to get rid of ‘it’. Now he is a high school counsellor and a wonderful son, a great Dad, and husband to his wife. I am truly thankful, that I do not agree with abortion. I have seen too many women suffer from abortion.

By: firefly

firefly — Sat, 23 May 2009 03:44:10 +0000

Who is going to look after the baby if the mother will not. The mother should not have the right to take the life away. That is too much power for a mom to have.

By: Moment

Moment — Fri, 22 May 2009 20:20:14 +0000

I think the final choice rests with women, not unborn children. And certainly not with someone who is not involved in the situation. A man who is not the father of the child in question has no damned business telling a woman how she should respond to her pregnancy.
Yes, the fetus is human. Yes, it will have inviolable human rights someday. But the woman is also human, and she has rights NOW. She has the right to take control of her body, and the fact is that her body entirely encompasses the body of her fetus.
If pro-lifers really cared about human life (as opposed to controlling women) they would be compelled to aid women who do not want babies to not have babies. As in, they would passionately support birth control and safe sex. They would promote a foster care system where most girls and boys were NOT beaten or sexually abused. They would support more human rights in general. As it is, I cannot help but think that the unborn child’s value to them rests almost entirely upon how they feel they can use it. Also, unless they control and slut shame women, unless they make women know their place in the patriarchy, how will they handle that new society? Pro-lifers tend to be more barefoot-and-pregnant-in-the-kitchen than otherwise, and that makes me lose a lot of respect for them. Their concern for fetuses doesn’t add up the way they’d like it to. And they treat women like shit when they protest women’s health clinics and set up false “pregnancy counsel” clinics.

By: loyal

loyal — Thu, 21 May 2009 17:16:39 +0000

Antoinette is an example of where she should have the final decision. She would know best what is good for her and her family.