State your position here.

Yes and No....Yes when the kid is still too tiny or has some of handicap....No when the kid is almost perfect, that would be killing an human being.....

It a wOmens body and its her right to chose

Sometimes it's indispensable if pregnancy threats the live of the women and it doesn't give any chances for her baby. Sometimes women wants the abortion when they got abused and this is the second case in which I don't mind abortion (although it sounds cruel). The rest for me is killing. I'm not a women but I don't want my future wife to kill our child :idontknow:

If a woman lays down and has protected sex with a man, then I believe that that woman has every right to an abortion, as well as a woman who was raped, her life is in danger.

I am sorry, but if that woman took the precaution, of using a condom, as well as birth control, and perhaps an IUD, and she STILL got pregnant, then she should have a right to terminate the pregnancy, as she did everything she could to avoid it.

I know that it sounds unlikely, but albeit very rare, it can, and it does happen. Someone I know ended up pregnant this way.. she took it as a sign, that she was meant to have the kid, and decided to keep it.

I myself was on the pill, and we used a condom, and I still ended up pregnant. I am grateful that it ended in miscarriage.

I do not agree with abortion as a means of birth control..

I do not agree with partial birth abortion either.

People should stop acting as if the child is fully formed and ready to go the moment conception occurs.. when it isn't.

If the pregnancy is at a stage where the child is able to live outside of it's mother, then I say that abortion should not be an option, and anytime after 12 weeks is out of the question.

But if the pregnancy is anywhere between 6 and 12 weeks, then the abortion should be allowed.

Here is my thing, unless the rest of the world who are against abortion are willing to take care of the child in question, then they have no right to say anything.

In other words, if I know that I am not ready for a child, so much so, that I took every precaution necessary to avoid it, and I still got pregnant, I should have the right to terminate my pregnancy. Anyone opposing my decsion is more than welcome to take care of my child, after it is born, otherwise, if it has nothing to do with them, or doesn't affect them in anyway and they themselves aren't willing to take care of it, then they should mind their own business. After all, if you called up a total stranger, and told them that you were having sex, or were pregnant, they wouldn't care, so why should they care about what you do with it?

There is a VAST difference between those who do everything possible to avoid pregnancy before, and during sex, and those who do NOTHING (like use a condom, or take birth control) to avoid it. A lot of teens nowadays think that they are grown, and think that they don't have to listen to their parents just because they got a few hairs "south of the border" and they think that they can go around screwing everything that walks, but the moment that comes back to bite them in the butt, and they don't want the responsibility, or consequence, they want to run to mommy and daddy? Please.

After all, they decided that they were adult enough to have sex, so why aren't they adult enough for the consequences? You can't be an adult and do something, and then turn around and be a child when you don't want the responsibility, or want to deal with the fallout from your actoins. It just doesn't work like that.

Part of the responsiblity involved with sex is about what could happen, and not just the events leading to intercourse, or knowing how to please your partner. If they thought that they were adult enough to screw around despite what their parents had to say about it, then they should have to deal with it themselves.

In my opinion, Sex is an "adult" responsibility, and so the moment penetration occurs between two teens, is the same moment that they become adults, and should be treated as such. If my teen thought that they were grown enough to disobey me, or that they didn't have to follow my rules while under my roof, then they are grown enough to find a job, and a place of their own. I will already have the emancipation papers on standby for such an occurence.

I am sorry but with AIDS, and other STD's going around, as well as the risk of pregnancy, anyone stupid enough to have sex without a condom, deserves any and all consequences that may befall them. Even if you don't think that you are going to have sex, carry a condom anyway, on the chance that you MIGHT have sex.

Personally, I wouldn't have an abortion, as I probably wouldn't be able to handle the mental consequences from it. Any woman that I've seen that has had an abortion, has never gotten over it.. even if they have children today. So it isn't as if she happily skipped down to the clinic, got scraped, and skipped out.. so people should stop making it seem that way.

However, just because I know that Abortion is not an option for me, isn't something I wouldn't do myself, or isn't the right thing for me, doesn't mean that I am going to force others into my way of thinking or force my beliefs onto another. And that is exactly what those who are against it are doing. Who's to say that what's right for me, is what's right for you?

Last time I checked, people aren't all the same, we all have our differences. Just because something is right for you, doesn't mean that it is right for me. I can say what I would and wouldn't do until I am blue in the face, but in all actuallity, I won't know what I would do until it happens to me. I have been pregnant, and I know that it isn't right for me.

I said that Abortion should be legal, because retrospectively speaking, banning something, or making something illegal, only increases the likelihood, and amount of those doing it illegally.. just look at Prohibition, prostitution, and drugs. In my opinion, banning Abortion, or making it illegal, will only increase the number of fatalies among the women who underwent coat-hanger abortions, or babies being found in dumpsters, or at the bottom of lakes. I'd hate to see this happen, and so, that is why I say that it should be legalized, but with regulations similar to those I mentioned to prevent abuse.

Bottomline, it is a woman's body, and it is her choice, and so, people who have not, been in this situation before, or where it doesn't apply to them should put themselves in the other person's shoes, and learn to empathize with that person's situation before passing judgement on them.