What are your views on abortion?

Pro-choice all the way! If it wasn't for that - I wouldn't have the children that I really wanted!

Wow! Pretty fast for a newbie!! Already your first survey - I'm impressed!!

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I believe that a woman should have the ultimate say in whether or not she will conceive. So in that sense I am pro-choice. I find the act of abortion as it is currently performed loathsome and wish that a dirt cheap, effective and extremely safe 'morning after' pill existed.

I believe that it should be a woman's right to choose. Having said that, I will say that I don't agree with women using abortion as a form of birth control. I also don't think there should be any abortions after the first trimester of pregnancy, except in extreme cases.

There should always be an opportunity for women to have an abortion, for example after rape or incest. It's their body and their choice.

I believe that for women to be free and equal in our society, they need to have access to birth control, which includes abortion. Without this, they are slaves to their own biology and will always been seen as inferior to men. I see no value in forcing women to have unwanted children. I believe that the unborn fetus/child should be considered part of the woman's body and it should be her choice what to do about it.
I think our society puts undue value on children. We have plenty of children, the problem is more that we are not raising them very well. I'd rather we put more emphasis on how children are raised and educated than on pure production numbers,

I don't think abortion should be used as an on-going birth control method, but there are way too many cases where it's necessary. My friend was sexually abused by her father for years and wound up pregnant&had an abortion. Every time I hear someone say they are pro-life, I think of her.

I am both depending on the situation.

This is not the first survey this newbie made.

Smart cookie this one ain't she?

pro choice............

I'm kinda mixed on this issue. I think it really depends on the situation. (rape and things like that)

Pro-choice describes it; it should be the woman's choice whether or not to get an abortion. A woman should neither be prevented from getting an abortion, even when others think she shouldn't get one, nor forced to get an abortion, even when others think she should get one.

I am pro-death.

pro-choice.

Does not say alot for survey creators that have been around a while and still can't make a survey and get it out of qual fast. It is not that hard to create a survey that is correct in every way. I don't know her so I don't know if she is a smart cookie or not

I am against abortion. Abortion is like killing the baby after it is born. It is also against religion.

Pro-choice, but I'm fairly sure I could never have an abortion. In most situations I think it's a somewhat selfish thing to do, but there's no way it should ever be illegal and I would try my best to be supportive of anyone who uses this choice responsibly. Being adopted myself, and also being someone who has potential fertility problems puts a kind of confusing spin on the issue.

Really--good job. I am not only impressed--I am jealous.

Things aren't so black and white as the American pro-life pro-choice argument would like us to believe. Pro-choice makes it sound like you can basically kill babies 2 minutes before they are born, pro-life like you don't have the right to have an abortion if you can't feed your child, if simply know it will be hard for you to love him, or if he's deformed or something. Like always the best thing is in the middle: I'm all pro-choice until a brain starts developing, I don't care if your embryo has cute little hands, but I won't abort anything with a brain...*unless* he has some severe physical or mental problems I couldn't notice before. And I wouldn't abort anything that could survive on his own.
So it seems to me that you need to have the right to abortion, but you should never never take abortion lightly, because it's not a "good" thing, it's not natural, but it's sometimes necessary so that worse things won't happen.

I agree.

Choice.

I've always been pro-choice. Well, for as long as I can remember, that is.

Pro-life, except in the case where mom's life is in danger or maybe even raped.

I was born to a 17 year old girl. My 18 year old dad told my mom to have an abortion. The only reason I'm here now is because my mom is/was/always has been pro-life. I'm so grateful for that!

I don't really think there's ever a need for partial-birth abortion. Most times, the baby can survive outside the womb.

I am pro-choice, but I feel that there should be a limit on how late abortions can be carried out (unless the mother's physical or mental health is in serious danger, even if it isn't life-threatening, or their are other babies in the womb which could be harmed or the baby itself is unlikely to have any real quality of life). While I accept that "life" begins at conception (or even before, since the sex cells are both alive), I don't believe that the same value should be placed on a blastocyst (hollow ball of cells) as on an actual baby. The "value" of developmental stages between the blastocyst and baby are more subjective, but having a cut-off at around the same date a baby could be born and survive seems about right to me.

Abortion should be mandatory.

I am fully pro-choice. I could say more but its too big a subject.

It amuses me how the words have deliberately changed. No longer are people 'anti-abortion'. No-one likes the word 'anti' - so 'they' had to change it to pro-life.

I am all for drop-in clinics and making it as easy as possible.

