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« on: November 29, 2009, 07:16:56 pm »Message ID: 114127
Now, many people might call be a hipocrite because I am against the death penalty, but for abortion. Now, there are specific reasons why. 1. Death penalty is not giving a person a right to their own body and killing them. They should be punished by having to live with the guilt (hopefully they feel guilt) and other horrible feelings of what they have done. Then they will die and if there's a god or whatever being they believe in they will be judged accordingly. 2. Taking away a person's right to their body (as in abortion) is wrong. Unless someone is going to take the embryo from the woman and put it in a surrogate (which to my knowledge can't be done) then no one should be forcing someone to have a baby, even if they will put it up for adoption. 3. Yes, it is terrible that a tiny life gets snuffed out before it can begin, but that is where another point comes in. I am tired of hearing about children being neglected, beaten, thrown in trashes, drowned, shaken to death, etc. Because someone couldn't handle being a parent or couldn't ask for help and their children suffered because of it. Do you think it is better to let someone who does not want a baby be responsible for having one and then have that child end up in the trash, drowned, etc. dead?! I don't know when our souls (if you believe in souls) come into bodies, but I can't remember what it was like when I was in the womb so I am going to assume there was not too much to know about. So I am not saying any life is worth more than another, but forcing someone who isn't fit to be a parent or not ready to handle parenthood have a child and end up hurting them or killing them is worse for the child who has to suffer through the experience than just being aborted a month or so after conception.
It sucks, but think about it, I don't want to hear that a 14 year old girl threw her baby away. I don't want to hear about parents who kept their children in cages, or a mother who drowned all of her children. If they are too embarrassed or think people will look down on them for getting aborted that they don't get one, then something horrible happens to the children, then that is more horrible than an abortion (to me). Plus, if they were forced to have the child and then decided to give it up for adoption, well there would be a ton more children who need to be adopted and right now there are already too many who need homes that aren't getting them. And on top of that there will always be back alley abortion clinics and desperate women trying to take things into their own hands and those options can be deadly and dirty and scarring for life.
So, those are just my views and my opinions. There will always be a debate about this, it isn't something that is going to go away, and it is hard to say there is a clear cut wrong and right answer, but I try to weigh the positive and negatives of each, and for me not having orphanages or whatever overrun with more children, and babies in trash cans, or babies shaken or drowned, is a good thing and that is what could happen if abortion were illegal. Some may argue that stuff like this didn't used to happen so often many many years ago, but times have changed. There weren't people always shooting up schools or public places either, and now for some reason people think it is okay for them to be cowardly and hurt others then kill themselves, but I digress.
Thanks for asking a good debatable question!
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