When will america overcome the injustice of abortion??

Saw the realtime picture of the baby on the screen in the doctor's office with arms/legs/head/beating heart and I wondered: 1) When will we recognize the civil rights/pursuit of happiness and humanity of an unborn baby ? 2) When will America overcome...

this injustice of destroying human lives in the name of choice ?

Men do have to deal with the issue if it's there child. Its not fair to say we never have to deal with it even if we don't have to deal with it nearly as much as women.

Are you just looking for a fight here, or are you serious?

Asking a serious, legitimate question.

*cough* doeen't phase me. pro-choice, always have been, always will. :]

Amblessed: one question:

are you male or female?

Christian - obviously, gender matters not.

Actually, I think it matters quite a bit.

85% of the pro-lifers I meet are male--people who will NEVER be faced with the situation to have a rapist's child, or have a child when they don't have the means or resources to care for it. Men don't have to deal with the actual issue--they can say and think whatever they want, in my opinion, but it doesn't involve them. If you'll never be faced with the decision, and know this, it's easy to act high and mighty.

I am following my belief - what I know to be true - a baby is a baby - a beating heart is a beating heart - mock,scorn.laugh,attack away, doesn't change facts - Your opinion of me doesn't matter to me - His, (Christ) opinion of me means everything - the great majority of females, if not all who are Christians in the churches I attend, believe the same, so it's not a 'male thing' as you try to attribute, it's a 'Christian, respect for ALL human life thing' - I am not acting high and mighty as you accuse - I, like you make plenty of mistakes but I can say wih certainty, I have been forgiven.

A sinner saved by Grace

If anyone should speak up for ones who have no voice, no choice, it should be a Christian.

***I am following my belief - what I know to be true - a baby is a baby - a beating heart is a beating heart***

What if you abort BEFORE it has a beating heart? A blastula or gastrula don't really have any human characteristics...

a baby is a baby - at any stage of development - if carried to term will result in a baby, not a dishrag.

Men do have to deal with the issue if it's there child.

Men put their penis in the woman. The woman deals with the swollen ankles, weight gain, vomiting/morning sickness, mucus plug, and the pain of labor.

amblessed:

Call me when you're a raped woman and have to deal with carrying a rapist's baby.

Call me when you're a raped woman and have to deal with carrying a rapist's baby

Message: Kill the baby to pay for someone elses mistake or evil act - that makes it less of a Life - undeserving of the opportunity to experience life.

it's a really though situtation and under certian circumstances women should have the right to choose. I think you don't understand the position a women is in when she has to take her childs life. I also think it's wrong to bring a chilfd into the world where it is not wanted becuase it's unfair to the child. I think to some extent it is okay but some people do abuse the right to have a abortion and I do think thats wrong. In extrme cases like rape I think it's unfair for the women to be expected to keep her rapists baby and live with it the rest of her life. Its also unfair to the baby in that situation to. I think we take life for granted way to often and it's unfair to take a life but at the same time its even worse to bring a child into a world where no one wants it. In Canada even adoption almost 10% of babies are not adopted and have to move from foster home to foster home. It's emotionally draining and so unfair for the chilld to have to deal with that. About 1.7% of those children who live in the foster homes with either end up on the street by 18 or die. Is it really fair to put a child through that??? Or would you rather be given the choice as hard as it is to end a life. I think abortion should still be a option for women and should be considered a right. Women should not be looked down on from soicety because of accepting abortion

I totally agree, it's definately a very, very tough decision, not wished on anyone.

I read an intriguing and insightful novel which dealt with these issues very well. It's called 'Protect and Defend', by Richard North Patterson. It wasn't necessarily written from my viewpoint, but it is well worth reading a) just to be entertained by a clever book and b) to examine the complex issues we are talking about here. I suggest you get hold of a copy from the library!

My view (as a Christian woman who has had two children), is that abortion is a terrible tragedy, never to be treated as birth control or a convenience, but possibly the lesser of two evils in some cases.

The novel I mentioned looks at how that line of thinking might actually work out in one particularly tragic case. I think the author is more pro-choice than me, but I can't be sure - he does a good job of telling the story and letting the readers make up their own minds.

Men do have to deal with the issue if it's there child.

-Men put their pen*s in the woman. The woman deals with the swollen ankles, weight gain, vomiting/morning sickness, mucus plug, and the pain of labor. -

I also said not nearly as much as women. Please read everything that is written before you criticize.

Its all choice, some people make the right one, others don't.
Just like everything else.
I also think you people should respect 'amblessed' no matter his/her gender. The answer to the question shouldn't depend on the gender of the person you are answering to. And 'amblessed' its nice to see someone stand up for themselves the way you do, I respect your thoughts even though I may or may not agree with what you say.

Thank you very much for your kind words, stephanief987 - I really appreciate it !!

im in england we are a lot more laid back about abortions than america, but I would have to say that your choice is your choice no1 can make it for u, its none of mine or any1 eles business what others do, I, myself am pro abortion (have you ever heard of john christie), I've seen it frm both sides, but who am I to push my beliefs onto others.

I hate when people claim they are pro-life, and preach about how abortion is murder EXCEPT when it comes to rape, in which you would definitely not want to be carrying your rapists baby. what if I definitely do not want to be carrying jims baby from that drunken frat party where we had a one night stand? what if I don't want to be carrying my ex boyfriend dans baby? if you're going to say abortion is murder, then it doesn't MATTER whose baby it is or the circumstances, rapist or no, it's still murdering a child in your eyes.

yay for pro-choice!!!