what side of the abortion debate am i on?

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Well i don't know what side of the abortion fight im on cause my thoughts about it are all over the place.
First of all i believe that if you do the deed you have to deal with the consequences. Getting a abortion should not be a option to adults or teens that have sex no matter if it was protected or the rubber broke who gets pregnant.
but!
I do believe that abortion should be available if the woman is raped or the child is a product of incest or having a child would kill or permanently harm the mother.
So which side of the abortion debate would you guys put me on?
 
Abortion is one of those issues that is defined by the way we talk about it. People in the pro-life movement, and the media, want to see it as a fence where everyone is either on one side or the other. But in fact it's more like a continuum, a range. Hardly anyone is completely pro-choice or pro-life, most of us are somewhere in between.

Much of pro-life rhetoric and logic comes from the Republican Party in the 1980 election campaign of Ronald Reagan. In those days, fundamentalist Christians were pro-life, but they would allow abortion in the cases of rape, incest, or danger to the HEALTH of the mother (not the LIFE of the mother).

But in succeeding years, they've cut out these exceptions. This has more to do with politics than faith. I think the idea was that if there were ever exceptions to a ban on abortion, the woman and her family and her doctor should decide, not the state. So they simply eliminated the exceptions.

The GOP has been 'working' this issue for political gain, they have tried to stretch it out as long as possible, and this is why they never actually tried to ban abortion. Ronald Reagan promised to propose a constitutional amendment, no less, declaring the pre-born as 'human' so any abortion would be murder.

But I still think most religious-based pro-lifers would allow exceptions in cases like rape, incest, really serious birth defects, danger to the health of the mother. They're just being reasonable.

And most pro-choicers have problems with, for instance, a thirteen year old girl getting an abortion without her parents knowing. Or with a woman carrying a healthy pregnancy into the 9th month and then deciding she wants an abortion for no good reason. So both sides would have exceptions.

So I would put you on the -reasonable- side. Somewhere in the middle. Like most of us. 8^)
 
There is no such thing as pro abortion. I am pro choice. That means that I support choice for all of the reasons you provide, and any others. It's none of my business. I don't think I could ever have an abortion but if I was ever in that situation it should be my decision.
 
You just quoted the Pro-Life side of the argument. Now, that is not to say that's how all Pro-Lifers believe, many believe it should never be an option, and would probably condemn you for your beliefs! This is just the "official" political stance you see in most Campaigns. I myself mostly agree with you. I believe it should never be performed, with the exception of the Mother's life being in serious danger. As for rape, there is always adoption. It's not the babies fault the person got raped.
 
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