Is it normal that i believe that abortion is more humane than giving babies up

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I just know i might get alot of heat from this one but here it goes. I am a pro-choice female. I believe that abortion isn't as bad as people make it out to be. I mean, sure a baby's being killed but it only lasts a incredibly short time (therefore the baby only suffers briefly). There are so many people against abortion that it's disheartening. I mean, would you rather have a woman give birth to a baby and give that baby up to the system (foster homes and orphanages) where that baby might grow up being abused, neglected, and/or being taken from foster home to foster home? In my opinion, abortion should be legalized alot more and that people should be more accepting of it. People who are pro-life shouldn't make such a big deal out of it and mind their own business. Abortion is alot more humane than allowing a kid to grow up in the system. But that's just my opinion.

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  • [Old Memory]
    11 years ago

    I believe that giving babies up for adoption is what put a lot of them in the system in the first place. I just wish more people were open to abortion.

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    • NocturnePonyFan
      11 years ago

      I respect your opinion, but adoption really is a sweet spot for me. Adoption doesn't necessarily mean the child is going to be put in the system. My birth parents had to jump through hoops to adopt me, and that's the case with a lot of adoptive parents. The people who adopt WANT kids, for the most part. I think the standards need to change though...they check for financial stability and what-not, but they don't check so much for desire and ability to give the child an emotionally stable home.
      I don't mean any offense to you, seriously, I just get very defensive when it seems that someone is knocking adoption.

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  • NeuroNeptunian
    11 years ago

    First trimester abortion doesn't bug me one bit. The child isn't even sentient and women miscarry a lot more than people think they do, sometimes even without knowing. The probability for it is huge. While I am glad my grandmother failed to abort my Mother, she was lucky enough to have been born in a hospital full of people who knew my grandparents were seeking to adopt a baby. Most kids aren't so lucky.

    I don't like abortion, I hate that it's so easy to just... delete the potential for a unique human being but at the same time, it is a far less evil than what could be done to an unwanted child after their birth and while my standpoint is both morally and logically flawed in that sense... it's the lesser evil.

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  • q25t
    11 years ago

    I really hate how difficult it is to adopt children. I'd rather fix that than encourage abortion.

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    • SeverusFan23
      11 years ago

      Yes. They should make Adoption alot easier to do. But i'm still all for Abortion. If i ever got pregnant with a child that i didn't want i'd get a abortion (or selective reduction in the case of multiples) because to me, that's more humane than giving a unwanted kid or unwanted children up to the system. That's just my opinion.

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      • NocturnePonyFan
        11 years ago

        The thing is, there are people who WOULD want that child. The problem is that the adoption system is so fucked. You have to jump through all sorts of hoops, but they don't have the hoops that matter...of course, financial stability is important. But so is emotional stability, mental checks of all the family members, etc. A lot of kids are given to the wrong people, and if the system could change, there would be a LOT of happy people who want kids and could give an adopted child the love that the birth parents couldn't give.

        And, this is coming from a strict pro-choicer.

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        • SeverusFan23
          11 years ago

          With all due respect Nocturne, Not many people would adopt though. Adoption needs to be made alot easier so those wanting to adopt can. Because many people with good intentions are turned away from adopting including single women and men. The have it the hardest when it comes to adoption. Even if those succeed in Adoption, most are only after babies and toddlers while the older kids generally go without and age out of the system. Many people would much rather have their own kids than to adopt one that has already been born. Because the system is corrupt however, i see no need for people to add kids to foster homes and orphanages when there are already so many parentless kids in them. That's why there should be more abortions and selective reductions instead of less.

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          • NocturnePonyFan
            11 years ago

            Oh, I completely understand you, and I agree that it needs to be easier for those who DO want to adopt to actually get to do it. It's so sad when adoptions don't come through for people who have been working so hard and giving so much of their heart and soul to try to give a child a good home. The system really does need to change. And it's really sad, but it's true what you say about people wanting babies instead of children.
            In my own opinion, I feel that two things need to happen. One, is of course, changing things to it's easier for the right people to get children. And I also feel it's important to take away that negative stigma that adoption holds for a lot of people. So many people feel adoption is a bad thing, or that those kids don't mean as much as a child who would have happened to be born and raised by their birth parents. The stigma really needs to change, IMO.

