Who are the women who obtain abortions in the United States? Why do they decide to end a pregnancy? What are their social and economic circumstances? This video was created by the Guttmacher Institute, a leading research and policy organization on sexual and reproductive health. Full transcript available: www.guttmacher.org COMMENT POLICY: Comments reflecting the spectrum of opinion are welcomed. However, we ask that they be constructive and respectful in tone and content. Comments containing profanity, abusive or inflammatory language, misinformation or that are otherwise inappropriate will be removed. Comments appearing on this site are not endorsed by the Guttmacher Institute nor should they be taken to reflect the Institute’s point of view.
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a fertilized egg is nowhere near as complex as a baby. it feels no pain. abortion after a certain point is inhumane, i agree, but not after a couple weeks
a fertilized egg is a fertilized egg. a fertilized egg is no where near as complex as a human being. it has no brain, no lungs, no nervous system, no eyes, no skeleton. its a small amalgamation of cells that over a period of 9 months goes through several stages before even remotely resembling anything anthropomorphic.
you dont know how to use google?
I thought an egg was an egg and fetus a fetus and a chicken a chicken. egg = not alive, chicken = dinner fetus= preborn human, a person not yet born with a little heart a litter brain a spin toes etc. now see the diff?
@Fuctmentality Except it isn’t convenient. I wish it weren’t murder, but I know it is and can’t pretend to be ignorant to the fact that taking the life of another human being is wrong.
I say quit calling something that isn’t murder “murder” because it’s convenient.
@myco578 Yeah because all women who have abortions do it because they got raped… What a blatantly ignorant statement. I do feel sorry for the 0.5% who get abortion as a result of rape. They didn’t have a choice and I wouldn’t say a word to them about their choice, even if I disagree. As for the other 99%, I say use protection and quit murdering for convenience.
“because there is far too many research documents stateing the oppisite.” where. where do “research documents” identify a fertilzed egg as a complete human being? no seriously give me a source on this.
“No, I do not feel bad if a woman isn’t willing to practice safe sex and ends up pregnant.” yea what a dumbass, she should have politely asked her rapist to put a condom on first.
A fetus is a baby the same way an egg is a chicken. Who the hell are we to tell a woman what to do with her body?
@MustardMcPurlin And I just want to make this clear, common sense states that the right to life trumps the right to convenience or privacy. If someone sees you murdering a person from outside through your window, you don’t get to sue them. Your morals are backward. No, I do not feel bad if a woman isn’t willing to practice safe sex and ends up pregnant. It is her own fault. She doesn’t deserve to be able to murder her children so she isn’t inconvenienced.
@MustardMcPurlin So, back to the question at hand. If a mother did not realize she were pregnant until she was in late term, and gave birth before she were able to get an abortion, you would support her if she made the choice to euthanize the newborn?
It does not have to be wise or noble to strip rights or to attribute them – as long as it makes sense to the girl or woman who has to live by them.
Unless you are going to adopt fatalism in which one does nothing but churn out reproductions until the female falls over, the obvious equable or stable society is that where the child numbers are sufficient for their parents and at the right time.
You may see that presently children cannot vote or drive buses or marry, there is a reason for that.
@MustardMcPurlin I don’t think it is wise or noble to strip individual rights based on age or size. By this logic, I suppose small children should only have half rights? Or would you think it pertinent that their mothers be allowed to murder them if they become an inconvenience as well?
Which part does not make sense to you?
Its not as simple as that is it? Your ideology does not account for the wishes of the grown woman not wanting to be pregnant, and you are giving a non-sapient, non-sentient, non-willed unconscious being of the average length of your little finger the status of a full person, holding the host female hostage while it gestates and is born. An unwanted child to an unwilling mother, thats what your ideology has produced on this occasion.
Hardly ideal is it?
@TheGreatestTetrisGod I’ve looked at the statistics on this. They do not ALWAYS have te highest number of abortions, and the numbers are often times estimated, and they give no process as to how they actually estimate it, so I don’t count that as reliable. I can tell you that there are 10 billion instances of cannibalism in the US annually, but it doesn’t make it true if I have no evidence.
@MustardMcPurlin That doesn’t even make sense. It honestly makes no difference to me whether people have 1 child or 100. I’m pro life because I believe a fetus is a human being, and therefore has the right to exist.