@Brent cv,
Brent wrote:Should we allow women to abort a child that they have concieved?
Further more should we allow women to make this decision without notifying the father of the child whether it be in marriage or outside of marriage?
Do we allow any girl under 18 to have an abortion? If so do we require parental consent?
I am interested to see your arguements on this.
I keep going back and forth on my view of abortion as I can see both sides. I do not base my view of abortion on relgion I base it on the effects it has on society both legal and illegal.
I will hold my opinion until I see some of your responses and I am able to respond to them.
"Should we allow women to abort a child that they have concieved?"
I believe is should be left to the people of each individual state as it was before Roe. Four Million aborted pregnacies last year tells me some thing is wrong. Can any one say holocaust?
"Further more should we allow women to make this decision without notifying the father of the child whether it be in marriage or outside of marriage?"
No, If the female decides to keep it the male is held responcible for the finacial end till that supposed child is 18. If we are responcible then we have a say in it before it gets to that point. The female cannot concieved without the male sperm. If she could then i could see her having the only say. When you marry you enter into a legal contract that includes child rearing. Even if you don't get married but enter a relationship for a number of years you are legally given that same status.
"Do we allow any girl under 18 to have an abortion? If so do we require parental consent?"
No, She is in essence a child by law and the parents are responcible what she does. You need parental consent for the school to give her asperin, you need it for dental work, there is no reason to not have it except for the allowences they give today over the argument. They talk of being abused, if the parent is the father, but in all cases the percentages is very small. Yet the wish to include all children under that premise? If she is old enough to **** she is old enough to face the reality. And terminating a supposed child is part of that reality wheither she is forced to tell her parents or not. And again what of the males rights to his child?
I admit my reasons are partially religious. But no matter where you come from or what you believe in as to where life starts. It's boils down to legal terminoligy. If you believe life doesn't start till your first breath the third trimester or when the child is three years old. I personally think it starts when sperm meets egg and it splits for the first time. Because if left to it's own cause it will produce a human being. And to me that is murder.