Should abortion be allowed to women?

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Should abortion be allowed?

  1. yes

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  2. no

    50 vote(s)
    34.2%
  1. GTech

    GTech Rob Jones for President!

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    #481
    Life begins with a heartbeart. A baby is not dead until born. Any woman who has carried her baby to birth can tell you about the kicks and movements. This argument is absurd as the cancer argument. The absence of a heartbeat is death. A birthday is a "birth" day, not a "heart" day. The day you are born is a birthday. Life does not begin with a birth, it begins with a heartbeat.

    I know exactly where I stand and made it very clear. I do not support abortion, but I can understand the rationale in the extreme cases people argue to take the heat off abortions for the sole lack of responsibility. I'd rather see adaption as an alternative. I'm very comfortable with that position and find it far more acceptable than standing up and screaming "MURDER YOUR BABIES" at will. If you wish to compare postions, I'm more than happy to go that route. On one hand, understanding the extremes (which rarely occur), on the other hand, abort at will.

    You are correct here, to a degree. The law is in the favor of women to murder their babies for a lack of responsibility. That doesn't mean the law silences opposing view points to those who are seeking pats on the back to justify such behavior.
     
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  2. MattUK

    MattUK Notable Member

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    #482
    I don't think anyone who has had an abortion is looking for a pat on the back. I guess that defines your misunderstading of the subject in one sentance.
     
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  3. ViciousSummer

    ViciousSummer Ayn Rand for President! Staff

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    #483
    Yep. I have to agree with this one.
     
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    debunked Prominent Member

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    #484
    I will have to add, that all the women I know that have had abortions in the past said that they were not warned about many issues from physical to emotional that they experienced. They feel that it was actually hidden from them.

    Them one man I know that didn't want his girlfriend to have an abortion - probably 25+ yrs ago, was still distraught when I last talked to him a few years back (he has passed away a couple years ago)
     
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  5. GTech

    GTech Rob Jones for President!

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    #485
    Nor did I say anyone who has had an abortion is looking for a pat on the back.

    If we untwist the words back to what I originally wrote:

    then suddenly it becomes clear again. So we return from the misleading twist of people who had abortions (which I did not say) back to people justifying the behavior, which is what the thread is about.

    I suppose such things are necessary when one cannot argue that life ends with the absence of a heartbeat and life begins with the presence of a hearbeat. Or any other rationale besides "it's a woman's right."
     
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  6. ViciousSummer

    ViciousSummer Ayn Rand for President! Staff

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    #486
    That's a womens own fault for not educating herself. That's like blaming the liquor store for selling you alcohol, but not warning you that you could get drunk or hungover.
     
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    sarahk iTamer Staff

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    #487
    I had a job as a pharmaceutical rep in London and hated it. However one of my loveliest doctors had a sideline as an abortionist and he'd tell me how only days after an abortion the women would be back with fresh STDs - despite being told not to have sex for 6 weeks. I'm sure it's not restricted to the UK's worst council estates but there are women who don't enjoy the same equality and standards as other women. That in itself is a tragedy - before you even get to the trail of destruction they and their so-called partners leave in their wake.
     
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  8. ferret77

    ferret77 Heretic

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    #488
    yup a bunch of old men trying to tell woman what they can do to their bodies

    probalby want abortion banned because they scared their wife/girlfriend will go have one without telling them

    a million woman a year choose to have them, 20% are married, do the math

    I would say country has voted with its actions
     
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    #489
    Great example Vicious. However, this does not apply to women being raped I suppose. Also, in third world countries there is not a lot of education.
     
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  10. sarahk

    sarahk iTamer Staff

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    #490
    I suspect they have a better grasp on reality and have thought the situation through. In Western countries an unwanted pregnancy is usually inconvenient rather than a tragedy.
     
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  11. Cristian Mezei

    Cristian Mezei Notable Member

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    #491
    I would rather bet on the fact the in US or other "evolved" countries, the rate of abortion is much higher, just because you can screw any women in any bar.

    It'a a much more free state of mind in these countries. In my country (so far) women are not so easy to catch.

    I didn't tried to be disrespectful with what I said above. It's just my view. And not all women are included in the above statement.
     
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    bluemouse2 Well-Known Member

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    #492
    the more evolved a country is the greater rate of abortion has - correct :D anything for an easier life
    even if it's hard most poor countries raise their children
     
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  13. ViciousSummer

    ViciousSummer Ayn Rand for President! Staff

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    #493
    Yeah right. Guys wish they could screw any girl in a bar. :rolleyes: Just ask that guy that grabbed my friend's ass and I punched him right in the face (I bet he lied to everyone about where he got that black eye...haha). Just because guys are pigs and try to screw girls in a bar, doesn't make all American girls sluts in need of abortions. Come on...
     
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  14. Cristian Mezei

    Cristian Mezei Notable Member

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    #494
    Summer, I ammended an additional comment in my post above..
     
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    yo-yo Well-Known Member

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    #495
    Got any stats for that or just talking out of your ass? :rolleyes:

    Out of 30-40 million abortions worldwide only 1.4 million are in the US.
     
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  16. Cristian Mezei

    Cristian Mezei Notable Member

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    #496
    It's a good thing that they are decreasing though (US):

    I also found these stats that make me so sad:

    126.000 abotions per day worldwide ? :(
     
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    ferret77 Heretic

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    #497
    Expertu that has to be the funniest post I have read all day

    I think its probably because that medical treatments are more availible in developed countries, its pretty funny thought . Woman in america just throwing themsleves at everyone.

    Romania's home to the hard to get woman?, give me a break. Just because you have difficutly getting girls does not mean too much. I'll bet you would have just as much trouble in the States.
     
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    #498
    So every year the world population coul be increasing by 7 times the entire population of London if it wasn't for abortions? Wow, think of all those unwanted kids we could bring into the world. All we'd have to do is get every man woman and child in London to adopt 7 kids each year and it'll be fine.

    Jesus, I didn't realise that before but it kind of blows all of your adoption arguements out of the window
     
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    #499
    Yeah .. I'm way to ugly and unwanted.. I can't get any chick to like me ..

    I'm a virgin actually.
     
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  20. yo-yo

    yo-yo Well-Known Member

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    #500
    Hey lets change this up a bit... rather than just arguing about it... why don't we write up what you think the "law" should be... if you had the power to make a law about it, what would your law say...
     
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