Are you Pro-choice?

I am pro life for my own decisions. I would even have a hard time saying yes to the Dr, if he was telling me I absolutely needed one. However, I do believe in the right to choose! It's not my choice to make for every women.

I strongly believe there are those who should never be parents and there are those who aren't ready to be parents. They should be allowed to have options that are in safe and sterile environments. Making abortions illegal would only resort desperate people into using coat hangers and other things that are very dangerous for their own health. It's going to do much more harm than good.

Late term abortions are rare because most people know if they want that child or not, sooner. However, I don't think they should be allowed if the unborn baby is at a stage where medically, it could survive. If that is possible, we should try to save that life. I'm sure someone would adopt those babies. less

I just posted and then deleted a picture and description of a Trisomy 13 baby. It was too gruesome to leave on the site. (It was a cyclops baby, who didn't have a roof in his mouth, whose nose was barely attached, and it didn't look or function like a nose, who had severe brain damage, malformed heart, polydactly, and was blind and deaf among other things.

It's cruel and inhumane to let a pregnancy like this to to term. Look it up yourself, if you have a strong stomach. So sad, the selfishness of some who would force a baby like this attempt to survive, when their condition is medically incompatible with life and still call themselves....whatever .

There are a LOT of things that people who post propaganda and sloganeering don't know about the very things they speak of.

I'm getting too upset, as I refuse to argue about abortion.

But, damn, try working in L&D or OBGYN for a few years. You'll see things and understand why sometimes women have to make difficult and heartbreaking choices for their pregnancies. Trisomy 13 is only ONE of them... as it Trisomy 22, Trisomy 18, and others. less

The government has no business in any heartwrenching life decision or medical decision of any kind. Things like this should be decided by women and their doctors, as well as anyone they personally wish to consult, not by politicians with agendas. Even late term laws can turn around and punish innocent women with unforeseen consequences, because politicians are not doctors. I was anti-late term until I read someone's story about an infection that resulted from her doctor being helpless to do what needed to be done because of a side effect of such a law. People don't have late term abortions as birth control, they have them when something goes horribly wrong with a pregnancy. And as far as notifying partners, etc., that's about a thousand times more likely to force a woman back into the control of an abuser than it is to keep a woman from having an abortion out of spite or whatever the hell soap opera fantasy it is that certain politicians try to sell with those restrictions.

Abortion isn't a happy thing, nobody's "pro abortion" but to make it illegal is to force one person's morals on another, to take decision making away from the people who should be allowed to be making those decisions, and of course to force desperate women to back alley quacks. Not to mention the impact some of the most ridiculous laws have on contraception, and even, terrifyingly, on miscarriages. Under one of those personhood laws a woman was tried for murder after falling down the stairs while pregnant. That is beyond wrong. less

I'm 100% pro-choice but I could never get an abortion unless it was medically necessary. I believe every woman should have the option to make her own choice. Making abortions illegal wouldn't stop abortion at all. If abortion were to be illegal, women would be forced to seek an illegal, unregulated, unsanitary abortion. Legal abortions are much safer for women. less