Should Abortion be Legal?

Should Abortion be Legal?

The landmark Supreme Court case Roe v. Wade was supposed to settle the question of abortion’s legality once and for all, but the Court’s ruling has instead become a fulcrum of debate. Placed squarely at the intersection of civil rights, health, religion and law, abortion is one of America’s most heated controversies.

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Abortion Has a Negative Impact on Communities and Society at Large
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  • Wendy
    Collectivism has a negative impact on human life

    Even if we accepted your ridiculous argument in all its vagaries that abortion has a negative impact on communities and society at large, it would be completely irrelevant. The issue is not communities or societies. The issue is individual rights. There is no such thing as a moral decision to override the rights of the individual. Overriding the rights of the individual is the negation of morality.

    By the way, nothing good has ever come from communities overriding individual rights. Study world history.

    - WendyUS September 1, 2008 10:28AM

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  • marilyn48813
    some things should be personal in a free country

    I say government and church's have no right to interfere in a woman's choice about her own body..Only she knows what is best for her and her situation and being forced to give birth to a child changes a mothers life forever, rather it be a choice to keep the child or give that child up for adoption.
    and most unwanted pregnancies are the burden of poor women who don't either can't care for them properly or she was a victim of rape or incest and no way should she be forced to have that child.....
    A person I feel has a better chance to get over an abortion then to have a child they give up and wonder the rest of their life where and how that child is......
    I say as long as it is very early in the pregnancy, abortion should be an option available to all women and decided between her, her doctor and if involved the father of that fetus....that is my stand.....

    - marilyn48813US October 11, 2008 5:31PM

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  • batymahn
    Having Babies Stresses the System

    Perhaps you haven't heard, there was a detailed study of what factors most influence murder rates, guess what, access to abortion was number ONE. The problem is that having babies stresses families who already have limited resources.

    Further, it doesn't make sense to expect young men and women to be perfect reproductive human beings, then when they make a mistake to require them to have a child. (We are programmed to reproduced; that's how our specie survived.) And, by the way, you only get 2 years of welfare because we don't want to pay for your mistake.

    Didn't Jesus say something about forgiving sins?

    - batymahnUS May 21, 2009 10:33AM

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