Should abortion be legal?

That's how I feel too. I don't find abortion morally wrong but I do find it morally questionable to bring a child into this world that you cannot provide a good life for, and potentially create a lifetime of suffering. It is best to terminate the pregnancy before the organism is capable of suffering.

I also don't think going through the painful process of child birth and then having to give up your child via adoption is a reasonable expectation to have of people. The mother will always grow attached to the baby, and losing your child can be emotionally traumatizing and scarring.

I also think saying life starts at conception is just a bit silly. After fertilization the blastocyst has to implant in the uterus, and the vast majority of blastocysts do not. That would mean 80%+ of humans die in the womb and get flushed down the toilet never to be heard of. The truth is they were never living in the first place.

If a so-called "living" organism needs to feed off another organism to survive, then it is not living. This is where the aspect of choice comes in: it's a woman's body and it's her choice whether she wants to raise this organism into a living human. Other people, living or not, do not have the right to use her body against her will. Saying she must allow another organism to zap her of her resources is a fundamental attack on her liberty and autonomy.


Either way, even if you make it illegal, that doesn't mean people won't get abortions. Indeed they'll still get abortions, just with much more awful societal consequences. An Iraqi friend of mine told me a story once. A teenage girl got pregnant sleeping with her boyfriend. She didn't want her family to find out, because it would have brought them shame, so she went to a back-alley abortion doctor. The doctor said he would agree to help her abort the baby, but she would need to agree to have sex with him whenever pleases, or else he'll rat her and her family out. Sure enough, that is what happened, and he also started sharing her around with his friends too. She was gangraped almost daily, until she gave up and ended her own life. That's just one story, there millions of other like her in this world. There are many who get coat-hanger back-alley abortions who either die or get seriously injured, these women are many people's mothers or providers. I don't think we should animate the unanimated fetus over the actual living human carrying it.

illegal. Don't wanna get pregnant?....use protection.

Obviously there are exceptions.

Well first of all, if someone was raped they didn't give consent so it would be completely unfair for the girl to have to be pregnant for 9 months and stop work for something that was out of her control, and also the child would grow up either having one parent or knowing that they were only born because their mum was raped.
I don't think that would be good for either the mothers or Childs mental health.