Pro-choice. I think it is personally a very difficult decision, but that ultimately it has to be up the the individual woman. It's great if the man involved can have some input, but that's not always possible. In certain cases, it also seems like an obvious choice--incest, rape, severe birth defects or risk to the mother. This recent ban on late-term abortions mostly affects women whose babies would not survive long once they were born, and I think it's more humane to abort. If a healthy pregnancy is far enough along that baby would be able to live (for a long time, ideally) without massive hospitalization, then I don't think abortion should be an option; at that point, the woman has passed her opportunity to make that choice. I don't think abortion should be treated as a means of birth-control, and I do think there's some sticky stuff that goes on in determining the stage at which it's not OK to have an abortion anymore. But no one should be able to force a woman to have a baby she doesn't want to have.

"they are slaves to their own biology and will always been seen as inferior to men."

Wow, slaves and inferior. I can't understand why anyone would think a person who can carry another little one in their body for 9 months and give birth could be inferior! That takes a lot of strength! In a way, when a woman carries a baby to term, she's doing God's work for Him. In my opinion, the men are inferior because they are inherently unable to do this miraculous deed. And if technology got to the point that a man could get pregnant and give birth, I'd love to see a man volunteer to do it. I bet very few would.

I can maybe see how you would equate it to slavery. I used to see it that way. But I'm getting to the point where I want to have a baby. I think I can handle 8-9 months of "slavery" for another person to be able to live a full life.

Pro choice for others, pro life for myself.
I've swung the other way again.

pro-choice up until the kid's around 6...

First things first, you need to make up your own mind on how you feel. Please don't let anyone tell you what you should think... with that said I'm Pro-choice all the way. Who am I to tell someone what they are to do with their body and their life? I wouldn't appreciate someone telling me what is right or wrong, each situation is different, and each needs to be treated differently. However I am against partial birth abortions. The girl should have her mind made up well before that becomes an option.

Yes, you wouldn't be here now if your mother had had an abortion instead of continuing her pregnancy, the same way you wouldn't be here now if your mother, as a teenager, had practiced abstinence instead of having sex and getting pregnant. Would that be a reason to make abstinence illegal, to force teenage girls to have sex and get pregnant against their will? No? Then I don't see why it's a reason to make abortion illegal, to force those same teenage girls to continue a pregnancy against their will.

I agree, women aren't inferior, and yet our male-dominated society treats them that way. I agree, pregnancy and birth are amazing and require a lot of strength (both physical and emotional). It is amazing what women can do, what they put up with! Why is it that our society doesn't give women more respect? It seems very unfair to me.

Regarding "slavery", I meant more that without birth-control (including the option to abort), women can get pregnant anytime they have sex and the consequence is very serious (9 months, plus 20 years after that raising the child - it's a life changing event). Without control over when they give birth, women have 2 choices, no sex or 20+ years of motherhood.

Men, on the other hand, can have sex all they want and there is no real consequence. Yes, as fathers, we're suppose to help or something, but it's really a joke. If the man doesn't want to, he can just take off. There's no biological need for the man to be in the picture.

I see this as inherently unfair. Our different biological make-up creates and unfair situation. Birth control for women is a revolution that equals the playing field and allows women to have a choice in the matter of what they wanted to do with their lives.

I'm sure many women want to have children, and that's great, but I want it to be their choice. I want them to have as much freedom as men do.

That was very well said.

Just wanted to point out that generally women are only fertile 2-3 days out of their entire cycle. But I still agree with you completely. Just a little technical detail.

Beautifully put.

Firmly pro-choice.

WADYA MEAN???

about which part?

"survey creators that have been around a while and still can't make a survey and get it out of qual fast"

I was just feigning indignation!

That's true that had they not had sex that night I still wouldn't be here. But, once they did and the egg and sperm met, I was here. Even if she did abort me I still would've been here for a small period of time.
There have been times though that I've thought all would've ended up better if she'd put me up for adoption. I know my Dad would've made it further in life. He may have very little common sense, but when it comes to technical stuff I swear the man's a genius. It's too bad he didn't get a degree in Engineering.
My Mom's the same way.

I am 100 per cent PRO CHOICE, but I do have a problem with women who use it as birth control because either they or their partners don't want to take the responsibility of prevent pregnancy. I'm not talking about accidently getting pregnant, but those who get abortions a couple of times a year because of not using birth control. I know several women who have done this and I feel that it's the responsibilty of both partners in a hetero relationship to prevent pregnancy. It's not the woman's sole responsibilty, nor the man's, but both of their's equally!

Yes, the consequences are great, but whatever happened to the idea of adoption? As I said above, I've often wondered how much better off my parents (and possibly me) would've been if they had put me up for adoption.

