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Hell no.

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according to our doctors and scientist, its not murder!

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Why should it?

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Because abortion is taking a human life before it has even begun. In ways it is crueler than murder, you are not even giving it a chance to live. Just killing it because it would be an inconvenience.

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Yes it should be legal. Ive discussed this many times on this site. To some people life starts as soon as the sperm meets the egg. To others life starts when consciousness occurs. I fall into the latter catergory. If I go to the hospital and I sign a DNR or I have a living will that says if I lose the ability to function in a coma and I become a vegtable; pull the plug, that's neither considered murder or suicide. Same thing for abortion you are terminating something that is an extension of your body. Until it can viably live outside of the womb and sustain it's own life (with medical help) then it should not be considered to be a fully fledged human.

And before the insults and the harping starts I have 2 children of my own and yes it was an ongoing joke that they were "bodysnatchers" until I hit 25 weeks, after that they were babies.

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Well if the one of the siamese twins kills the other the likelihood of the other surving is slim to none. Whereas if a woman has an abortion the likeihood of her survival is greater.

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Right or wrong is an individual choice when it comes to abortion. I don't think the gov't has any place to tell me what I do to my body is right or wrong. If I choose to damage it that's my problem, not theirs, or anyone else's.

In my above comment I should've also added that if a siamese twin kills the other half of them then that would be considered murder since the other half has shown that it is viable and able to sustain life.

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Conservative09 is right, your not just damaging your body, you damaging someelse.
And the government does have some control over what you do with your body, if you choose to jump off a bridge, should the government be expected to turn away? By being a citizen of a government you are giving the government some control over what you do, expecially concerning other individuals.

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Yes if I jump off a bridge then the gov't should willfully turn away. If I choose to commit suicide then that's my right to take my own life, no one else's. This is what people seem to not understand. My body is my body. It's not up to anyone else to judge what I do with my body. And if the gov't was so able to control what we can do with our bodies then we'd have no privacy. The 9th and 10th amendments help with our right to privacy and roe v. wade secured our right to privacy with our bodies. If gov't could actually control it there would be no such thing as assisted suicide which is legal in Washinton State, Oregon, Montana, North Carolina, Utah, Wyoming, Ohio; nor would we have DNR's or living will's that give the ok to pull the plug if a person becomes a vegetable.

The sad thing is states have to make laws protecting the natural rights we have over our own bodies. What's next? Make tatoos illegal? Criminalize piercings? Tell adrinaline junkies they can't skydive because it's dangerous and they might die? Make us show ID to buy common household products that are lethal? We open up one can of worms and then havoc will ensue. Someone always wants to control something that someone else has. I'll say it again what I do with my body has no effect on anyone else, mind your business and life will be easier.

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Okay!
Every government is controlled by a constitution; constitution meaning to limit, hence every government by virtue of a constitution don't just limit their power but they limit the rights we have especially if it affects another individual.That's why a person should and does not have the right to kill or assault another peron claiming, freedom of religion or right to privacy etc. There is such a things as too much freedom, if we have it will affect others negatively, and its the governments responsibility to limit everyone's freedom in relation to another person.

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ADOPTION is a choice!
As for thr thing about a feotus not being human, the way i see it everyone has had to fight for their rights in this country- caucasians, african-americans and women, both unborn and unborn babies are next except they cannot do it for themselves they need people to do it for them and eventually someone will help them get their rights (to live especially!!!!!!!! someone will!!!!!

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Have you adopted any children? Have you rescued anyone from foster care? How many children are sitting in foster care right now because they weren't adopted? Millions. How many children are adopted each year? How many times do you go for a walk or to the park and see a white family with a chinese child? When that very same family could've adpoted within our own borders? People always have been and always will be selfish. They want what they want. Some people are truly altruistic, however those people are hard to come by. It's like the octomom. She said she wanted a huge family so instead of getting invitro to have 20/30 kids why didn't she just adopt? Hmmmm? Why did the Jolie-Pitt's have to go to cambodia and africa? They could've adopted a boy of cambodian descent and a black girl right here in America.

The point is adoption is a failed process, foster care is a failure and those are the options after the child is already here. How about we work on reforming sex education and birth-control so then issues of abortion and adoption would be better handled?

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