Termination: Good Or Bad?

[Liverpool]

I was watching a documentary on which a single mother from London were to send a few weeks in a tribal village, and they ask her if she has had any kids.

She said yes, but her child had to terminated at birth due to the fact that she didnt want it.

Do you think that unexpectant mothers are playing as god, making lifes and ending lifes?

And should it be a crime to kill a baby via termination?

[ImMeSoHi]

No, personally I don't think that unexpectant mothers are playing god, they are choosing whether they want to have a child and bring it up.
Sometimes the mother won't have the resources to bring a child up at that moment in her life and wouldn't want to bring a child into a world where she couldn't provide for it.

Again no, why should it be a crime when it really isn't a baby until it's heart starts beating (my own opinion), it is merely a ball of cells with the prospects of life.

Who is to say whether a woman is to have a baby or not?
Surely it's her choice if she wants to keep her own child?

[MarvinRules]

Jul 28, 2010 7:21:15 GMT -8 Liverpool said:

I was watching a documentary on which a single mother from London were to send a few weeks in a tribal village, and they ask her if she has had any kids.

She said yes, but her child had to terminated at birth due to the fact that she didnt want it.

Do you think that unexpectant mothers are playing as god, making lifes and ending lifes?

And should it be a crime to kill a baby via termination?

First of all it is not that easy of a choice for most women. Most women who choose to terminate a fetus do so after alot of thinking when it is unwanted.
However there are many other reasons to allow women a choice. One of wich is rape. If you are a woman and you are raped and become pregnant because of that rape it would be TORTURE to force a woman to carry the baby to term. Even if they had the option to give it up, the pregnancy would prevent them from moving on. They would be reminded of the rape every single day for the full term of the pregnancy. Then after the child is bourn, they will carry the memory of the rape, and giving birth to the product of that rape for the rest of their lives. How can you expect a woman to take are of herself if she is carrying something that remids her of such a horrid event. Many women who have been forced to carry a baby of rape will try to abort it in other ways, such as drink heavily. Or they will turn to illegal drugs, even if they never considered doing such drugs before in their lives. Or they will try to hurt themselves in order to get rid of the baby. Many women can't move on with their lives afer a rape when there is no baby. There is no way that those women could handle carrying a pregnancy that was from a rape.

[Former Member]

No child should be bought to this world if they were not conceived under true love, or not intended.

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[Hero]

Jul 28, 2010 9:05:37 GMT -8 @zar said:

No child should be bought to this world if they were not conceived under true love, or not intended.

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Because Adoption isn't a possibility, right?

[daniel]

99% of the time, it's murder for convenience.

This is my own subjective viewpoint, based upon every other definition of murder. That society doesn't consider it murder is an odd happenstance of history.

[Former Member]

[Joy]

Jul 28, 2010 9:05:37 GMT -8 @zar said:

No child should be bought to this world if they were not conceived under true love, or not intended.

^end.

Many married people do not have this true love. There are different reasons they might stay and most often children are born into this union. Love has little to do with it.

[Zephyr]

Jul 28, 2010 10:12:49 GMT -8 daniel said:

99% of the time, it's murder for convenience.

This is my own subjective viewpoint, based upon every other definition of murder. That society doesn't consider it murder is an odd happenstance of history.

If it's a human, it is murder. But why do you consider it to be a human?

[Former Member]

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[Dumezil]

From what I understand of the OP, it sounds like the baby was killed after it was born. I think that is disgusting.

I understand what a female feels when she is afraid that she may be pregnant and how you just want it gone and to forget about the whole thing. It isn't easy.

Still, I consider it a crime to kill a baby before or after it is born. Rape is a difficult situation but otherwise I think people who have sex should realize and accept the posibility of having a baby or just not have sex at all.

Jul 28, 2010 9:09:13 GMT -8 @zar said:

Jul 28, 2010 9:07:48 GMT -8 Hero said:

Because Adoption isn't a possibility, right?

Adoption is either sympathy or selfishness or no other option
;D

What?

[Former Member]

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[• Ambrose •]

Either have a baby or don't. I don't like it when people have abortions because they are always unnecessary. I understand the rape situation, but if there's a baby, it's there for a reason. Always assume that everyone's here for a reason, be it good or bad. There are people out there that can help affected victims get through certain situations. Killing a baby, whether it's been born or not, is only going to make things worse, not for just the mother, but for the others that such a baby could've affected. I always believe that abortion should be illegal. It's murder, no matter what stage the child is at.

If you don't want a baby, don't make one, then. If you get a baby, keep it or give it away. There are plenty of families out there that are in desperate want of a child of their own when they couldn't conceive on their own. By letting something "bad" exist, something good could come out of it.

[Dumezil]

Jul 28, 2010 11:14:55 GMT -8 @zar said:

Jul 28, 2010 11:04:07 GMT -8 Dumezil said:

From what I understand of the OP, it sounds like the baby was killed after it was born. I think that is disgusting.

I understand what a female feels when she is afraid that she may be pregnant and how you just want it gone and to forget about the whole thing. It isn't easy.

Still, I consider it a crime to kill a baby before or after it is born. Rape is a difficult situation but otherwise I think people who have sex should realize and accept the posibility of having a baby or just not have sex at all.





What?

Well what else is it?

Sympathy for the children without parents.

Selfishness in the sense it's just for you and not the child.

And 'no other choice' means that they cannot most likely conceive their own child and adoption is only the other choice.

So what else is it?

I have NO idea what you are saying.

The parents without children are getting or recieving the sympathy?

Abortion is for themselves and not the child?

I'm just not piecing together what you are saying, SAR. Are you for or against abortion or adoption?

[Former Member]

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