Your view on abortion: how long have you felt this way?

[RobDownSouth]

Anonymous poll coming, wait for it!

Edited to add: Testing something I read elsewhere, seeing if the Lit GB demographic can validate this.

 

[Very_Bad_Man]

My opinion doesn't matter since it isn't my body.

 

[bronzeage]

My opinion doesn't matter since it isn't my body.

It does, if you are paying for it.

 

[killallhippies]

i'm personally "pro-life", but politically i'm pro-choice. if you don't get how that might work that's okay. i get it. that's all that matters.

 

[hogjack]

I was aborted. Eventually I moved on.

 

[piccicatopolka]

The choices don't apply because I was ProChoice before I was an adult.

 

[butters]

pro-choice for everyone, but don't know if i could have gone through with an abortion, so for me it was a great relief not to have to face making that choice.

the fact that i had a fair few miscarriages, all in the first tri give or take a week, would not have prevented me from seriously considering an abortion should the foetus have be severely impaired enough for its upbringing to cause problems raising my other children, or for me to feel unable to raise the child in a way that could only offer it the best i could give. i'm not talking spina-bifida, or even downs, here (though neither husband would have wanted to raise a child with such health problems), but children so seriously damaged that it would be unfair to bring them into this world for a shortened and probably sad existence, to be raised by someone other than myself or to live out their medicated days in some hospital facility.

i honestly feel it is better to abort an unwanted pregnancy at a very early stage, but think the numbers could be cut back considerably if more people used proper protection or took the morning after pill if they slipped up.

 

[SeatWarmer]

I've always been Pro-Choice, within reason. There was no option for "It depends on the situation", but obviously that still entails making a choice.

 

[Pookie]

Pro-life and pro-choice. I believe I have the natural right to make choices about my body. I also hope that abortions are few in number.

 

[Phelia]

I was pro-life for a few hours, or maybe even a few days, when I was fifteen because a girl with long blonde hair and a thick southern accent taught me the word and showed me graphic aborted fetus photos and told me it was killing babies. Then I asked my mom about it, she explained what it actually meant and I've been pro-choice ever since. I've never wavered for a second from believing that it should absolutely be up to the mother to decide.

 

[garbage can]

Anonymous poll coming, wait for it!

Edited to add: Testing something I read elsewhere, seeing if the Lit GB demographic can validate this.

I don't have an opinion on abortion. I just dislike dopes like you rationalizing when life begins.

Life begins at conception, for those that understand this, and proceed with an abortion, I don't have a problem....as long as they're honest with themselves.

 

[IrezumiKiss]

Pro-choice.

'Nuff said.

 

[SeatWarmer]

I was pro-life for a few hours, or maybe even a few days, when I was fifteen because a girl with long blonde hair and a thick southern accent taught me the word and showed me graphic aborted fetus photos and told me it was killing babies.

I should keep a photo of this in my wallet and ask that kind of person if removing this is also killing a baby.

 

[RobDownSouth]

I don't have an opinion on abortion. I just dislike dopes like you rationalizing when life begins.

Life begins at conception, for those that understand this, and proceed with an abortion, I don't have a problem....as long as they're honest with themselves.

Aw look at you gettin' all judgmental and stuff.

Tell ya what, hot stuff, I made the Amicus Abortion Debate Challenge over a year ago.

Amicus was too scared to take my challenge to debate this issue...
Ishmael was too scared to take my challenge to debate this issue...
Are you man enough to toe-to-toe with me?

Six questions, if you're man enough.

 

[bluntforcemama]

Did we validate the other poll yet, because I've got a lemon cheesecake to make.

 

[r_mck]

Mother's choice. No one else's. All other opinions are irrelevant.

 

[RobDownSouth]

Did we validate the other poll yet, because I've got a lemon cheesecake to make.

Pretty much.

I was reading a poll that said 94% of Americans held their pro-choice/pro-life views literally all their adult life....

Five or so percent changed their view after experiencing some life-altering event within the past 5 years (I'm thinking "the only 'moral abortion' is MY abortion!")

a paltry ONE percent or so just up and changed their minds on their position for no particular reason...

So Mitt Romney's a 1%-er in more ways than one.

The GB seems to validate that.

 

[garbage can]

Aw look at you gettin' all judgmental and stuff.

Tell ya what, hot stuff, I made the Amicus Abortion Debate Challenge over a year ago.

Amicus was too scared to take my challenge to debate this issue...
Ishmael was too scared to take my challenge to debate this issue...
Are you man enough to toe-to-toe with me?

Six questions, if you're man enough.

Debate ?? Debate what.

I've made myself clear. Life begins at conception. what people do after that is up to them.

If you want to debate that, have at it.....

 

[RobDownSouth]

Debate ?? Debate what.

I've made myself clear. Life begins at conception. what people do after that is up to them.

If you want to debate that, have at it.....

Click the link, you'll see my positions on all six questions.

Maybe we'll agree on some.

 

[Very_Bad_Man]

Kills me when people split hairs about when life begins. I agree with garbagecan. If a women wishes to make herself feel better about her choice by arguing otherwise more power to her.

Those same people who think life begins later sure do get upset when a pregnant women is murdered. Why ya think that is hmmmm?

 

[fuckwaffle]

It may come as a surprise to most, but what the woman chooses is up to her.

It's none of my business, the only one that matters in the end is the woman, it's her choice and no one else's.

Some would say that I'm Pro-Choice. Others might say I'm Anti-Life. Whatever they call me, it's not my decision, no matter what I or anyone else says it shouldn't influence the person why really has to make the Choice.

As for the Anti-Choice crowd, that's your choice.

 

[richard_daily]

I was pro-life for a few hours, or maybe even a few days, when I was fifteen because a girl with long blonde hair and a thick southern accent taught me the word and showed me graphic aborted fetus photos and told me it was killing babies. Then I asked my mom about it, she explained what it actually meant and I've been pro-choice ever since. I've never wavered for a second from believing that it should absolutely be up to the mother to decide.

What would you do if I got you pregnant?

 

[Tryharder62]

Pro-life and pro-choice. I believe I have the natural right to make choices about my body. I also hope that abortions are few in number.

Well sadly, since 1973 and the Roe Vs Wade decision 55,439,009 abortions have been performed in the US alone. It is ironic that "Jane Roe" of the Roe vs Wade decision is Norma McCorney. She is now a pro-life advocate. Her story of being a pawn in this is tragic.

 

[Pookie]

... Those same people who think life begins later sure do get upset when a pregnant women is murdered. Why ya think that is hmmmm?

People generally get more upset when a woman is murder period. Add the emotional element of a mother-to-be into it, and its quite clear why. Whether life actually begins at conception or at the time of birth (or anytime in between) makes little difference when it comes to the emotional response.

 

[Pookie]

Well sadly, since 1973 and the Roe Vs Wade decision 55,439,009 abortions have been performed in the US alone. It is ironic that "Jane Roe" of the Roe vs Wade decision is Norma McCorney. She is now a pro-life advocate. Her story of being a pawn in this is tragic.

Way too many abortions.

And I suspect she's still being used as a pawn from the other side or the board.