For those of you who are pro-choice, could you perform an abortion?

Why should a doctor do your dirty work? Why should he have to go through that? We will let you do it.. If you don't have the stomach to be a doctor, you don't have the stomach to give an abortion and there for you shouldn't expect someone else to give it to you!

Do you understand what MEDICAL PROCEDURE means?

Why aren't you a doctor? How about from now on, everyone just handles their own health care. Everyone should be required to be their own doctor. Why should you force someone to do your "dirty work" and give you examinations and care?


I don't want to be a doctor because I think the human body is absolutely disgusting and and I don't want to be wrist-deep in blood, organs, fluids, functions, etc. It has nothing to do with the "omg killing a baby!" with abortion. I just don't want to be a doctor period and you have no right to force me to be or insult me for it.

Why should a doctor do the dirty work?

Because it's their job. And just so you know, no Doctor is forced to perform abortions. They have the right to say no.

They have no problem doing it because they are numb. What if there were no doctors doing...? It is abusive to ask women to perform abortions on each other? Then isn't abusive to ask anyone to perform an abortion including a doctor? Babies are not high school frog experiments, but obviously they are treated as such. Then maybe instead of abortion, we could just have women who are responsible for their actions so they don't feel the need to kill a baby they consider to be a blob.

"What if there were no doctors doing...?"

If there were no doctors doing it then women who desparately wanted an abortiong would go to someone with little or no training who was not a licensed physician and many women would die from infection and massive blood loss. There used to be back street abortionists in the U.S. until the procedure was legalized. Wanting an abortion should not be a death sentence to a woman.

"It is abusive to ask women to perform abortions on each other? Then isn't abusive to ask anyone to perform an abortion including a doctor?"

Doctors who perform abortions choose to do them, so no one asks them or forces them and, no, it's not abusive. These doctors have made the decision themselves.

"Babies are not high school frog experiments, but obviously they are treated as such. Then maybe instead of abortion, we could just have women who are responsible for their actions so they don't feel the need to kill a baby they consider to be a blob."

I have talked to women over the years who have chosen to abort a pregnancy and not ONE of them took their decision lightly or considered the child growing inside of them as a blob. None of us can walk in another person's shoes and we do not know what each woman's circumstances are or what motivates them to make the choices they make.

Spa, you miss the point!

Pro-choice does not mean pro-abortion. Well, you know the old saying, "If you aren't for me, then you are against me." My point is not about getting an illegal abortion. My point is that if a woman wants to an abortion, she should see first hand what it is like to kill a baby. She should do it. A doctor could assist her...but she does the work....to see what it is like to see a baby killed...to see what it is like for a baby take his last breath during an abortion.

A first trimester fetus is not a baby.
A first trimester fetus doesn't even have lungs. How can it take a last breath if it never had a first one?

Surgery is surgery and only trained doctors should perform surgery. They don't even let medical students perform procedures on live people. Why should ignorant civilians be not allowed allowed but forced to do so?

If i had the opportunity i probably would or could do it. I mean you put yourself in that situation, also its your choice to do so.

The opposite of Pro-Choice is Anti-Choice, not Pro-Life. It's a question of law. I want everyone to have free choice, just like God gave us. You want to be "the decider" like George Bush. It just comes down to the fact that some people want to control other people's lives.

If you are against abortion, don't have one. Nobody is going to make you do it. It's your choice. Personally, I don't believe I could ever have one, and that is my choice. That does not mean that I have the right to make that decision for anyone else.

I am Pro-Life, too...I believe that everyone who is alive has the right to make their own choices. I believe in protections for those who are alive, which at present is getting close to 7 billion people!

Do you do anything to help those who are alive? Do you see a need to? I think being so anti-choice is an excuse for not dealing with the living. Children are starving while you are thinking about the unborn; every other second, someone dies of starvation. Children are dying every day for lack of food, clean water and basic medical care. So, for me, the living are the most in need of my help.

Gloom, you miss the point.

Then do please clarify what your point is. All I'm seeing is you trying to force omen to obtain abortions from unsafe circumstances as punishment for having different values and life choices than you.

There is no such thing as pro-life. Pro-life for what? all living things? well in that case...are u veagen? Do you hunt, have you ever killed anything in your life or eaten anything that was once alive? If so, then calling yourself Pro-life is a great contradiction in itself. You either support life or you don't.

My sentiments exactly!!!

What happy little planet are you from??? In the real world you have to do hard things. Comparing a doctor who performs abortions to John Gacey is over the top! Perhaps instead of "hardening his heart" to the babies...he has OPENED his heart to the women who find themselves in a bad circumstance. Really the attempt to paint people who disagree with your own narrow mindset as evil speaks LOUDLY about your own ability to tolerate other's having the right to make their own decisions.

You have no idea where I have been or what I have been through. I am entitled to my opinion and you, yours. I don't have to accept your opinion and make it mine.

Conversely, you don't have to tell pro-choice people that we are murderers.

"I am entitled to my opinion and you, yours. I don't have to accept your opinion and make it mine."

Then stop trying to force your opinion onto us? Stop criticizing us for ours?

and Yestheypayme...nobody has to take your poorly disguised attack of people who support abortion as a valid question either. Everytime you comment nastily to someone who doesn't answer it the way you like it...you show your agenda. Fine by me. I like to know who is worth answering and who isn't.. early on!:)

Safe for whom? Not safe for the baby.

Silly? Ridiculous? Easy for you to say. Nobody aborted you. Sugar coat it by calling it a "medical procedure"....it's murder.

Yet again, a first trimester fetus is not a baby.
It's not bonbon's fault that her parents wanted children, so saying "nobody aborted you" is ridiculous and has nothing to do with anything.

Also, it's your OPINION that abortion is murder. That is not fact. Not everyone agrees with you and no one is required to.

Murder is the unlawful taking of a human life. Abortion is legal here in the U.S. and pretty much every civilized country -- so at least here, it's not murder.

It's not murder! That's your opinion. Whether you like it or not, it's legal, and necessary in some cases.

I would rather miscarry than abort my own child.

Yestheypayme, you are a diusgusting human being. How dare you say something so cruel. You have some serious issues and you make me wish MyLot had an ignore feature.

Hell, people like you make me wish LIFE had an ignore button.

Oh, how cold.

How very well said, Auntie Em!

How cold? Seems to me that you aren't really interested in asking a question about abortion. Seems to me all you are doing is posing an inflammatory statement and then insulting anyone who doesn't fall into line with your own way of thinking. How childish!

CherylsPearls, Thank you! I have a feeling that the only answers this asker will accept is total agreement with their own narrow viewpoint. Good to know:)

Annie, that is such a shame. I would be so frustrated living there. From all your stories, I imagine what will she tell me next. You could write a book. Those who don't want their babies are worried about their numbers shortened by white man! That does not make sense. Either you want to have a baby or not. If you don't, you protect yourself.