Abortion levels

[splatttt]

What do you think about the 24 week limit we have currently for abortion?
Do you agree with it?
I saw the other thread and i was just wondering other peoples thoughts.
I think its terrible that people can still abort their child up to 24 weeks.
Alot of babies still do survive at 24 weeks if born....
This is a 19 week old baby, so you can imagine that at 24 weeks it will be like a full child life.

Thoughts?

http://img.thesun.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00384/SNF0601WBABE_280_384082a.jpg

[H]

Personally, I feel it's up to the person pregnant to decide when and what stage they want to terminate.

Though.. I think that 6 months into a pregnancy you should have known long before whether or not you wanted to keep the child. I see no NORMAL decision into why people would have it at that late stage. Obviously if there are complication or the baby is disabled etc then fair enough.

I think that abortion is acceptable and people who ram it down everyones throats on how its 'WRONG TO MURDER' are just plain ignorant. It's not all about the unborn child, it's also about the people it affects and the lives that will change when it's born.

TO CONCLUDE: no i don't think 24 weeks is wrong.

[,Jess,]

I think the limit should be lowered to about 20 weeks becayse babies have been born at that stage and survived. I mean looking at that picture I find it difficult to think anyone could have an abortion and not class it is murder.

[splatttt]

Personally, I feel it's up to the person pregnant to decide when and what stage they want to terminate.

Though.. I think that 6 months into a pregnancy you should have known long before whether or not you wanted to keep the child. I see no NORMAL decision into why people would have it at that late stage. Obviously if there are complication or the baby is disabled etc then fair enough.

I think that abortion is acceptable and people who ram it down everyones throats on how its 'WRONG TO MURDER' are just plain ignorant. It's not all about the unborn child, it's also about the people it affects and the lives that will change when it's born.

TO CONCLUDE: no i don't think 24 weeks is wrong.


I find it hard to believe that you think that people are plain ignorant for pointing out the fact that abortion is muder. Im not going to ram it down anyones throat but everyone has strong oppions about it. Whichever way you really look at it... abortion is taking a life away. I mean yeah its up to a person but chances are they're going to regret it maybe in later life.

[Bun]

doesn't really bother me. i believe it's up to the person who's pregnant.

[Virgin Mary]

I dunno, you can't really put yourself in the situation till you're in it. I think they want it lowered to 20 weeks.

[whitebengal]

Limit needs to be atleast 4 weeks because at 4 weeks its a size of a bean.....When a woman is 2 weeks pregnant they will know about it and if a woman has unprotected sex and misses a period then they should get a test done straight away if they're pregnant and don't want it then get it aborted ...but if they leave it to late then they should have it...if they don't wish to keep it they should put it up for adoption :rolleyes:

[H]

Limit needs to be atleast 4 weeks because at 4 weeks its a size of a bean.....When a woman is 2 weeks pregnant they will know about it and if a woman has unprotected sex and misses a period then they should get a test done straight away if they're pregnant and don't want it then get it aborted ...but if they leave it to late then they should have it...if they don't wish to keep it they should put it up for adoption :rolleyes:

sorry what? do you have a clue what you're on about? no. clearly because you're not a woman and have never had a period.

1. you don't know you're pregnant when you're pregnant at 2 weeks you have no signs whatsoever
2. A pregnancy test does not show up untill you're due/a week late on your period?
3. if you have sex right at the begining of the end of your period, it would take 28+ days to know you missed a period to know you could be pregnant.
4. takes anything up to 2 weeks to have an abortion so if you found out 3 weeks into it, you'd miss the 4 weeks you claim to be the max?
5. a woman can still become pregnant on the pill, so what about if she didnt knownly know she had unprotected sex and become pregnant?
6. and to top it off, most woman don't record when they come on their period, so it's always a week out when you suddenly realise you haven't comeon.

SO AFTER ALL THAT, you're saying it should be 4 weeks max? HOW RIDICULOUS. You may aswell just ban abortion all together, would have been more logical saying that.

[whitebengal]

sorry what? do you have a clue what you're on about? no. clearly because you're not a woman and have never had a period.

1. you don't know you're pregnant when you're pregnant at 2 weeks you have no signs whatsoever
2. A pregnancy test does not show up untill you're due/a week late on your period?
3. if you have sex right at the begining of the end of your period, it would take 28+ days to know you missed a period to know you could be pregnant.
4. takes anything up to 2 weeks to have an abortion so if you found out 3 weeks into it, you'd miss the 4 weeks you claim to be the max?
5. a woman can still become pregnant on the pill, so what about if she didnt knownly know she had unprotected sex and become pregnant?
6. and to top it off, most woman don't record when they come on their period, so it's always a week out when you suddenly realise you haven't comeon.

