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There are Legitimate Reasons Why a Woman Might Have an Abortion
- From Ayn Rand Center for Individual Rights
By Ayn Rand Center for Individual Rights - Advancing Objectivism
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With legitimate reasons yes abortion
I don't don't believe that abortion should be used as a form of birth control. I think that there should be a legitimate reason such as, family rape, rape, medical vulnerability, but a person who is willing and get's pregnant should not have the choice if the baby will be healthy and the mother will survive. I think abortion should be legal but with more restrictions.
- bercie87
November 11, 2008 12:39PM
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Like I've said ...
Abortion needs to be looked at just like any other killing. But this argument doesn't suit the title, and is otherwise, for the most part, quite ridiculous.
- JKM121
November 18, 2008 7:12PM
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Shameless Hyperbole
A woman having to raise a child that she doesn't want is a "death sentence," huh? How ironic that you would choose such language when you are advocating the quite literal death sentence of the child.
- P-Dunn
January 16, 2009 4:52PM
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The Primary Consideration.....
is the right of an existing human being to do as she pleases with her own body. This includes not undergoing a pregnancy in order to arrange for the adoption of the resulting child, unless it is her wish to do so. To force her to do so, against her will, is to mandate that she undergo a serious illness that will last the better part of a year, and which could affect her ability to earn her living, among other serious consequences. A rational woman will have utilized proper birth control to the very best of her ability, which will in nearly all cases allow her to avoid this issue entirely, but, even if not, it is still profoundly wrong to mandate what a person may do with her own body.
- adeese
December 5, 2009 7:13PM
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