What is your opinion on abortion?

Let the mother choose.

Give the child a voice.

Her choice. But I will not deny there be a child forming from day one. Within hours of conception, recombination of DNA assembles a new molecular human identity. This cannot be denied. It can be used in a court of law to prove a person was at a crime scene. The same genetic identity can send a person to prison for life. Personhood is established.

Yet, the choice should always be the mothers.

I believe in it and think it should remain legal.

When politicians and activists advocate for banning abortion, and then cutting public assistance, I wonder how all the unwanted babies will be cared for. Have these people adopted any drug addicted babies from the urban poor? Have they taken in any foster children? Have they worked with any of these mothers themselves, personally (as I have, in my work as a child protective worker)?

Abortion would have saved the lives of 6 million Jews.

Making abortions illegal won’t stop them from happening. Abortion clinics provide women a safe place to go about it.

I think it is an unfortunate necessity. I prefer birth control.

I believe it’s the woman’s choice—not that of the church, government, or politicians using the issue to get elected.

Women deserve to decide whether, when, and how many children they have. To deny them that right is to deny them the right to being equal.

At this point making abortions illegal will just make it unsafer. Ironically conservative “abstinence education” will increase abortions. Real sex ed will decrease abortion as contraception.

I would not have one myself and I don’t support the practice of it, but I’m not going to walk around with a sign in front of an abortion clinic or support laws that outlaw abortion completely.

I think it’s a shame that so many young girls and women use it as a means of birth control. I have four sisters and each one of them has had at least one abortion. They didn’t need the abortion for medical reasons. They had the abortions because the thought of having a child would have been an inconvenience for them. Two of my sisters now regret their decision.

I understand and mostly agree with you @syz. But under the category of “equality”, in all fairness, does not the dance require a male partner?

Look, as a man, I don’t expect to ever glean any equal rights for deciding whether to abort my child or not. But an argument can be made to justify the male partner having a say in the matter. Personally, I would not want my child aborted. Why isn’t my equality as important as a potential mothers?

No one but no one has the right to judge people harshly if they have an abortion.
While I do not, of course, go along with the idea of using abortions as a form of birth control, stupid girls don’t always think things through or understand the ramifications of their actions.
But the women I have the greatest respect for, and great sadness often, are those who for various reasons, medical, religious, moral if you like, cannot support, care for, need another infant.
I often wonder how those who bleat on about pro-life issues would react if they found themselves in the situation of having to have an abortion.

Though shalt not judge.

What everyone else said. :)

I support the right to choose and it is a deal-breaker for me if a politician is in favour of outright banning abortions or heavily restricting access to them.

However, I am also firmly in support of making birth control more accessible and firmly against abstinence only education. I think teaching safe sex and making birth control (in all its forms) more accessible might reduce the number of abortions.

Same as @jonsblond exactly.

No one’s business, save the woman who carries the fetus. Absolutely NO ONE’s business.

I hate abortion. I think it’s horrific and tragic. I would never have one.
I also am not so arrogant as to get into another woman’s vagina and tell her what she should do with it.

I agree with @jonsblond.

I am totally pro-choice.
I do not believe that anybody should ever have the right to tell a woman what she can and can’t do with her body.
That being said, I don’t think that it should be used as a form of birth control.
I’ve had one. I’m not proud. It took me a long time to get over it.
I thought about it long and hard and realized that it was my only option.

I’m not a big fan of the behaviors that both men and women partake in that tend to lead to contemplating abortion. Nevertheless when women are denied the option to abort a fetus they’re being punished more than the guy involved in the same action by default, despite the fact that both sexes were equally responsible. Also, unlike the guy involved, it’s the woman’s body and it’ll be the woman who’ll actually give birth to the baby.

Not my body, not my call. Whether or not I (or you) believe abortion is okay doesn’t matter. The government has no right to tell a woman what she can and cannot do with her body. The fetus cannot live on its own and is therefore part of the woman’s body. It’s her decision.

I’d never get one personally unless I were raped or it was medically necessary. If I became pregnant by “accident” (read: carelessness or a bad decision), I’d take responsibility for that and make the best of it. If I really didn’t want or was not able to raise a child, I’d put the baby up for adoption. I concur with @jonsblond here. It’s awful that young girls are using it as a means of birth control when they should’ve prevented the pregnancy in the first place with birth control and/or condoms. However, there’s no way to pick and choose who should be able to have an abortion and who shouldn’t, legally, so it should stay legal across the board.

I’m pro-choice. I don’t think the government should be able to demand a man or woman have to support another life with their own body systems.

I much prefer people use birth control.

I much prefer an abortion be done in the early stages of a pregnancy.

I do draw a blurry line at viability. As much as I support a woman’s right to choose, I don’t believe in abortion after the 5th month.

I think pro-choice people keep abortion safe for the pro-lifers and I know more than one person who is pro-life who needed an abortion. When I say needed, I mean something was very wrong with the fetus, and she wanted the fetus out as soon as possible. I know a few other pro-life people who aborted because the pregnancy was unplanned, but I am not even talking about them. The pro-life movement’s failure to recognize that a lot of pregnancy don’t turn out as planned is frustrating. Many women who planned and tried for their pregnancy wind up wanting or needing an abortion so they can try again for the baby they want sooner rather than later. I am not talking about genetic diseases like Down’s Syndrome, but we can add that in if you want. I mean I personally know two people who were pregnant with fetuses that basically had no brain. Many tragic things can happen, a woman should be able to safely terminate her pregnancy. One of the woman I mentioned had to dribe 2.5 hours to another city to get her abortion, becaise Memphis doesn’t do abortions after 14 weeks. I don’t know if that is a law, or just that there are doctors who will do it. The woman’s very Catholic, pro-life voting family was very supportive of her aborting, which surprised her. I’ll bet money no one in their church or community know she did the abortion, and so the misinformation continues.

Pro choice and I will continue to be pro choice until there are enough loving homes for every orphan on the planet.