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            • SeverusFan23
              11 years ago

              Yes, it's very sad. I agree with you. Why don't they get people to fix the Adoption process so people wanting to adopt can? Why can't people be more open to kids past infancy/toddlerhood? Why must people be so shallow when it comes to that? Kids past the age of 3 need to be adopted too. Don't those people know that, or do they just not care? And why can't Adoption be viewed as a great thing? It could probably even be viewed better than having birthchildren. I'm sorry i'm asking so many questions. Personally, if I were to adopt, i would adopt a older child that's 7 to 12 years of age or a 2-kid sibling group in my age perference above. I believe it's wrong to adopt otherwise. What about you? Would you adopt? And if you did, how old would the child or sibling group be? What's your perference i mean.

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  • GoraIntoDesiGals
    11 years ago

    Yup being born into this HORRIBLE world is cruel. We should stop having kids.

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  • AwkwardlyMe
    11 years ago

    I think that abortion isn't a choice i would want to make... unless i was raped... but i don't hate women who do so- unless that person is having like multiple abortions at late stages when the heart is formed, because i think it's sad.

    The people who are against abortion to me can be overacting, and most i find annoying. It's my body. Not only that, but they forget about the billions of potential babies are 'murdered' everyday when guys jack off.

    I would rather abort that carry a child i absolutely did not want, knew i would never love, and grow to hate, and blame for any misfortunes in my life, than keep it, or 'give it up' to the system that is flawed so badly, with pedophilic, battering social/care worker, foster homes, etc... i also wouldn't want to give life to a child and give it up knowing one day they will seek me out and ask me why i threw them away...

    Just my opinion.

    (^_^)v

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  • Lynxikat
    11 years ago

    While I'm not sure if I completely agree with it, I do completely understand this point of view; in hindsight, aborting a baby could probably be better off than that same baby growing up, knowing that it was never wanted.

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  • davesumba
    11 years ago

    i would rather women not throw sex around like it's nothing, to guys they don't want to parent a child with, and get so surprised when they end up pregnant...after having sex, like omg, how could that have happened.

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  • Sailor_Cosmos
    11 years ago

    I am a firm supporter of women's right and it is the right of every woman to have control over her body!

    My body, my choice!

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  • SeverusFan23
    11 years ago

    I agree to this question.

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  • Terence_the_viking
    11 years ago

    If people are not willing to have a child in the first place they should stop with the phucking.

    No contraception is 100%

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    • [Old Memory]
      11 years ago

      True contraception isn't completely foolproof but people should still get abortions if they're unwilling to be parents.

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      • Angel_in_a_Glass_Dress
        11 years ago

        thing is... how many of them really ARE using contraceptives?

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  • stonerage2008
    11 years ago

    I guess I can kind of see where you are coming from. I went through the foster system before I was adopted, and I'm glad my parents didn't abort me. That's just one mans opinion though.

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    • Sailor_Cosmos
      11 years ago

      Will all do respect, if they had aborted you you would have been none the wiser.

      You were meant to be, other potential humans are not.

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      • dude_Jones
        11 years ago

        I support a woman's right to choose. But, your sense of destiny sounds like wishful thinking to me.

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        • Sailor_Cosmos
          11 years ago

          I'm a firm believer that some things in life are just meant to be. I mean think about it...haven't you ever had something in your life, a certain situation that no matter how hard you tried to make it happen it just did not? There was always something that thwarted it from happening? Or another situation that was just smooth transition from one event to another leading up to a culmination of events and a result...a result that you cant help but think was just meant to be?

          I don't think it is wishful thinking at all. I believe that some things in life are certainly random, but other bigger things are just suppose to happen to us or for us for whatever reason.

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  • shade_ilmaendu
    11 years ago

    See I don't agree that abortion is murder if performed before the proper cut off time. And even in situations where it's a late term and it's a threat to the mother's life, there's a difference between murder and killing, and doctors have to make hard decisions sometimes.

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  • iEatZombies_
    11 years ago

    I've always felt somewhat similar to this. A little different, but pretty close.

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