[chaos4001]

As for me? I think we need to just leave people alone and live our own lives. What's your stand? Are you against it? Do you believe in it, but only under certain conditions? What do you thinK?

[Shamou]

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[Stratiotes]

I am pro-life, but I believe it may be necessary in certain situations. However, I definitely don't think it should be an alternative to responsible sex.

[katonca]

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[Stoner]

I didn't vote because I didn't like the choices you provided and this topic has been done before:

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I think Alex gave a better representation of available choices, IHMO.

[Ciberblade]

Originally Posted by Stoner

I didn't vote because I didn't like the choices you provided and this topic has been done before:

LINK

I think Alex gave a better representation of available choices, IHMO.

[littlemar]

I'm Pro-Choice because each situation is different and a woman deserves to decide what's best for her and her situation. Pro-Choice is not Pro-Abortion!!!

[linskyjack]

Tell that to Jerry Falwell.

[littlemar]

Originally Posted by linskyjack

Tell that to Jerry Falwell.

Just my point - here's a man telling us what women should do and feel He's one sick puppy.

[grandpaw7]

I really think the range of choices makes the poll uninformative.

For one thing, I think it is paramount to know whether the voter is reflecting only his moral judgment or also his legal judgment. Is he saying only what he thinks is morally right or is he also saying what he thinks the law should be?

For another, there’s a great deal of difference between someone who favors no restrictions at all on abortion and someone who believes it is justified only, for example, in rape cases. I don’t think option four, to explain, is nearly a sufficient recognition of this.

The poll choices reflect the kind of thinking that has emphasized the black/white approach to the abortion question, you’re either with us or against us; there is no middle ground.

The either black or white approach is based on the religious belief that all life begins at conception and that all life is precious, except, of course, for the many lives that are not considered precious by those who adopt this attitude. Or on the anti-religious belief that morality has no place in the debate.

The majority of people oppose abortion in the same sense that most people oppose war. The big question is what the exceptions should be. It’s much easier and cleaner to either favor all abortions or oppose all abortions. Case closed. No thinking, no judgment, no analysis needed. Rather, I can just sit back and take pot shots at those who want to be realistic and who recognize that extremists positions at either end are usually absolutist-driven, that is, based on a premise that precludes, or prohibits, the need for any rational analysis or balancing of opposing interests or evaluation of fairness. In other words, “God said” is the beginning and the end of the discussion, which may be a justifiable way for a person to decide his own position but not a justifiable ground for dictating the position of others. Or, what’s God have to do with it?; it’s solely a case of a woman’s right to choose and there is no moral or spiritual question to deal with.

As I stated, a big issue is whether a person is stating his moral position only or also his legal position. While I do not consider it “right” for a woman to have an abortion simply because she decides after becoming pregnant that going through with it is simply too inconvenient, I oppose labeling the woman a criminal. My wish would be that societal pressure would serve to minimize taking pregnancy too lightly.

I have a very difficult time, and can’t really come up with an answer that satisfies me, about the extent, if any, to which abortion should be illegal. I am afraid that bringing criminalization into the issue almost insures that the extremists on either end will dominate the debate.

[LANMaster]

I, too, found the poll choices too limited.

Abortion should remain legal during the first trimester only. Even then it should be greatly discouraged.

Abortion in the 3rd trimester should carry a charge of no less than murder for both the doctor, and the Conspirator.

Abortion in the 2nd trimester is a gray area, which I cannot begin to paint in such black and white terms, so I will leave this area open for debate, as I am undecided about it.

[linskyjack]

Now Lanmaster seems to have a rather rational view of this----unusual for a right winger.

[LANMaster]

Originally Posted by linskyjack

Now Lanmaster seems to have a rather rational view of this----unusual for a right winger.

I'm glad to know that your portrait of me in the corner is inaccurate. There are many things upon which I land left of center. (or at least left of what you would call, "the right")

[wacor]

Not sure if a man has a right to dicatate on this matter. I have no idea how it would feel to be a woman and faced with this choice.

Since I was a teenager I felt that this was a womans decision and nobody else had a right to dicate the choice one way or another.

If the basic right to have control over your own body is taken away then what would be the next thing choosen. Making it a criminal (IE:Murder) offense is not going to stop it from happening.

I know the standard response would be that we legislate all kinds of restrictions on what one can do with their body such as taking drugs. No need to get off subject but that is another matter that is not being solved using the current method of making drug users criminals.

[Ciberblade]

It seems to be a catch22 -- I understand that it is a womans body....and that whole argument, yet this is not something a woman is doing to her own body by herself. It is an act by its very nature involves two people, a man and a woman. There have been cases where a man has contributed to the miscarriage of a child and put in prison for it....if a drunk driver kills a pregnant woman in a crash, he is charged with two counts, etc...