This thread is an abortion.

She could also be killing the next Jack the Ripper.

*clears throat* From Hell is one of the best movies ever. Second only to Lawrence of Arabia, Lord of the Rings, and the World's Fastest Indian. ( and probably Pan's Labyrinth, which I command myself to love )

even if a child's going to be unloved...that doesn't mean it can't do great things for this world. I mean, when a woman's having an abortion she could be killing the next albert einstein. who knows?!

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Or something evil.

Which is why I said "On the other hand...it might not." As I already said, I don't know my position on abortion. So I think I'll just stay out of this debate.

Sydney, everyone in this world suffers. A wise man said the other day: without Strife, no one would strive.

If a baby is going to be unloved anyway, its better to kill it before its born so it doesn't have to live in this world and suffer.

The problem with abortions is lots of women do them for stupid reasons when they could be putting up a baby for adoption instead. Of course, they don't realize it until they've already had the adoption and they're all like oops! I believe the happy medium ur looking for is OPEN ADOPTION if you want to end up seeing your kid again or CLOSED adoption if you don't...:-)

Hypothetical situations make poor arguments, as do emotional appeals. I'd stick with these boards if their arguments were based upon logic.

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And what Ikki said is true. The adoption centers in America need tons of help. So instead of the government foing to all the trouble to decide if abortion should be legal, they should put some effort into making the other options better.

And yet, no one is willing to find a "happy" medium. The group that I'm in on myspace that was founded to FIND the medium and work to end abortions and unwanted pregnancies, and to improve women's health and opportunities for things like childcare? It seems to have become a pro-life v pro-choice debate group.

God I love this thread... even though you just constantly go around in circles and everysingle argument has already been made and argued and everything, it's still great. It always gets me laughing. like with this:

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The baby could be something great.

You gotta' admit that's pretty funny.

Hm, I don't think that we are anyone to tell a rape victim to go through the pregnancy or force them. I for one have never been in that situation, and so I am no one to say that they should go through it. People who do I think are amazingly strong.

What they went through was horrible, but I still don't think it justifies taking a life. Or what could be a life.

And what Ikki said is true. The adoption centers in America need tons of help. So instead of the government foing to all the trouble to decide if abortion should be legal, they should put some effort into making the other options better.

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I'm against it, even in the case of rape.

I don't know. This seems rather harsh to me. What about the rape victim and their trauma? Why make them go through all that?

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The child could be put up for adoption.

See, here's the thing about adoption (for me at least). People always argue that adoption should be the alternative for abortion because there are many couples waiting to adopt. However, there are over 100,000 children, under the age of 16, who are waiting to be adopted. (As of 2005.) I've never understood why couples insist on babies when the children needing to be adopted usually don't need diapers changed.


Source: http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/cb/stats_research/afcars/trends.htm

It's hard to be a dead child if you were never a child to begin with.

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And being an unwanted child isn't punishment?

Being a dead child certainly is a punisment. The child could be put up for adoption.

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The baby could be something great.

Or something evil.

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Oh wait, that might be to mean

You can never be too mean.

Hmm...I have mixed feelings about abortions. It would suck to be an unwanted child, but then again the child could grow up to be someone important. On the other hand...they might not. And the mother would go through life wondering what would have happened to their child, or what they would have been. One or two lives could get ruined. The baby could be something great. You just never know. I really don't know if I'm for or against abortions...

Clpo, you should do that after some newb gives a speech about how their mom was going to give them up for abortions, ect, ect...

Oh wait, that might be to mean.

Every time I see this thread I just want to burst in and say "Yay abortions!"

But I won't. Wait, I already did.

Dang.