And frankly, I go with the thought that once the woman spreads her legs for that man, she's made her choice for the consequences. Pregnancy is just the least of her worries. You can't just go get an "abortion" if you get AIDS. You can't just "abort" the emotional effect it takes either. Sex is just not that simple and to expect there not to be consequences is immature.
(Rape is another issue, of course)

I think people think it is too hard to make a good survey and make it right the first time. Many people make good surveys that never get 1 nitpick or NW it is not that hard. You just have to think about everything involved in making a survey instead of rushing the process and forgetting things such as obvious options or category.

I had some that I never even got to fix... (I'm so used to fixin' things there!) ...like the goat meat one. Hey! That reminds me - there's one I wanted to post for the past week but had not found the time to do it. Since you put a lot of time in qualification, let's see if you can guess if I'm the creator or not! This present survey is old enough for the rest of the regular users to not use the signal I'll suggest to you to use when you think I have created the survey while it's in qual. K? It's just for fun! I'll make sure I visit SC regularly when I post a new survey so I can look out for your signal. I know you come here enough to have a good idea as to who is posting a survey so I'll test your skills (without changing my style) to see if you can recognize me! It's not that I try to hide it - it's just that you're anonymous when you post a survey! I'll post a survey right now and if you think it's mine; your code will be to make your comment (as you would for any survey) with an "idea" symbol ( ) when you think it's mine and I'll reply with a "match" symbol () when you're right - but keep it to yourself. Remember, this is for fun!

I'll be seeing you! (Or you'll be seeing me!)

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Wow, that's a strong statement to make regarding your parents/adoption. Surely, your life would have been completely different if that had happened. You'd be a different person!

Yes, certainly anyone having sex should take precautions (i.e. condoms!), but I don't think it's right to punish people who screw-up. Also, as I mentioned before, I think there is inherent unfairness in our biology. A man's only concern are sexually transmitted diseases, but a woman has the additional worry of pregnancy. I think it's natural for both sexes to want to have sex and we shouldn't have a double-standard where it's not OK to woman to "spread her legs" (but it is OK for men).

The relabelling of "anti-abortion" as "pro-life" is in response to the equivalent labelling of "pro-abortion" as "pro-choice".

mostly pro-choice, with a few government regulations. Make sure all the doctors have proper licences, and put pressure on women to get coucling afterwards and to get their abortions as soon as possible ahead of time, rather than to wait until they're like 7 months pregnate. I mean, yeah, there's a difference between 3 month pregacy and 7 month pregnacy, and I understand moraltic conserns once you get to that point. Women should rely more on using protection and the morning after pill, and gettign their aboritions as quickly as possible, instead of waiting for the fetus to develop and all.

I am pro-choice for the simple fact that I think you should have the right to decide your own future, it's called free will. I personally would never be able to have an abortion myself, but I am thankful to have the right to make up my own mind. There are certain circumstances where someone would never think twice about having an abortion: rape, incestuous rape, fatal risk too high for mother, etc. I might not feel the way I do now if I were a victim of rape; however, I would still have the choice to do what I felt was right for me. My best friend was an unplanned pregnancy of an unwed teenager. Her mother had a choice and chose to have the baby. Thankfully, she chose not to have the abortion and my friend is here today. However, if she had not had the baby, she would have been able to go to college and continue her life on the easy track it was following. Choices are what make us who we are.

I am pro-life, due to the fact that everyone deserves a chance at life. Adoption is a much better option, and there are millions of couples out there who desperately want a family but can't. I know it goes much deeper than that, involving rape and incest and birth defects, but as a general opinion, I don't agree with abortion. Rape, incest and birth defects aren't a matter of choice. If a woman chooses abortion for one of these reasons, I think it should be done very, very early on. If she chooses abortion for any other reason, it is dead wrong. Don't risk getting pregnant if you're not ready to be a mother. It's as simple as that. Use birth control. If you can't handle a pill, a shot, or a patch, there's another form of birth control called Noassatall.

If you are against abortions, then don't get one, but don't limit other's rights!

I think abortion as a from of birth control is terrible, and while i'm not wild about other reasons for abortion, I do think it should remain legal. It would be great if all pregnancies led to birth, but I can't make that choice for everyone. Making it illegal only makes the body count rise as women will continue to have the operation performed by unaccredited doctors who butcher them with coat hangers and the like.
So I wish no one would do it, but I won't criminalize anyone for it.

As far as the question of when life begins, I think it's wrong for pro-choicers to trivialize the fetus as something not human. It is a human life. I don't think that makes it murder, though. It's more of a pathetic mercy killing where one tells oneself that it's the baby that would have a miserable existence, when really it's usually the mother that would.

I believe if a woman is raped, the child is deformed, or the woman is not able to emotionally (to young) or mentally not able to cope with the child, then it's better to abort. If you're just a slut and get pregnant coz you weren't careful then there's no excuse.

Other.

Abortion is Murder, plain and simple...it's an innocent unborn life taken.