Below I have included a few definitions for those that are confused and links to different sites that take on the issue of abortion, read up if need be. These sites lay out the main ideas behind the opposing sides of pro-life and pro-choice.

Abortion - Termination of pregnancy and expulsion of an embryo or of a fetus.
Pro-life - Advocating full legal protection of human embryos or fetuses, especially by opposing legalized abortion
Pro-choice - Favoring or supporting the legal right of women and girls to choose whether or not to continue a pregnancy to term.

Pro-life argument
Pro-Choice Argument
(please note that it was much harder to find a pro-choice argument essay, if you know of a good website that outlines the arguments for or against abortion please PM and I shall add it to this list)

if you are too lazy to read those full essays,then you can read the following summaries:Taken From Here

Pro-Life - The strongest argument that the pro-lifers have, I believe, is that by aborting a fetus, you're destroying a sentient/conscious/self-aware human being. Is the fetus self-aware? One could argue that's not the case, but then you can proceed and ask is a month-old baby self-aware? One might also argue that a fetus is self-aware, in which case, killing it would certainly be tantamount to killing another human child, or even an adult for that matter, which again we do not have the choice to do so.

Pro-Choice - The strongest argument the pro-choice people have, of course, is the issue of the right of a female to do whatever she wishes with her body. The fetus can be considered a parasite (and it is, in a sense) which can no longer be allowed to grow.But how would you account for the motions of the fetus? Is that purely reflexive? If so, as soon as a child is born, I'd argue a lot of what it does is purely reflexive.

Let's end the abortion topics once and for all. and please, stay on topic.

Please share your opinions and view-points of abortion.

**Fixed tags**uscmedic

(Edited by uscmedic at 8:37 pm on Oct. 19, 2005)

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Post edited at 6:20 pm on Jan. 8, 2009 by audrey820

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(Edited by Music of the Night at 7:49 pm on Oct. 19, 2005)

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If you want to arrange it
This world you can change it
By helping a neighbor
Or even a stranger

You try telling a raped woman that she has to keep, feed, support, nurture and love a child she never wanted. All on her own.

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I'm pro-choice. If the people involved in the pregnancy believe that abortion (or adoption, or keeping the child) is the best choice for them then so be it. I support them 100%.

I do not, however, support the decisions of people that are made based on what others want them to do, based on them having lack of information for any other choice, etc. I do agree that they have their right to make that decision though.

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