<p>I am so glad I was "forced" to be born...</p>
<p>By the way, carrying a baby for 9 months does not constitute "ruining a woman's life", prior to giving it up for adoption. What is 9 months out of say 70 or 80 years if it means someone can have life?</p>
<p>If they're college bound and they lose 9 months of school, it is life ruining. You can't go to school pregneant!</p>
<p>you are all idiot college students, you don't make changes or really even have a day nor do I and I am the same as you. you are all talking about **** that you have no idea of what you are talking. The majority of you should look back think logically and read your posts.</p>
<p>WHY can't a girl go to school pregnant???</p>
<p>Are you kidding? </p>
<ol>
<li>Morning sickness.</li>
<li>Kids are made fun of when they're fat. What about when they're pregneant?!</li>
<li>Teachers may (and probably will) discriminate against them.</li>
<li>Pregneant people have to be careful or else they'll lose the baby. That means no gym, and no stress. School has stress.</li>
</ol>
<p>Oh, you are referring to high school. Yes, it is more difficult in high school. I know girls who did it, though. Not so bad nowadays as it was 30 years ago. Anyway, I thought you meant college.</p>
<p>Why the hell can't the government legislate morality? That's just some pro-choice ******** argument that will never hold up. Not killing, not stealing, that's morality. Slavery was a moral issue (Douglass lost, my friend).</p>
<p>People are so caught up in ******** "rights talk" where we have this right and you have this right and everyone has this right they forget where those rights even come from, or the moral core that was and still is behind any human rights. </p>
<p>And pregnancy morning sickness? Wow, ok. It occurs in about 2/3 of women and in those 2/3 for about 10 weeks on average (roughly the 5th week to the 15th week). Really will ruin your life.</p>
<p>If you are mature enough to be having sex and getting pregnant, I'm pretty sure you can handle the "emotional trauma" of having some dumbass idiots visually judge you. </p>
<p>I hardly even need to address the 4th point. "Hey, let's just kill all the unborn children. If we don't, they may die anyway!" That's logical.</p>
<p>And UB-Vinny77: learn how to write a coherent, meaningful sentence (like "us idiot college students"). Thank you.</p>
<p>And one last thing PurpoisePal: you may want to look up Roe v. Wade. ALL abortions, whether or not the fetus is viable or not, are legal under federal law (it's legal to kill a baby until it's taken its first breath). You essentially stated that the government cannot change the abortion status quo, then went on to disagree sharply with current law.</p>
<p>Look- if you ban abortion, it'll happen anyway. Worse, even, these abortions will be performed in secret and will be often done using makeshift tools like coat hangers and overdose on certain medication. Not only will abortion continue to go on, but it will hurt the mother so much more than it already does. </p>
<p>El Salvador (and a few other countries) has made abortion a felony. A woman can get 2-8 years in prison, and in some cases, even up to 30. Here's an interesting article I think you should read: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/09/magazine/09abortion.html?ex=1302235200&en=d855d80018cd6c56&ei=5088&partner=rssuserland%5B/url%5D">http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/09/magazine/09abortion.html?ex=1302235200&en=d855d80018cd6c56&ei=5088&partner=rssuserland</a>
It came out like last year in the NYT magazine.</p>
<p>PurpoisePal,</p>
<p>Certain drugs are illegal, yet people use them anyway. Certain guns are illegal, yet people obtain them anyway. It's illegal to speed, yet people speed anyway. Does that mean all those laws shouldn't exist because people will break them anyway? That's ridiculous. People will break any law - and if you break the law, you will likely pay the consequences. Simple as that.</p>
<p>That's a sad story, but the simple answer is to prosecute not the women who have back-alley abortions (and, in a country much poorer than the US, only about 100/6.5 million people each year are caught doing this) but the abortionist, since they are the ones that actually kill the baby. There are a lot of very poor people in a lot of places that turn to crime to avoid economic fallout and often pay very harsh consequences, but that doesn't mean they weren't wrong committing a crime. The author of that article tries to make it sound like law in the US is just like everyone's moral code or something - that because its perfectly legal in the US to get an abortion, any country that prohibits them is automatically wrong. As if US law has never been wrong before...</p>
<p>bump.........</p>
<p>No, don't bump.</p>
<p>This tired, beaten down argument needs to be terminated (no pun intended).</p>
<p>(crap I just bumped it)</p>
<p>Did you mean to say it should be aborted? (pun intended)</p>
<p>muahahahah! termination is also language used when talking about abortion- but that works too</p>
<p>I can't believe this thread is back...please don't revive the old, hackneyed, ideological debates. we've had enough of it.</p>