Poll: Are you favour of any limited form of abortion?

Tim Robbins

Just so I stop generalising, I thought it would be helpful to get some answers to any form of abortion that you might be in favor of. Please answer the following question.

martinnew

Not another thread.

martinnew

Abortion = Targeting the life of the Child, is wrong..


If the mothers life is at risk we ALREADY have the adequate laws to save her life.

No need to change the status quo in Ireland.

Also there is already a thread on abortion here.

KwackerJack

2 Doctors disagree the mother's life is at risk?

I am against it to a degree!!

If a woman is raped its going to be devastating of course but I do think the baby should be allowed to live, It's an innocent life!

The only time I think abortion is needed is if the mother is in imminent danger of death then and only then!
I have a son but I am a man so I do not really understand what a woman goes through.

If she is suicidal its the states right to look after 'both' lives and not just one!!

Who's to say if a suicidal woman has an abortion that she will not regret it and may then still take her own life??

georgieporgy

The poll is meaningless because it is not accurate. You should say "elective abortion" where the prime intention of the act is to terminate the life of the pregnancy.

Many people confuse miscarriage with abortion (because the medical term for miscarriage is abortion). Or medical interventions to treat an illness of the mother (cancer , ectopic pregnancy, etc) which result in abortion/miscarriage. Such interventions are not abortions to save the life of the mother as the abortion is merely a sad side effect of the treatment of the underlying pathology.

"Pro Choice" individuals often like to confuse the two to get the ignorant masses onside.

PopePalpatine

I am against all forms of abortion

georgieporgy wrote: »

The poll is meaningless because it is not accurate. You should say "elective abortion" where the prime intention of the act is to terminate the life of the pregnancy.

Many people confuse miscarriage with abortion (because the medical term for miscarriage is abortion). Or medical interventions to treat an illness of the mother (cancer , ectopic pregnancy, etc) which result in abortion/miscarriage. Such interventions are not abortions to save the life of the mother as the abortion is merely a sad side effect of the treatment of the underlying pathology.

"Pro Choice" individuals often like to confuse the two to get the ignorant masses onside.

First of all - IIRC, you said that women should model themselves after a woman who decided to die instead of abort a pregnancy that threatened her life.

Second - here's a medical definition of abortion:

American Heritage Medical Dictionary, 2004-7 edition wrote:

a·bor·tion (-bôrshn)
n.
1. Induced termination of a pregnancy with destruction of the fetus or embryo; therapeutic abortion.
2. Any of various procedures that result in such a termination of pregnancy.
3. Spontaneous abortion.
4. Cessation of a normal or abnormal process before completion.

MrPudding

georgieporgy wrote: »

The poll is meaningless because it is not accurate. You should say "elective abortion" where the prime intention of the act is to terminate the life of the pregnancy.

Many people confuse miscarriage with abortion (because the medical term for miscarriage is abortion). Or medical interventions to treat an illness of the mother (cancer , ectopic pregnancy, etc) which result in abortion/miscarriage. Such interventions are not abortions to save the life of the mother as the abortion is merely a sad side effect of the treatment of the underlying pathology.

"Pro Choice" individuals often like to confuse the two to get the ignorant masses onside.

But the treatment is, in some cases, an abortion, or an abortion is carried out before the treatment begins.

Calling an abortion "not an abortion" is a linguistic trick and is deployed by the pro-life people so they can say abortions are never needed to save a woman's life.

MrP

Benny_Cake

I'm closing this because there is already a long running thread on abortion in general where most if not all of these cases have been discussed and if not, there is nothing to prevent them being discussed.The same arguments would just be rehashed here and I'm not confident that this poll will clarify anything, as well as being another trainwreck to moderate.