Abortion poll (may be triggering)

I don't think there are many pro-lifers here. Apart from a couple of religious groups (and I do mean a couple), basically no one is pro life. Or at least, too scared to admit it.

 

@Hexagon,

I think maybe it is different in your country than it would be in America. There are still many MANY pro-life people here who are the product of the still overly religious society that is this country, and research (as shown above) shows that opinion is split 60/40, still in favor of abortion but not by a very wide margin.

 

@MerBer,

OMG, you do? I feel bad for you. I haate the Carolinas. I actually plan on moving to Charlotte some time (cuz my sister lives there, actually, two of my sisters, my brother, and my niece and soon to be nephew live there XD) but the few times I have been to visit it was AWFUL. We actually had skinheads harassing my sister and her girlfriend one time.

So, yeah, from my sister's stories and what I have seen her deal with, I know how hard it is to be a gay girl in North Carolina

 

NO to Abortion! How if youre that baby and youre not born cos youre aborted by your mom and no one told her she cant?? That abortion is wrong? That is life were talking about here people. I cant believe this

 

Hehe, no I'm not. I'm from Europe. But it should be noted that you don't have to be non-religious to be pro-choice. My parents, for instance, are both religious and pro-choice (though they don't actually like abortion).

Yes, but foetuses are not self aware, and they never have been. They've got no memories or sense of self. I would not exist had I been aborted, and so I wouldn't have been able to form an opinion on it. But if I'd been born to parents who would have wanted to abort me, but couldn't, I could have ended up neglected or abused, I might have been dumped in care and all sorts of things. And regardless, there are too many people in the world.

Saying that its life, and therefor must not be killed, doesn't really work. Life ends all the time. How many people have dumped disinfectant down a toilet? That kills life. Billions of bacteria. I wouldn't say that is morally wrong. So if we can't argue it from a point of life, what? I approach it from a point of view of awareness, and unborn foetuses are not self-aware.

If you want to look at things that way, though, my best friend once thought she was pregnant. She'd used contraception, but her periods were late. She was seventeen, in college. She was going to have an abortion if she was pregnant. She wasn't pregnant. But her life and education would have basically been destroyed if she'd been forced to go through with a pregnancy. Apart from basically being subjected to slavery by being forced to have a child against her will, how is the termination of her education and all that fair on her?

I don't usually like arguing from anecdotes, but I felt like it.

 

Yes a lot of my family moved there for some weird reason. We aren't even FROM the South we're from Pittsburgh XD but yeah a lot of them live there now and I plan on staying with my sister there, some time down the line.

 

@Martin,

I don't like the term pro-life either! It's manipulative actually. I was going to put something like "pro-fetus" in my earlier post XD

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Heeeey, keeewl! If I ever get there we'll have to grab a bite together sometime. Ooh! OMG, when you turn 18 I will have my sister find you a girlfriend, lololz XD she has looots of LGBT connections there.

Ever hear of Time Out Youth? She used to be pretty big with them.

 

but being pro-choice does not mean you personally are pro-abortion
i am firmly pro-choice, and always will be

 

Well, like they basically just have lectures and seminars and things and talk about LGBT issues and provide support for LGBT youth. It was a really great program and she loved it when she was involved in it. She loooved the director, Steve Bentley I think his name is?

But yeah, anyway, she used to speak for them and share her coming out story (which...my mom back then...let's just say it wasn't a very happy one). You should go! It would be a good experience for you <3

 

Actually "pro choice" is the pro abortion movement so..

 

No, it isn't. Pro-choice means you are in favor of the choice being made by the person who is pregnant. Pro-abortion means you are willing to have an abortion yourself.

 

As far as my research "pro-choice" is also known as the United states abortion rights movement.