SO AFTER ALL THAT, you're saying it should be 4 weeks max? HOW RIDICULOUS. You may aswell just ban abortion all together, would have been more logical saying that.

Honey! I'm female and I'm 22.....I know exactly what I'm talking about.
Some women will experience symptoms right from the very beginning while others will not experience any – even after the confirmation from a pregnancy test. Every woman is different in how her body will react to pregnancy.
There are pregnancy tests available which can detect pregnancy 3 days after a missed period....and if you go to the doctor even on 1st day of a missed period they can test you there and then.
Yes it takes up to 2 weeks to have an abortion but if the limit was brought down it wouldn't take that long.
No it wouldn't be more logical to ban abortion because I don't think they should be banned. The limit should be anywhere between 4-8 weeks....
12 weeks at a push!

[jessLOL]

The abortion limit is fine I think, at the end of the day you need time to decide if you wanna keep the baby or not. An maybe there scared and not ready to give birth, or cant afford the baby, theres no father and dont think they can cope along, parents would be asahamed or it would be deformed.
I would want the best for my first child so I wouldn't have it if I didnt think it could have the life I wanted it to have, so yeah I think abortion is fine and so is the time you have to think about it. ;)

[H]

Honey! I'm female and I'm 22.....I know exactly what I'm talking about.
Some women will experience symptoms right from the very beginning while others will not experience any – even after the confirmation from a pregnancy test. Every woman is different in how her body will react to pregnancy.
There are pregnancy tests available which can detect pregnancy 3 days after a missed period....and if you go to the doctor even on 1st day of a missed period they can test you there and then.
Yes it takes up to 2 weeks to have an abortion but if the limit was brought down it wouldn't take that long.
No it wouldn't be more logical to ban abortion because I don't think they should be banned. The limit should be anywhere between 4-8 weeks....
12 weeks at a push!

Since when has your age got anything to do with it? You stated that it should be 4 weeks, not 12 at a push. My argument was for your views on 4 weeks, and what makes you think it wouldn't take so long still if it was pushed down to 4 weeks? Don't you think there would be more back street abortions, women putting themselves at risk of dying. You can't get rid of abortion and by saying 4 weeks that's what you were basicly implying to do.

However like I said, I don't see any reason why the limit is so high.. I do agree with you in some respects but at the end of the day it's the mothers choice. THATS IT FROM ME NOW.

[Loser]

I would rather a barely living baby being killed than a living baby being negelected by it's parents.
The limit to me should be lowered, but only by a couple of weeks. I'm not sure when it is, but I think the week before the baby becomes conscious and/or feels pain.

[Alkaz]

I think that the limit should be lowered to around 16 weeks, 4 months? 24 weeks the baby is practically developed which is 6 months, people have had babies before the 24 week limit and have survived so really it is a living baby in side you at that stage. So i think that the limit is far to high and if the mother does find out she is pregnant then normally it is before she is 5 months pregnant and says she doesnt want the baby and wants to get it aborted so I think that there is no need for it to be this long before you cant have a baby aborted.

[N-Dubz]

LOL though.
It shouldnt be lowered at all in my opion, woman should have time to think.

[partie2]

I think its up to the pregnant person. I think that people need to stop sticking there noses into other peoples situations and making judgements of them.

[Menshevik]

If the mother doesn't want it, she shouldn't be forced to put her body through pain and raise a child when she doesn't want to.

[le harry]

I think 12 weeks is more then enough time to make a decision.

[Hushie]

It depends on the situation really. I mean something like rape?

Also if the baby is born into a family that didn't want it imagine how terrible it's life would be.

[MissAlice]

Firstly everyone's personal circumstances and situations are different. A 13 year old may be unaware she is pregnant, and when her body begins to change, may be petrified before she seeks help. Where as a female of 16/17 who uses birth control will know more about her body, and may suspect she is pregnant and might wait until after she has missed two periods in the hope that she isn't pregnant. An older female is likely to detect she is pregnant much quicker and will act upon it. Twenty weeks is still a long time! Certainly long enough to know you are pregnant, however there will always be exceptional circumstances too, where the mother is at risk or even the child.

Each females situation is entirely different, we aren't programmed to act the same, and until we are in the position, we don't really know what's right and what's wrong, well I don't!