Given recent discussions on the subject which have quite frankly surprised me by the viewpoints that have come accross, I figured a simple poll is the way to go.
DO NOT turn this into a mudslinging fest with personal attacks and raving as opposed to thoughtful comments. In fact, the fewer comments the better. Just use the poll.
I just want to see what the statistics are of members of this site. Check all that apply.
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Last edited by BattleRifleG3; 03-09-2006 at 01:56 AM.
I as a man do not belive I should dictate what a woman can or cannot do with her body.
However in my mind it is murder if you hold a baby in the vigina to suficate it.
That is a viable humanbeing that if alowed to breath could be adopted if not wanted.
This poll allows you to select multiple options. I picked two and intended to pick three. Therefore with each reading 50%, half of the people who voted thus far (being me) selected two options, the other half (you) selected another option.
So basically of each option listed, X% of those who voted selected that option.
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I think it should be up to the states to decide. Also, the woman body is hers...but, i think late term should be restricted unless there is harm to the mother. I certainly don't think abortion should be used as a method of birth control.
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the results look pretty evenly spaced across the board. I personally think abortion should also be retroactive. Some kids need it. Yes, I am harsh, and I make no apologies for my positon.
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the results look pretty evenly spaced across the board. I personally think abortion should also be retroactive. Some kids need it. Yes, I am harsh, and I make no apologies for my positon.
Yep, I can think of several post-natal candidates for abortion.
All this talk of it being the womans body, and its her choice is a load of steaming horse craap!!! The womans body may hold the living baby, but it also took the semen from a man to makt the baby. There is no viable reason for the woman to have the only say because it is her body. If the man that laid down with that woman say that he wants the baby then there is no reason that he should not have the option of "making" her carry and deliver that baby, after all he made it just as much as she did. Why should she have all the say in the murder of an unborn child? Why have the famminist liberials stripped a man of the right to have the say on his childs life? In this "fair" country we live in that give ALL people equal rights the he should have the right to the life os his child.
As a father of three young boys I feel that life is to precious te end before the child has a chance to be born.
I'm pro-choice: YOU have the choice whether or not to have unprotected sex. There's a choice for ya!
I like that perspective.
My position is that it is absolutely wrong to take a human life and that a nation whose laws include prohibiting murder (as well they should) should include the lives of unborn children. As a Christian, I hold that a parent should be willing to lay down their life for their child, but would not expect that to be enforced by law. Therefore, I believe it is not the right choice but should be legal for abortion to save the life of the mother. There's MY compromise.
What I believe MUST also be addressed however is the issue of rape. I believe women pregnant due to a proveable rape should be taken care of by public resources, and that men convicted of rape be sentenced to labor to support this system. The ultimate in alimony and child support. The 13th Amendment bans slavery EXCEPT as punishment for a crime that a person has been legally convicted of. We need to excercise that provision. I believe adoption is a very good idea for rape conceived pregnancies. Gives both parent and child more distance from such a terrible event.
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Like murder and other serious crimes, abortion laws should still be on the state level.
I chose this opinion, but the way it is worded, it seems like the intent is that every State make abortion illegal, like they do murder and other serious crimes, but that is not my opinion ... my opinion is that the US is not delegated jurisdiction over abortion and therefore such jurisdiction remains with each State .... if one State made abortion illegal and another left it legal, I would respect each State's choice, and have no desire to interfere with either State's sovereignty, freedom, and independence in their internal affairs.
It seems that another facit of abortion has been brought up recently,that being if a woman wants to end her pregnancy she may,with out the consent of the partner,if she chooses to carry it to full term the partner must pay support,both without his consent.
Whatever the woman wants. She is the one in her situation and has the right to do what she wants. I mean who am I to tell her what to do, it is her baby not mine. Who cares about what I think? Certainly not some woman I don't know and who am I to tell her what to do?
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It seems that another facit of abortion has been brought up recently,that being if a woman wants to end her pregnancy she may,with out the consent of the partner,if she chooses to carry it to full term the partner must pay support,both without his consent.
Otherwise you'd have fathers all over the country simply disowning their kids, and saying that since it wasn't their idea to conceive they aren't going to support them.
And unlike a few of the peoplel who are h***-bent on making sure a kid gets born, I have this thing about making sure they get fed once they're here.
How do you get 150.00% 
